I can't see a classifieds section so sorry, moderators, if this is in the wrong forum.

I'm fed up of waiting for a person on Ebay to reply to my mails - What I'm offering is a Cyberstorm PPC 060/50 accelerator and a CV ppc gfx card to trade for your A1200 in a tower. Preferably, your 1200 will have a Zorro board and at least an 040/50 with CD-Rom, hard drive and lots of RAM. Let me know what you've got for me, please.

thanks

Paul

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@rossi46

Whyever would you want to do that?
Just curious.

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@Frags

I replied on another forum about being the least patient person in history. That and the fact that I just want to play some FPSs and have given up on trying to build a machine out of the pile of 'junk' I'm sitting with. I thought, rather than Ebay the stuff right away, I'd offer it up to the enthusiasts first.

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@rossi46

You wanna sell that other CV PPC gfx card?

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@Akiko

I sold one of them last night and the other is part of the deal offered for an A1200 - sorry mate.

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@rossi46

Can you confirm the CSPPC is in full working order?

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@rossi46

Fair enough I guess :o)

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@rossi46

Hi,

Well, I've got one here sitting around, in full working order. Elboxed, Blizzard 040@50MHz, SCSI, ZIP100, CD-ROM (2), ZIV, CV64 3d, etc., etc. It gets used less and less nowadays. I've put it up for sale here some time ago as well as on AmiBench, but no reaction at all.

Will happily send you full specs.

OldFart

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@rossi46

I'd rather sell my/swap my PPC A1200 for a PPC A4k to be honest. It'd solve a lot of the hassles I've faced.

Maybe I'll br rich enough to acquire a PPC A4k at some point. But I doubt it

[many CPPC/BPPC cards have gone for over £300/£400 on ebay. Even non-working ones!]

Steve

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A1200 - OS3.1: Blizzard IV 030, 64mb ram, 400mb HDD

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@rossi46

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About 5 or 6 years ago I bought an Amiga 4000 to replace my A1200 tower. The A1200 had a Power Flyer, Zorro busboard, accelerator and some other bits and pieces dangling precariously off the motherboard. You had to be careful not to sneeze around it. When something did come loose it was such a pain in the ass to get into the mass of wires and boards to fix it. - xeron

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The A4000 with CSPPC has a lot faster interface towards the motherboard than the A1200 BPPC. Maximum speed between the BPPC and A1200 motherboard is around 6MB/sec = extremely slow. That is the speed to everything, not just the chip RAM. This means that a fast IDE controller in an A1200 could never be faster than around 5-6MB/s due to this limitation. Also network (PCMCIA) suffers. - Deniil715

Patience, patience!

You may just reget selling off some of that kit... it's not just expensive stuff, it's collector's stuff.

You'd have had more performance for FPS with that A4000 gear than with an A1200 PPC option.

Games like Shogo/Quake II do suffer slightly with the lesser bandwidth that the BPPC cards offer.

Ah well, good luck with the endeavour though!

[As with all Amiga endeavours, patience and the want to fiddle is a must]



(My fairly recent Workbench with the setup shown in my signature)

Steve

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@rossi46

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I replied on another forum about being the least patient person in history.

You've made a really odd choice of computers to use then. And also you are selling off kit you may later find you really should have kept.

Some items, once sold vanish from the face of the earth and can never be bought again. (AmigaOnes are a good example of this).

I'm sorry dude, but it's look a bit like you cashed in all the good luck you are going to get in a year by getting the gear in the first place and now bad luck is controlling what you do with it.

Amiga prices doin't vary much over the years so you are not losing money on potential sales by sitting on it and you may find out that a A4000 solution is the better long term option than the towered A1200 one.

I dunno dude, this looks a bit like you headbutting the gifthorse in the mouth.

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I wouldn't normally respond to that, but I fail to see how my trading-off some bits and pieces back into the community can be wrong, or, as you seem to be inferring, ungrateful of me.

The way I see it is this. I can either:

Try to build a machine myself
Sell off all the bits on Ebay
Trade some (not all) of the choice items back into the community

or

Sit back and do nothing, all smug in the knowlege that I possess stuff that some can only dream about having. (allbeit aqquired by accident, but hey! wtf!)

In hindsight, I realise I could have done things differently, i.e. more quietly, without coming on here shouting about my find, but I still reckon that giving back into the 'scene' is the best option for me in as much as I can get the machine I always wanted but couldn't afford, some people can have bits they can use and I keep enough left over for my own back-burner A4000 project. Maybe for the winter.

Sorry, I realise I'm still too much of a n00b to have earned the right to have a rant, but I gotta take exception to the negative comments.

peace

Pauly

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@rossi46

I have a Power Tower system with 060 I've just built, but there's a problem with the sound so the motherboard needs replacing. I think I know what the cause is but it might take a while to get it fixed and you said you are not too patient.

The other problem is that although I would love the hardware you're offering I have no A4000 to put it in.

The offer is no longer available. A sincere thank you to all who took an interest.

Pauly

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@rossi46

What spec is the system you're getting, do tell.

@rossi46

That's fair dos. I'm more concerned that you've got rid of hardware you just can't better...the A4k PPC cards are as good as it gets. The A1200 just misses out, but wins in terms of 'bits hanging off everywhere' as someone so nicely put it and I know from experience =)

Good luck!

Steve

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A1200 - OS3.1: Blizzard IV 030, 64mb ram, 400mb HDD

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@rossi46

The classifieds is in the top menu (not on the left) together with "home", "About us" etc etc...

Since this is a done deal I'll leave it unlocked.

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@SpaceDruid POST #11

I was going to sell my towered A4k PPC&060, CyberVision + 128mb too. it's just gaining dust more and more. the last time I fired it up was on March or April.

but your post made my hard over months gained strenght to sell it melt and vanish like butter in the sun.

@Seer

Thanks I see the section now that you point it out

@stevieu - I still have a PPC 040/25 in amongst the remaining gear along with various other gfx cards and stuff. I'm going to Ebay some bits to fund the purchase of any 'missing' parts as I discover them. (so I'll no-doubt be banging on a few virtual doors for assistance in due course)

cheers

Pauly

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Some items, once sold vanish from the face of the earth and can never be bought again. (AmigaOnes are a good example of this).

You say that like AmigaOnes disappearing is a bad thing.

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