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05 February 2013, 23:04 | #522 |
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Nice card, but there is plenty of space inside of A500 and this design is UGLY and will be UGLY no matter what you do.
This might close out those who could buy this just for nostalgic reasons and dig out their rusty old A500 from cabinet. There are thousands of retired hobbyists out there, many times more than current user base. |
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Eg I'm just finishing building my 2nd a500 project and have spent many hundreds on parts from Mika, Tom and Brian! Just wonder over to amibay or Amiga.org if you want to see plenty of great a500 projects! Only now have I ordered an a1200 from Petro! If I was new to the Amiga retro scene (which i was less than 12 months ago) and your aca500 was available + other bits and peices from those mentioned I'd struggle to justify spending $100aud on your aca500. Reason being its tiny ram, external and its gonna be ugly as hell sticking up like that! |
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05 February 2013, 23:34 | #524 |
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Why on earth do you have to crawl out of your cave again dJOS? Thought you had already given up on the ACA500? Please do and leave this thread to the people who are actually interested in the product.
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05 February 2013, 23:36 | #525 |
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The natural way to expand the A500 is to use the trapdoor for RAM and the side expansion slot for everything else.
This new ACA is 100% real A500 spirit. It is non sense to remove the internal shielding, cut the case, remove original chips if the expansion side slot is left empty. |
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05 February 2013, 23:49 | #527 |
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THe problem is.. The product as changed since the begin and push the first days interested peoples out.
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06 February 2013, 00:25 | #528 |
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Jens is demonstrating flawed reasoning, Im just pointing it out along with others - he did ask for feedback after all. Jens has a lot of talent, it's just a shame this product seems to be getting the short thrift from multiple angles!
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06 February 2013, 00:52 | #530 | |
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It's probably cheaper to have a vertical configuration for prototyping. @Thread: There has been a lot of criticism here concerning the ACA500 in particular. In the interests of healthy debate, it is worth airing your views on the bad features of these new products as well as the good. But please bear in mind that an avalanche of sniping criticism may deter Jens in future from sharing his plans with us during the development phase. A little more tact wouldn't go amiss sometimes. Thankyou. |
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Personally Im trying to be constructive so that we get a great product for the Amiga community that's worth owning - unfortunately from Jens posts he really doesnt seem to "get" a500 owners.
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06 February 2013, 01:16 | #533 | |
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PS: original picture was done by Checker from a1k.org, my ugly red lines show an idea of how big would be the flat ACA500 :-) it probably could be made slightly shorter |
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Having a slightly faster 68k isnt going to fix the problem that a sizable percentage of WHDLoad games were ported for a1200's and require a 68020 to work (they crash out) - there's been about 3 I've come across in the last week (thought my 500+ was faulty at 1st but it was not). When the pokey little a600 get's a 68020 board with 8mb ram and the capacious and much more awesome a500 doesnt it makes you wonder why Jens is bothering at all. Especially when he makes comments like this: PS, I actually like the idea of the a1200 expansion connector but think the basic aca500 unit should be a decent upgrade on it's own. |
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PS, the other option is just build a proper a500 expansion with 020 or better and plenty of ram. Last edited by dJOS; 06 February 2013 at 01:49. |
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That was my first thought when I saw the prototype. This project is very far away from the original plans and concept. ACA530 -> ACA520 -> ACA500 (internal) -> and now ... I think the most Amiga 500 owner would like near the same parameters for the A500 as A600/A1200 ... (and if possible than inside the machine) Last edited by Mohican; 06 February 2013 at 03:06. |
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just a quick check... A500 + ACA 500 + ACA12xx ....
there will be 3 CPUs... is there any chance to use all that CPU power at once ??? just wandering ... |
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LOL, and I got jumped on a few pages back for complaining that an a500 + aca500 + aca12xx would result in 2 redundant CPU's!
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06 February 2013, 10:29 | #540 | |
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This Amiga setup is using a common address- and data bus for all CPUs. There is no bus arbiter, but only static signals that "shut up" the other CPUs, which is also the reason why any DMA device will not work (such as A570 or A590). A pass-through for the 86-pin slot will not work for the majority of devices, so there will be none. Jens |
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