Amibay: Selling my A4000T, UK, collect only

[Harrison]

Well, you can get graphics cards for the A1200! The Blizzard PPC boards for the A1200 can be connected up with a special graphics card, and it is meant to be the best card on any Amiga.

There is also the AGA flicker fixer you can fit internally to the A1200 that adds Hi Graphics modes to the system.

[Khephren]

Hi Harrison,
A graphics card that does not require a tower case? now i'm interested!

What iv'e always wanted was an RTG (high colour) workbench and paint apps for the A1200. An indivision is not quite what i'm after, i'd like more graphics speed, and more colours on the desk top. We all know how sluggish AGA is in more than 64 colours

Now, if someone could write an AGA HAM driver for one of the RTG packages, with processor chunky graphics, that (might) do the trick!

[Stephen Coates]

I don't know too much about it, but the Blizzard Vision is the one which attaches to a Blizzard PPC. It will give you a VGA port which you can attach to the back of your A1200 desktop case. You will get a higher resolution and more colours.

If you don't already have a Blizzard PPC, I would expect to spend at least a third of your A4000T price on one. I don't know how much a BVision would cost much, but probably a lot.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showha...cgi?HARDID=462

[Harrison]

As Steve said, the BVision is the graphics card, and it connected to the Blizzard PPC card. These is designed to fit into and work in a standard desktop A1200 case and it gives true colour graphics, and faster than any of the big box zorro cards seen over the years. It is the fastest native Amiga graphics card, without moving over to PCI bus boards and PC PCI graphics cards.

The Blizzard PPC boards, and the BVision cards are very rare these days, and quite hard to find. However they do still appear. I would however expect to pay a lot to get both together, they are that rare!

However, I just looked on Amibay and there is still an open sale for a BVision card here:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=3086

It was originally posted in September 2009, and updated as still available, so you could contact the seller to see if it is still available. Only €100 too.

I've also seem Blizzard PPC boards on Amibay offered for under €300, so it is worth keep checking as one will come up for sale at some point soon. So in theory you could get a PPC and BVision for a total of about €400.

There is also a current Blizzard PPC card for sale on Amibay that has been upgraded in the extreme and currently selling for £600. Extreme because it has been upgraded to a 66MHz 060 and a 330MHz 603e! Now that is fast! Possibly the fastest Amiga you will get. And this isn't overclocked, but a replaced PPC. Something quite special, and if I had the spare cash myself I would be buying it.

[Buleste]

I saw an untested BVision go for £10.50 the other week on fleabay. There are real bargains out there.

[Harrison]

That is a real bargain. I would have grabbed that myself had I seen it.

You do sometimes need to hunt on ebay for things as people often stick them in wrong categories, or give the sales strange titles that don't really describe the items.

[Khephren]

I saw an untested BVision go for £10.50 the other week on fleabay. There are real bargains out there.

lol i just bought a real bargain mini laptop from there, now iv'e got to learn to solder to get any use out of it! Should have stayed away from buying from hong Kong, would cost more to send back than it did to buy!

[Harrison]

Yep, Hong Kong is definitely a seller location to avoid. Although I have picked up a couple of bargains from HK sellers in the past, the postage time is weeks, and as you say, it isn't worth returning anything if it is broken.