The Amiga 4000 works!

[Invisix]

w00t! The Amiga 4000 I bought from eBay does work. I installed the Scan Magic Scandoubler & Flicker Fixer today, and the Amiga 4000 works beautifully!!! :-D

What kind of RAM does the Amiga 4000 use?

I can even do PAL mode with an NTSC monitor. :-P

Hmmm, now to just buy an external 56k modem, that or Laplink it somehow to a PC.

[JetFireDX]

Good times. Amiga 4000 uses 72 pin SIMMs, with a limit of 16 megs on the board in 4 slots?? (I can't remember anymore, but I'm sure 15 or so people here will tell you for sure)

[HotRod]

72 pin SIMM. 4Mb/slot = 16Mb.

There's a jumper for the size of the SIMMs that can be set to 1Mb too giving you a total of 4Mb.

[Effy]

If you don´t use an accelleratorcard like I do then you´re stuck to maximum 16 Mb of Fast Ram. Wanna link it to pc or the internet ?? Get yourself an Xsurf ethernetcard because then you also get a free 3,5" IDE connector to add a cdrom and so you can use the internal IDE connector for harddrives only !!

[TjLaZer]

You can install either up to 4 X 1MB SIMMs for 4MB total or, 4 X 4MB SIMMs or 2 X 8MB SIMMs for a total of 16MB.  If you install 2 X 8MB SIMMs you may have some trouble as they mostly are double sided and they will not fit very well but I have got them to work in my 4000 and this does work!  You have to install them into the 2nd and fourth socket (from right) to get this to work.

[Invisix]

The Amiga 4000 I got came with 16mb, seems like I need to get a CyberStorm PPC. :-D

Anyone know of a cheap place to buy one from? Soft Hut wants $900 USD!  :-o

[Ilwrath]

Anyone know of a cheap place to buy one from? Soft Hut wants $900 USD!

Good luck.  I've been looking around the US for a cheap one for about 8 years now......  Seems like only a few thousand made it to here.  And, worse yet, the people who bought them are either keeping them, or they got a defective unit.  QA was very low.  :-(

Even a WarpEngine 040/060 or earlier CyberStorm 040/060 will allow a lot more RAM, plus be a lot faster than the stock 040@25.  I run a CyberStorm Mk2 060 (50mhz) with 64 MB fast ram, and it really sped up the 4000, as well as helped with stability. (Due to cooler temperatures, I think -- an 040@25 runs hotter than an 060@50!)

[lempkee]

check ebay , clickboom just sold 3 of their ppc setups (all beeing csppc) and most likely 2 more will show up soon..

they upgraded to a1's it seem, but sadly also pc craps..

cheers