A500 Newbie Suggestions & Help

[paul1981]

I have an A500 with I believe a rev 5 board, Kickstart 1.2, 512k RAM expansion in the trap door and a Gotek - any suggestions to help me upgrade?  I see a lot of A500's out there with like 4MB of RAM (how?) and much more.. any help or suggestions would be appreciated...

Brian (kipper2k on Amibay) makes and sells some nice expansions for your A500. There's a 4 or 8MB Fastram expansion, and a Fastram expansion with built in CF hard drive slot so that with KS2 or above ROM you can boot from the CF hard drive (Kickstart 37.300 or above). Both expansions plug into the CPU socket. You'll have to double check they are Rev.5 compatible, but IIRC they are.

http://www.kipper2k.com/amigaforsale/

[paul1981]

I need a fast ram expansion for my A500 but I thought Kipper2K didn't have any more ram expansion boards for the A500....?
 
 This board is sweet though! :laugh1:
 A500 4MB/8MB Memory expansion board for Amiga 500

Hmmm... you're right, I don't think he makes the standard 4/8MB expansion anymore. You could still obtain one by posting a Wanted thread on Amibay I should think. Or option 2, purchase the CF Hard Drive edition and just don't use that part of the card. There's no need to use the CF part if you don't want to, and of course it's still 1.3 compatible.