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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2013, 09:40:52 PM »
Hmm... I need to search through my disks to see if I have any older versions of the system software. The most up to date version would be v4.5xy, if memory serves me right.

Will get back to you later this week. :)
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2013, 09:59:53 PM »
Thanks!
Let's just hope it's not a hardware problem with my poor little board.
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2013, 10:09:10 PM »
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2013, 10:23:33 PM »
If it emulates a VGA board I'd love to have one just to run Turbo Pascal, Turbo Assembler and Watcom C to run my 20yr old demo routines I wrote on the 286 PC's we had in college. :)
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2013, 10:25:53 PM »
It does VGA Mono - it'd be difficult to do 256 colour VGA on an A500 :)
It also does CGA, EGA and I think Hercules. It's a pretty nice card - I have two!
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2013, 08:00:07 PM »
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... It supports quite a lot types of harddisk controllers (including the A590, ofcourse) where it uses a complete partition of the drive. It also makes use of extra ram and turboboards on your A500. A turboboard significantly improves videospeed, extra ram can be used as EMS/XMS compatible memory. I don't know if it works with all turbo boards, as I never tested this myself.



I wonder if it is compatible with Supra's 500XP and with their Turbo28?

Has anyone tried FreeDos?
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2013, 02:58:02 AM »
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It does VGA Mono - it'd be difficult to do 256 colour VGA on an A500 :)
It also does CGA, EGA and I think Hercules. It's a pretty nice card - I have two!


Some approximated HAM mode might suffice. Probably slow as molasses mind you but possible.

The original author of MESA used HAM modes to write the first version after all. :)
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2013, 12:20:56 PM »
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I wonder if it is compatible with Supra's 500XP and with their Turbo28?

I used the 500XP back in the day: no problems at all and the Power PC Board happily used the extra ram.
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2013, 12:47:09 PM »
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It does VGA Mono - it'd be difficult to do 256 colour VGA on an A500 :)

It also does VGA color when using the correct system software. Albeit not with 256 shades of whatever. :-)
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #23 on: August 11, 2013, 09:27:26 PM »
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Thanks!
Let's just hope it's not a hardware problem with my poor little board.


Did you get it to run?
Mine never resumed it's function (same error)
Also, I once visited KCS with my board (they put a 'filter' on it to stabilize the power) and I recall a comment that 'all settings would be lost if the battery were empty'.
In other words, flat battery, dead board.
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2013, 11:11:01 AM »
I have a KCS Power board for sale at Amibay:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=49242

Complete withe manual, install disks etxc.
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2013, 01:49:01 PM »
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Did you get it to run?
Mine never resumed it's function (same error)
Also, I once visited KCS with my board (they put a 'filter' on it to stabilize the power) and I recall a comment that 'all settings would be lost if the battery were empty'.
In other words, flat battery, dead board.

Has anyone restored a "dead" board as the battery must be expired by now even if it is a rechargeable?
I have one of these boards and used to use the PC side to write and test batch files for work.

I have recently used the board as a A501 equivalent and that seems to work OK.
Are there any pictures of the conversion to Zorro slot board? I've never seen one.
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2013, 03:06:42 PM »
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #27 on: August 12, 2013, 05:32:36 PM »
I know the C= 386 board got a 3rd party upgrade and was made into a 486; I wonder if these 8088s could take those old '286 clip-on upgrades (and then a Cyrix '486 upgrade on top of that LOL)
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #28 on: August 12, 2013, 05:35:31 PM »
For the KCS board that won't work, since they use a NEC CPU
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Re: KCS Power PC Board 500
« Reply #29 from previous page: August 13, 2013, 08:10:04 PM »
Quote from: Multivac;744438
Has anyone restored a "dead" board as the battery must be expired by now even if it is a rechargeable?
I have one of these boards and used to use the PC side to write and test batch files for work.

I have recently used the board as a A501 equivalent and that seems to work OK.
Are there any pictures of the conversion to Zorro slot board? I've never seen one.


Just to be clear: the memory expansion works fine, the PC side isn't recognized.

I used to use it for WP5.1,  Draw Perfect and ChemWin (using win3.0 with a 4 Mb ramdisk, my 32bit '020 mem :). I found it worked well and it could keep up, until 386 became commonplace.
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