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Re: ZorRAM SDRAM Memory Card (www.amigakit.com)
« on: March 22, 2010, 02:29:04 PM »
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 After encountering many problems and employing E3B's expertise in the area of Zorro expansion development, the ZorRAM card was developed. We would like to thank our hardware partners for the many months of development work put into this project.



Great! I have never gotten my FastLane Z3 memory  working quite right. Anyone want to buy one? :) Oh, and while the Zorro III expertise is available, could you build a Zorro III expansion for my A1000 so I could use more ZorRAM cards? You see, the Garganturam card in my Zorro I Byte by Byte Pal expansion box just doesn't cut it anymore.
 

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Re: ZorRAM SDRAM Memory Card (www.amigakit.com)
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2010, 08:58:12 PM »
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Is that an original A1000 or GBA1000?
I have never heard of Z3 on an A1000.

There has not been one yet, but I still want one! My Byte by Byte PAL expansion is an interesting relic - it was, I believe, the first expansion, even before Commodore. It's actually Zorro I (yes, One) and was built before CBM had finished the A2000 design - they supposedly worked with CBM to de-bug and implement the concept of Amiga bus-based expansion. The hardware designer, with his name imprinted on the circuit card, is Brad Carvey, Garth's brother :), who later went on to help design the Video Toaster.

Edit: Probably most don't even know Byte by Byte made hardware. After the drama of Amiga expansion, they got out of hardware completely and into 3D software that is well known, Sculpt 3D/4D.
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Re: ZorRAM SDRAM Memory Card (www.amigakit.com)
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2010, 09:14:44 PM »
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I think he might have meant if it were a Zorro II card, that it should work in a Zorro III slot....
@Joetee... are you talking about BigWolf out East? Is he still selling Miggy stuff I wonder?


I thought it depended on how much work the card designer wanted to do; the GVP Spectrum implied that it made use of the ZIII environment when plugged into an A3000/A4000, but that may have been marketing.

Which BigWolf are you referring to - Big Wolff Porno & Computers maybe? :)