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Offline alexh

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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 19, 2009, 08:55:34 PM »
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Is there any way to use; both the A570 and an external A500 HD simultaneously?
1) Amitrix SCSI-TV 570
2) HK-Computer Vector Falcon 570
3) Possibly IDE68k (but that is internal).

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Does anyone know what interface the CD-ROM in the  A570 has?
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The best purchase for your A570 is a 2MByte FastRAM card. With one of these in your A570 you can play almost any WHDload game from CD.
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2009, 05:34:30 AM »
I use an A570 with SCSI-TV and HD, Supra 500RX with 4 Megs of fast ram.  It works with 1 or 2 Megs of chip ram.  The A570's internal CD drive is not in the SCSI chain.

A570 doesn't like acceleration other than 7 Mhz 68010 (hard to measure benefit).

A570 will boot from a CD with the OS on it, if you can write your own (less need for a HD).
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2009, 06:07:32 AM »
I use to use an AdIDE 44 in my CDTV so I'd imagine it would work with an A500 and A570 with no problems.  Simple install, it just goes between the 68000 socket and CPU plugs back in top of it.  Then you can hook up a 2.5" laptop HD inside.


Then maybe you could through a Supra Turbo 28 on the side (it has a pass through), I use to have the A2000 version and that thing was awsome.  It speed everything up when you flipped the switch to 28mhz mode.  It was basically just a 28MHZ 68000 and it would speed lots of things up even games that you didn't want speed up. (there was a switch to through  you back to 7mhz mode)  Yeah that might have been my favorite accelerator ever.  Then plug in to that a AlfaRam RA5-8M which also has a pass through, and then plug the A570 into that.  Should be rock solid! ;-)
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2009, 03:19:58 PM »
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2009, 03:23:56 PM »
PS

If anyone has one of these they may just wish to look after it.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz68.htm

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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2009, 03:31:29 PM »
PPS Sorry

If you put your A500 in a case like the 'Checkmate' you can have say 2 external hardrives, and say two external floppy drives... And more.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz86.htm

The A500 was a magical computer when you think about it.

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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2009, 05:53:48 PM »
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If anyone has one of these they may just wish to look after it.
They are not rare, lots were released. No practical difference to A570 and just like A570 it is practically worthless.

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This is a sexy little addition for any A500. A Viper 520 CD.
Not as sexy as Viper A530! Neither of these cards were made in volume, both are like rocking horse poo and demand overly large prices for what they are.

I've said it 100's of times, the best upgrade for A500 is A1200.
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2009, 08:49:04 PM »
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Another question; Is there any way to use; both the A570 and an external A500 HD simultaneously?

Way back when - I had an A500 with a Supra hard drive/RAM expansion on it (with a pass thru) with the A570 plugged into it. It was the widest A500 in history (maybe) but it worked.
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #22 on: June 21, 2009, 11:12:48 PM »
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They are not rare, lots were released. No practical difference to A570 and just like A570 it is practically worthless.


Not as sexy as Viper A530! Neither of these cards were made in volume, both are like rocking horse poo and demand overly large prices for what they are.

I've said it 100's of times, the best upgrade for A500 is A1200.


Not sure thats correct. These were the prototype that was given out only at shows and the like. When officially released it was rebadged. There is an interesting article on one of the CDTV fan sites about the rarity of the unit, and from the mail I get I would suggest few are in existence. Happy to be proven wrong. Always pleased when there are more Amigas around than you think.
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2009, 10:20:05 AM »
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Way back when - I had an A500 with a Supra hard drive/RAM expansion on it (with a pass thru) with the A570 plugged into it. It was the widest A500 in history (maybe) but it worked.


Well, I had A500+SupraTurbo+ActionReplay/Datel bus divider/RocHard800 speaking of wide A500s...
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2009, 03:38:35 PM »
Always liked the idea of a souped up A500 with an A570 and a Viper 530, would have been cool :-)  

If anyone is interested I have my A570 up for sale over on amibay.
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Re: A570 and sound... and HD?
« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2009, 05:02:41 PM »
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I've said it 100's of times, the best upgrade for A500 is A1200.

That's for sure, but nowadays many amigans have many Amiga to play with, and they have the insane idea to expand them with "uselss" hardware (me too). :)

The fact is that is pretty much like with old historical cars: it's nice to improve a "limited resourced" thing to make it work better, even if not near to today standards (of course you don't have to go deep to keep mental sanity ;)  ).

Regarding the A570 and CDTV and the way to provide them a SCSI interface you can check this, by a clever italian guy:
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fmiapa/cdtvinfopageen.html

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