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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: redneon on April 04, 2005, 01:29:46 PM
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I bought my A1200 about a year ago and I know that it's got an expansion card in it but I wanted to find out which card it was so that I could get Picasso96 working with it so I took the back off.
On the card there is an I/O interface which consists of 50 pins. You can see an image of it here...
Clickety! (http://www.dunmanifestin.co.uk/miggy.jpg)
I was wondering if this was SCSI. If so, could I buy a SCSI CDROM drive and cable and attach it to my Amiga?
Also, I installed Picasso96 and because I don't know which card it is I've got I selected to install all graphics drivers. But when I rebooted and wel to the P96 ScreenMode thing in Prefs it says there are no compatible resolutions. But I know that the card is capable of more because when I bought it it had OS3.9 installed and it was set 800x600 with 16 thousand colours. Are there any other programs like Picass96 or am I setting up Picasso96 wrong?
Darrell
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What I can see in your photo, is that your A1200 has some sort of a 030 accelrator card. It might have a scsi controller on the card, but can you see the name/brand of the card?
The Picasso (P96) driver only works with a graphics card, what you got there is only a accelrator card, which doesn't have a graphics card on it (only the Blizzard PPC accelerator card may have a graphics card). To put it in another way you don't have anything to use the P96 for.
Looks abit like this one: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=116
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The accelerator does have a 50 pin scsi controller on it. In fact, the scsi controller is an NCR scsi controller. On the bottom left of the picture there is an NCR 9420n chip that's the scsi controller. It has a SCSI symbol on it as well.
You would need to find the driver for this scsi controller to get it to work, but it's a standard scsi chip that was used in many 8bit ISA scsi controller. I remember that chip quite well.
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It is indeed the taifun card fully populated. yours has 8MB fastram soldered on the board and yes; the scsi controller. The 50 pin header is for internal scsi the outher can be used to connect an external. I don't know how whis all works since I have the non scsi version.
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Fast Ram soldered on the board? It looks more like it has a standard SIMM socket?
As far as P96 goes, forget it. You don't have a grafix card. The only interal gfx card for the A1200 is the BVision which requires a BlizzardPPC. And that should be right were your TaiFun is :)