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AmigaKit.com Product News
« on: June 18, 2016, 03:00:24 PM »


AmigaKit.com is pleased to announce new items added to our stock inventory from manufacturer, Retro 7-bit.


Kickstart Switchers:

A500Flash Kickstart Switcher 1M for Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000.  This comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory and can be used with 1MB and Extended ROMs.   Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds.


USB Keyboard Adapters:

Sum USB Keyboard Adapter for the Amiga 1200

Sum USB Keyboard Adapter for the Amiga 600

Sum USB Keyboard Adapter for the Amiga A2000/3000/4000 or CD32



We also stock the RYS MKII Amiga USB Adapter






« Last Edit: June 18, 2016, 03:10:26 PM by amigakit »
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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2016, 03:49:18 PM »
Hi Matthew,

Nice one mate, I've already sent an order in which includes 2 x RYS MKII Amiga USB Adapter.

Letter in the Post Ref LAG in October this year.

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2016, 10:37:19 AM »
Quote from: amigakit;810124
Kickstart Switchers:

A500Flash Kickstart Switcher 1M for Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000.  This comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory and can be used with 1MB and Extended ROMs.   Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds.


What does "A500Flash 5k mode (jumper X1)" mean?
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2016, 10:47:48 AM »
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What does "A500Flash 5k mode (jumper X1)" mean?

Look here
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2016, 11:21:33 AM »
Quote from: Spidi;810137
Look here


It doesn't really answer the question.

I am guessing that it makes the 1mb behave like the 512k. But does this allow you to select between three different kickstarts, or still just two?
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2016, 12:14:36 PM »
To me it looks like you can only flash one 512k kickstart, and choose between the flashed one, and the ROM chips.

EDIT: Bummer, just realized it is the 1M version, and yes, it seems the extra 512k is for extended kickstarts, not for a third kickstart.
« Last Edit: June 19, 2016, 12:18:13 PM by kolla »
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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2016, 05:19:37 PM »
Quote from: psxphill;810138
It doesn't really answer the question.

I am guessing that it makes the 1mb behave like the 512k. But does this allow you to select between three different kickstarts, or still just two?

 A500Flash1M supports kickstart 1MB.
Switches between original ROM and stored in a Flash chip (only one kickstart 512kB or 1MB).
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2016, 10:18:29 PM »
Are you thinking of equivalent products for other Amiga models?
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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2016, 11:27:28 PM »
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Are you thinking of equivalent products for other Amiga models?

I have plans for models A600 and A1200.
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2016, 09:26:06 PM »
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I have plans for models A600 and A1200.


Sweet! I would also be very interested in in flash kickstart for CD32, but I realize I would probably be almost alone wanting that :)
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A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2016, 09:27:26 PM »
Btw - I have a CDTV, would be interesting to see if the 1MB version works with it.
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A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2016, 07:34:05 AM »
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A500Flash1M supports kickstart 1MB.
Switches between original ROM and stored in a Flash chip (only one kickstart 512kB or 1MB).

When would you buy a 1mb board and use the 5k jumper?

The advert is a bit misleading "switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds,"
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2016, 09:29:23 AM »
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When would you buy a 1mb board and use the 5k jumper?

The advert is a bit misleading "switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds,"

I don't know but will it cause problems if amiga expecting rom of a certain size and its smaller or bigger ?

or maybe its planned for future release.  Does need clarifying though I think
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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2016, 09:16:00 PM »
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I don't know but will it cause problems if amiga expecting rom of a certain size and its smaller or bigger ?

or maybe its planned for future release.  Does need clarifying though I think

Well I'd have thought that if you load a 512k kickstart it would assume the other 512k is blank.

I guess what I'm asking is. If there is a reason that you would need to disable the extra 512k then what is it? Because it might be worth just buying the 512k in the first place, or none at all because using a 1mb kickstart is likely the only reason that I'd buy one.
 

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Re: AmigaKit.com Product News
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2016, 09:12:34 AM »
Hi Matthew,

I received my order yesterday and the first thing I did was plug in a "RYS MKII Amiga USB Adapter" into the Mouse Port of my A1200/JAWSMKII system with a modified Tank Mouse (Thanks James) it worked as advertised,.

Plug and Play :)


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