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Here she is in her temporary new home (right next to my main pc desk)
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3831
Questions, does anyone know, if I use an aca500 can I still use an add ide board? I'd like to have a cd-rom on this machine because I happen to have a whole bunch of aminet cd's somewhere...
Oh and I thought the add ide board or something like it was still available. Is this not the case?
The AddIDE board is a very old product, so I doubt very much that it is still available new from any of our Amiga Online Retailers, but you can probably find one used, or use one of the many other products that provide an IDE controller for different Amiga models.
As for the ACA accelerators, I believe that they were produced in limited quantities, so AmigaKit may be out of stock on them and Jens of Individual Computers might not have any more in stock to sell to AmigaKit and might also not have any immediate plans to do another production run, so you may need to look for it at other Amiga Online Retailers. I am not familiar with all the details of the ACA accelerators for A500 models, but do have an ACA630 in my A600 and think it is a great product.
You might also want to talk to the guys working on the proposed Apollo FPGA accelerator boards and ask them how soon one of their boards designed for the A500 will be available. It won't run at 40MHz though, so that might not be what you want. The Softcore 68k for the FPGA in the Apollo accelerators is reported to be running equal to a stock Motorola 68000 CPU running between 360MHz to over 400MHz clock speeds.
Good luck obtaining all the parts you need, and I hope you don't have to depend on selling blood to purchase everything you need, or you may end up half dead with almost zero blood pressure from selling the amount needed to raise all of the money.
@Jeff, I hope you can get your problem with Haywirepc worked out and you receive the A530 as promised. You might have to contact him via email directly, or through snail-mail, as I am not sure if he is still visiting here to read messages.
