Have you got a PPC?

[Retro_71]

No !  :-(
And i don't think i'll be getting one in a hurry the wife watches me like a hawk  :-D

[TheMagicM]

I have a few machines but no PPC.  I can afford to buy it but I think its just silly to spend $500+ on a old card that may blow and not be repairable.

[Krischan76]

I could not afford these rare pieces of hardware when they were manufactured nor can I now.

Do you guys really think there could be a possibility for new hardware due to OS4?

[ddniUK]

I have a BPPC

A1200T Blizzard 603e+ BPPC 180mhz, 68060 60mhz, 256mb RAM. 4GB IDE HDD, 9GB SCSI HDD, IDE CDRW OS3.9 Mediator LT4 Voodoo 3 P96 GFX card, SB128, PCI Ethernet.

Want to buy os4 but I am concerned about NO SCSI, NO Ethernet and NO Sound Card.....   :-(

[McVenco]

AMIGAZ wrote:

Look at my signature

OMG, I think somebody stole your sig! :-)

[Oli_hd]

Do you have a Blizzard or a Cyberstorm?

Yes, I bought a new DCE Cyberstorm (060@50/604@233) and it was nothing but trouble, it died about 18 months after I bought it. (After having it replaced three times under warrenty)
Last month I sent it to the Amiga Center in France and he says he has fixed it, fingers crossed it will arrive today.

When it was working I really only used it for datatype loading, playing payback and Quake and I was just starting to play around with Amp2 when it died.

I will give it a couple of months testing and then get OS4 if I think the card is going to last.

[Kin-Hell]

ral-can wrote:

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The inflated Ebay prices do not reflect that actual manufacturing cost to do a run of modern PPC cards using current components.

But you're wrong & missed the fact that a 604e @ 200Mhz sold for £262 on eBay only weeks ago. This is NOT an inflated price! Same {bleep} happened with a G-Rex

ral-can wrote:

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Having newly made PPC boards on the market might even bring some sanity back to the prices for the old PPC boards - as there wouldn't be as much demand.

This kinda contradicts itself buying a 604e for £262. It really is a buyers market on eBay. Some weeks better than others. Just depends how many people are wanting at that particular time of sale.

[JaXanim]

Nope. Still waiting Berndt Binder to show!

JaX

[A4000_Mad]

Great! Some of you have been posting the full specs of your awesome machines 8-)


@ amiga9250

It looks like you have the most PPC's with 5 :-o


I've just started runing OS4 in an A4000 with Phase 5 CyberstormPPC 604e 233Mhz & 060/50 :banana:

If you need me, I'll be HERE :-D


:cheers:

[jj]

Yes

Ive got a 175/603e, 040/25

And a Gamecube
And a Wii

so thats theee PPC chips  :-D

[DrValkyer]

I understand the high prices of Amiga stuff but for me the retro-computing/collecting has always been hunting down computers for cheap or even for free.  If I had all the money of world I could buy all the computers but it wouldn't be the same thing anymore.  

I always get awesome kicks when I manage to find an old and cool computer from someone attic or for free from recycling center. I have a such recycling place near to my home and I have been digging there retro stuff from piles in size of two storey houses! Dozens of C64s, Amigas, Amstrads, etc. just lying around,totally unbelievable! :-o

Of course sometimes I buy stuff in big bucks (like a new Mediator for A1200, from AmigaKit BTW!) but that is always when I have been hunting it for a couple of months or even years without results.  I paid for my BPPC + alot ram 100e and it has worked perfectly (ok at first I got some HW problems but not anymore) and I hunted it for 1½ years (to get a BPPC at reasonable price).

Damn, Amigas are like women; first you can't understand them, then you love them and then they'll leave you! :-(

[Fixer]

No, unfortunately I don't have any PPC cards.

However, like others have said even if I did feel the urgent need to run OS4 on something I probably wouldn't invest in one of those rare old cards at this stage.

It's just a feasibility thing - the OS4 for Classic situation would have been a different story if it happened 5,6 or 7 years ago. Now it is almost a joke.

[A4000_Mad]

I understand what you are saying. But after waiting all this time I'd prefer to laugh at the joke it has been rather than feel the insulted sucker that I would have felt had it never been released at all.

[Piru]

Motorola 603p @ 240
Freescale MPC5200B @ 400
IBM 750CXe @ 600
Freescale 7447 @ 1000

They run MorphOS though.

[amiga92570]

A4000_Mad wrote:
Great! Some of you have been posting the full specs of your awesome machines 8-)


@ amiga9250

It looks like you have the most PPC's with 5 :-o


I've just started runing OS4 in an A4000 with Phase 5 CyberstormPPC 604e 233Mhz & 060/50 :banana:

If you need me, I'll be HERE :-D


:cheers:

Still waiting for OS 4.0. Amigakit shipped last week.

[countzero]

I got a BPPC 060/210/SCSI with BVision setup and a CSPPC 060/200 with CVision setup. currently considering scratching the BPPC setup but it has more ram than the CSPPC so kind of confused ... I placed an order for OS4 which I hope to pay for in a few days.