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

[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.

[Van_M]

Wouldn't it be cool if they managed to licence the a1200 G3 designs from DCE or whoever else is currently the legal owner? They could also put a cool VGA chip, an IDE or SCSI controler! This way someone could end up with a monster of an A1200!

[Methanoid]

BPPC is expensive and will remain so. I'd also expect that DCE would want lots of money for the licence if they hold it.

Returning to the Apollo 630 I hope the PCB is redesigned as it was notorious for faults such as popping off the 68k socket (needs some clips) and not having any heatsink (bad move). Also I'd rather they ditched the 68882 socket totally and made it smaller instead. The Viper 630 with onboard ram was a tidier design and as long as this had 32Mb of Ram I'd be happier with onboard ram.

BUT

If Individual Computers can build this sort of kit then why not build more interesting kit.

Mick Tinker still has the designs for the Inside Out (Amiga on a PCI card) - just needs s/w developed.

What about getting the Boxer PCI design from AntiGravity?

[x56h34]

I just got a reply from Matthias regarding the quality of the board, and he replied with a simple answer that the board will be "the same" as the original production. Nevertheless, I still signed up and am interested, but too bad they didn't try and work out the overheating issues, etc. Maybe if they use some better 68k sockets, we will get an accelerator that sits on the 68k cpu with a tight grip. We'll see. For now, I would be happy with just this project kicking off the ground. :-)

[Doppie1200]

Hi,

Offtopic: This is actually my first post @ amiga.org!

The winner 630 is the same right?

I wonder how many this company has left;
http://www.amigasuperbit.com/indexcataloge/34.htm

Anyway I would have participated wasn't it for the new home I just bought.

Good luck with the project.

Regards,
E

[Van_M]

why did he pick to re-make one of the worst (from what is heard) pieces of HW for the amiga? Is it the easiest one to make? He could have picked the Blizzard 060 as these are quite rare nowadays.

[HopperJF]

apollo 630 got a good review in CU Amiga 1998 IIRC

[Ilwrath]

The question would be.... "What DIDN'T get a good review by CU in the late 90's?"  I think if it was for the Amiga, that was an instant +90%.  

I never owned an A600, but it seems that the apollo cards were pretty dreadful for all machines.  :-(

[HopperJF]

neil bothwick reviewed it IIRC...

£87 is cheap as chips for an accelerator anyway

[x56h34]

I owned two of these type of accelerators (one was M-tec 630 and the other Apollo 630) and neither of them worked. They were both DOA. The M-tec I even bought new from SoftHut. :-( I got a refund, of course, after I sent it back.

Anyway, it would REALLY be nice if they would at least make this card more reliable than the previous production. I don't really care for improvements, like faster speed, etc, just make it work reliably! :-)

[HopperJF]

yeah there is nothing worse than investing all that money into an accelerator then discovering its an unreliable, unsturdy, unstable heap of junk you will just rip out anyway to make the system more stable!

believe me i know!