From: dburnett@emunix.emich.edu (Don Burnett)
Subject: Re: Accelerators/FAST RAM for A1200s?
Summary: MBX 1200 Is Great!
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:02:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan04.184345.23839@zds-oem.zds.com> easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
>In article <1993Jan04.052542.6963@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>>I just got a new A1200. Wonderful machine!
>>
>>however, it is lacking in both memory and raw speed for some
>>if the stuff I was used to doing on my 6 MB A3000. So, does anyone
>>out there know of memory/accelerator upgrades available or available RSN
>>for the A1200?
>
>  Tell me about it.  You should try running Image F/X on 2 Mb of chip
>RAM. :-)
>
>  Wasnt it Microbotics that announced a Clock/FPU/Memory board for
>the A1200 trap door?
>
  I just bought a factory built A1200HD/40 from a local dealer friend of
  mine who just got them in stock.. It was an impulse buy for my home
  use. I also bought an MBX1200 from Microbotics, now I have a 16 MHz 
  68881 FPU in it.. I can put an A4000 type simm in it (of the 2-8MB
  Variety). 

  The nice thing about this unit is that I can replace the 881 with an
  882 or clock a higher speed fpu (of either type) with a separate 
  crystal. It also had SIMM ram expansion capability. The 40 MB Seagate
  that came installed is nice and fast... I want a bigger drive at some
  point soon however.. The Microbotics card autoconfigs and sysinfo even
  knows who makes it..


>  Personally I'm holding out for a '030/FPU/Memory/SCSI board.  I hope
>somebody makes one soon, I cant stand 2 Mb of RAM much longer. :-)
> 
  I could never hold out for this... The need for SCSI is much over-rated
  expect for the need of a tape backup in this level of inexpensive Amiga
  power.. The 030 won't have much advantage speed-wise aft I put in the
  new FPU (faster) and a SIMM in it.. I am saving the PCMCIA port for a
  Ethernet card.. If anyone knows of any of these peripheral cards out 
  for the PC, please let me know.. I would love to get onto writing a 
  driver to support this.. 

  The A1200HD is a more solid unit than the OLD 500 was and better built
  from the ground up.. Bravo Commodore!!

  My only distress is that PROMOTION is not a BOOT SCREEN option (one that
  you get when you hold both buttons down.. This way I could play my
  favorite Sygnosis games on my VGA ONLY (29.2 and above) monitor.. It
  would also mean that programs that don't properly open screens, such
  as ScalaMM200 would display anims properly instead of garbage. This is
  true even with utilities such as DoubleX running... It's funny because
  every screen but the ANIM playing portions work fine..

  =DonB=


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