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HighFlyer
« on: January 03, 2012, 02:39:17 PM »
Happy New Year everyone!!.. Just thought I would post a pic :).

Enjoy!

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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 02:43:02 PM »
Clean and Very Nice!  What is it loaded with, Toaster 4K, Flyer, and TBC IV?

Happy New Year to you!
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2012, 03:01:38 PM »
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Clean and Very Nice!  What is it loaded with, Toaster 4K, Flyer, and TBC IV?

Happy New Year to you!


Jeff,


Thank you.  It used to have all that good stuff... I took those out so it is just a bog standard WarpEngine 040@44mhz(according to SysInfo) 16megs ram.

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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2012, 07:08:23 PM »
I always liked that HighFlyer setup and thought of buying one a few times, but could never get one for a decent price.  Kept getting out bid by other buyers.

Yours looks like it is in good condition, you need to fill it with Zorro cards and have some fun.
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 01:08:01 AM »
I bet it would also make a REALLY NICE Bridgeboard machine. Some of the extra slots are ISA, correct?  You could build a retro Amiga - 386 or 486 in the same machine with a pair of Nics connected, perhaps an old Soundblaster or?  Fun Stuff!  Love to see more pics of the inside. BTW NICE on the Warp Engine, actually one of my favorite cards. Sorry I sold mine.
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 05:25:07 PM »
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I always liked that HighFlyer setup and thought of buying one a few times, but could never get one for a decent price.  Kept getting out bid by other buyers.

Yours looks like it is in good condition, you need to fill it with Zorro cards and have some fun.


Dave,

Yeah doesn't look to bad set up.. I just love how the HD sounds when is spools up, kind of like a jet engine.. All in all a very clean machine and even the floppy drive works hehe.

I honestly don't have any plans on reloading this thing with Zorro cards atm.

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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 05:28:50 PM »
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I bet it would also make a REALLY NICE Bridgeboard machine. Some of the extra slots are ISA, correct?  You could build a retro Amiga - 386 or 486 in the same machine with a pair of Nics connected, perhaps an old Soundblaster or?  Fun Stuff!  Love to see more pics of the inside. BTW NICE on the Warp Engine, actually one of my favorite cards. Sorry I sold mine.


Jeff,

Never thought about a bridgeboard expansion.  The inside is pretty clean.  Dare I take
everything out for inspection/full cleaning?

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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 05:46:20 PM »
I've never seen or heard of one of these before. Can you tell us more about it and post some pictures of the inside of the case please? I'd like to know what's going on in there.
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2012, 06:24:20 PM »
I own one of these too. It is an ongoing project. They were specifially designed for Toaster Flyer setups and the isa slots are power and ground only so TBCs and Vectorscopes could be used. They won't work with a bridgeboard.  At the moment, I have my Toaster 4000 in it along with a Kitchen Sync, Ycp-100 and the Picasso II and Fastlane z3 I had in my A4000 before I got the highflyer case. I would like to eventually get a Flyer Card and have a full toaster flyer setup. With some of the 2.5" scsi drives available these days, I even think it's possible to run it on a stock 150W A4000 power supply. Mine came with a corroded and nonfuntioning power supply which I gutted and put the A4000 internal drive bay in. Without a Flyer and a 2.5" ide drive I'm going to replace with a CF card , I'm using around 90 watts so I've got around 60 watts left for a Flyer and 3 2.5" scsi drives--another 5-10 watts maybe when I get the CF card in.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ has some good photos of the inside.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/highflyer has a good description but only has photos of the extender card
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2012, 09:04:46 PM »
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2012, 09:25:48 PM »
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I own one of these too. It is an ongoing project. They were specifially designed for Toaster Flyer setups and the isa slots are power and ground only so TBCs and Vectorscopes could be used. They won't work with a bridgeboard.  At the moment, I have my Toaster 4000 in it along with a Kitchen Sync, Ycp-100 and the Picasso II and Fastlane z3 I had in my A4000 before I got the highflyer case. I would like to eventually get a Flyer Card and have a full toaster flyer setup. With some of the 2.5" scsi drives available these days, I even think it's possible to run it on a stock 150W A4000 power supply. Mine came with a corroded and nonfuntioning power supply which I gutted and put the A4000 internal drive bay in. Without a Flyer and a 2.5" ide drive I'm going to replace with a CF card , I'm using around 90 watts so I've got around 60 watts left for a Flyer and 3 2.5" scsi drives--another 5-10 watts maybe when I get the CF card in.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ has some good photos of the inside.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/highflyer has a good description but only has photos of the extender card

I have an extra Flyer card if you want to buy one for your system.  Contact me via email at earthlink.net and we can discuss price and shipping.

I would also like more info about using 2.5" SCSI drives with a Flyer system.  I didn't know that these drives were still available, so will go do some searching.  I know DiscreetFX also offered some kind of SSD's for use with Flyer systems that I might look into.  The old SCSI drives are just so noisy and produce too much extra heat.  I have a box of 18gb to 73gb SCSI-2, or SCSI-3 drives here, but I am now thinking of other alternatives to use with my Flyer setup.
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 09:33:23 PM »
T3000,

What a great advert.. I think it answers all questions, ha.  Looks like it might an ad from
Anit-Gravity.  At any rate that is the HighFlyer.  

Rich
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 09:38:56 PM »
mmm.. CF or SSD solution for flyer set-ups would be nice.  I had this setup running for a few hours and definitely noticed the noise I didn't mind it so much.  However way back in the day I can only image using these all day week after week..year after year.. would get to me..

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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2012, 11:23:41 PM »
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I have an extra Flyer card if you want to buy one for your system.  Contact me via email at earthlink.net and we can discuss price and shipping.

I would also like more info about using 2.5" SCSI drives with a Flyer system.  I didn't know that these drives were still available, so will go do some searching.  I know DiscreetFX also offered some kind of SSD's for use with Flyer systems that I might look into.  The old SCSI drives are just so noisy and produce too much extra heat.  I have a box of 18gb to 73gb SCSI-2, or SCSI-3 drives here, but I am now thinking of other alternatives to use with my Flyer setup.


These are not the old powerbook scsi drives. They are 80 pin SAS drives that are mostly used in servers. They commonly come in 36gb and 72gb sizes. The 80pin sas to 50 pin adapters are cheap. The drives are a good deal too. There must be a big market for them in server farms because they can be had a lot cheaper than ide or sata drives of the same size. SSDs would be ideal but they're really expensive as are ide to scsi converters.

I'm too broke after christmas to buy anything right now but I will be putting some stuff on ebay soon and I will send you an email when I get some money.
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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2012, 07:31:06 PM »
Interesting piece of kit. Thanks for the extra info.
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