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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mdv2000 on March 24, 2009, 09:30:10 PM
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I have and Amiga 500 Supra500 RX Link (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1079) with 1 MB of ram - can this hardware be modified to work in an Amiga 2000 or at least the memory be used in another card?
Thanks,
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The Supra 500RX is very cool. I wish it had been my first expansion back in the day, my A500 (and my point of view) would have evolved a little differently.
To answer your question, the A3000 is the only Amiga (that I'm aware of) that directly uses Zip chips. The Supra uses Page Mode memory. The 3000 can use this IIRC, but, I think it is supposed to be slower than Static Column memory (preferred memory for the A3000). I think there are memory expansion boards for the 2000 that use Zips, but I've never owned one.
If you move up to 14400 series chips and max the 500RX out at 8 Megs of fast ram, some interesting possibilities open up. Namely running a RAD: device. With this you could select you favorite parts of Amiga OS and add-ons and load from floppies into RAD:. There after, soft resets are very quick. A 2 or 4 Meg RAD: can hold a lot of stuff. Grin.
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Also, lots of people can buy or swap this piece of hardware for a proper A2000 expansion and really enjoy it.
Make an advertise here or in Amibay (http://www.amibay.com) and in no time you will have your expansion.