20 July 2015, 21:42 | #1 |
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Introducing ACA 1221 Low Cost Accelerator At AmigaKit.com
We are pleased to confirm that we will stocking the new ACA 1221 accelerator and ram card from Individual Computers in early September.
This exciting new accelerator design features a full 68020 CPU, 9Mb of 32-bit Fast Memory (expandable to a maximum of 63MB) for a great price. To find out more, please visit the AmigaKit.com product pages here to place your order: UK direct product link Europe direct product link USA direct product link Canada direct product link |
20 July 2015, 22:22 | #2 |
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Since this is a news thread we should point out that the accelerator is also available from other vendors:
http://www.vesalia.de/e_aca1221.htm https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/de/shop/...t/aca1221.html |
21 July 2015, 01:38 | #3 |
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Payment required to unlock features?
Is this an Android App or retro hardware....I'm very confused. |
21 July 2015, 02:00 | #4 |
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What's this then some sort of hardware DLC?
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21 July 2015, 02:17 | #5 |
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You pay to unlock features locked in the firmware I guess.
Its weird, but from a manufacturers standpoint it makes sense, since making multiple production runs with various config would be more expensive and this card is all about keeping costs down. But could someone explain why one would underclock the 020 to 9MHz? |
21 July 2015, 02:30 | #6 |
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Very decent basic accelerator for that price. Does seem a bit smelly though, I would guess there is virtually zero profit on the base model. Get the punters in with cheap but knobbled hardware, then tease the real price out of them later.
No prices for the unlocks? |
21 July 2015, 02:48 | #7 |
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I can guess, but better ask:
Is it a PCMCIA ram expansion friendly accelerator? |
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21 July 2015, 04:30 | #9 |
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Undoubtedly. It's a full 68020, so the RAM is almost 1000000% for certain mapped outside of the first 16 megabytes of the memory map (it would be totally and utterly insane, not to mention blistering madness, if this wasn't the case).
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21 July 2015, 05:40 | #10 |
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And if someone tinker with it enough to find out how to unlock the features? I mean, these are old tactics that never really worked well, ask SGI, oh... too late I guess. I am curious only about the price of the maxed out option.
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21 July 2015, 07:51 | #11 |
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License key locked CPU frequency and memory count? What is this, IBM ?
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Weird marketing technique, but he's the one which has got the numbers and if he's still doing this I suppose it must be working |
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21MHz overclock is 5,- EUR 28MHz overclock is 15,- EUR Maprom is 5,- EUR 9MB->17MB upgrade is 8,- EUR 9MB->33MB upgrade is 15,- EUR 9MB->63MB upgrade is 22,- EUR Upgrading from 21MHz to 28MHz and from mid-memory to higher memory is also possible, but I haven't decided on prices yet. All depends on the level of automation that I can implement. Sales of these codes cannot start yet, as some EU tax details aren't covered yet (new EU laws about taxing download/digital products). Also, it wouldn't make sense to sell them before the actual card is there, as the serial number of the card must be entered to find out the license code. Kolla: If it's cracked, it will just be cracked for a single card, and for the next, you need to do all the work again. Hardly worth the trouble for just over 40,- EUR. Jens |
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I suddenly see a usecase for phoenixconsole's quantum computing offer, lol. But, indeed, 40 euros is not much for maxing out the features, as I suspect most buyers will do. I am still hoping for something to replace my aging Blizzard 1260 cards, and preferably offer more and faster RAM. An ACA1260 (with full 060 and as much RAM as possible) to be offered together with Amiga Reloaded would be swell. But I am not holding my breath.
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Not sure how many *genuine* (RC)060's are around and available these days even if Jens could produce a decent card. (In any case it would probably make more sense to do a dual design that accepts both 040 and 060's with jumpers for the right voltage for each CPU rather than a pure 060 card as 040 availability is better.... but I doubt very much such a card could be produced at a decent price... it would have a tough time competing with the Vampire (both on price and performance). |
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21 July 2015, 12:40 | #17 |
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Vampire will not suit my needs, since it will not be compatible on the level I need it to be. As for 68060 chips - well, I am happy to move mines over to new cards.
Btw - so far we have yet to see any 020+ software run on Apollo core, and we have no idea about the pricing. |
21 July 2015, 12:42 | #18 |
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9Mb? why 9?
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21 July 2015, 12:48 | #19 |
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I understand 9 (8+1), 17 (16+1) and 33 (32+1). 63 is the oddball - should it not be 65 (64+1)?
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Memory Master also has 9MB
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