PCMCIA devices in A600

[hppacito]

70 pounds !?! :-o , that is much more that what I am willing to pay. I already spend quite a bit... and don't have something satisfactory to play with....  :-x

[Xanxi]

My Apollo 630 is perfectly stable for hours with the same kind of fan arrengement as seen in amiga600.de. I have too another fan on the 68030 itself.
However it is a bit noisy.

This accelerator is a pure marvel to me, i am very happy with it :-)


As for booting on CF, of course it is possible over IDE, it should be possible too over PCMCIA but the driver that everyone us with the CF-PCMCIA Adaptater is not made for that.

[Xanxi]

@Amidude

Thanks for the screenshot :-)
Now i have seen my 40Mhz Apollo beats the 42Mhz Mtec :-p :-D

[AmiDude]

@Xanxi

Yes, I know! That's because of the 32MB RAM you got
on that apollo-card. I used to have one too! But it
was unstable in my system-setup, and I thought why
the heck do I need 32MB for in this A600 anyway?
That's a little bit excessively! I used it only for
gaming and some programming in Amos.
So I sold it, and got myself this M-Tec/Viper 630!
 :-D

[mfilos]

I'm very happy with the M-TEC myself.
I wish it had another 4MB of RAM (without loosing the PCMCIA port)... Anyway!
I bought it expensive but it was the only place I found a board for the A600 since I was looking on eBay for the last couple of months. It cost 140 Euro. It was 90 Euro for the board, 15 Euro for the shipping cost and an optional 35 Euro for the FPU @ 40Mhz.
I know that it's expensive but it was a dream come true so I didn't care a lot.
Hmmm, I tried to run Sysinfo but it doesn't run.
It wants MUI installed?
Cheers

[AmiDude]

@mfilos

Thanks for the info. I'm also very happy with the MTec630.
I mailed that polish online-shop, but didn't hear from them until now.
It's strange that Sysinfo doesn't run on your system.
It doesn't need MUI, that's for sure...
   :-)

[zipper]

Hmmm, I tried to run Sysinfo but it doesn't run.
It wants MUI installed?

Perhaps you tried SysSpeed?

[AmiDude]

@mfilos

You have mail...
 :-)

[mfilos]

Thanks a lot!
Well, I'm very happy with my specs!!!
Dhrystones : 8315
In comparison with classic A600 : 15,7

I believe that it's pretty good for an A600 right???
Also I solved my problem with networking via PCMCIA NIC in OS 3.9. I just needed CardPatch in Startup-sequence.

P.S. The program I was running before was indeed SysSpeed!!!

[Xanxi]

@mfilos

You get so much Dhrystones in sysinfo?
Weird! You can't outperform your fellow Amidude who have the same board, and that's too much compared to my 40Mhz.
What is your version of Sysinfo? And what is your kickstart?

[kvfive]

Please excuse my ignorance here... very recently pulled the amiga 600 HD out of the loft after 10+ years... now an avid PC user... things have certainly changed ! - what i would like to know is:

I have a PCMCIA CARD (CF ADAPTOR) the cf card slots into the above card... I have plugged this into the A600 today but alas the 600 didn't seem to show it/recognise it... can someone shed any light on this 4 me.. does the cf card need pre formatting ? - are driver of some kind needed ?

Paul (UK)

[AmiDude]

@kvfive

In order to use the CF-adapter, you will need
a driver for it. You can download it from here:

www.aminet.net/search.php?query=compactflash

 :-)

[kvfive]

Thanks for the link... another question DOH! - This '.lha' file... Im assuming here its some kind of zip\rar file compression... what do i use to upack this file ?

[Cyberus]

Windows decompression tools should do it

[kvfive]

Yep.. thanks very much

[mfilos]

@Xanxi

my friend I downloaded yesterday from Aminet the 3.24 version of SysInfo. The specs are indeed strange but true. It finds my board as 45,2 Mhz!!!
I have an 68882@40 FPU also (I don't know if that makes a difference).
As a kickstart you can see in my Signature that's 3.1 :-)
What kind of screen grab utitity to run just send you a pic?