WTB: A1200 accelerator card (Australia)

[mingle]

Hi,

I'm after an 030 accelerator card for my A1200. Preferably a blizzard 50MHz, with SCSI..

What would be a reasonable price for one, these days?

Which are the best/most trouble-free makes/models?

Cheers,

Mike.

[Lorraine]

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[Damion]

Blizzard MKIV and GVP (later version) are two good choices. The GVP uses proprietary RAM, but is otherwise an awesome card. Both have a DMA SCSI option. Also, both are pretty easily found... the GVP pops up on US ebay frequently.

[NovaCoder]

mingle wrote:
Hi,

I'm after an 030 accelerator card for my A1200. Preferably a blizzard 50MHz, with SCSI..

What would be a reasonable price for one, these days?

Which are the best/most trouble-free makes/models?

Cheers,

Mike.

Blizz 030 Mk4 is the one to go for although you should be ok with most 030 cards.

Blizz 030's can go to AU $300+ if they include a FPU and memory.  I haven't seen one go for less than $200, even for the bare card
 

[stefcep2]

Most cards made by Phase 5 are good. I think there was a Blizzard Mark 5 50 mhz 68030 and I'd be gunning for that.  GVP also makes good cards but I think you need to use their own RAM which can be hard to find and expensive.  What happened to your Cobra 030?

[mingle]

I sold the Cobra - it was working fine, but the annoying warm-boot issue was really giving me the irrates!

After a bit of reading up, it seems that it was a known issue (have to do several CRTL-AMIGA-AMIGA pressed to get it to restart).

So, I'm after a replacement. I'm not interested in an 040 (to hot for my desktop A1200), it's either 030 or 060 - although knowing the rarity & price of the latter, I know what I'm going to be getting! :-)

I actually used to have a Blizzard 1260 - bought it new in 1998, but sold it (for a mere $AU 250) back in 2000...

Cheers,

Mike.