Amiga Early Start-up menu

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Is the A1200's trapdoor connector classed as a Zorro slot? With busboards it can use Zorro 3 cards like the Picasso-IV in Zorro 2 mode so...

:-?

EDIT: Sorry vlabguy1, didn't mean to hijack your thread, just curious.

:-D

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Hrrm interesting, wonder if putting a Picasso-IV into an A1200 tower would do it justice (what with it going down to Zorro II mode and no video slot etc).

Another curious thing about the Early Boot Menu is that the PowerUP boards could put CD0: into the list of bootable devices. Usually a CD-ROM would require a CD file system to be loaded first but the Phase5 cards seemed to have this on them ready and notify the Early Menu.

Do you think Zorro slot functionality could be determined by those diagnostic programs that Amiga repair centres use?

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by me:
Do you think Zorro slot functionality could be determined by those diagnostic programs that Amiga repair centres use?

by bloodline:
eh?

Yeah, I've heard of a software package for the Amiga that can determine faults in various bits of hardware. I've never seen it commercially available but it does exist. Whether it's pure software or a combination of hardware and software I don't know.

Someone told me about this when I was having trouble with my Video DAC, it may have been Wizard/Compute! who had it. Maybe the Amiga repair centre in France has one(?)...

With regards to Zorro, I remember Power Computing selling Zorro 4 busboards. These would allow the use of Zorro 2 and 3 with 'future capability' for Zorro 4. Did any boards use Zorro 4 or was it just an upgraded Zorro 3.

What was Zorro 1 used on? Ideally the Early Boot Menu should state what revision of Zorro the card is using!