Apollo 630 new production? It's up to you.

[odin]

@amigamad:

Do you have an Amiga/Pegasos/A1? If so, why? A PC can do anything an Amiga can and miles faster/better/cheaper at that.
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People do stuff like Amiga based car-mp3 players for one simple reason. Because they can.

[redrumloa]

Can get a proper hard disk mp3 player for less money.

hard disk MP3 players have their place, but a homebrewed Amiga based solution doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive and would be capable of doing things the stand alone MP3 player couldn't.

Also many people love their Amiga and would rather it not go to waste and hit a landfill. Nothing wrong with that:-)

[leirbag28]

@amigamad

Don't know what you people are talking about.the Amiga 600 is an A3000 in a smaller case, but actually better if upgraded.

My a600 is hooked up!  and I am doing more to it soon.

 I have an Apollo 630 32Mb 40Gigabyte HD and a 2Gigabyte PCMCIA card full of music. Plus I just added a clockport so that I can have USB 1.0 and 2.0 on it!  thats coming soon!

so basically my A600 is more powerfull than any A3000 that I have had
Also plan on adding an internal DVD -RW drive.yes! internal without removing anything!

There is definitley a demand for these accelerators...people just dont know thyey are available and or they know they are just impossible to find.

I prefer they mad an 060 for it though and forget 030 and 040. It just makes more sence.and they are likely to sell more for the right price...........at least selling them without the CPU and you will have to find your own 060 or 040 to plug in..........and hopefully it would support 128Mb of RAM instead of 32 like my SX32 Pro.

Oh yeah forgort to mention I willbe attching 2 LCD screens to it as well as a portable editing system. I have 3LCD's in my possession and have already added them to my CD32/SX32. Its freekin awesome

[nOw2]

Can get a proper hard disk mp3 player for less money.

Yes, £150 from Maplin (or was it RS? One of those two). Or £90 for CD based. The problem with those would be the lack of AmigaOS. There are more things I would want an in-car computer to do than just play MP3

But he used an amiga 1200 in the end.

But you repeat me.

[Kronos]

@leirbag

There is a huge difference in getting an old design back into production, and starting from scratch.

Just imagine what development-cost a 060-card would have, and how-much it would add to each card when you can only sell 100 (or less).

Such a card could easily break 500 Euro ....

[leirbag28]

@Kronos

I guess so.

But then you know what would be a great idea? If someone invented a way to make an adaptor for an 68060 to plug into the 030 and FPU slot, then you can upgrade any 030 into an 060.

I truly believe this is possible and would not cost much at all. And of course you have to change the crystal as well

[Matt_H]

Adapting an 030 to an 060 would probably be electrically possible, but would the development cost justify it? It would be more money on top of the plans to get the Apollo back into production. And would it fit in the A600's case? Doubtful...

[leirbag28]

@Matt_H

Of course it would fit inside the A600. It's just an adaptor that would hardly be bigger than the 060 itslef except for the 2 extending cables with sockets at the ends to plug into the 030 socket and the FPU socket.............and demand would be very high because its not only for the A600...but also for the A2000, A3000, A4000, A500, A1000, and any amiga that has an 030 accelerator.

 It should not cost more than $35 USA dollars

its kinda like making the clock[ort thingy for the A600. It's just an adaptor. may require a few chips on the board though.

[amigamad]

hard disk MP3 players have their place, but a homebrewed Amiga based solution doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive and would be capable of doing things the stand alone MP3 player couldn't.

True i got my a600 from the boot of a car in the scrapyard and got part way through makeing an mp3 player using my masplayer then i gave up so i still have a good motherboard and keyboard .

[Doobrey]

Don`t suppose they could mod a couple of them to fit a std 68k socket so it`ll fit in an A500 ?
 If so, stick my name on one.

[Akiko]

@leirbag28

 "I have 3LCD's in my possession and have already added them to my CD32/SX32. Its freekin awesome"


Cool have you any pictures ?

[leirbag28]

@Akiko

Yes I have a picture, but of the incomplete version..........although now it is complete, I have not taken pictures in its complete state. I will take some soon and put them here. problem is Amiga org seems to only allow them in 320 x 240. I posted a pic of my original CD32 keyboard (grey A4000 keyboard with the CD32 logo on it) and I had to shrink it.yet I see other peoples pics are way larger........I may be doing something wrong

anyway, I will take a picture.

[kvasarnomad]

this is suberb!
an accelerator for my 600's would be lovely
I think the A600 is the coolest computer/console the world has ever seen cause its small and even if its old it is not even ugly compared to the ps2(I take this oppertunity to say that the x-box is the most horrible machine ever built aaarrgg,haha hate m$)
and I would defintly buy 1 or 2 cause money is no problem for me(Aaarg my room is going to be filled with ps2's, mini-itx's, widescreen tv's and amigas)

[x56h34]

If this new batch will address all issues that the original design suffered from (overheating and overall poor quality) then I'll definitely order one. I've sent an e-mail with questions and we'll see what the reply on these issues will be.

This is a great idea, btw. :-)

[PulsatingQuasar]

I'd rather have it that they produce the BlizzardPPC again and all that belonged to it.

There is still a huge demand for it. I can't believe they ever stopped producing this piece of technology.

[x56h34]

Heh, well of course. I'd prefer a new batch of BPPC cards too, but I'd assume that making them is nowhere near as cheap as it is making A630.