Hello All, I don't look at this site much...I should!!!!! I have been working
on a 1mb battery backed chip ram board. I think I have a working prototype!!! I will do some more testing.....I am going to make a small
test batch. This board will allow you to boot the amiga without a floppy disk. It does this by using a recoverable ram disk RAD: it takes about
100k of chip ram....and yes I agree that Mika's auto-booting ide controller is way better!!!! I have one and it works great!!!! I will have some 8mb
ram boards for sale in the next few days....also I made a couple of 8mb
boards for the A600...they clip onto the 68000.... there is a jumper
to configure the board as 4mb or 8mb so you can still use the pcmcia slot.
the chip ram board is going to cost about $50.00.... the hxc floppy emulator is alot nicer...but it costs about $125.00..this could be a cheaper way to boot the amiga without the use of a floppy.
tom