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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: adz on August 30, 2004, 12:56:36 AM

Title: AmiFast 3000
Post by: adz on August 30, 2004, 12:56:36 AM

Anybody here familiar with the AmiFast 3000 (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?dir=ram#amifast)? I am curious as to how reliable they are as well as how rare they are. From what I understand Zip chips are getting harder and harder to find and this would make life a lot easier as I have an abundance of EDO RAM just lying around. So any advice/ideas/grunts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers :-)

Title: Re: AmiFast 3000
Post by: Holley on August 30, 2004, 01:05:01 AM

There were plans somewhere to make your own SIMM convertors, that reputedly work ok.  The Motherboard ram is slow enough with static Zips, so don't expect lightning performance :-D

I havn't seen any for sale commercially for quite some time (and I think the ones I saw weren't this particular model anyway), finding the plans might be the easier route.

Title: Re: AmiFast 3000
Post by: adz on August 30, 2004, 01:21:26 AM

Think I might just be better off getting an 040 board with its own fast ram. Thanks anyway :-)

Title: Re: AmiFast 3000
Post by: adolescent on August 30, 2004, 04:25:40 AM

I have one and it works great.  The problem with the homebrew model is it doesn't work with accellerators.

Title: Re: AmiFast 3000
Post by: Orjan on August 30, 2004, 07:12:29 AM

You could try to get a "SIMMFonie". I got it directly from the manufacturer, and it worked great! The downside is that you cant put an accelerator in, because the SIMMFonie is too tall.

http://www.katodev.de/english/simmfonie.html

Title: Re: AmiFast 3000
Post by: adz on August 30, 2004, 11:33:13 PM

@all

Thanks guys, I might try and pick one up, wonder where I can get one downunder...