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Offline mr_a500

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Re: ethernet on Amiga 500?
« on: February 01, 2007, 05:18:37 PM »
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About the A1000 mentioned earlier,i have managed to put a viper 520cd in it,use it for a drive and ram,and 3x roms,and hack a zorro adapter from a IVS trumpcard 500 to the siee with a Xsurf ethernet card.The A1000 will surf the internet without missing a beat and its quite amazing something engineered in 1986 or so will adopt to later hardware.


Very impressive! What about Chip RAM though? I considered attempting to use my Viper 520 in my A1000, but gave up when I realized that I couldn't use my 2Mb Mini Megi. You must have found a way to have 2Mb Chip, otherwise I don't see how you can "surf the internet without missing a beat". I shudder to think what it would be like with only 512Kb Chip.
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Re: ethernet on Amiga 500?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2007, 03:45:51 AM »
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Its been a while since i had the 1000 up and surfing,but if memory serves,I set ibrowse2.3 to use only fast ram on the A1000/viper and turned chip off.. This got me around the chip ram problem for the most part. Dont get me wrong,browsing on a limited system with ocs chipset is anything but pleasureable,but it does do it reliably.The whole point was to see if it could be done for me :


I wonder if the stock A1000 is slower than the stock A500 or not. If not, and the Viper 520 card is fitted and somehow the Mini Megi could be added, then browsing on an A1000 can be exactly like it is on my A500. (here and here)

It's definitely much more impressive to show off to those Mac and Windows freaks "Look what I can do with the first Amiga from 1985" than to say it's from a 1987 A500.

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Doesn't the viper take a chip ram expansion on its header? i seem to recall reading something about this? Or is it just A1000 incompatible?


As you know there's a jumper on the Viper for Mini Megi, but no slot on the card for one. I already installed my Mini Megi before I got the card and I vaguely remember the manual said not to bother with the jumper if you've already got it. So I don't know what the jumper is actually for and don't know how you could add a Mini Megi to the card. The A1000 Agnus is not a PLCC chip so can't install Mini Megi on the motherboard. The A1000 Agnus would have to be bypassed somehow with Mini Megi on a separate card.

Anybody out there have an A1000 with 2Mb Chip?
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