UK Company selling 68030 accelerators

[RW222]

HopperJF wrote:
They also charge £300 for an Atari STE. What a rip off, who would pay £300 for 1992 technology?

STs still seem to have a big following in music due to the midi capabilities. It's like the sitch with A4000s a few years ago when video companies still absolutely relied on them for toastering.

[doghouse]

Personally, I haven't had any problems with them. I remembered back when I got my A1200 the audio output levels were very low. They took it back and fixed it and returned it within a month. (A bit long though)
The courier tried to charge me for the pick-up, but when I called their receptionist, they admitted to the mistake and solved the problem.

But, that was back in 2001.

Anyone purchased anything from them in the last 12 months or so?

Unfortunately, "new" Amiga hardware at affordable prices are hard to come by these day!

[RW222]

Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.

Yeah we could use a run of accelerators with sockets that take either '040s or '060s have a couple of SIMM slots, or even a SODIMM slot, and have a mini-PCI socket for a network or wireless card.

[Vulpine]

Just to add my two pence: I've ordered a CD32, and their weird CD32 floppy drive, and both arrived quickly and seem to be fine. So, no complaints from me.

[Agafaster]

RW222 wrote:

Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.

Yeah we could use a run of accelerators with sockets that take either '040s or '060s have a couple of SIMM slots, or even a SODIMM slot, and have a mini-PCI socket for a network or wireless card.

but you can do the networking with a PCMCIA card !
better to use the miniPCI for USB or graphics.

[lorddef]

Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.

I had one of those apollo boards before a blizzard 030 and then a blizzard 060.

I actually thought it was a good card, even with only 8mb.

Mine actually came with a 4mb simm in it and had to physically jam a double sided 8mb one in, it only just fit.

[adonay]

Great name for the company though  :lol:

[monami]

i've waited an eternity to bad mouth them! they sent me an accelerator that never worked right. it took ages for them to offer a return and when it got there they decided to keep £25 as a restocking fee. i have swore vengence on them and will never buy from them again. they used to advertise in af before it went down.  :madashell:

[meega]

Agafaster wrote:

RW222 wrote:

Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.

Yeah we could use a run of accelerators with sockets that take either '040s or '060s have a couple of SIMM slots, or even a SODIMM slot, and have a mini-PCI socket for a network or wireless card.

but you can do the networking with a PCMCIA card !
better to use the miniPCI for USB or graphics.

Can you just swap the crystal, and give yourself a 33MHz version?

Also, no you can't (reliably) use the PCMCIA unless you dump the 8MB simm and use 4MB instead, due to conflicts in the address range.

Good to post in the same thread as you again, Agafaster.

[TiredOLife]

@monami

Was it a 1260 of some sort?
They sent me a dud one as well.
It took months of waiting first to get a replacement and then to get my money back when I'd had enoug of waiting.

[steve30]

If you give them £130 for an Atari monitor, do you not get one because monitors are not included?

http://www.analogic.co.uk/Atari_Computer&Monitors.html

Actually, it looks like they put the wrong description underneath the monitor part, as it says Atari STE in the monitor description.

[monami]

Was it a 1260 of some sort?
They sent me a dud one as well.
It took months of waiting first to get a replacement and then to get my money back when I'd had enoug of waiting.


no not quite so speedy/ pricey. it was probably when buisness was up and they thought it was ok to treat the customer this way. it was a lowly 68030 based card. for £25 i think i sould have had a signed video of him restocking his shelf. but then it would have took all of 3 seconds. how much would that be an hour? i'll get me a job like that!  :lol:

[Hodgkinson]

Just to say that I have actually got a (Or more accurately now 9/10ths) of a A4000 mobo that was given to me duff, with a Analogic sticker on the board. I think I also have a floppy drive in a A1200 somewhere that was originially bought from Analogic.

Hey, there's also a buisness card somewhere for them...From the C= PET days...

I've never actually dealt with them directly.

PS. 9/10ths of a board since 1/10th (The CPU connector) has been sawn off and sent to "Chain" in the Czech Republic :-)

Hodgkinson.