DKB WildFire 060 Accelerator for the A2000
Gordon Proudfoot
MHz Accelerator for the Amiga 2000. Also, are these cards still
available?
Regards;
Gordon Proudfoot
Mikdom99
For info look at "The Big Book of Amiga Hardware"
follow the link
A2000 (1500/2500) Accelerators
I dont know if any are still sold commercially.
Regards Michael
aka rockape
Mikdom99
Skipper Smith
>I was wondering if anyone had comments regarding the DKB WildFire 060 50
>MHz Accelerator for the Amiga 2000. Also, are these cards still
>available?
I like the one I have in my A2000, though it is currently not in
operation right now. I would not encourage you to consider getting one,
because you won't find much support for them and the pseudo-PCI slot that
it has never gotten used for anything- the promised Inferno video card
never got beyond the prototype stage (I have one of the prototypes, but it
is non-functional. I keep meaning to give it back to Dean).
That said, I would probably consider the Wildfire before I would consider
any OTHER '060 class accelerator for the A2000. The built-in Ethernet is
worth it to me.
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Erik Jordan
One of the US dealers has them, I think it was Devine. Expect to pay about
$1200 for one though.
Erik-
Skipper Smith
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Gordon Proudfoot;
>
>>I was wondering if anyone had comments regarding the DKB WildFire 060 50
>>MHz Accelerator for the Amiga 2000. Also, are these cards still
>>available?
>
>were made, and fewer still were sold. If Dean is reading the mail here,
>he might be able to shed some light on the subject.
Actually, while few were made, almost all of them were sold, as I
understand it. If there are any left, I guess Devine could have them, but
I remember Dean telling me he had sold all of his inventory to some NY
based company (not Devine... Dr... something), I just can't remember who
that is. Sorry about that.
Christian Zorzi
>$1200 for one though.
It could have been Mr. Hardware:
http://myweb.li.net/~hardware/
And do also check the Wildfire resource pages at:
Bye, Christian.
Robert Reiswig
ski...@no-spam.calweb.com (Skipper Smith) writes:
>Actually, while few were made, almost all of them were sold, as I
>understand it. If there are any left, I guess Devine could have them, but
>I remember Dean telling me he had sold all of his inventory to some NY
>based company (not Devine... Dr... something), I just can't remember who
>that is. Sorry about that.
That was "Mr. Hardware Computers".. he was doing DKB tech support
for a while but he passed away.
They are still at: http://myweb.li.net/~hardware/
Only CPU card on their sales list is a COBRA40.
The only other 'support' I know of is a mailinglist
run by Steve Bowman @ http://www.egroups.com/community/DKBWildfireUsers
Robert
Zorro
>for a while but he passed away.
>
>They are still at: http://myweb.li.net/~hardware/
>Only CPU card on their sales list is a COBRA40.
>
>The only other 'support' I know of is a mailinglist
>run by Steve Bowman @ http://www.egroups.com/community/DKBWildfireUsers
Lots of support on these pages:
Bye, Zorro
Gordon Proudfoot
Thanks;
Gordon Proudfoot
Glenn Saunders
Smith) wrote:
>That said, I would probably consider the Wildfire before I would consider
>any OTHER '060 class accelerator for the A2000. The built-in Ethernet is
>worth it to me.
How fast is the ethernet? Without Zorro bottlenecks it must scream.
Niels Knoop
> > That said, I would probably consider the Wildfire before I would
> > consider any OTHER '060 class accelerator for the A2000. The
> > built-in Ethernet is worth it to me.
It's a great card, but has its flaws. Most annoyingly, it reduces the
bandwidth towards the motherboard (Chip-RAM, graphics cards etc.), which
is the biggest bottleneck of such a system anyhow, even further (from
~3.5 MB/s to 2.x MB/s).
> How fast is the ethernet? Without Zorro bottlenecks it must scream.
Not exactly, because it's still 10Mbit/s. It's still better than any
Zorro card because it can use DMA, but I doubt that the difference is
dramatic.
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+Glenn Saunders <cybp...@earthlink.net> wrote
>>That said, I would probably consider the Wildfire before I would consider
>>any OTHER '060 class accelerator for the A2000. The built-in Ethernet is
>>worth it to me.
>How fast is the ethernet? Without Zorro bottlenecks it must scream.
Even Zorro2 is fully capable of 10MBit ethernet, so Zorro is no bottleneck
here..
I get around 700kb/sec on FTP when transfering between my Zorro2-card and a PC
or my Indy..
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