Cyberstorm, A1200, external scandoubler and other stuff for sale

[Effy]

For some unknown reason I have decided to sell some of my precious stuff. I could say that my girlfriend wants more space in the bedroom but that would be a too macho answer
The things I have on sale are : Cyberstorm 040, a "very RARE" and never used bridgeboard, another Blizzard 1230/4 with 128 Mb, a Warpengine 3040 that I could not get to work, a pretty standard A1200 desktop, an external scandoubler which has successfully been tested on my A1200 ... and that´s about it I think

Instead of asking "buy now" prices of 200+ USD I decided to have more fun and started with a very low price, mostly just one single dollar or so

[lopos2000]

Are the socks included with the Cyberstorm MK I?

[Effy]

No way, those are very rare Amiga socks !!!! Forget it, not for sale !!!

[lopos2000]

That's a shame. I really wanted them for my collection.

[Shrub]

Are those console VGA boxes any good btw? There's only one that I've seen that uses scart, all the rest are composite and s-video, which seems utterly pointless to me.

[Effy]

I didn´t expect much from them but it appeared that a standard Pal Hires screenmode did very well on my pc monitor !! I haven´t tried Super72 or other special screenmodes as the workbench on the harddisc was a standard OS3.0 from the A1200 that is also in my auction list ... but don´t expect the same quality as from the Elbox scandoublers where some people seem to be willing to pay astronomical prices for !!!

[Shrub]

Yeah, from the pics on your auction they look pretty good.

[Effy]

I already got bad but also good comments on my girlfriends´s body on the backgrounds

[lopos2000]

Yeah, saw this stupid questions. What a bunch of idiots? Nothing better to do then complain.

[Effy]

Sometimes I am thinking of finding more crazy backgrounds for my auctions, just for fun, just for the kick of it
One of them might be to place a turboboard in the engine of my Ford Transit, like it is supposed to be mounted there

[Effy]

Just created an auction for a Blizzard 1240 / 40 Mhz turboboard with 256 Mb !!! This is the absolute maximum you can get on this board !! For more info just clock on the link I thought of asking 150 GBP for it but that would spoil the fun of bidding, so I took 0,01 GBP as a starting bid

[Dexther]

hi im need a blizard or apollo for my amiga 1200
use only for game in whdload
not for oter

[Doc Mindie]

I feel sorry for the fellow that got offended by your gf's tits...... Prolly an american.....they are allowed to see people eat eachother (Dawn of the dead movies), but seeing a clevage is big nono.....

too bad I can't bid for any of this, I'd REALLY like the 1240

[BarrySWE]

the 1240 *WOAH* nice one ;-)
have to recalculate to swedish kronor to see if i afford it ;-) how much faster is 040 40mhz then 030 50mhz?

[AMIGAZ]

Twice as fast or faster maybe?

[Effy]

I thought a 1240/25 Mhz was 3 times as fast as a 1230/50 Mhz providing you use the same kind of card with the same memory module, so don´t compare an A3640 A4000 68040/25 Mhz turboboard with a Blizzard 1230/4 or even 1240/40 because the A3640 hasn´t got any memory module sockets ... to finish : it´s way faster than a 1230/4 50 Mhz !

[BarrySWE]

maybe a should place a bid... i can pay in euros banktransfer?

£51.01 is in euros?

[Effy]

I always use this universal converter to calculate how much euro´s it is But to answer your question, 51 GBP is 75 Euro

[BarrySWE]

ahh, i will follow up this and maybe make a bid ;-) 256MB ram seem very very COOL ;-)

[Effy]

A major tune up is to rewrite your startup-sequence so that your Workbench (or part of it) is being copied and assigned to Ram, which takes of course a while. After that you can run the system from Ram which makes it a lot faster as the read speed is much higher than of a harddrive
I used it a lot to unzip large files like photo´s of a CDrom and then sort out the one I wanted to have on my harddrive. Trust me, if you are using 5 mgapixel pictures then you need lots of space