Kickflash finally available in the US

[Lemmink]

@MaDDuck

For A3000 and A4000 there is much faster Flash card with all Kickflash features. It is eFlash 4000 from Elbox. eFlash 4000 is a Zorro III card. Kickflash is Zorro II. eFlash 4000 info page is here.

Whaahaha, that was a good one. Sure makes a huge different if reading of a few hundred kb of kickstartcode takes 0.5 or 0.2 seconds. Advertise this again when Elbox delivers a software that actually let`s you use this card.

[amiga2000]

So is the flash memory RAM or ROM? If we could use the flash memory as RAM - especially if it could be expanded up to 1GB - I am curious to hear what the write times are, so if someone installs one this weekend, please let me know.

I do some video capturing onto RAM with a Blizzard 2040/PicassoIV, but I only have 128MB -- is it possible that capturing to flash memory on a zorro 2 could be faster? I am more inclined to believe it is not possible for memory access to be any faster than the Amiga 2000's accelerator memory.



 

"Due to the high demand, Kickflash OS4, which has been announced on June 2nd, has been revised. The base version now has 1MB of flash memory, and can be expanded to 1GB on an expansion port. Transfer rates can be compared to normal harddrives, but the common access times of mechanical mass-storage media practically don't exist on flash memory: On random access, so-called solid-state memory is about tenthousand times faster than common harddrives."

[Lemmink]

The Kickflash memory is some kind of a reflashable ROM, so it will not be available as RAM. The 1GB expansion will surely act similar, though I think it will be mounted as a drive. I guess the piont of this expansion is that you can build a complete diskless and therefore silent an low energy machine. RAM on a ZII Card would be dead slow anyway, about 1/20th of the speed of the RAM on an accelerator at best. Even ZIII- RAM stinks.