whats this card

[Robbie]

I know what these cards are!!!! I have a few of them at my house. and I posted here ages ago too asking what they were. I think they're multi screen cards. yours are under a different name but the chips are the same and mine are made by chartscreen or whatever too. I got some amigas from an air traffic control college and they used these cards along with software to simulate the air traffic control screens. so I'm pretty sure you won't be able to use them with workbench or anything, but maybe? who knows. they were designed to have a couple of monitors connected to the computer displaying different things (each computer I got had 2 of the cards in).

hope this helps!

[Robbie]

the same cards I got were used to display the radar screens that you get in air traffic control towers. where the planes are shown as little dots etc?? If you've got all the software on the computer that you got the cards with, and you plug in a normal monitor in the video port you'll see a program run at startup which initializes the cards.

[Robbie]

same here mate i got mine from a air traffic control place too.

ahh well there you go. where abouts? I don't think there are that many colleges for air traffic control are there? I got mine ages ago from the one in bournemouth.

[Robbie]

I've never used them to be honest! just took them out. I don't think they were designed for the AmigaOS so I've never even tried using them for that. I've seen the software they use on the hard drive and I think you need to be using a normal monitor to load the software and get them running, and even then it would only be for a air traffic simulator.

If your computer came as the same kinda spec as mine you should also see a microway flicker fixer in the video card slot which you can use with a modern svga monitor if you get an EGA to VGA adapter.

[Robbie]

lol well it just so happens that I bought one the other day! because i'd never used the flicker fixer before, just the standard video port.
I got mine from Saturn Computers. Came by royal mail pretty quickly.

[Robbie]

err...well I did have it...somewhere  :-) but when I got this computer it had an old A2090a hard disk controller and a REALLY old 40mb hard drive in there and i've taken both out now. I don't have any of it anywhere else! sorry!

I'm not sure where you'd get it from either, I'm sure i must have searched the net for it before. Google would be your best bet for finding it though I guess.

[Robbie]

yup that's a better one! I'm guessing you have a memory board with 2mb on it and an A2620 accelerator too? I don't think the roms are new enough on the a2620 to use it with an operating system later than 1.3 which is a pain.

[Robbie]

you'll need to check the ROMS on that actual accelerator card before you get the new OS because chances are that your boards rom revision won't be compatible with version 3.1 of workbench.

It's because if you hold both mouse buttons down at startup, you get the a2620 accelerator boards config screen and the newer operating systems use the 2 mouse buttons at startup to display the early boot configuration (which workbench 1.3 doesn't have). Have a look on the actual ROM chips on the accelerator card; there's 2 and they're at the top near the left hand side. it should say a rom version on them.

So if you get the new operating system you'll probably have to take out the accelerator before you can use it. that's what I had to do.

[Robbie]

hey again. I tried posting on this topic a few days ago but it wouldn't let me. I wrote quite a lot too! it was annoying! anyway, i'm not too sure if the numbers on your ROMS tell us the revision. I think the -04 at the end could be the revision though because I remember finding out I had one board with Revision 3 and one had 4 so it would figure that yours are of a similar revision i guess (same company etc).