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Offline Lord Aga

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Re: Amiga 500 ram?
« on: January 12, 2013, 06:51:13 PM »
I might as well use this thread and ask :)
Is there an easy way to upgrade the A500+ Chip RAM ? Besides the trap door memory hack and piggybacking the on-board chips.
I mean, was there ever a solution meant specially as a +1MB Chip RAM. Like there was many Chip RAM add-ons for A600 (now popular A603 and A604).
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Re: Amiga 500 ram?
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2013, 11:05:16 AM »
Quote from: arttu80;722241
I don't know what you mean by "trap door memory hack", because personally I won't consider this;

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/a504plus

as a hack. I actually happen to own one of these, and it worked straight away as 2Mb Chip RAM expansion. No other mods required, because A500Plus has 2Mb Agnus from factory. Good luck finding one.


Ah, but of course I wouldn't consider this a hack :)
I was referring to the hack with (plain) A500 trapdoor expansion where you have to solder (and cut?) something to turn the Fast RAM into Chip RAM. Totaling in 1MB Chip instead of 512 Chip + 512 Fast.
Yours is obviously a plug and play solution. Makes me wonder why aren't they more common ? And could somebody make those now ?
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Re: Amiga 500 ram?
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2013, 11:59:27 AM »
Wait wait waitwaitwait waiwaiwai :)
ALL 1MB trapdoor expansions for A500+ will appear as +1MB Chip ? Resulting in 2MB Chip total ?

My A500 has a 1MB Agnus but I'm not interested in modifying my 512+512 A500 in any way. Just curious about beefing up an A500+.
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Re: Amiga 500 ram?
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2013, 10:08:51 AM »
Oh, alrighty then :)
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