ZorRAM SDRAM Memory Card (www.amigakit.com)

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@VingtTrois

IRC expansion.library had some bug that had to be fixed to allow that.

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What ? Do you have more information about that (link...) ? Thx a lot.

I remember a thread here or at aw.net about somebody using various DKB3128. On the other hand it may be a Fastlane/DKB3128 bug. If the bug appeared you could always burn a new rom with a fixed expansion.library, scsi.device and other goodies :-)

Check out this: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=417621&postcount=25

Tron2k2 wrote:

Here's the answer from Dean Brown, creator of the DKB RAM board: There's a bug in Commodore's expansion.library. When he made the boards he tested them by sticking a bunch of 'em in a 3000, and found this problem. He notified Commodore, but it was too low on their to-do list. Remember, this was when 128MB RAM was SPENDY. C= didn't see this situation happening enough to warrant fixing it, and of course they later went under before it could be fixed.

That's how Dean explained it to me, anyway :-)

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@michael

Do you plan to develop a bugfixed buster replacement that also runs faster? I think many ZorroIII users would be interested. Deneb must be quite more complex than Buster11 and you probably know more about ZorroIII than David Haynie! :-D

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AmigaKit.com is pleased to announce ZorRAM, a new modern memory card for Zorro 3 Amiga computers.

The new card will be supplied with 128MB of SDRAM memory as standard.  It features a low profile Zorro card and has full Autoconfig support.

I have noticed that there's now a 256MB version available. Do you have some news about OS4/MorphOS compatibility?

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Not at all sure about Z3 RAM being of any use for the PPC in MOS/OS4 ... The point is that expansion RAM as well as onboard would be so DEAD slow that you probably wouldn't enjoy it a lot. It'd be nice if AmigaKit could give us a hint here, but I'm pretty confident that it's of no use.

It's better being able to run programs more slowly than watching how your system crashes due to lack of ram.

Keep in mind people use 040 boards with motherboard ram... slowness of motherboard&Z3 ram is greatly exaggerated. It's not as fast as cpu ram but it's not useless.