Individual Computers - New accelerator cards for A600 & A1200

[DDNI]

@amigarobo,

be sure to use a decent c2p routine aswell!

[Retrofan]

ACA1230/56 Power Rules!

[gibs]

@amigarobbo Hom many fps on Doom ACA-630 please ?

Can you post Doom ECS in the Zone! ? So I can compare with the Minimig ?
Thanks

[PulsatingQuasar]

Also preordered the ACA630 and the ACA1230/56 MHz from Amigakit.

Judging by all the posts( also on the Dutch Amiga forum) preorders seem to be going smashing.

[Retrofan]

@Amigakit how do the preorders go? The better for you, the better for all of us...

[rockersuke]

Originally Posted by Cosmos

> ACA630 thermal tests would be finished late last week

No heat with 25 Mhz...

Thanks! (and also thanks to Retrofan for his kind PM). That would be great, but the certain fact is that ACA630 is not exactly a "heatless" beast. Traditionally, correct me if I'm wrong, accelerators for Amiga 600 had always had more heat problems due to beeing mounted directly over the motherboard instead of using an expansion port, as in the Amiga 1200.

Jens was the firs person to point at it in this thread in this post, where he even suggests removing the internal floppy drive to make space for ventilation. Luckilly, I guess through his later comments that's no longer a requirement if you're not using Indivision ECS.

Then again ACA630 still needs, as expected, a lot of heatsinking stuff around, as Jens again stated here, where he asks me to wait for the results of a final thermal test.

And I truly need to know if that results show tha ACA630 is optimal for the kind of use I mean for it (long, in fact, very long gaming sessions, the type of sessions expected in our local retro-gaming meetings). I know for a fact that I can use my Blizzard A1230 MKIV 50 Mhz in my trusty Amiga 1200 playing games for a whole night and it gets noticeably hot, but not alarmingly hot. That would be more than OK to me in the ACA630, but I need to know for certain!

Thanks, and sorry again for my sickening persistence! ^_^'

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[Gordon]

Large influx of old accelators boards listed on ebay in the last week! I wander why that is?

[Predseda]

I also noticed that

[amigakit.com]

@RetroFan

Every pre-order is very important to us and much appreciated. Thank you.

@PulsatingQuasar
Many thanks for choosing amigakit.com :-)

[Amigaman]

Originally Posted by Gordon

Large influx of old accelators boards listed on ebay in the last week! I wander why that is?

Yep, I saw that too. Just seen a A600 with Apollo 620 up for sale. That isn't yours is it Fitz?

[amigarobbo]

Originally Posted by Amigaman

Yep, I saw that too. Just seen a A600 with Apollo 620 up for sale. That isn't yours is it Fitz?

HOW MUCH??

Only an Ejiot would buy one of those at that price now.

So it'll probably do quite well on EvilBay.

I wonder if that's my old card I sold because it kept falling off..?

one recently sold for £195 Here
Another for sale Here
Can't believe the price

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by ian-uk

one recently sold for £195 Here
(...) Can't believe the price

That only means some people still haven't look at sellers webs or forums like this. A lack of publicity...

Perhaps what Peter said:

Originally Posted by Peter

Retro Gamer and other computer games magazines should be doing something in their magazines about this new hardware.

Originally Posted by PulsatingQuasar

Also preordered the ACA630 and the ACA1230/56 MHz from Amigakit.

Judging by all the posts( also on the Dutch Amiga forum) preorders seem to be going smashing.

PulsatingQuasar can you post the link to that german web? I would like to google-translate it.

[CU_AMiGA]

just preordered aca 1230/56 although i will hang onto my good old blizzard 1230 for the time being!

[duga]

What will the PSU requirements be for the three versions?

For example: A1200+ACA1230/56+internal diskdrive+CF-adapter. 2A@5V? 3A?

[amigakit.com]

@CU_AMIGA

Thank you :-)

[kriz]

Some youtube videos should be made, easy to spread through facebook and all the other forums around...

[gibs]

@Amigarobbo

Please answer...

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by ian-uk

one recently sold for £195 Here
Another for sale Here
Can't believe the price

The ended listing was mine, I was testing the water, I had a couple of offers £100 & £130 I withdrew the listing, it did not sell. I decided to keep even if I get an ACA630 I will keep the Apollo since it cost me £175.

Originally Posted by amigarobbo

HOW MUCH??

Only an Ejiot would buy one of those at that price now.

So it'll probably do quite well on EvilBay.

I wonder if that's my old card I sold because it kept falling off..?

Yep, I was hoping for an ejiot to come along

This card came from a member of these boards, its actually very reliable - I ran it at Retr0 Replay for 4 hours, in constant use playing games with no issues. In hindsite would have been a mistake to sell.

Originally Posted by Amigaman

Yep, I saw that too. Just seen a A600 with Apollo 620 up for sale. That isn't yours is it Fitz?

Yep lol, it was me

[d0pefish]

My name's on Amigakit's list for the ACA630.

Not often you lot get my money, but you've won my heart this time ;3 <3

Now when's it being delivered? (just kidding ... well, sort-of)