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A1200 / 040 and games
« on: August 21, 2009, 04:37:15 PM »
Considering that I am planning to use my A1200 / 040 just for games now, and I think some aren't working because of the accelerator.

Should I just unplug the accelerator card and use it as a stock A1200?  It's a Blizzard 1240.  There is a jumper on the accelerator card, but I have no idea what it does.  I wondered whether it might disable the card as a compatibility measure.  Is there any other way of disabling the accelerator in a convenient fashion?

Most of the games date back to my A500, but then, Settlers 1 is apparently 1993, so I would have thought that would be more aware of other processors.
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2009, 06:15:21 PM »
Blimey.  So press '2' at around the time that one might hold down both mouse buttons to get to the early startup menu?
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2009, 06:44:46 PM »
Nope, it didn't work (tried booting into Workbench and doing ShowConfig).
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2009, 07:58:38 PM »
I'll try again, but that's what I did.
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2009, 08:13:44 PM »
Nope, no different.  I assume by the time it is attempting to boot from hard disk or floppy that holding down the '2' key would make no further difference?
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2009, 07:28:21 AM »
First of all I suspect the internal floppy drive isn't throwing straight dice, as some disks work in the external drive that don't work in the internal, so I'm buying a floppy drive cleaner, then see where it goes from there.

IndivisionAGA?  Keep my eyesight?  Huh? - edit - that's an expensive piece of hardware... while I like the idea of 1024x768, I don't have any spare (decent) monitors anyway.

I'm planning on getting an RGB -> SCART adapter as this A1200 always had a routine of flipping from colour to B+W then back again (it works with the RGB -> VGA adapter I have fine).

How much am I likely to get for the 040, and how much for an 060?

One other thing - the cooler on the 040 has come loose.  It was apparently held on with a thin layer of glue previously, and currently the modified trapdoor is holding it in place without obstructing the fan.  Any suggestions for replacement glue or another HSF?
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2009, 01:15:50 PM »
As in, with a hot glue gun that I used in craft classes at school?

Would superglue melt the processor?
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2009, 03:37:14 PM »
Yep, it's the gun I expected to see :)
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Re: A1200 / 040 and games
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2009, 06:30:37 PM »
I have heatsink paste for when I'm doing normal PC CPUs and HSFs, but I doubt that bonds in quite the way I would need this to...?

Are any 060 accelerators on sale these days?  How much could I get for an 040 do you think?
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