ACA1234 - New 68030 accelerator card for Amiga 1200 and ACA500+

[Vegas]

Originally Posted by Marce

I read in the specs that this turboboard can be disabled by software , it seems is like some old blizzards cards pressing the key 2

this is very useful to run old A500 games from floppy

anyone have tested this?
how you can disable this new turboboard?
it is by software or pressing a key during boot?

Via ACATool Software: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/ACA1234#Switch_CPU

[A500]

Originally Posted by Jpor

In my opinion, stick to the classic Accelerators like the Phase 5. Never been a fan of the ACA cards for the A1200. Bought one once to replace a Blizzard 1230. Not the best decision I made. I know the nay sayers will tell me the ACA is cheaper and more modern and should run faster and all that… But I’m siding with the classic stuff.
The newer stuff is too experimental these days. Rather have something tried and tested which I don’t have to play around with too much.
Just my 2 pence.

I'm relatively new to the world of Amiga acceleration, but I can say that at least the ACA500+ I have has been working very reliably for four years now, and the firmware updates came out pretty fast when they were needed after the card's release, considering it's basically a one-man company. It was/is super easy to install the updates, too. Not that there's anything wrong with the classic cards either, it's just that they are far too pricey nowadays!

[Picard]

Quite expensive, but then again these days everything is...

[Damion]

I've been using the Blizzard 1230 for years in my desktop 1200, which serves WHDLoad and (old) demoscene duty. I've also had Apollo, DKB, and GVP '030 cards, and briefly ran benchmark tests some years back with a friend's 55 MHz ACA1233.

The ACA1234 is an utterly fantastic card! The latest update allows for toggling the instruction cache for chipram. No problem now with Nexus7 and a few other demos, and this also resolves a few (very minor) WHDLoad anomalies I noted vs my Blizzard 1230 (mainly, a small number of games seemed to load slower in some segments, although game compatibility itself appeared identical).

Nearly 9 MB/s raw read here using the onboard CF slot (some cards may perform better), 8 MB/s write in SysSpeed. AIBB shows a healthy boost over the Blizzard, and also the Apollo and GVP 1230 cards--it even handily bests the latter clocked at 56 MHz in all but one test. Chipram read/write is superior to the Blizzard (bustest), and writing to onboard memory bests the previous 1233/55, although the latter is still slightly better performing overall in most (not all!) AIBB tests due to the clockspeed difference.

Though not really needed, all the card requires for utter perfection is a 55 MHz overclock option.

[george7272]

I got an ACA1234 for my amiga and I try to use the acatool. I downloaded it, I extracted it and I get an acatool-3.4 folder. I click the icon so I can get the GUI but nothing happens.
Have you seen this problem?

[FOL]

Originally Posted by george7272

I got an ACA1234 for my amiga and I try to use the acatool. I downloaded it, I extracted it and I get an acatool-3.4 folder. I click the icon so I can get the GUI but nothing happens.
Have you seen this problem?

Does it have a GUI? what happens if you run from CLI?

[Lord Aga]

There has been GUI for a while now. It works well with my ACA1233n.