How much ram do I have NOW on my A600? - Please Help!

[KThunder]

ok acording to several sites ive checked the trapdoor is ONLY for chip ram. you have 2megs you cant use any more

the pcmcia slot is very slow for sram cards, very very slow so what you want is an accelerator card with ram. actually all the ones i saw have fast ram on them or a simm slot


several cards were made including:

the apollo 620 and 630 and the winner 630 from act

the e-matrix 630 and t-630 from M-tec

and the viper 630 from dce

all these require opening up the case and clipping the accelerator ontop of the 68000 smc on the motherboard

all of the trapdoor ram cards specifically state that they add up to 1mig of chip ram

[Matt_H]

As I've been saying for ages about RAM for the A600, it's better to have slow RAM than none at all. Given the rarity of A600 accelerators, PCMCIA SRAM cards are the best option. SysInfo even reports my system to be a tiny bit faster with PCMCIA Fast RAM than without.

The PCMCIA speed bottleneck is more of an issue for A1200s, but with the A600's plain 68000, RAM in that slot is more than adequate.

[DBAlex]

@Matt_H:

problem then is obviously you can't use that slot for e.g. a network card...

I want to do a super-a600 type project but the accelerators and ram cards just aren't available... :-(

[Lonewolf10]

I must be lucky then. I own a 2MB PCMCIA card and a 4Mb - note the b, not B - card (when fully populated). I used to use the PCMCIA card alot when I was developing software using my real Amiga's (before they broke).


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[rkauer]

 There are another ways to add more RAM to the A600, the LordV RAM expansion (you find more info here in A.org), and some guy is developing a new A600 accelerator... ;-)

 More information when the design improves itself, thanks to other nice guys around the world (thanks Zetr0, Alexh, Stedy and TC for real support and ideas).