Can these things get any more expensive?

[freqmax]

Hopefully the FPGA implementations will put these kind of things out of missery

[delshay]

With cyberstorms getting scarce,demand outstrips supply.What is crazy is people pay more than that for the slower,inferior BlizzardPPC.. lol
A slow 603 with slow scsi.. the cyberstorm 604e is quite a bit faster and the UWscsi rocks.If you ever had one,you wouldn't want to live with out it .With the announcement of os4.1 for them,you can probabaly expect the price to climb.


Btw,why whine about the prices,after you use the thing 5 years it will be worth the same or more assuming you take care of it.PC clone hardware depreciates the minute you look at it.consider it a good investment.

lets not forget the price on that apple 1

Blizzard PPC card is not as slow as most of you think.

with the right modifcation the card is right up there just out performing a Cyberstorm 200Mhz and not far behind a 233Mhz Cyberstorm PPC.

as it stands at the moment my Blizzard/Bvision combo should out perform  Cyberstorm/Cybervision combo in *2 & 3D only* (GFX) regardless if the Cyberstorm CPU is 400Mhz.

[Franko]

Real odd one this... :confused:

A1200 Memory Upgrade - Starting Bid £500

That's all it says... :lol:

(from the pics it obviously an accelerator too, but the numptie doesn't say a word about it... :rolleyes:)

[orange]

Blizzard PPC card is not as slow as most of you think.

with the right modifcation the card is right up there just out performing a Cyberstorm 200Mhz and not far behind a 233Mhz Cyberstorm PPC.

as it stands at the moment my Blizzard/Bvision combo should out perform  Cyberstorm/Cybervision combo in *2 & 3D only* (GFX) regardless if the Cyberstorm CPU is 400Mhz.

and by 'right modification' you mean overclocking or replacing CPU?
its prolly better to spend ($)$$$ on that cyberstorm than waste time and get a dead bppc in end.
or just forget about it and be happy with what you have.

[Lando]

Real odd one this... :confused:

A1200 Memory Upgrade - Starting Bid £500

That's all it says... :lol:

(from the pics it obviously an accelerator too, but the numptie doesn't say a word about it... :rolleyes:)

He probably doesn't even know.  He must've found it somewhere, found out it was for an old computer called an 'Amiga 1200' and someone told him they were rare so he decided to chance his luck with a £500 starting bid.  It's very common these days since it's almost 20 years since C= went under.  It's rare enough to find someone who knows what an Amiga is.

[Franko]

@ lando

Most likely that what he's done, but you'd think he'd have at least done a bit of research first before placing the ad. I mean it looks like an 030 or 040 but the numptie doesn't even tell you how much RAM the thing actually has, even a quick look around ebay he'd have been able to get a rough Idea of what he's trying to sell and an idea of the price...

The guy must be a total waahoo IMO... :lol:

[delshay]

and by 'right modification' you mean overclocking or replacing CPU?
its prolly better to spend ($)$$$ on that cyberstorm than waste time and get a dead bppc in end.
or just forget about it and be happy with what you have.

i have a Test Blizzard Card,i then transfer this to my other card when testing is complete.

my card has gone fault,not a problem repair it  "more testing"  "gone faulty"   "repair it"  "gone faulty"  "repair it" and so on

NOTE: test card has a BGA socket with a choice of alloy heatsink or a Patent Pending Heatsink which allows CPU to run Fanless. it also allows me swap the PPC CPU in under 1 min.

[delshay]

here is the old test result,when my Blizzard PPC challenged the Mighty Cyberstorm 233Mhz,but my Blizzard has gain another half a second not shown here.

FFTdemo


Cyberstorm PPC OS4 233MHz:

Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (float)
time needed 12632ms for 413696 samples, => .371313393115997x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer)
time needed 10801ms for 413696 samples, => .434258937835693x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer handoptimized 68K ASM)
time needed 4806ms for 413696 samples, => .975953161716461x speed @44100Hz/stereo


Blizzard PPC OS4.0 (world fastest Blizzard)

Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (float)
time needed 15359ms for 413696 samples, => .305386483669281x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer)
time needed 12910ms for 413696 samples, => .363317638635635x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer handoptimized 68K ASM)
time needed 10423ms for 413696 samples, => .450007766485214x speed @44100Hz/stereo

[Franko]

This guys a total bamstick, here's what else he's trying to sell...

Amiga 1200 memory upgrade excelarator - (again no info) Starting Bid £499

Amiga 1200 memory upgrade (without any ram chips according to the picture) Starting Bid £50

Now he claims this ones in "Top working order" so he must have an amiga to test these things on, that begs the questions, why no info or ram size, or the fact that the first one is even an accelerator and how did he test the one at £50 when the RAM chip sockets are empty... weirdo... :lol:

[Karlos]

Real odd one this... :confused:

A1200 Memory Upgrade - Starting Bid £500

That's all it says... :lol:

(from the pics it obviously an accelerator too, but the numptie doesn't say a word about it... :rolleyes:)

What do you mean? Of course it's rare. How many other 500 quid memory upgrades that just happen to have a spare 68030/6888x on board can you name? :roflmao:

[Karlos]

This guys a total bamstick, here's what else he's trying to sell...

Amiga 1200 memory upgrade excelarator - (again no info) Starting Bid £499

Well, that's clearly an Apollo 1240 Turbo (or clone), looks like the 40MHz version. Absolutely no way it's worth 500 quid though :lol:

[Franko]

What do you mean? Of course it's rare. How many other 500 quid memory upgrades that just happen to have a spare 68030/6888x on board can you name? :roflmao:

:lol: :roflmao: :lol:

[GadgetMaster]

GAH!  Fooled again! lol

I prefer this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckH20ngY4Y

How cheesy does it sound in 2010?

[Franko]

I prefer this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckH20ngY4Y

How cheesy does it sound in 2010?

You can make it sound even cheesier if you listen via these...

[delshay]

or try this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blizzard-Vision-PPC-RTG-Grafikkarte-fur-Amiga-1200-/330506216442?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item4cf3b4a3fa

[Buzzfuzz]

or try this
 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blizzard-Vision-PPC-RTG-Grafikkarte-fur-Amiga-1200-/330506216442?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item4cf3b4a3fa

Bvision PPC card with 8MB @ 200 euro is a bit much, but not impossible.
These do between 80-120 pounds on Amibay, or 95-145 euro depending on ram and add ons, boxed, disks, manual and so on.