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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Cyberus on January 16, 2004, 08:02:43 PM
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Hi there people.
I have a KCS powerboard for my A500 that I have had a while but not used. Now, my little microprocessor book tells me the NEC V30 (which is the IC in the board IIRC) is basically a 8086 clone with faster execution speed. What I want to know is, has anyone ever managed to get any old PC games/software working well with it, before I go to lengths repartitioning my HD, and installing MSDOS? Or is the powerboard little more than an ingenious little widget....
Regards
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As far as I know it should be perfectly suited for running MSDOS ut to v6.22 and apps designed for that and it is sold as a PC Emulator Card so I guess you can go ahead and partision that HD now. :-D
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From an objective point of view it´s a good Ram expansion for the A500. Running MSdos on an A500 is not really the coolest thing to do since you can only use cga gfx so it will look extremely boring as most pc´s did in those days ...
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Hey I have a KCS too :-)
Everything will work perfectly on the PC side, don't worry.
On the Amiga side you can use it as a 512 kb ram exp. and there is an additional 512kb to be used as RAD ;-)
The problem with mine is that at some point something went wrong with it and when I activated the PC part, it would write things upside down. I.e. The top row would be printed at the bottom of the screen, the second one above that, etc. :-?
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The problem with mine is that at some point something went wrong with it and when I activated the PC part, it would write things upside down. I.e. The top row would be printed at the bottom of the screen, the second one above that, etc
Mirror (http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mirror.shtml) perhaps?-)
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The kcs is excellend voor basic pc work. Games work perfectly, but ega and vga are slow. Tandy and cga are abit faster. You also need some fast mem, to see al colors (vga +soundblaster mode). I worked with it for years (before i blew my old A500 -rev8a).
MS-dos 6.22 was no problem and windows 3.0 worked great.
c.a.
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@Jope
No I don't think so :-)
It did that even when it was first activated, meaning that even the initial memory test would be displayed this way.
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So has anyone the installdisk for this card for me as DMS or so ?
Many thanks in advance
lemmink@joice.net
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I've lost mine unfortunatelly .
I once found them on the net but they were compressed with a compressor that wasn't well known. I don't remember it's name. I couldn't find the amiga version anywhere (there was one).
Hey Cyberus can help us with this!
We need you man! :-)
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@Lemmink:
Try the link below.
Amiga 500 Power Board (http://compcity.nl/a500power/english4.htm)
Good luck!
(edit):
@Spyros:
Check the link, is that the format?
/Patrik
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@Patrik
I think that was it.
Thanks! ;-)
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Hi,
Apologies for digging up this ancient thread.... I've just bought a KCS "Power PC Board" very cheaply but it's just the board itself and no software...
Unfortunately, the link above for downloading the software no longer works... So does anyone here have the software who could perhaps ADF it and email it to me?
Both The Big Book Of Amiga Hardware (http://amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=333) and the Amiga Hardware Database (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?id=powerpc) have information on the board, but unfortunately no drivers...
Any help is appreciated!
- Ali
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Try emailing Computer City. They distributed the board for a long time, so they probably have the software kicking around somewhere.
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OK! Thanks for the info...
- Ali