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more A2000 questions
« on: September 19, 2005, 06:49:30 AM »
1) Are all Zorro II RAM cards slow like chip RAM (3.5MB/S)?

2) What are my chances of getting a DKB 2632 RAM card (and is there any other A2630 RAM expansion?) ? Would that RAM be the same speed as the fast RAM on the A2630?

3) Failing #2, would it be better to look for a different A2000 accelerator or just get an A4000? (wish I could find Amiga stuff nearby to avoid shipping cost...)

4) I might be getting a bridgeboard and am wondering if there are drivers for video or sound cards. How hard is it to make an RTG driver?
 

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Re: more A2000 questions
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2005, 08:20:44 AM »
I'm a person who is fascinated by the numbers. (A lot of old PC hardware I have setting around here was bought for the sole purpose of running benchmarks.)

After a while I had the idea to replace my 25MHz crystal with a socket so now I can plug in whatever crystal I want. It won't boot with 32MHz but I have 28.3MHz in there now and that works fine. The fast RAM doesn't give proportionally higher numbers under bustest like I expected it to which makes me wonder about how the timing for that (as well as the 2632) works.

Anyways, my A2000 was a bargain and I'm having fun with it but wishing I had AGA and more than 4MB of fast RAM.

As for RTG drivers, I'm not sure what one even does. I have programmed (S)VGA cards under assembly on the PC. Of course even that part would be harder on the Amiga since I can't call any VGA BIOS functions :)