A1200 RAM Expansion Card E1208

Hi,
I want reducing my Amiga hardware so I sell a A1200 RAM expansion card, E1208 by Elsat.
More information could be found here: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search....e1208&company=

In mentioned, the card has a Jumper for 4 or 8 MB RAM so you can easily switch if you need the PCMCIA slot. It works 100% in a Rev. 2B Mainboard and is in good condition.

Price (E1208 + 8MB RAM): I would ask 60€ + shipping.

Photos: I have currently no camera, so I am hopefully that I could took some next week.

Edit: here the promised photos.

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Originally Posted by Fieldday

Hi,
I want reducing my Amiga hardware so I sell a A1200 RAM expansion card, E1208 by Elsat.
More information could be found here: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search....e1208&company=

In mentioned, the card has a Jumper for 4 or 8 MB RAM so you can easily switch if you need the PCMCIA slot. It works 100% in a Rev. 2B Mainboard and is in good condition.

Price (E1208 + 8MB RAM): I would ask 60€ + shipping.

Photos: I have currently no camera, so I am hopefully that I could took some next week.

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Hi FD ,

Thanks for offer but I have already purchased accelorator .

Regards
Karl

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Originally Posted by Fieldday

Hi,
I want reducing my Amiga hardware so I sell a A1200 RAM expansion card, E1208 by Elsat.
More information could be found here: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search....e1208&company=

In mentioned, the card has a Jumper for 4 or 8 MB RAM so you can easily switch if you need the PCMCIA slot. It works 100% in a Rev. 2B Mainboard and is in good condition.

Price (E1208 + 8MB RAM): I would ask 60€ + shipping.

Photos: I have currently no camera, so I am hopefully that I could took some next week.

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Hi mate, would you accept 50 pounds for the card?
Cheers,
Timo

Hi,

I would like to express interest if the card has an FPU.

Thank you,
Matt.

So, I attached the promised photos.
I never figured out why all Amiga user need a FPU? Only raytracing programs will use them or anything else?
Works fine and is in a very good condition!

PM'd interest if still available. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Fieldday

I never figured out why all Amiga user need a FPU? Only raytracing programs will use them or anything else?

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Quite alot of things do have a use for FPU's. Granted, some depend on it more then others but when talking of more advanced games like Doom and Alien Breed 3D then it does make a difference.
Though really you would need to couple that with a 68030 when playing games like that.

Hi I am interested in the card for 60 euros, I have PMed you if it is still available.

Thanks,
Timo

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Originally Posted by Fieldday

Hi,
I want reducing my Amiga hardware so I sell a A1200 RAM expansion card, E1208 by Elsat.
More information could be found here: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search....e1208&company=

In mentioned, the card has a Jumper for 4 or 8 MB RAM so you can easily switch if you need the PCMCIA slot. It works 100% in a Rev. 2B Mainboard and is in good condition.

Price (E1208 + 8MB RAM): I would ask 60€ + shipping.

Photos: I have currently no camera, so I am hopefully that I could took some next week.

Edit: here the promised photos.

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I was not aware Alien Breed 3D used an FPU. I don't think any games on the Amiga do.

Floating point calculations are used in Ray Tracing, DTP image calculations & such. They do make a huge difference to any CPU, taking all the integra calculation loading away from the CPU entirely.

Kin

For those still looking, here is a working download of the Amiga Format Alien Breed 3D demo as an Amiga executable (works fine on WinUAE with JIT, if it crashes try disabling the FPU):
http://uploading.com/files/7ba268m5/ab3d/

This text was displayed at startup (I'm pretty sure the email is dated now). The final line is displayed when the above executable runs:



TEAM17 AND AMIGA FORMAT PRESENT:

A L I E N B R E E D 3 D Playable Demo

Cursors to move around, Hold SHIFT to run
ALT Fires, SPACE opens doors & operates devices

PRESS K, J or M for Keyboard, Joystick or Mouse.

Escape by going through the green door and throwing
the switch... Note that the Walkers found in the
lower levels cannot be destroyed in this demo!

Also Note: This version does NOT feature finished
audio or final graphics. But it *does* work on 040
Amigas and *does* take advantage of fast ram!

Hello to most on alt.amiga.games ;^)
[Flames and love-bundles to "team17@demon.co.uk"]

And Hey...

you are about to be doomed!



Furthermode, I had an idea regarding Alien Breed 3D and its sequel:

Since the source code of both was released, and the source code of WinUAE is available, both could be modified so that they run inside a modified WinUAE with JIT (which takes care of the 68k machine code instructions), yet with the 3D renderer instructions replaced with Direct3D and/or OpenGL calls which are rendered by the modified emulator, giving these games fully accelerated 3D in high resolution.

This is not quite as difficult as it sounds. The original Doom has been modified in this way (with a similar engine, although still on x86), as has the Marathon trilogy for Mac (now ported to various systems), so with the source for AB3D I and II, and given enough tech-savvy enthusiasts, why not the Amiga's flagship FPS?

There was also a port of the Atari ST version of Frontier Elite II which added 3D acceleration in much this way (later replacing the 68K emulation with native code, although that isn't necessary on fast PCs), which shows that such an approach may be feasible. If the emulation is fast enough on modern systems to work in conjunction with such 3D, then this is likely to be the quickest way to bring AB3D into the 21st century. (Mods such as replacement textures and replacing the sprites with true 3D models may also be possible eventually, but I digress...)

The only problem seems to be in finding enough tech-savvy Amiga enthusiasts to undertake such a project. Any takers?

note the part about disabling the FPU in case of crashes, as far as i am aware AB3D 1 & 2 don't use an FPU

cheers, JuvUK