Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I wish they'd make a harddisk/scandoubler solution for the A500 too.

[RMK305]

How did the pair of you get on with getting these boards working properly?

Did anyone else order a 4060? Surely there must be more than 2 people on Amiga.org who ordered them?

[new2amga]

I ordered a 4060 Accelerator too.  I don't have any info on it yet, as he won't have one to ship me until next Tuesday.  I will post any findings that I find though.  I have a feeling it's going to cause a bit of a headache as I have a Revision B Motherboard if I remember correctly.  Let me check really quick..... Yep, the picture says Commodore A4000 Rev B.  So I have heard others are having problems with this motherboard.  All I can say is as long as it works better than the A3640 Rev3.0 I have, I will be very happy.

[RMK305]

Yep, the picture says Commodore A4000 Rev B.  So I have heard others are having problems with this motherboard.  All I can say is as long as it works better than the A3640 Rev3.0 I have, I will be very happy.

What sort of problems are others having?

[wlemonds]

I have yet to get this to work. I've been in email tag with Joe and GVP on what is wrong with this card.

The JP100 and JP104 jumpers on the MB needed to be in the 1+2 position, I'm told. Why, I have no idea. The 3640 required pins 2+3.

Since I wrongly assumed those pins were supposed to be 2+3 when I installed the card I started messing with the pins on the card. I've set them by the other guy's post and I've set them back to where they were when I got it.

I've tried running with or without MB memory. I've tried running 1 stick of 32 MB on the card, switching sticks to make sure there isn't a bad one in there.

I tried running without any cards except the 4060. And I've tried without HD, CDROM or floppy. I can't get a "Insert WB" screen or "Early Startup Menu" with the 2 button mouse press.

I've tried installing the 3640 (changing the MB pins), HD, and floppy. Booted to WB 3.9, installed the 4060 software drivers. Then, removed the 3640 and put the 4060 back (changing the MB pins) and tried to boot and it never checks for a boot device. My HD light does not show the system polling it. I get the dark grey screen and nothing else.

My only other recourse is seeing if it will work on my A3000.

[NovaCoder]

Wow, still slow by today's standards with PCs running well over 1GHz, but it makes it more bearable.  Also, ADoom is "playable" now, I couldn't deal with it on the WarpEngine board.  It's still slow, but I think that's more to do with the incredibly slow GVP Spectrum board I have.  If I had a Picasso IV or CyberVision 64, I think it would move much faster.

Yep that must be down to your grapics card because ADoom is *almost* up to speed on my little 030/50mhz AGA machine and certainly playable.

[smiley1635]

Adoom used to run full speed on my Apollo 1240 (32mb) and Spectrum gfx card.

[SamuraiCrow]

ADoom will run diskless on 32 Megs of RAM or more if you A) Rename the wad file to something ADoom won't autodetect (such as doom.wadd), B) create a softlink named what the wad file name was (doom.wad) linking to the new name but in RAM: (ram:doom.wadd), and C) copy the renamed wad file to RAM: and start ADoom.  That's how I got it to run faster on my Blizzard 1230.

[NovaCoder]

Cool, nice tip...I'll give it a go.

[CLS2086]

Thanks for the tip SamuraiCrow

[SamuraiCrow]

You're welcome!

[RMK305]

I e-mailed software hut regarding the issues with A4000s and got the following reply.

"The units work with 99% of the A4000 motherboards, very early on Commodore shipped only a handful of motherboards with 2, 28mhz occilators rather than the standard 28 and 50mhz."

So off I go to check my motherboard has a 28 and 50mhz occilators.

[wlemonds]

I e-mailed software hut regarding the issues with A4000s and got the following reply.

"The units work with 99% of the A4000 motherboards, very early on Commodore shipped only a handful of motherboards with 2, 28mhz occilators rather than the standard 28 and 50mhz."

So off I go to check my motherboard has a 28 and 50mhz occilators.

I have a 28 and 50, so it's not that.

[RMK305]

Did you get any further with discovering what the problem was?

[wlemonds]

Did you get any further with discovering what the problem was?

There's something wrong with the board as it wouldn't work in my A3000 either, which has the INT mod. so they are sending me a replacement.

[HammerD]

can u post a pic of the board? and packaging? thnx