I bought my A530 back in 1992. It still runs great. The 8 MB RAM and 2 MB DKB Megachip has been sufficient for my needs.
I recently obtained a VXL 30/RAM 32 and a SupraDrive XP that is showing 14 MB RAM avail (after ROMS remapped to 32 bit memory), that also seems to be an impressive system. More RAM than I know what to do with!!!! Thanks jonbyk!
The thing I like about the Supradrive over the A530 thus far is the Zorro II expansion bus on the side. I am starting to think about a LAN card. Any suggestions?
The VXL 30/32 is mounted in the A500 console (CPU Socket), and given the size of the board, installing is impossible with other add upgrades such as DKB Megachip, or ICD flicker fixer without a lifting kit. I like GVP's idea of mounting everything into the sidecar, plus the addition of the cooling fan.
Both systems are connected via parnet, and cross-machine debugging host->remote using cprx (SASC/C++) now is much faster, compared to before with a stock A500.
I'm thinking of running some speed test to compare the performance of the A530 vs VXL out of curiosity, but I suspect they will bench mark quite close. What benchmark progs do you guys reccomend ? (both systems running 3.1 ROMS).
