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Offline Ilwrath

Re: whats this card
« on: February 23, 2004, 03:21:28 AM »
A description of any ports or connectors on the card may help, as well.  Heck, is it a Zorro II card or ISA card?  Too many things here we don't know.

 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: whats this card
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2004, 03:59:30 AM »
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my guess......
a TBC (Time Base Corrector)


Anyone else want to make a wild guess???


Actually, that was my wild-guess, as well.  That's why I asked "Zorro II or ISA?"   If it's ISA, I'd bet it's a TBC.  ;-)
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: whats this card
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2004, 06:17:14 PM »
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well, the output connectors "seem" to be SRGB composite connectors [i'd say they where buggered up bnc attempts???] and two HD15's???


Those aren't HD15s... Those are DB9s.  

Surely the 4 RCA connectors are RED, GREEN, BLUE, SYNC.  This card does some video processing/output.

Those 2 DB9 connectors, though.  1 male, 1 female.  That doesn't make this any more clear, though.  They might be a communication of some kind.  Perhaps these cards originally had a breakout box of some kind?  Of course they still could be video, as I have an early NEC multisync monitor that uses a DB9 instead of an HD15.

And look at all those ZIP chips on those cards!  A row the full length of the Zorro card.

Can you do two more things?  

Those "tall" chips that look like they're standing up along the top of the card...  What is the model number on them, and how many are there?  They're ZIP memory modules, and knowing that piece of information, we can see how much RAM is on that card.  That may give some hints as to what it does.  (edit: after looking at the pic again, those maybe aren't ZIPs at the top....  Anyhow, what's the writing on them?)

Also, what's the model number on that large ceramic chip in the bottom-center of picture 2?

At this stage, I'd go with vpcs's explaination.  These two cards may have originally been dedicated hardware for use in a simulator of some kind.
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: whats this card
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2004, 10:08:07 PM »
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EDIT the chips at the top
"D42274V-10
9229FUO29
NEC JAPAN" and there is 16 each side the chip so 32 all to gether


Ok... Those appear to be 256k*4bit ZIP chips.  32 of them would give the card a total of 4MB working RAM.  

The AMD AM95c60 is the graphics processor of your card.  I can't find any supported Amiga cards with that chip.  Most likely the custom simulator software is the only thing that runs on this board.  Bummer.

 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: whats this card
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2004, 04:28:08 PM »
AMIX??!  Does this option work?  Maybe your simulator software is actually on the AMIX (Amiga UNIX) boot?

What unique machines you lucky folks have.