IS THIS ACCELERATOR ANY GOOD?

[carvedeye]

Hi is this a good accelerator?

Blizzard 1230 IV

- Motorola 68030 CPU 50 Mhz
- Optional 68882 FPU 50 MHz (PGA)
- Upto 128 MB Fast RAM (256 MB with SCSI KIT IV)
- Battery backed Real Time Clock
- Optional FastSCSI DMA controller (Blizzard SCSI Kit IV)
- Easy installation
- Kickstart remapping
- Phase5 model, includes manual and drivers.

many thanks

[ddniUK]

yes it is good for classic Amiga usage and gaming. Expect to pay upto £150+

[McVenco]

is this a good accelerator?

Blizzard 1230 IV

Is the pope catholic?

Heck yes, this is *the* best accelerator for the A1200, imho. If you haven't got much need for the raw speed of an 68060 processor, then this is the card you want. It's fast, it can take lots of RAM, and there's an optional (very reliable) SCSI controller available as well.

If the price is right, just grab it.

[jj]

I conccour.  I had one with the scsi kit which I sold when I got my PPC.  I have always regretted parting with it. Sold it for £70 i seem to remember. Got £30 for the scsi kit

[Angus]

carvedeye wrote:
Hi is this a good accelerator?

Blizzard 1230 IV

Its probably the best one to get if you have an Amiga 1200 and you want to play Amiga games. Its highly compatible, and you can disable it with the 2 key. Just right for use with WHDLoad. It also make a 1200 very useable for most other things, and it will even run Doom at a good speed.

[Hodgkinson]

£30 for a SCSI kit ... Im looking for a SCSI kit for such a card at the moment and I'd be quite happy to consider ~£30.

Hodgkinson.

[alexh]

ddniUK wrote:
yes it is good for classic Amiga usage and gaming. Expect to pay upto £150+

My arse he will. For this accelerator £80 is the a top price being paid at the moment with £35 being the lowest and £65 being a good average.

[tokyoracer]

It is good. I was lucky and got one for £45.

[Crumb]

Expect to pay upto £150+

150 Pounds? are you kidding me? for a 030/50  :roflmao:

IMHO a 030 sucks. It's slow even displaying jpgs. I would only use it for gaming or very simple tasks. Don't get me wrong, it's better than nothing, but for 150 pounds it would be a robbery.

For that price you could buy a full 040/40 with scsi kit and maybe a 060/50 with no scsi... I sold my old Cyberstorm MKII 060/50 with 128MB and scsi kit for 160 Pounds.

[Damion]

I picked up an Apollo 1260 (with rev 6 060) for 150 pounds, so I agree that's *WAY* too much for an 030. (Wouldn't surprise me if they sold for that much this time next year though, LOL.)

The Blizzard is a fantastic card, and as has been said, the SCSI kit rocks. (Plus you can use it on a 1240 or 1260 if you ever decide to upgrade.) IMHO it's plenty fast for classic gaming and older demos, and for the rest, there's always UAE. :-P (Actually, some demos run better emulated anyway.)

[Linde]

Yeah, 150 quid is a bit too much I'd say. Sold mine for 60 euro at a demo party. Now that's a good price I gave, but I think you'll be able to find one for 80 euro. From your post it looks like you already found one anyway. You won't regret it if you buy it for less than 100 euro.

A lot of newer demos are made specifically for 030+, and you can easily have a 64 color AGA workbench without noticeable slowdown. Oh and you can run doom pretty smoothly if you have more than 8mb RAM for it

[ddniUK]

the way ebay is at the mo £150 with scsi kit is a very likely price.

If you ca find one privately then maybe £80 could secure one.

Damn I sold a lowly PC1204 4mb RAM card on ebay for £65!! It is an Amiga accelerator frenzy on ebay at the mo!  

[alexh]

BOLLOX ;-)

Just look on ebay now, completed listings and you can see A1230's selling for much much less.

All I can think of is that you are trying to sell an A1230 on ebay now and you are trying to cause a rush? (Good marketing!)

As for your previous sales, you can get 8Meg A1200 RAM card with FPU for as little as £15 (max about £30), whoever bought yours for £65 must have be a complete idiot, or perhaps dyslexic and thought it as an A1240 :-)

[orange]

I disagree, its overpriced. you can get '040 for similar money and '030 cannot compete with it.

[ddniUK]

nope not selling one. I wouldn't pay anywhere like that for one either. BUT given the way I have seen stuff go, if 2 people want a card then the price will soar.