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grzzly38
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 Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:17 pm Post subject: extra memory! what do i need???? |
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hello!
love my a1200 dearly, i just need to know exactly what the best memory expansion jobby there is that i can use.
used the viper recently but it seems to make the 1200 freeze all the time, what can i do please?
thanks, graham.
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Coltch
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| Just memory or an accelerator?. |
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MIK UK
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 11:05 am Post subject: |
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One of the best is a Blizzard 1230 IV 030/50. Not only does it enhance the speed of your A1200 making games like Zeewolf play like a dream, but it's as close to the real thing as possible. Plug and play and will run all day. No software required and is rock solid. Very stable!
Not cheap if you can find one today tho! I have seen complete ones going for £400 on ebay.
Here is mine complete and so you know what they look like, my old board before I got my Apollo 060/50. It is NOT FOR SALE just in case anything should happen to my Apollo.
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Acid
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Noone in their right mind would pay £400 for an 030, hell I wouldn't even pay £400 for a Blizzard 060. |
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grzzly38
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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brilliant! thanks for that. bought one today and your right, not cheap. £165. it will be worth it though!
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MIK UK
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Acid wrote: | | Noone in their right mind would pay £400 for an 030, hell I wouldn't even pay £400 for a Blizzard 060. |
Would of cost you close to that for a brand new one. My Apollo 060 was £300 new before the PowerPC boards came of age.
Even the SCSI board for the Blizzard was crazy money new, tho I forget the price. If people are willing to pay the price there is no stopping.
To me the board is priceless! 
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MIK UK
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| grzzly38 wrote: | | brilliant! thanks for that. bought one today and your right, not cheap. £165. it will be worth it though! |
I hope all goes ok for you.
Here is a bigger picture from amiga-hardware.com I forget the chips names but as you can see like mine it has the two large gold processors, its the smaller one that is sometimes missing on cheaper ones. Might be MMU... I long forget. Some may not have this, maybe why they go for more when they do. But if you do then that's only a plus! All being well and good enjoy! 
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/download_photos/blizz1230iv_5_big.jpg
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grzzly38
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Acid
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| MIK UK wrote: | | Acid wrote: | | Noone in their right mind would pay £400 for an 030, hell I wouldn't even pay £400 for a Blizzard 060. |
Would of cost you close to that for a brand new one. My Apollo 060 was £300 new before the PowerPC boards came of age.
Even the SCSI board for the Blizzard was crazy money new, tho I forget the price. If people are willing to pay the price there is no stopping.
To me the board is priceless! |
A Blizzard 060 these days is worth no more than 300 as that seems to be the going rate, I paid 250 for my Apollo 060 last year but it's pointless talking about prices when new... that was 20 year ago! |
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MIK UK
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Acid,
It's pointless even trying to pass off 20 years ago... Amiga was still going strong 12 years ago and you could still buy Blizzard 060/50's new from Power Computing.
There are 2 Apollo 60's, lets hope you have the better one.
Anyways I don't give a monkeys how much anything is worth these days. All I said was I see one on ebay not so long ago for... Either except or move on because I ain't no liar. Not my problem ebay makes people greedy. Even I had to look twice and show the woman like WTF! 
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MIK UK
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Looks very nice, box and all!
It's either the MMU or FPU that's missing, for the life of me I can't remember which or what they do unless you can track down some info. Should be ok tho regardless as the board is one of the best and as already said else where it'll become the ultimate A1200 games machine when it comes to the classics.
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motrucker
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@MIK UK
It's the FPU. MMU is built into the CPU, if there is one present. The FPU doesn't help games at all. It's great for video rendering however. |
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grzzly38
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:55 am Post subject: |
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thanks all, great help!
as i said cant wait to get started after all these years, feel young again!
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MIK UK
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:25 am Post subject: |
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Cheers, motrucker.
It's like going back to school, tho I walked out for the last time in 1987. Back in the 90's you knew it all but as time passes, many grey hairs, 2 kids and what not you forget all the little bits because they became non important.
grzzly38,
Best of luck. Lets hope it arrives today!
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