Tom Thul, 8 meg, A500 instructions please?

[Azryl]

I thought "dumba$$es" only owned Apple products


no, the Rev8a mobo should auto config the 1meg trap door expansion as CHIP ram because its made for A500+.. it is constructed different to the normal A500 512K trapdoor expansions.

Az

[Azryl]

If you have a harddrive on your system, if you need more chip ram reduce how many addbuffers you have in the s/startup-sequence.

each buffer eats way 30k of chip ram if I remember correctly.

The buffers are there to speed up directory searching and loading of small files. If you have a CF adapter on your machine then you should only have a few buffers because the CF is much faster than older XT or AT harddrives which were common, or slow old scsi-50pin which the addbuffers command was there to help speed up.

Az

[Azryl]

A600 has PCMCIA, you can add networking! It also has inbuilt IDE and 2meg chipram and FULL ECS chipset. So its MUCH better than an A500, and only slight better than an A500+

But I would love to own an A500+ because I know from experience that 2meg chip ram is always much nicer than just 1meg

It is why I like my A3000's so much!

Az

[Azryl]

A600 does have a missing numpad....  but then again not many games use numpad but lots of them are hard drive installable

pcmcia networking rocks, netgear ma401 for wireless = win!
I installed the ma401 into my A1200

One of my a500's has KS2.04/WB2.1 and an internal IDE, the ICD AdIDE40 + 240meg harddrive.

The other A500 has an A590 attached, KS3.1/WB3.1, 2meg-fastram, 2gig scsi and external Cd-rom

Neither has 2meg chip yet, when I finally get an expansion for that it will go into one of my A2000's

I would like to own one of Tom Thul's internal IDE solutions, CF would be much nicer than the internal AdIDE40 I have now. ( it will not do CF, barely does older IDE drives )

Az

[Azryl]

Yeah I think he had at the time was the side car version. At the moment I'm trying to get everything inside the a500 case. Which is harder than what I thought, height wise and the gap between the indivsion ecs and anything I plug into the CPU socket is very close.

Then the keyboard is pushed up just enough that the case wont close :-( So I don't know how some people can do it.

Hiya Lurch, I have seen the end of the cpu that touches the keyboard ground/sanded/shaved at a 30degree angle to give clearance. Its not pretty, but then again all your removing is the plastic part, the carrier so its not essential for the cpu to have this

Az