Utilities Unlimited EMPLANT card

[VCNW]

Just got hold of Utilities Unlimited's EMPLANT card.
 
It is a version 1.5 (says on the board) or C, released on the 46th week of 1993( says on all the chips).
 
The following chips are installed..
P1-4693-2
P2-4693
P3-4693-C
P4-4693
P5-4693
 
Intrested to know if one of these chips is the optional e586 module?

[VCNW]

U don't need the chip numbers. the 586 chip goes in a specific socket

 
And the specific socket is?

[VCNW]

P1 is replaced with a new version to allow e586 emulation. You have the stock setup without the e586 emulation support. The only difference the PEEL makes is enabling one of the three 6522 VIAs that was deliberately disabled, to be later used for the e586 emulation. When e586dx was released, it supported the EMPLANT card but without requiring the updated PEEL (they are not PALs or GALs, they are PEELs).
 
I am not sure who wrote the information linked to above, but there are quite a few things wrong with that info. The 4693 revision PEELs were the last version that we made. These improved the timing to make the emulation faster, but they were not required. There were no issues with other versions, they just slowed down the Zorro II bus timing affecting the SCSI and serial ports. The LOGIC brand SCSI chip requires the slower timing for the Amiga side (not the Mac side), but I later took care of that in the empscsi.device driver so that the Mac emulation could run as fast as possible. If your A4000 had a bad -5v regulator, then yes, the EMPLANT board would not work. EMPLANT works with NTSC or PAL machines, and the Mac emulation knew which type of machine it was running on, just as a real Mac does.

Thank you for the information. It looks like that I have the last revision made and it does not support the e586 emulation.

[VCNW]

Jim,
 
I located another card and this one looks even newer. GAL1 & GAL3 have P1-0595-P labels which I will assume it is Version P, release in Feb, 1995. Most of the sockets (1-4) are populated with Apple chips.
 
Do you have a picture of this mysterious 586 chip?

[VCNW]

I forgot to add picture of the 0595 revision PEELs

[VCNW]

Anyone know where to get the latest software for the EMPLANT card?

I found this on the other Amiga forum....Good luck...

English Amiga Board : The Zone
 

Emplant.rar with the following contents in The Zone!:

• Emplant e586DX (1995)(Utilities Unlimited)[req. Emplant][WB].adf
• Emplant e586DX v2.0 (1995)(Utilities Unlimited)[req. Emplant][WB].adf
• Emplant v4.2 (1994)(Utilities Unlimited)[WB].adf
• Emplant v4.6 (1994)(Utilities Unlimited)[WB].adf
• Emplant v5.0 (1994)(Utilities Unlimited)[WB].adf