Amiga 2000 Accelerators

[trauma_UK]

Hi,

Just got a A2000 and have got most things for it sorted, not bought them yet but there on the list.

Thought I'd have a Cyberstorm graphics board, Algor USB with the Norway ethernet board and a delfina sound card.

Hopefully all the above should work  :-D


Now the problem is, before any of that, I have to put some kind of accellerator board in there, I'm after either 040 or 060 preferably the later but I'm having difficulties finding one. I've found one of either at Software Hut but being in the UK I would rather trace one here.

Next problem is that it will cost around £300 for the 060, yet for a 1200 accelerator I'd be looking at more like £170, I think the answer is no but, with some hacking (never liked the word, scary) could I get one of these to fit, I guess the busses are to different but hopefully somebody can confirm.


Failing that, has anybody got either an 030,040 or 060 accellerator going spare that I could purchase till I have the ££££££'s

 :-?

[AdMartin]

Well, the dealers in Germany are usually cheaper than both US and UK dealers. E.g. Vesalia sell a 060 for A2000 for 275 euros.

/Martin

[QuikSanz]

@ Trauma

hi,
the A1200 has a 32 bit bus running @ 14Mhz. The A2000 has a16 bit buss running @ 7Mhz.
This idea won't fly, only one for the 2000 will work.

Chris

[trauma_UK]

Yep, just spent a while looking around at www.versalia.de, don't know how I missed all that lot earlier. :huh:

Anyhow, yep, found it. £194.01 for the 060/50/mhz with SCSI adapter, not bad.

Ok, next question...... I have a GVP II +8 in here at the mo, will the blizzard one be better, if not can I get an accellerator without it?


Thanks

[AdMartin]

The SCSI interface on the Blizzard will be faster, because it can access the 32-bit memory on the accelerator via DMA (Direct Memory Access). The GVP card is a Zorro-II card and can only access the 16-bit memory on itself and other ZII cards via DMA. If you use the GVP with memory on the Blizzard, the GVP SCSI interface will have to access it via the CPU, slowing the system down. However, if you plan to boot the computer into 68000 mode occasionally, for old games or whatever, you could keep the GVP, since the 32-bit memory on the Blizzard won't be available in 68000 mode (I think), only the 16-bit memory on the GVP.

/Martin

[trauma_UK]

OK, that all sounds good to me. I think I'll dump the GVP should help fund the Blizzard a bit as well I suppose.

The A2000 has 1MB of Chip ram anyway so most games should still run even without the extra ram on the GVP, hopefully anyway.


We shall see......

Thanks for your help :-D

[jeffimix]

/me Hugs his new GVP G-Force '040 with 4 megs of RAM and SCSI controller... now to get OS3.1 kit from softhut... I'm slow at these things....

BTW: Am selling: 880KB Chinon floppy drive... GVP I/O extender(with MIDI ports)... SupraRam board w/ 2 MB of RAM.. GVP SCSI controller (the vanilla kind, no ram) w/ 80MB HD

sicne I didn;t need the extra floppy and the G-Force replaces ALL of thos ethings (so happ y happy)

[artman]

@trauma

Good luck having fun with your new A2000!  Been having a good old time putting mine together this past year or so.  I think the A2000 is perhaps the Amiga that's the most fun to own,  all them empty slots and all.  Wouldn't sell mine for all the proverbial tea.  Regards.....Art :-D

[QuikSanz]

@ artman

I know what you mean. I just filled my last Zorro slot with a X-Surf,
time to go DSL. Dialup is just tooo slooow.;-)

Chris

[AdMartin]

You're welcome, have fun!

/Martin