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Several months too late, but can confirm the Vampire fits just fine inside an A2000 with the MegaChip. I'm not using an adaptor for the fast slot either. My board sits in the 68k socket.
 

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Re: Vampire 500 V2+ on A2000 ? (with Megachip and RomSwitcher)
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2017, 06:36:33 PM »
Oh and unless you have a Kickstart switcher with a ribbon cable that routes the board and chips farther on down, no way that would fit. Vampire covers and sits right above the Kickstart chip, which incidentally, you no longer need. Has its own version of 3.1 on it, so removed mine altogether. Come to think of it, might explain why ClassicWorkbench throws a question mark where the version of Kickstart normally sits in the upper left of the toolbar. I thought when I had it in, ClassicWB showed the 3.1 designation.

Or could be ClassicWB not knowing how to deal with the Vampire. Shows it as a 68040 too, which both of these things kind of bug me.  lol

As an aside, was nice pulling my Zorro RAM card and A2091 w/ hard drive out of the machine. The A2000 is much lighter, not to mention the reduced current draw. But think the 2091 sans HD is going back in, just so I can use the CD drive again. Shame the microSD slot doesn't work as removable mass storage - yet?
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