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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2007, 05:53:54 AM »
AFAIK, the custom chipset was never modified to make use of 8 mb chip mem. Even if it is there, it doesn't mean it gets used. What I know, you need a major rework of custom chips to fully utilise 8mb chip ram.
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2007, 06:02:08 AM »
Yes, you can install 8MB of ChipRAM in the SIMM slot, and even set the jumpers for it. But you will NEVER get the chipset (or any other part of the system) to see it as 8MB. It can not happen with an A4000 without a revision to the AGA chipset, and calling that difficult is like calling a category 5 hurricane a little rain.
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2007, 06:05:17 AM »
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AFAIK, the custom chipset was never modified to make use of 8 mb chip mem. Even if it is there, it doesn't mean it gets used. What I know, you need a major rework of custom chips to fully utilise 8mb chip ram.


my thoughts exactly. maybe he means 8MB fast?
 

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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2007, 06:08:03 AM »
Could be "Other" memory. That's how my HC+8 is seen.
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2007, 06:15:53 AM »
Why not just power the machine on and check? If you don't you're going to have a seriously annoyed bidder when they find out it's just a standard A4000 with 2MB of chip RAM.

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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2007, 07:09:41 AM »
8 MB chip jumper?
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2007, 08:06:35 AM »
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2007, 08:19:13 AM »
I'm throwing my vote in for there not being 8MB chip possible because if it was, it totally would have been done and widely hailed as a great achievement even before C= went under.

...or, let's say if it had recently been discovered to be possible, we wouldn't have had to find out about it on an ebay announcement for sure anyway.
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2007, 08:55:42 AM »
How about some screen shots for us, that'd put an end to this forum.  What ya say poeer her up and take a few good screen  shots.  Cheers
 

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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2007, 08:57:14 AM »
if that's indeed 8mb of fast memory instead of chip, that's a serious mistake...
just turn the system on, >show config snapshot will do it.
wouldn't be awesome to have 8mb of chip ram?
 

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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2007, 10:49:09 AM »
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How about some screen shots for us, that'd put an end to this forum.  What ya say poeer her up and take a few good screen  shots.  Cheers

It'll just be a screenshot of a fullscreen UAE connected via the TV out to a 1084S on top of the A4000 :-D.

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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2007, 11:15:04 AM »
Come on, give the guy a break. He just got misinformation, you don't need to stone him to death.
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #26 on: August 01, 2007, 02:15:51 PM »
eslapion is a Ok guy, I know he is quite knowledgeable about 8 bit things as I am on a Vic forum. I suspect he is just not as knowledgeable about the 4000. The guy probably told him there was a 8mb simm in the chip ram slot and he assumed there was 8mb chip. I use 8mb simms as 2mb are getting hard to find. I say cut him a little slack, but I would still like to see a picture of the desktop to be certain the 4000 powers up and works.
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2007, 03:37:45 PM »
Nobody is stoning anyone.  This is a forum right?  If there was a way to have more than 2MB Chip RAM it would of came out years ago!  :)
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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2007, 05:28:50 PM »
8mb of chip ram :crazy:  only in my dreams :roll:  I've been looking for a solution for years to this and there is no possible way to do it.
 

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Re: A4000 system soon on eBay!
« Reply #29 from previous page: August 01, 2007, 05:43:01 PM »
In the end, it turns out that it is not a question of amount of chip RAM but of speed.

Turns out the reason why there is an 8Mbytes SIMM in there is because there were no 60ns 2Mbytes SIMM in existence. Pretty much all 2Mbytes SIMMs were 80ns or slower.

The official reply from Brian:

About the A4000 chipram. Even though I have an 8 meg module, workbench says that I only have 2mb.  I may have done this to make the 'TurboAGA', my amiga chipset overclocking project, operate at such a high frequency.  It is a 8mb, -6 module.  Commodore's 2mb module was a -8 I believe.

I guess my memory is as small as the amiga's.



And with that the official specs for the machine now are:

-A4000 with 2mb chip ram, 16mb fast ram, Commodore 3640 over-clocked 33MHz 68040.
800mb IDE HD
GVP EGS True Color Retargetable Color System with Video card, 2mb ram, slightly overclocked.
Additional Cybergraphics drivers.

But I can attest to the fact that his 3640 is REALLY overclocked to 33MHz.