Mystery A500 expansion port splitter

[SpookyAmiga]

I am currently working on getting together enough bits to rebuild the Amiga system I used to have many years ago. There is one piece of hardware which I don't even know if I will be able to get a hold of, for one I don't even know what it was officially called or who made it!

It was basicly a simple board that plugged into the expansion port on the left side of the A500, it has a passthrough connector so that you could connect something like an A590, which I did. It also had a second connector which was mounted on top of the board, this could be used to plug in an additional expansion port peripheral. I used the second port for my Action Replay.

The closest thing I have found so far is this:

Alfa Data: 86pin Expansion Adaptor
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=709

However I'm fairly sure this is not the same splitter that I had.
The one I had was probably about the same size but the second upward pointing port consisted of another ISA style connector with a short PCB plugged into it rather than soldered on the board and it also sat more central on the passthrough board. I also seem to remember that the lines weren't all directly wired thought as this one seems to be, there may even have been a few capacitors and resistors mounted on it, though I can't be sure about that later.

I realise that the chance of finding either the original I had or the Alfa data board are almost non-existent but I would at least like to find a picture of it and know what it was called and who made it.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Thanks, Paul.

[zipper]

The splitter was made by Datel, to be used with Action Replay; I had it and used the passthrough for Supraturbo28. Sold 12 years ago :-(

[SpookyAmiga]

Well that is at least something if you are sure it was Datel. I did wonder myself if it was Datel but I wasn't sure if I was just getting mixed up with the action replay.

Sadly I broke mine, I wanted to put my A500 in a tower when I had it and realised at the time I would need to be able to have both the A590 and Action replay at a right angle to the Amiga to fit it all in a case, so I removed the connector that went into the amiga and soldered several short sections of ribbon cable to make it flexible. It never worked again after that I have no idea why. I was reasonably good at soldering back then and I had made sure there were no shorts or anything, must have got something wrong though.

Some time later that year the Action Replay gave up one day too, probably fromp having to swap that and the A590 all the time. I then sold all my Amiga stuff to fund my first PC purchase :crazy:

Though I still do have a small pack of certain disks that I kept as a momento