Amiga A600 SRAM upgrade: Any point?

[ChaosLord]

If u can do hardware mods then putting a big glob of SRAM on a 50Mhz 68030 or 25-40Mhz 040 or 50Mhz to 110Mhz 060 would be rocking awesome!

The SRAM would provide a giant speedboost to those chips!
A 90Mhz 060 with 16MB SRAM would be like having 16MB of L1 cache! Zoooom!
A 90Mhz 060 could access the SRAM on every single cycle!

[ChaosLord]

I don't plan on upgrading the processor (although it sounds fun). I understand you can add 4MB of SRAM via the PCMCIA slot and figured I may do so if it has more applications than WHDLoad.

If u r talking about adding memory via the PCMCIA slow then you can forget everything I said in my first post.

PCMCIA slow is slow and only 16-bit wide.  But it is 100% suitable for a plain Jane A600 and would definitely help it.  Is someplace selling PCMCIA memory modules cheap?

If its cheap go ahead and get it.

Its memory.  It has infinite applications.

[ChaosLord]

Amiman99 have the best ideas

[ChaosLord]

If u do end up getting the $106.00 Accellerator+16MB RAM combo from AmigaKit then you will have the 68020 CPU and memory to play the game I coded for A600.  It requires 68020 CPU + 4MB RAM + 30MB HD space + OS3.0+ and multitasks.

Game is on Aminet here: http://aminet.net/package/game/2play/ChaosHeavy

[ChaosLord]

Null modem cables are

Very slow, slower then floppy drive, why torturing yourself?

I agree.  Null modem cables are crap slow for file transfers.

If I wanted to network my PC and Amiga together cheaply I would just use a PARnet cable which I have had since 1980s.  If u lost urs then you can buy a new one.  PARnet is something like 8x faster than serial cable.  It is quite useable.

I would recommend either the CF Card transfer method or the PARnet method.

You are supposed to use your serial port to run a NULL modem cable from your A600 to your other A600 so you can play Stunt Car Racer in head to head 2 player mode, or Lotus Turbo Espirit in 2,3 or 4 player mode.

Only Amiga Makes it Possible(tm)

[ChaosLord]

Hmm... I had no idea parallel cable transfers would be so slow.

Serial = slow
Parallel = fast

CF Card = Phantasmagorically Fast

If u do the CF card thing then you can pick out your 1000 WHDLoad games, copy them all on *BAP* then pull the card out and plug it into your A600.  DONE.    Its a great way to transfer huge amounts of data fast.