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Offline leirbag28

Re: PCMCIA is it all the same?
« on: August 31, 2004, 09:16:30 PM »
@darren99

 You can most definitelt use PCMCIA Type I and II on the Amiga........that is just refering to the thickness of the card........type one is completely flat like the Apple newton flash cards...........Type II  have the middle kinda bulging out..........and Type III I think is a Type II card that takes up 2 slots because of the thickness.

You can use PCMCIA Type II as long as it i a 16 bit card...........there are some that are 32bit which you cannot use.............they both look identical except on the bacck of the card under the PC CARD symbol it usually tells you if it  is 16 bit, 3.3Volts of 5Volts or 12V...........I think you can only use 16 3.3V and 5V.don't use the 12V ones as they may fry your port.

Anyways.I go online all the time with My PCMCIA ethernet card on my Amiga 600 as well as 1200.............also you can use Compact flash cards.....Sony Memory Stick........SD cards and many others!   you just need to get Fat95, cnet.device and cfd.lha from Aminet and you are set!

You will love how easy it is and it opens up a new world to your Amiga........2 nights ago I just went online with my Amiga 600 Wirelessly!  but not with a Wireless PCMCIA.Im not sure if those work yet but I will test one soon..................but basically I connected my Amiga 600 to my brotjhers Mac laptop that was wireless........and just sucked the signal from him by sharing it through his ethernet port, to my PCMCIA ethernet card.

You can alo get a PCMCIA ethernet card and than a Wirelss bridge to go wireless on your Amiga!

hope this helps
CD32 is actually the best Amiga ever made by Commodore!...
 

Offline leirbag28

Re: PCMCIA is it all the same?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2004, 03:24:25 PM »
@ncafferkey

No wireless card will work with the existing drivers, but I'm currently writing one for wireless cards with the Prism II chipset.
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Oh man!  Please please do this!!! hope you can get it to work with most 16bit Wirelss cards. I really dont understand why there arent any companies out there doing this.its just plain dumb to me.................I even wonder why it was not included in OS3.5 and 3.9.this stuf is just simply essential.

uhm ......what is Prism II chipet?

Oh yeah.....I think your wrong about the 3.3V cards...............I am using one that says its 3.3V and 5V  16bit 2Gigabyte memory card from Toshiba...............I believe the 3.3V is Read and the 5V is Write

It works great on my A600.I use it for Music and to transer downloads from my PC
CD32 is actually the best Amiga ever made by Commodore!...