0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
That's a tough one... They were quite common back then and still can be found quite easily. The adapter to use it in a big box Amiga is much more rare.It's practical use nowadays is of course rather limited, as it only emulates an XT and therefore can not run anything past DOS 6.2 or Windows 3.0.If, on the other hand, you like to fool around on both an A500 of the KS1.3 era and on an XT with something of DOS 4.x to 6.x, this is a very cool add on. With the ACA520 arriving in the near future, I would like to test the PC Board to see if it is compatible with both the AKA and more recent KS-versions. But for that, I would first need to have an A500...For me, I would find it extremely cool to have an A500 with ACA520, Indivision ECS and KS3.1. A neat all-in-one package with many possibilities of running Amiga OS, MS-DOS and maybe even System 6 or 7 through Shapeshifter.I wonder if the Power PC Board would support the IDE-controller on the ACA520. The software supports the IDE-port on the A600, if I am not mistaken, so it all depends on the amount of compatability of the ACA520.All in all, I don't expect its value to be great. Most people will only use the card as a ram expansion to their A500 as they have no use of an XT and will not use its emulation capabilities. I even expect quite a lot of people who have the card without even knowing it is anything else than a ram expansion.Do not throw it away, though. That would severely hurt my feelings...
