A600 8Mb fast expansion

[alexh]

I was probably the one of the first to place an order yesterday evening minutes after Lordv posted and at 2pm today I get this mail:

SAS-Pack wrote:
We have recieved an order from you. please, specify your order, as we have recieved empty order form from you, and let us know what exactly you are wish to order.

I know I filled in the form correctly. D'oh I hope I've not missed out :-(

[alexh]

tokyoracer wrote:
Do we need to supply a 68000 PLCC and am I right in thinking it's actually mounted upside down? :-?

No this unit clips over the A600's SMT 68000

[alexh]

TjLaZer wrote:
order placed!!!  

Any advice on how to mount the IDE HD when this is installed?

You cannot put the cradle in after the upgrade is fitted, look how close to the 68k the holes are.

Consider switching to a 4GB CF card with IDE adapter.

[alexh]

http://amiga-hardware.com is DEAD

It stopped being updated almost 18 months ago when its founder Ian passed the flag to new SysOp Mario.

BBoAH's new address is http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/index_e.html

I'll add the details to BBoAH now as an "unreleased" prototype and when they start shipping I'll change the category.

[alexh]

kolla wrote:
Floppy drive emulator with built in memory card reader is something I'd buy a handful of if available :-)

While very interesting, they are of little added value for the Amiga platform due to cheap hard drive support and the excellent WHDload software.

kolla wrote:
I have earlier pondered on why there never was a CD-drive solution for the external floppy ports

Such devices (albeit flash based) existed earlier on other systems (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC etc.) because of their lack of hard drive support.

[alexh]

http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=1786

[alexh]

kolla wrote:
many of the machines there are no network solutions - the main point of such a device is to offer an easy way of transporting data to and from amiga (very much how floppies were used).

Every Amiga can be networked (albeit slow) using a serial cable. Amiga A500 is the only one with no (cheap) ethernet solution. A600 and A1200 can use ultra cheap PCMCIA ethernet adapter, but I'd recommend a Compact flash adapter. Very cheap, very easy and very fast. Move Gigabytes of data.

kolla wrote:
And? I have heaploads of amiga CDs, but hardly any of my Amigas have CD-drive, and most of them have no easy way to attach one. All of them (except from CD32) have the external floppy port. If there was a CD-drive one could plug into the floppy port, it would not be a problem. :-)

Which Amiga do you have? It is very easy (today) to add a CD-drive to any Amiga. The A600/A1200/A4000 can all take an IDE CD-ROM with just a cable and software. Ok so it's ugly having the IDE cable going external for the A600/1200 but you can fit slimline laptop drives internally with a bit of DIY.

A3000 you can add easily add external SCSI CD-ROM.

A2000/A500 you can also add an externa SCSI CD-ROM if you have a SCSI card (which are reasonably cheap).

But we are going WAY off topic

[alexh]

Any sign of these boards? We placed our orders a long time ago. No pressure, I'd just like to know where we are upto.

[alexh]

I emailed several times since... no response. I haven't paid because I never got an invoice.

Some people have had their invoices, paid and have already got their boards!

[alexh]

Check the pinout of the two chips.

Freqmax is almost certainly wrong about this.

1) I cannot imagine there are enough address lines for 64MBytes. What a waste of FPGA I/O that would have been.

2) 68k can only access 16Mbytes in total, and Amiga architecture can only have 10Mbytes of that as RAM.

3) Also we would have seen more MiniMig's with more RAM by now.

[alexh]

What company did you use to convert your money to russian?
What was the total price?

I have an email saying send the money.

[alexh]

How much do Western Union charge?

I was going to sign up for http://www.wmtransfer.com/ but giving credit card details to Russian companies just doesn't come naturally to me :-)

[alexh]

Nice to know.

I'm going to try MoneyGram (any major UK post office) as they want to charge £4.99 for any amount upto $100

[alexh]

That's a long time. Mine arrived within four weeks of posting but I was in the UK and it wasn't xmas. (Always a slow time for worldwide postage)

Get AcidRAIN to chase it up. I am sure he would help as much as he can. If you paid for insured postage he can start the claim procedure.

He's on ICQ regularly and is a nice guy.