Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: A500/2000 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?  (Read 11849 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline giZmo350

  • Lifetime Member
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2005
  • Posts: 2064
  • Country: 00
  • Thanked: 29 times
  • Gulfport, Miss
    • Show all replies
Quote from: desiv;608500

I would guess that he's probably right.
An inexpensive, new, professionally made 68020 card for the A500 with a bunch of RAM (and I would think it would have to have storage of some type, CF/SD) would appeal to the most people out there..
desiv


Bingo!
I'm always looking for a way to make my A500 sit in a smaller footprint (ditch my A590). An accelerator with a removable CF/SD card solution (for ADFs) on IDE & Indivision (for LCD) would give me the best and most compatible machine for games & WHDLoad. I occasionaly look at the MiniMig but just can't justify the added expense since I already have a great A500 rev 6a MB unit.

I already have a beast of an A1200 (still work in progress - still waiting on a digital camera Run Requestor!) for KS3.1/OS3.9
A500: 2MB Chip, 8MB Fast, IndiECS, MiniMegi, IDE4ZorroII on Z-500, KS1.3/KS3.1, WB3.1&BWB
 
A2000HD: 2MB Chip, 128MB Fast, P5:Blizz 2060@50MHz, PCD-50B/4GBCF, XSurf100, RapidRoad, IndiECS, Matze RTG, MiniMegi, CD-RW, SunRize AD516, WB3.9
 
A1200: 2MB Chip, 64MB Fast, 4GBCF, GVP Typhoon 030 @40MHz w/FPU, Subway USB, EasyNet Ethernet, Indi AGA MKI, FastATA MK-IV, Internal Slim CD/DVD-RW, WB3.5

Surfing The Web With AMIGA Is Fun Again!
 

Offline giZmo350

  • Lifetime Member
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2005
  • Posts: 2064
  • Country: 00
  • Thanked: 29 times
  • Gulfport, Miss
    • Show all replies
Re: A500/200 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 11:39:27 PM »
Quote from: runequester;608540
I've seen other expansions that add a clockport, so I imagine it would be feasible. Not sure about costs and how available the needed parts are, though.


Clockport would defeat the whole purpose for the A500 as you would HAVE to run OS3.9. For me it's about the base compatibility of the A500 with internal storage & ADF transfer. A small accelerator w/mem and use of LCD would be the bomb.
A500: 2MB Chip, 8MB Fast, IndiECS, MiniMegi, IDE4ZorroII on Z-500, KS1.3/KS3.1, WB3.1&BWB
 
A2000HD: 2MB Chip, 128MB Fast, P5:Blizz 2060@50MHz, PCD-50B/4GBCF, XSurf100, RapidRoad, IndiECS, Matze RTG, MiniMegi, CD-RW, SunRize AD516, WB3.9
 
A1200: 2MB Chip, 64MB Fast, 4GBCF, GVP Typhoon 030 @40MHz w/FPU, Subway USB, EasyNet Ethernet, Indi AGA MKI, FastATA MK-IV, Internal Slim CD/DVD-RW, WB3.5

Surfing The Web With AMIGA Is Fun Again!
 

Offline giZmo350

  • Lifetime Member
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2005
  • Posts: 2064
  • Country: 00
  • Thanked: 29 times
  • Gulfport, Miss
    • Show all replies
Re: A500/200 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2011, 01:32:23 AM »
Quote from: Cammy;608555
You don't need OS3.9 to use a Clockport expansion. You can use a Subway USB card with Kickstart 1.1 using the Anaiis USB stack. I'm sure all the other expansions made for the Clockport have no problem running with 3.1 either.


Now that I did not know! No need for Poseidon or Trident? That's awesome. Thanks for that info Cammy!

I've been really wanting to put an Indivision ECS and MiniMegi in the A500 & and with a Subway USB I would have exactly what I want! BTW,Is Indivision coming out with a new version of their scandoubler? I see that AmigaKit is out of them but Versalia still has them I think....   should I wait?
« Last Edit: January 24, 2011, 01:35:44 AM by gizmo350 »
A500: 2MB Chip, 8MB Fast, IndiECS, MiniMegi, IDE4ZorroII on Z-500, KS1.3/KS3.1, WB3.1&BWB
 
A2000HD: 2MB Chip, 128MB Fast, P5:Blizz 2060@50MHz, PCD-50B/4GBCF, XSurf100, RapidRoad, IndiECS, Matze RTG, MiniMegi, CD-RW, SunRize AD516, WB3.9
 
A1200: 2MB Chip, 64MB Fast, 4GBCF, GVP Typhoon 030 @40MHz w/FPU, Subway USB, EasyNet Ethernet, Indi AGA MKI, FastATA MK-IV, Internal Slim CD/DVD-RW, WB3.5

Surfing The Web With AMIGA Is Fun Again!
 

Offline giZmo350

  • Lifetime Member
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2005
  • Posts: 2064
  • Country: 00
  • Thanked: 29 times
  • Gulfport, Miss
    • Show all replies
Re: A500/200 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2011, 02:05:47 AM »
Quote from: Cammy;608555
You don't need OS3.9 to use a Clockport expansion. You can use a Subway USB card with Kickstart 1.1 using the Anaiis USB stack. I'm sure all the other expansions made for the Clockport have no problem running with 3.1 either.


Just to be clear, did you mean to say that the Subway will work with KS 1.1 as above or 3.1 as in the last sentance?

Ahhh, never mind - followed the link!  ;-)
« Last Edit: January 24, 2011, 02:35:03 AM by gizmo350 »
A500: 2MB Chip, 8MB Fast, IndiECS, MiniMegi, IDE4ZorroII on Z-500, KS1.3/KS3.1, WB3.1&BWB
 
A2000HD: 2MB Chip, 128MB Fast, P5:Blizz 2060@50MHz, PCD-50B/4GBCF, XSurf100, RapidRoad, IndiECS, Matze RTG, MiniMegi, CD-RW, SunRize AD516, WB3.9
 
A1200: 2MB Chip, 64MB Fast, 4GBCF, GVP Typhoon 030 @40MHz w/FPU, Subway USB, EasyNet Ethernet, Indi AGA MKI, FastATA MK-IV, Internal Slim CD/DVD-RW, WB3.5

Surfing The Web With AMIGA Is Fun Again!