Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators

[HammerD]

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

[RMK305]

Any updates?

[wlemonds]

I'm still waiting on my replacement board.

[Trev]

And I think everyone is still waiting on their Typhoons.

[Caius]

Could it be that "too good to be true" actually means "too good to be true"? :p

[save2600]

If it were too good to be true, I suspect that the prices would have been much more down to earth. I also wouldn't be surprised if the orders are actually funding the production & assembly of these.

[new2amga]

I don't see how the purchasing of these card initially funded their construction considering Softwarehut doesn't charge you for them until the card is in their hands and ready to ship.  I ordered mine 3 weeks ago and it has finally shown up and they have shipped it my way, I wasn't charged for the card until tuesday of this week.  If they were charging for preorders then I would say yes on the whole purchasing funding the cards.  From what I understand from talking with the gentleman at Softwarehut is that there is only one person assembling these cards, and he's doing it pretty much by hand, that could explain the whole taking forever thing, I think.

[quarkx]

I don't see how the purchasing of these card initially funded their construction considering Softwarehut doesn't charge you for them until the card is in their hands and ready to ship.  I ordered mine 3 weeks ago and it has finally shown up and they have shipped it my way, I wasn't charged for the card until tuesday of this week.  If they were charging for preorders then I would say yes on the whole purchasing funding the cards.  From what I understand from talking with the gentleman at Softwarehut is that there is only one person assembling these cards, and he's doing it pretty much by hand, that could explain the whole taking forever thing, I think.

That's for CC orders, Paypal orders were paid in full. I know mine was over a month ago now. Joe emailed me on Tuesday, andhe was still waiting for the Typhoon cards in at his end, He is not to blame here, but I am getting a bit of "Cold feet" as I don't need the typhoon any more.

[mbrantley]

I mentioned it in another thread, but I'll add to this one that Joe shipped my 4060 card on Thursday. Tracking number indicates a Tuesday delivery next week, and I will post photos as soon as I can. He said Mike at GVP was having some trouble getting any old SIMMs to work with the 4060 boards, and I had ordered mine mith no memory. GVP sent him boards with 64MB of tested memory this week, so I'm getting one of those. Joe indicated that if I wanted a board with more memory it would take a few extra days. He said if I still wanted a board with 0MB I could send in my own memory for testing. I opted to go with the memory already installed and working and available now.

Joe's a good guy. I ordered four newly made GVP SIMMs a few months ago for an 040 accelerator. Three of the SIMMs worked fine, but I had trouble with the fourth. Joe aswapped out that SIMM for me twice, until all the components were happy in my 2000.

Just be patient. He'll take care of us.

[save2600]

@new2amga:

Didn't mean to imply the literal interpretation that cold hard cash was needed or taken in advance to "fund", but preorders seemed to have been necessary for sure. Whether Joe/GVP worded it that way or not. More of a true commitment to purchase... would be prudent in these times for sure. Not knocking, just hypothesising that, besides getting SIMMS to work, could be part of the answer here.

And yes - Joe is indeed a great guy. I'd never confuse any practice of his with a dubious nature. Never had, nor ever heard of a problem with Softhut other than communication at times and lack of website updating.

[wlemonds]

Got my replacement board today and got it installed.

So far everything is working great!

[new2amga]

I didn't mean to imply anger with my statement Save2600.  I was just under the impression that since I wasn't charged on my CC until the card came in that they weren't taking the money from people until the cards were there.  I was unaware of the Paypal thing, as I only use that here and with things that I buy off Ebay.  I am going to agree with you on the possibility the money was needed on preorders to go ahead with the manufacturing of these cards.  I don't know how many cards of each run are left, but I am very happy to have gotten an accelerator for my A4000.  Now if that machine wasn't in need of repairs.....

[HammerD]

Can you please post some pix? of the board and packaging?

NO ONE has posted any pix of the new gvp stock

[ami_junki]

Still waiting for the Typhoon board but got an email today from Joe, looks like they are expecting to ship the boards on Wed or Thurs this week, fingers crossed, がんばる Joe and Mike!  Will post a review on my amigalife.me site when the board arrives

[DamageX]

haha, figures that they're going to ship now, since I'm not going to be home next week

[yssing]

It would be wonderfull if the could make a re-run of the Apollo 1260 cards..