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- From: Greenl@metrolink.net (Greenl)
- Subject: Re: A1200 Tower
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- Date: 1 Feb 96 19:36:29 GMT
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-
- > Good Morning.
-
- > I'm thinking about buying an Amiga 1200 with a Blizzard '060 CPU board
- > and a tower, which seems to be a fair bit cheaper than buying an
- > Amiga 4000 straightaway.
- > Now I'm wondering if the ZORRO II/III boards which are offered for
- > various towers are fully compatible, and if they are offering the same
- > maximum data throughput (I guess, ZORRO is some kind of standard,
- > right ?) because I might, later, want to buy some Motion JPEG card like
- > VLab Motion (and who knows what else ...).
- >
- > Does someone has some experience with this and can give me some
- > info's about it ? Thanks.
-
- > Oliver.
- >
- >
-
- Oliver, avoid the Micronik tower (Germany). We have attempted to get the
- latest version of the expansion daughtercard to work with various
- accelerator cards and ZII cards, with only partial success. Results
- with the DKB Mongoose were poor. Even with no accelerator card,
- could not get a 2091 or 8UP! to work. Micronik sez the most com-
- patible accelerator is the Blizzard, but I'd want to see it to
- believe it.
-
- Micronik did their own discreet version of the Buster chip, and it
- ain't quite right. Their board also does only ZII and has no video
- slots, although a future version will have video.
-
- Eagle Computer (also Germany) has a 1200 Tower coming out in March
- which supposedly uses a real Super Buster chip, and does everything,
- including two video slots. However, they have not yet tested a
- Toaster on their prototypes. As soon as one of these reaches the
- importer, Anti-Gravity, they will be testing Newtek stuff.
-
- Hal, HardDrivers Co.
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