A600 questions.

[rkauer]

Just to comment: My A600 currently have a 1Mb SRAM card hooked in the PCMCIA slot and I use it with WHDLoad games!

 All I did was disabling the "preload" option in games that requires more than 256kb of FAST RAM. My A600 have the original A601 from C= era (I bought it NOS from a brazilian seller 2 years ago).

 Most games that "requires" 512kb of FAST in truth will work with only a bit more than 256kb available. A500 OCS/ECS games, of course. They ask for the 1.3 ROM (or even pre-1.3 ones), which are 256kb only.

 BTW: my A600 have a 4Gb CF instead the HD and I'm using a LCD TV which can handle 15kHz native modes.

 Also for HD-installable games intended for the humble 68000 CPU will work (like Syndicate) with no effort.

 But one thing I concur with our Amiga princess: PCMCIA will boost the A600 speed by something around 33%! Not much, but still an improvement.

[rkauer]

There have to be some RAM hacks on Aminet somewhere. I'm pretty sure I'd seen some before.

Personally I'd like to see more hacks that involve a good old fashioned soldering job, instead of relying upon the expansion ports for everything. It's been great fun with my Atari 8-bits!

  Not for A***i machines :madashell:, but a russian guy made a reconfigurable RAM expansion for the A600! You can choose from 1.5/4/5.5Mb (all PCMCIA-friendly!) and 8Mb (ruling out the PCMCIA port).

 Same speed gain as the PCMCIA SRAM cards, but in a more comfortable way (internal), and keeping the PCMCIA slot free for an Ethernet card or other hardware. Mine is paid and awaiting assembly.

[rkauer]

Now just imagine that coupled with an 8Mb PCMCIA card and 2Mb of GFX RAM!

 PCMCIA port only accept 4Mb SRAM cards as memory RAM. Any card with more than this will only act as media storage.

 So only 512kb (never see one of those, but I think they exists), 1Mb, 2Mb & 4Mb SRAM cards will run.

 @XDelusion: search for LVD A608 in Russian pages. I think the guy(s) can sell you one.

 But money transfers to Russia costs a lot, no Paypal support and then the options are Moneygram and Western Union. Both companies charges absurd taxes to send money to Russia. Be warned.
 
 That's why my very good friend Zetr0 bought the rights to make some boards for the community. But he is banging his head to solve design problems, like the very tight space between traces the card demands. Just a few companies in the world do this job and they want mass production scale, which is not the Amiga situation nowadays.

 The few companies that can make a board in low scale charges too much.

[rkauer]

I'm interested in one, but at this very moment the boards are travelling from Japan(!) to UK. More two weeks (tm).

 On a real life, this means the first new batched boards will start to flow in in 45 days.

 But I'm really interested in your design!

 I also have enough skills to mount a board myself.

 I'll PM you my e-mail if you want to sell a bare board with the programmed CPLD.