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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Agafaster on January 15, 2008, 11:01:44 AM
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I'm building a Wifi network - I have a PCI card for the A1 on its way, the PC will be a piece of p1ss (probably USB) as will the router.
however, I'd like to get the A1200 in on the fun if possible. I've had a look at the wireless PCMCIA card that AmigaKit do, but have a question - my Accelerator is the cheapo Apollo 1230 Lite - it has 8MB in, but the memory map is only the 24 bit Address bus supplied by the A1200 edge conn. will the CPU card and the PCMCIA adaptor interfere with each other ? I gather this has/had been a problem with Memory expansions.
could I use the full 8MB SIMM, or would I have to reduce that to 4MB to avoid clashes ?
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the apollo lite version is not pcmcia friendly and therefore you have to drop to 4mb, i had the exact same card.
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Doh !
I did purchase a 1230/40 for that very reason (and the added bonuses of a faster CPU and capacity for larger SIMMs) but it was never stable enough - never got round to organising a warranty repair/return either...
anyone know of a hack to either:
sort the 1230 lite to not interfere with the PCMCIA
or
stabilise the 1230/40 ? that may have been down to either the edge connector, or the fact the 030 was an overclocked 33MHz.
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Use 4MB, and everything should be fine.
If your 030 is overclocked AND a PLCC job, then stop overclocking the damn thing. ;-)
If it is PGA, then it should probably be ok... up to a fair bit above stock... but don't count on it. (Do you know how Motorola rated their cpus?) Does it have a working mmu?
Hang on... I've reread the first post - it's an Apollo. Oh dear. :-D