DCE should give back the PPC cards they have in their basement for good use! They literally robbed those from users! Also the damn PPC-schematics should be given/released to people who could actually do something GOOD with them. Good ol' PPC's could then possibly be updated/maintained (hardware-/firmware -wise) but stupid DCE just holds these things for themselves for NO reasonable reason :furious:
I agree, but if I understood correctly years ago some Amiga users made them so angry by their wrong type of approach that the one who would have the power to release all data holds them like it is still a war going on between them and current Amiga users. No matter how much they are insulted, still they should show us some gratitude that we bought their products back when they were new and kept them in business. For what I understood pretty much everything Phase 5 or DCE manufactured for Amiga was sold out. So what more we should have done. It is not our fault if there is no enough profit or if design has flaws or production has bottle necks.
It could be also that they do not want to release schematics, part lists and so on because they are afraid that someone would use their old know-how to design new accelerator cards. If so why won't they do like GVP (Great Valley Products) did and re-released some of their best cards?
If they have any reservations for plans like GVP, they should act now before some of the key components used become so obsolete that all their products would need to be radically redesigned which would require new reserch and developent and not just some production lines and some people to operate, inspect and repair production.
The longer they wait the less value that old data is to them, since Indivisual Designs has already made some new low end accelerator cards to fill A1200 and A600 slots and things like Natami are also going to eat intrest for classic Amiga hardware.
I have no idea why
DCE which is still existing but cut all ties to Amiga, has not sold their licences and data to Indivisual Designs, Vesalia or some other German based companies since communicating and negotiating locally would be quite easy. Assuming getting money for something that has no value for them is always welcome.
What we could do as community would be to make a petition for the one who can decide what to do with schematics.
Or we can wait for those to be transferred to future generations who might be more understanding and release them, but if so that is going to be too late since we are getting too old before that.
BTW. Why is Indivisul Design not producing anything 060 related? I just bought two new unused 68060 sockets from China, so something like sockets can not be reason. If they have no source for 68060 they could make a card with socket only so we could use our old 060 CPUs when everything else fails.
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Anyway back to the topic
-This Blizzard PPC is not booting with SIMMs either.
-Holding A is not working either and I assume there would have to be some content inside 20F040 for those key holding functions to work.
-Tried to switch those 50MHz oscillators with no help
-Once I got dark red back ground.
Would Blizzard PPC 060 require so much power that I would have to misuse A1200 mobo floppy PSU connector output as input to get the card to boot? I would expect old A1200 bigfoot PSU can supply enough voltage so that supplying additional voltages through floppy PSU connector would not be required.
