Pistorm32 for Amiga 1200 Retail Boxed

[amigakit.com]

Originally Posted by jurassicman

Hi @amigakit.com I'm glad to see your pistorm32-lite in a nice custom box.

Will you sell this at the same price on your amigakit.fr website as well? By buying from there, will there be no Custom Fees to pay on delivery for customers from Italy and other European Countries?

Thanks for the feedback!


You can buy from AmigaKit.fr - the price there is including EU VAT and ships from Luxembourg to anywhere in the EU. There are no customs fees within the EU because the VAT is already paid in the price. There are different prices reflecting the costs of running a EU business and paying EU VAT. There is a shop you can visit and purchase in person if you wish.



The price on AmigaKit.com has 0% VAT and ships from the UK to anywhere worldwide- this price reflects the varying costs of operating from the UK.

[jurassicman]

Thanks for the explanation @amigakit.com
So if I buy from amigakit.fr the price is a bit higher due to VAT but I won't have any surprises at delivery and probably shipping will be faster (last time I bought from you I had to wait a lot for Customs clearance, not for your fault, of course).

[amigakit.com]

Exactly right.

When you buy from our EBay store the VAT is included at EBay Checkout too. The price is higher due to EBay fees but no VAT/fees is due on delivery

Thanks

[jurassicman]

@amigakit.com
Do you sell this boxed pistorm32 setup (with raspberry, microSD, bolts, etc...) on Ebay as well?
Last time I've checked that I couldn't find it, just a "plain"pistorm32, if I'm not wrong.

[amigakit.com]

@jurassicman

If you purchase the full PiStorm with RPi 3A+ from our EBay store we can add a free box. Just reference this conversation on EAB in your order comments

Hope this helps

[jurassicman]

Thanks @amigakit.com .
I'm planning to buy one of this card in the next few weeks and I'll see if will be more convenient through Ebay or through your website

[blackcornflake]

It's nice (and unusual) to see the price of an Amiga thing actually go down! I bought my 32 Lite a few months ago (pre-box, boo) when they cost £79, but then I got an A500 Mini for a bargain £77 so potatoh tomatoe.

Spoiler: it's really fast.

[amigakit.com]

@blackcornflake

On your next order reference this conversation on EAB and we can add the box to the package. Hope this helps

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by amigakit.com

@Retrofan


Many thanks for your orders. That will to be some nice Amiga 1200 setups!

Thanks. Now that you comment... This is my A1200 with a PiStorm and AKReal 9.2 (WIP) just adding the Picasso RTG drivers:



And this right now:

[Mr-Z]

@Amigakit
Will you also be offering the CM4 expansion + breakout board for PS32 ?

[Mr-Z]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

What does that add to the PiStorm then? Will it work with EMU68?

It fits nicer in the A1200 case then a Pi4b and the breakout board routes the HDMI/Ethernet/USB nicely to the back of the A1200 case.
And yes Emu68 works on it, the CM4 expansion+breakout board is designed by Michal Schulz himself and is his main dev system for Emu68.

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

Okay. So I know USB is t a feature (Yet). Obviously HDMI is for RTG. Ethernet? Is that something else that’s being worked on? Or is that available now?

No. Emu68 provides a superfast JIT CPU, craploads of FastRAM, some storage and an RTG card.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

What does that add to the PiStorm then? Will it work with EMU68?

Better form factor, more MHz, PCIe SSD storage (not yet supported)

Unfortunately CM4 hasn't come back into availability unlike Pi4

[SkulleateR]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

Okay. So no Ethernet? So apart from more speed and better form factor. Is it worth the money investing in this sort of thing? Not being negative, but I think I would just be better off with a HDMI adapter cable using a 3D printed bracket with a SD extension..
Just saying…

If you only want to play old games ? Then yes

But if Ethernet is that important you can always use Musashi instead of Emu68

[SkulleateR]

Musashi is Linux based, not bare-metal as Emu68. Therefor it is not quite as fast as Emu68 but it supports wider variety of HW like Ethernet, SSH onto your Pi for configuration and PiSCSI ...

You can also put both 68k emus on the same SD card AFAIK : https://github.com/captain-amygdala/...the-same-drive

[Dunny]

lol. "Not quite as fast as Emu68" is kind of an understatement. Musashi will get you a little more than about a 100MHz 060-ish. Emu68 takes it a lot, lot higher than that but the trade-off is JIT instability that you have to account for on a case by case basis.

I don't think Musashi has had much development recently, I think the last major update was back in '22, whereas Emu68 is in pretty much constant development for the time being.

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by amigakit.com

@lesta_smsc

Electronically, there is no difference with the purple PiStorm32 or black PiStorm32 to the green Pistorm32 board. The different colours cost more to produce hence the lower retail price for the green version.

Hope this helps

It does indeed, thank you!

Now my predicament is, I am putting together a parts list for my Amigas:

I'll need Pistorm accelerators for:
A600
A500 or A500+ (or both?)
A1200

Also might need Greaseweazle V4 and relevant cables for floppy drive (I'm using a PC floppy drive).

Possibly other smaller accesories.

I'll probably give you a call about these sometime.

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

It does indeed, thank you!

Now my predicament is, I am putting together a parts list for my Amigas:

I'll need Pistorm accelerators for:
A600
A500 or A500+ (or both?)
A1200

Also might need Greaseweazle V4 and relevant cables for floppy drive (I'm using a PC floppy drive).

Possibly other smaller accesories.

I'll probably give you a call about these sometime.

That's all well and good talking "Quantities & type of Amiga" but do you have any "Purple" ones?