New products for C64 and Amiga from Individual Computers

[moijk]

Originally Posted by velourfog

+1

An internal CF+RAM solution like this is great because you don't need a sidecar (the A500 is already pretty huge). My only concern is that 2MB will not be enough for WHDLoad loaders, but we'll see. Will there be any conflict with trapdoor RAM btw?

2MB + the 1MB or 2MB of the 500/500+, so 3-4MB total. ought to be enough. all amigas doesn't need to be powerhouses.

[lucadip]

Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

Delivery of the ACA620 has started. Those of you who want to start coding can take a peek here.

@Jens: are you going to release such infos also for your 1200 accelerators?
That would be much appreciated!

Luca

[Schoenfeld]

Originally Posted by lucadip

@Jens: are you going to release such infos also for your 1200 accelerators?

ACA1220 and ACA1232 only have the Maprom option, and that's already covered with ACAtune. The "freezer functions" of the ACA620 did not fit in the logic of the A1200 cards.

Jens

[dJOS]

Originally Posted by mfilos

It's not a bad choice at all tbh mate.
Solutions like kipper2k's for up to 8MB RAM exist already for the A500.
IDE drives can be mounted with CF2IDE adapter that you can easily find from the forums.

I don't think that many will get an ACA500 just for the 2MB of RAM but basically for the accelerator connector which is a really neat feature if you ask me.

Ofc getting something ready to run on A500 would be ideal (like a beefed ACA530@50MHz and embedded IDE+Clockport), but it's better investment to have boards that run in 2 machines like A500 and A1200. ACA500 is imho just a beefed accelerator adapter

I've already got 8mb ram and ide68k (as do many others) and if I'm going to buy an accelerator to replace those its going to need to be more than just a glorified a1200 adapter. If I wanted to buy a 1200 accelerator, I'd just save up and buy a real 1200 first.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by dJOS

If I wanted to buy a 1200 accelerator, I'd just save up and buy a real 1200 first.

I think the point is that you now *can* use an A1200 accelerator in an A500. IIRC A500 accelerator cards are pretty rare these days.

[dJOS]

Forgive me for being such a grouch but even the little a600 gets a proper 020 based accelerator but a500 owners will have to shell out for 2 cards and end up with a redundant 2mb ram and a second 68k sitting there! It's just wasteful!

Do it once, do it right IMO.

[TCD]

Basic question is: Better to have the option or not to have it? Just saying that asking why the decision was made this way might lead to a more 'fruitful' discussion

[dJOS]

There are other a500 accelerators in development such as the Zeus which is not an 020 but a 50mhz 68k so damned fast anyway.

Other options are for $50 you can get kippers 8mb ram board and for another $50 mika's ide68k - so my point is really if you are going to build an accelerator board for the a500 do it properly or you'll find ppl like me asking why should we buy your kit.

I've spoken to my mates in the admittedly small Adelaide Amiga community and we simply can't see the point of the aca500. If jens was being sensible imo he'd release a proper aca520 board and then make a pure aca500 adaptor module with just trueIDE on it for those wanting to take advantage of his aca12xx accelerators.

PS, an ACA500 "Adapter" (lets call it the aca512 for fun) would be much cheaper if it didnt contain redundant ram and CPU leading to more affordable aca512 + aca12xx combo's.

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by dJOS

Other options are for $60 you can get kippers 8mb ram board and for another $50 mika's ide68k - so my point is really if you are going to build an accelerator board for the a500 do it properly or you'll find ppl like me asking why should we buy your kit..

The 8mb board is $49 and if i combine the IDE68k board it will be a lot less than the combined cost of both boards

[dJOS]

Hi Kipper, I was including postage (fixed).

PS, cant wait till mine appears in my mailbox.

[utri007]

Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

The CMOS 68000 is a lot easier to find at good prices. Further, the quit key is working on most of the titles even without a VBR-move. It's only a few titles that really need the VBR moved, and you will be able to use them if you decide to spice up your A500 with a small A1200 accelerator.

Jens

I transferred several whdloadized games through serial to my GVP HD+8 / A500 1mb chip and tested several games, none of them had a workin quit key with 68000.

Chuck Rock, Flint Stones, batman, battle zone, etc.

[Mr B]

I'm more inclined to ask, "does it really matter?" I mean, the first time when your just testing if the WHDLoaded game works, yeah, a quit key could be nice. But once past that, your not going to die from having to wait for the Amiga to boot to Workbench after "quitting" your game. Heck, i keep forgetting what button it is, and generally just shut the darn thing of with the power-button.

[amigakit.com]

Both the ACA 1232 and ACA 1220 are now in stock- thank you to everyone who preordered from us, we will now get to work and ship their package out :-)

[Retroplay]

Great news.
I can't wait to get my hands on the 1232.

[demolition]

Just ordered the ACA1232 as well, and hopefully it will be easier to get to work properly than the ACA620. This time I ordered from Amigakit as I can't deal with Vesalia's slow response times in case there's an issue..

[amigakit.com]

Mnay thanks for your order!

[drohan]

Fantastic news, waiting for mine to arrive.

Regards,

Angel.

[amigakit.com]

@drohan

Thank you!

[drohan]

Received my unit of ACA1232 with RTC... Works like a charm.

Fantastic product from Jens and real good service from amigakit!

Regards,

drohan.

[Calabazam]

When will the ACA500 be scheduled at last??
I think there have been more than enough versions of the ACA12xx. Time to move to something new.