Trade: BeBox No Longer Available

[B00tDisk]

I had made a video showing the BeBox booting and thought I would post it here for the heck of it.  Maybe a slick Pegasos II system might still entice me to trade or sell it.  I am waffling as it will be hard to let it go as they don't show up for sale often.  Anyway, enjoy the video showing old 1990s BeBox doing several things at once.

tj

YouTube link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3hfnlW0G-Q

I wouldn't let it go dude.  You've got some fairly modern apps to run on it, and honestly no *fewer* games than the Amiga has, classics aside.  You're not much "worse" off than if it was a Sam or Efika, and in many ways you're better off.

Plus if you decide to sell it in the future the price will be even sweeter (go look at what a functioning Lisa or Apple I will set you back).

[B00tDisk]

I am not familiar with that machine or even know what it looks like. Would need more info and pics. I thought the old AmigaOnes had issues? Tj

Broken/non-functional DMA, onboard sound was an issue (but was fixed by the community) onboard USB was/is non-functional (factory defect), stock cooling is HIGHLY suspect, they eat CMOS batteries like nobody's business, I think there was a DMA issue with the hard drives...

Essentially if you got an "old" amigaone, I'd be prepared to populate each and every slot and ignore any "onboard" hardware - get a sound card, get a NIC, get an ATA controller, obviously a video card, get a USB card, get an upgraded fan/heatsink.  Don't rely on anything the board itself has.

[B00tDisk]

I thought I saw something to this effect before in the forums.  :laughing:
tj

Yeah once you stock it up with cards to perform the functions the boards don't I hear it's actually a pretty sweet rig and until/unless/if the A1000x or whatever it's called gets released, the original A1s of long ago are still the fastest A1 boxes on the block.

[B00tDisk]

Yeah, that was the kicker - why, it's almost like the A1 boxes were eval boards built by hand and the quality was entirely hit-or-miss!