17 December 2010, 12:17 | #1081 |
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Not wishing to rock the boat as ANY new bit of hardware for orignal Amiga's is fantastic
I'm just trying to get my head around the pricing? The ACA 1230/28 Mhz @ £83.49 is a super low price IMHO and is outstanding value. It just makes the ACA 1230/56 Mhz @ £164.99 seem expensive in comparison (not for specialist hardware of course!). It might seem daft but the great low price of the 28Mhz is slightly putting me off the 56Mhz model??.....is it actually twice as good, twice as expensive to make and therfore twice the cost as the the slower model. If there wasn't the cheap 28 Mhz model I would have no hesitation to buy the 56 Mhz version. I'm sure I'm going to get roasted for my comments but I am not putting down all the great work that has gone into making us this new range of cards. I'm just finding it hard to justify (and the wife) paying twice the price for the 56 Mhz model. Whatever I WILL be buying a new ACA card....but just don't know where to put my money |
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Anyways, i am now getting another PSU and A1200 motherboard. I havent broken the bank that much and managed to get it cheaply. Like i said i think the accelerator is working fine (as it has been tested by Jens and Amigakit). But my Amiga 1200 hadnt appeared to be working "right" even with the Blizzard. I will try out the with the Amiga setup and if i get more problems i will report to the problem hardware section like someone mentioned before. My full setup is Amiga 1200/ACA56/3.1ROM/3.9OS/4GB2.5"HD. I m pretty sure i configured it fine as it appears ok in the ACATUNE -status (but not recognised in early startup?!). It ran DoomAttack pretty blazingly fast! |
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17 December 2010, 13:32 | #1083 | |
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I did think the price gap was a little wide myself but as Amigakit has said before there really isn't much margin on these so I think with that in mind they've done the best possible with the pricing. With regards to performance, the entry level version whilst it will run some emaulators and provide a nice little boost for your workbench the 56mhz version will be a lot more capable, especially of you want to run the likes of Doom and Shapeshifter If you'll just run a WHDLoad machine, grab the 28mhz unit if you think you'll want to explore more than that go for the 56mhz version Steve. Last edited by fitzsteve; 17 December 2010 at 13:48. Reason: corrected error |
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17 December 2010, 13:36 | #1084 |
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The 56Mhz versions are strictly limited and the CPUs used for them are very expensive from chip brokers at the moment (as opposed to the CPUs used in the 28Mhz version).
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17 December 2010, 13:45 | #1085 |
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Both the ACA 1230 cards have 64mb ram.
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17 December 2010, 13:51 | #1087 |
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It would be great if they did as I think that's the only thing that's letting them down. 64mb just isn't enough...
96mb would be better and 128mb would be fantastic! Edited to add: But that's just me as I like to have more Ram than I will ever need!!! |
17 December 2010, 14:07 | #1088 |
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I seen some days ago the post in a1k.org the following picture:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/attachment....1&d=1292346556 Are the blank memory spots (along with the capacitor spots) on the lower part of PCB available for a future upgrade of more RAM, or they were designed there in case the memory chips were fewer Megs than the ones installed? |
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Is there any problem if I change the memory ram and I put a 128mb one I have? Do I loose the warranty? Last edited by TCD; 17 December 2010 at 14:46. Reason: Back-to-back posts merged. Use multi-quote. |
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17 December 2010, 14:38 | #1091 |
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Yes, I don't think I will need more ram than those 64mb... and I believe it was discussed here before.
How long is the Warranty period? I don't know and I don't see it at Amigakit http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...oducts_id=1005 Last edited by Retrofan; 17 December 2010 at 14:53. |
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Warranty - good question, I would expect like "electricals" it should be 1 year in the UK? I think in Germany, it is 2 years by law. But is it classified this way?
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17 December 2010, 18:31 | #1093 |
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Warranty is two years, right.
128MB is possible from a PCB point of view only on the AC1230. However, the memory is not user-upgradable. Since we're doing quite some memory shuffling, the $c0 mem and kickstart/MapROM area need to be in a fixed place at the end of the memory chunk, therefore the CPLD program must be adapted if more memory shall be installed. I really don't get it why you want all this memory, as a WHDload machine is perfectly happy with 32 megs. Just one or two games make use of roughly 40megs using pre-load, and these work great with the 64 megs that are included with every ACA1230. The memory chips on the ACA1230 are special - they are 200MHz types that are not widely available. These are brand new Winbond types that only became available in summer of this year. We were the first in Europe who had them, and we're putting the tight timing possibilities to good use, even though the memory controller runs at 56MHz only (also on the 28MHz cards!). Even if memory would be user-upgradable, you would not be able to buy the chips anywhere. Jens |
17 December 2010, 20:25 | #1094 |
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Would that mean if one of the chips gets ruined the board wouldn't work at all?
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17 December 2010, 20:35 | #1095 | |
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Cold Boot from a standard 3.1 floppy disk, kickstart 40.68, workbench 40.42 everything seems fine, run acatune -maprom * And reboot from the floppy and the hard drive has gone missing from the early boot screen and workbench. If I run the standard 3.1 harddrive tools it shows the drive and all the partitions correctly in there. How odd. Also the Silkcut demo crashs with a $800000B error at startup, and iBrowse crashes as soon as it gets to a google results page with the IndivuDUAL card, both of which work correctly with a Blizzard 12030 card. |
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17 December 2010, 20:43 | #1096 |
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E123 and E125 ?
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17 December 2010, 21:54 | #1097 |
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I admit that I have had just 38Mb total Ram with my a Blizzard 1260 and did quite a lot of Imagine 3D renderings and Vista Animations in my time, but I suspect its more of a status thing than a real user practical thing. |
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Just checked package tracking and the package containing ACA 1230/28Mhz and 56Mhz accelerators have just entered the UK.. :-)
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18 December 2010, 02:05 | #1099 |
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If you want to discuss it here, please answer all the questions. We cannot smell from a distance what board rev and what power supply you have. We asked what acatune -status gives, and you keep repeating the same description. In other words: You don't cooperate with us on service. We cannot help you like that.
One more time, file a support ticket with your reseller, and we'll solve the problem. If all else fails, send the computer and the card back to your reseller and we'll do the magic. However, if you don't answer our questions, you cannot expect any help. Jens |
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I understand you can not try all the patches on startup, but is there any with known conflicts with the ACA1230/56?
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