I've had a number of emails lately asking when the next version of TuneNet will
be out. So I've put together a little news update and some screenshots on the
homepage (www.tunenet.co.uk) for anybody that's interested.

For those who just want to know the answer to the question of "when?" - I'd say in
about two weeks time. No full skin GUI in this update however, but some
new playing features and some enhancements to the reaction GUI.

Cheers,
Bean.

Normaly you can fit any accelerationcards in the original case. Thats the point to it! BUT .. the 040 is known to be very hot, so you probably need a fan. Some people lift the bottom of the amiga a couple of cm from the table so air can circulate. If you get a 060 lifting is not needed, its not getting that hot.

My opinion is this. Getting a 030 is as good as getting a 040. Or spend some more money and get a 060. Its cooler, faster and you can run the latest scene-productions.

If your purpose is oldschool games, go for the 030. 040 is something between, and not as good as the 030 or 060. (i know I can be beaten for that oppinion).

Concerning different cards.. I would spend my money on a Phase5 card (Blizzard). Apollo migh be cheaper, but they dont last as long and have some compatible problems. Apollo is not as expandable as Phase5.

It all depends on what you want to do with yer A1200..

Ignore the above, see here instead:
http://3cag.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=311

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Traitor

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I think any PPC boards will run a bit outside of my budget. Besides, if I'm going to spend that much money on something, it may as well be put towards an A1.

I do have my eye on a 25Mhz 040 accelerator for the 1200. It's an Apollo 1240 with a 32MB SIMM installed on it. Can these be used in the standard expansion slot with the regular case, or do I need to stick the 1200 in a tower in order to use it? I'd much prefer keeping the A1200 case if at all possible, especially considering that the towers I've seen are all quite expensive.

Get a tower!
Get a PPC-card with 060 processor
Get a PCI-bridge (like Mediator)
Get a gfx-card
Get a Soundcard
Get a network card
Install OS4 when it is released..

And have fun :)

@Outcast

Perhaps we can make the meeting in a couple of weeks and go for a 3Cag Christmas meal or something?

Logically there wouldn't have been a meeting at the end of December anyway, so this might be a sensible approach?

Perhaps I should be saying this on the 3Cag forum instead?

Chris

fine...
I just finished compiling a new lib for AOS4: libnaji... That should allow me to work on some (fairly) interresting stuff...


Edit: BTW, Happy Birthday <b>hnl_dk</b> !

Jerry

AmiSpammer?
I like it, suits you sir

Rude!

Hello matey!
How are you?

Rude!

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What do you mean "again" !...

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hehe...
// Me changing my nick to AmiSpammer... OK, a new nick like "Bodies" could be enough...

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Are we creating an HW-Doctor section ?

Jerry

Hello you !

Jerry

I find it funny, I join a new site and Jerry tops the post list again

That man talks for.....well I would say England but that would be incorrect I guess

Rude!

P.S. are we letting Helgis in?

Site seems to work ok here, using WinXP
Rude!

Hi Sauron

I'd recommend getting yourself an 030 accelerator board at the very least, along with some extra memory.

My particular favourite combination is an A1200, with Blizzard or Viper 030/50MHz and some decent RAM, say 32 or 64MB?

I'm also a big fan of the PCMCIA CD-ROMs you can get, like the Q-Drive etc.

I find the towered A1200s a bit too hacky for my liking, particularly if you are transporting to a User group or something like that, since something always seems to get dislodged and you spend half an hour trying to put it all back together again

Anyways, have fun - the A1200 is, in my opinion, the best Amiga ever made and you'll have some good times with it.

If you have a PC, then an easy way to d/l files would be to get yourself an Amiga CD-ROM drive and use Aminet and then burn files to CD and transfer them over - I do this using my AmigaOne (or did until about 3 months ago).

OS recommendation: OS3.5 or 3.9.

Rude!

Greetings Amigans!

Rude!

Man this is rude. My daily job is to combat this stuff -;) None-the-less it is for Amiga!

ace

Thanks Paul !

Now it's time for my second morning-coffe...

Jerry

good luck

@hnl_dk

Thanks. Problem sorted... Then I had so many errors due to a few functions defined in the code which are just Windows only (which I reckon came in fact from windows.h and another lib like *something*ptr.h ).
So it looks like I will have to look at other codes...

Jerry