I thought I had seen them all but...

[HammerD]

As an Amiga collector I really love the classic hardware, specficially graphics cards and big-box accelerators.  I have two A4000T, several A4000's, an AmigaOne, and various other bits including a CD32 and Pegasos-2.

So when I acquired an A4000T/060 just recently I expected it to come with a Quikpak 060 board - as can be seen pictured on my website: http://www.hd-zone.com/amiga/quickpak.html

However, much to my surprise, the A4000T came with a 68060 card that I have never seen before! On the board it is written:  A4000-060 XP Rev. 2.

I believe it is very similar to the GVP 4060 on Greg Donner's site, but again, looking at the photos Greg has, and the photos of the amiga hardware sites, my card is a totally different card!!

It is not listed on the Big book of Amiga hardware (http://hardware.amigafuture.de/), nor is it listed on the Amiga Hardware Database (http://amiga.resource.cx/).  Greg Donner (http://www.gregdonner.org/gvp4060/gvp4060.html) does make mention of the manual for this card on his site, but there are no photos of it!

Would anyone be interested in seeing a photo of it?  I have made several and I can post them on my site tonight.  It's quite a professional looking rectangular board with 4 EDO-capable simm sockets, layout space for a SCSI chip and two SCSI connectors (50 and 68 pin) (the manual mentions SCSI-3!).  Too bad it didn't come with SCSI!  Apparently the SCSI versions never shipped.

I am, however, having some difficulty getting my Cybervision 64 to work with this accelerator in the A4000T. The machine will hang and reboot shortly after booting up in a Cyberstorm screenmode.  It works for awhile then hangs.  Not sure why.  It could be the cyberstorm or an incompatibility with the 060 card or 060 library that ships with this card - it's the same one the Quikpak 060 uses.

I thought I knew all of the accelerators for A4000, but I guess I was wrong... Nice to be surprised

[Orjan]

A picture would be nice, yes..

[amigakid]

pic plz

[HammerD]

I will post some in a few hours Keep an eye on this thread! Still at work until 4:30 pm

[keropi]

looking forward to some pics!  :-D

[HammerD]

Ok here is a small sized photo of the board.  Note that you cannot see the 50-pin and 68-pin connectors of the cpu card as they are hidden by the A4000T case.  (They would be to the right of the empty area (where the SCSI chip would have been).



There are MANY more high resolution photos on my website here:

http://www.hd-zone.com/amiga/A4000T.html

[pan1k]

This looks familiar, I recall reading an article about these cards, they were custom made for some imaging machines. I can't recall the article but if I do I will post it here.

[gdanko]

It is a GVP

[gdanko]

Here is a page with manuals and drivers
http://www.gregdonner.org/gvp4060/docs.html

[HammerD]

@ gdanko

Yes I figured that or a derivative work.  Greg does not picture the card on his site, although he does reference an older version of the manual.

Actually I believe this card was designed by the same person who did the GVP boards, but this one was contracted for Amiga/Quikpak for the A4000T.  There is no reference to GVP either on the card or in the manual itself.  However the 060.library that comes with the card is Copyright by Jeff Boyer - who did work for GVP.

[Damion]

Awesome find.

[rkauer]

 Impressive find!

 Give it to me to work in some development for a couple of decades, I'm sure I have a response to you after that time. :-D

[da9000]

Cool stuff! Nice photos!

Was the machine from the US or Canada? Curious where these machines were mainly distributed...