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A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« on: September 10, 2006, 09:30:26 AM »
Recently aquired a minty A500+ housed in the Micronik mini tower with the ZII busboard which also has room for 4 kickstarts.
At the moment I have two kickstarts in the sockets on the busboard but I have no clue on how to switch between them..the manual is in german and I understand some of it but can't find anything related to switching betweeen them.
Has anyone here any experience in this hardware and can give me some hints?
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2006, 11:41:16 AM »
Will try the tips you guys gave me  :-)

Will also provide BBOAH with better pics than the crappy ones that are there and upload some here too.
This baby rocks...can't wait to get my hands on a nice A2000 turbocard for it and stuff an X-surf and a Cybervision gfx card in it  :-D

Here a pic of it I posted on a swedish Amiga forum
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Amiga 4000T - A3640 '040
Amiga 4000 - CS MKIII
Amiga 1200 - Blizzard 1230 MKIV
Amiga 1200 - Stock
Amiga CD32 - TF360
A bunch of ol' A500's
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2006, 12:29:10 PM »
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zipper wrote:
There is a 3pin header on the busboard for the kick switcher - just try different combinations on it, probably shorting 2 pins. What is the default behaviour when nothing is connected there - the lowest KS I think?


It always boots kick3.1
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Amiga 4000T - A3640 '040
Amiga 4000 - CS MKIII
Amiga 1200 - Blizzard 1230 MKIV
Amiga 1200 - Stock
Amiga CD32 - TF360
A bunch of ol' A500's
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2006, 12:30:14 PM »
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Miked wrote:
Amigaz,

What are your plans for this great piece of hardware? (an 060 would be a nice addition)

-Miked


Yeah, I would love to get my hands on a Blizzard 2060 and then stuff an X-surf inside it together with my Cybervision 64 3D  :-)
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Amiga 4000T - A3640 '040
Amiga 4000 - CS MKIII
Amiga 1200 - Blizzard 1230 MKIV
Amiga 1200 - Stock
Amiga CD32 - TF360
A bunch of ol' A500's