| From: | Kevin Twyman |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 23:20:36 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hello Nick,
On 23-Aug-00, you wrote:
>> I don't like to talk about the Boxer, it's the one project I've
>> really wanted to see come to fruition, and I've almost given up
>> hope.
> I'm surprised you haven't given up already. Because it would seem,
> that this Boxer project is the work of a perfectionist and as a
> consequence will probably never see the light of day, until it
When I say, "I've almost given up hope", read that as, "I've given up
hope."
This is why I don't like talking about it...
> really is too late. So long as spare A1200, A3000 and A4000
> motherboards are around, I'll be quite happy. :) I think however one
So would I, but have you tried getting a 2nd hand A4000 motherboard?
> expensive compared to a whole new motherboard - often a whole A1200
> or 4000 could be binned because an 8520 has blown or something.
That's exactly the point I was making, and there are only a finite
number of motherboards out there.
>
>> As replacement motherboards, or rather lack of them, is
>> the main cause of Amigas finally dying and being unrevivable, the
> There's no real reason why if you look after your Amiga though
> (which admittedly i don't, for example, hammering Zorro cards etc.
> in with my fists etc. - Well the Picasso IV is not exactly the
> easiest thing to fit! :)) that it should die. If you keep coffee
I can think of lots of reasons why it might die, and places like
Amibench show many people it has happened to.
> away from them (My A2500 knows all about that one!), keep them nice
> and clean and check the insides once in a while - then i can't see
> why it should die. The Amiga motherboard that is.
I know of a bloke with a dead A4000 and A3000 - both untraceable
motherboard faults. It caused him to give up on the Amiga and go over
to PC.
>> I'm not a betting man, and I even have trouble being an optimist
>> these days ;-)
> The way i see things are, don't worry about them - if they arrive,
> they arrive. If you expect tghese things to happen when they say
> they will then you'll be very disappointed person! Esp. as far as
> the Amiga market goes!
Oh, I'm no optimist, I assure you. I'm just sort of hanging on in
there out of pure cussedness ;-)
Regards,
Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
A man with an Amiga A4000T CyberStormPPC 604e/233
Windows '95 .. catching up to the AMIGA of '85
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