Woohoo, my "new" accelerator arrived finally :)

[Franko]

What are you going to do with all that RAM? Mine runs out of chip ram way before I've even used 8Mb of Fast Ram. I don't understand what people do with their Amigas who can make use of this much Fast. Maybe I am missing a trick?!

I have 256MB of fast ram on my Blizzard060/PPC and even with that much memory I can still run out of RAM... Why...

If like me you edit & mix a lot of 44.100Khz Stereo AIFF sound samples (CD Audio Tracks etc...) even with 256 MB of ram it can be a tight squeeze at times, or editing 24Bit full colour images in ImageFX is another example where you can easily use up this much memory...

There's a lot more to the Amiga than just games you know...

(PS:What are you doing to run out of chip mem )

[Khephren]

Finally when it arrived I discovered that I'd paid $20 postage for $5.80 worth of postage, which irked me a little, but I was just happy that it arrived. I must admit though, the item itself is in very good condition. That said though I was nervous as all heck the 1st time I flicked the power switch  

Think of the extra postage as being a down payment on the extra 12mhz you squeezed out of him   the extra you got is probably the same as an A1200/fast.

[fishy_fiz]

Well really I got nothing extra out of him. I'd only assumed it was going to be a 28mhz version, I didnt know for sure. The item I received is what I bid on. Just turns out that the item I bid on was better than I thought  
Really though, Im just happy to have gotten it at all  
Unfortunately my 1st day with my new toy hasnt gone exactly to plan. Turns out my internal floppy drive is partially dead (can only read, not write/delete), and my external drive is now completely cactus too. I have no way to transfer files to my amiga apart from using 720KB pc floppies, and no way to write disk images to disks.
Went through the tedious/labourous task of firstly archiving some software in a big file, then making that file a 10 part archive in 703KB chunks. Had to build a pc out of spare parts to get a pc with a floppy drive, made a boot iso, copied the 10 part archive to cd, copied one part to a floppy, transfered to the amiga, copied another part, transfered to the amiga (for all 10 parts).
Once that was done I rejoined all parts to one big archive then extracted it. Then I used unadf to extract the contents of the adf images, then made assigns so the extracted images paths matched what they expect, then ran the installers of the software.
This all lead to absolutely nothing as none of the software I did this for works. The theory is fine, but for whatever reason I had no luck with the software I tried. I get as far as the intro for AlienBreed3d2, but then it quits to Workbench. Alienbreed3d just crashes the system.

So for all my effort today I ended up being able to play a little Frontier and nothing else  

Little disappointed, but it's not like my amiga is going anywhere, there's always tomorrow  

[Franko]

Odd thing is until last summer when I discovered the net and these forums I assumed no-one would be using floppies in this day and age.

For at least the past 10 years now I only use HDs/ CDs /DVDs and SDCards/Memorysticks on my Amigas (took over 4000 floppies to the dump about 6 years ago)...

But from reading folks posts here there still seems to be a lot of people still using floppies, I could never go back to them, the best solution to me to transfer stuff between a PC and an Amiga or even for just storage is either CDs/ DVDs or a USB card reader for SD cards or memory sticks...

After a CPU/RAM upgrade the best investment you can make is one of the above and wave goodbye to floppy disks forever...

[utri007]

Maximum memory of abollo is practically 32mb, you can add another 32mb to other side of card IF somebody solder another sim holder to there. There is a place, but no sim holder.

Apollo is great card if you don't planning to expand you amiga heavily. Some of problems are solvable with RemApollo.

Apollo is so fast that I first thing that my new blizzard is broken, because it perfomace was so low to compared apollo.

Programs that you should install and configure:

FBlit + FText = With these you notice that Napalm etc is very playable in HiRes modes
RemApollo = Blizkick for Apollo accelerators, load modules/kickstart etc

[fishy_fiz]

Odd thing is until last summer when I discovered the net and these forums I assumed no-one would be using floppies in this day and age.

For at least the past 10 years now I only use HDs/ CDs /DVDs and SDCards/Memorysticks on my Amigas (took over 4000 floppies to the dump about 6 years ago)...

But from reading folks posts here there still seems to be a lot of people still using floppies, I could never go back to them, the best solution to me to transfer stuff between a PC and an Amiga or even for just storage is either CDs/ DVDs or a USB card reader for SD cards or memory sticks...

After a CPU/RAM upgrade the best investment you can make is one of the above and wave goodbye to floppy disks forever...

Sure, Im far from happy about my need to use floppies and Id not used them in about 10 years or so myself, but the simple fact is its my only option right now. I happened to have about 500 amiga discs still in storage when I got my a1200 recently. I actually had to put together an old pc to even access a floppy drive to help with transferring data. My Amiga is still a w.i.p, Amiga paid for about a month ago, accelerator a few weeks ago, various bits and pieces next. My last Amiga had a pci busboard (ergo pci networking, pci scsi card + scsi hdd and dvd drive) so unfortunately I cant use them anymore (my grex1200 is dead).

It's a freaking pain in the butt to use at the moment, so unless I find a better (cheap) way to transfer data I'll just leave it alone until I have the money for a few expansions to make it usable or I'll end up either breaking it or selling it.