A600 8Mb fast expansion

[lordv]

Of course some insulation could be done. But with SMD PLCC socket the boards sits rather tight. You can fit some plastic stands in the holes on the upper part of board.

Regarding amigasc.nm.ru, there are still some problems, so if any, please contact acidrain directly at staspi yandex ru (insert @ and . appropriately).

I'm going to order some approx. 20 PCBs and parts and start soldering it.

[rkauer]

 What about selling the board and the FPGA already soldered for the same 16 USD or even a bit more?

[tokyoracer]

Do we need to supply a 68000 PLCC and am I right in thinking it's actually mounted upside down? :-?

[TjLaZer]

order placed!!!  

Any advice on how to mount the IDE HD when this is installed?

[rkauer]

TjLaZer wrote:
order placed!!!  

Any advice on how to mount the IDE HD when this is installed?

 Buy a long cable and find a spot to rest it. The original space (and cradle) will be occupied by the board.

[alexh]

tokyoracer wrote:
Do we need to supply a 68000 PLCC and am I right in thinking it's actually mounted upside down? :-?

No this unit clips over the A600's SMT 68000

[alexh]

TjLaZer wrote:
order placed!!!  

Any advice on how to mount the IDE HD when this is installed?

You cannot put the cradle in after the upgrade is fitted, look how close to the 68k the holes are.

Consider switching to a 4GB CF card with IDE adapter.

[lordv]

rkauer, it is possible but then it is left untested: only programmed CPLD (not FPGA, hehe and nothing more.

[Crumb]

Do you plan to produce more cool hardware?

a floppy disk emulator that reads ADF files from SD cards perhaps?

Maybe a small 23pin amiga RGB to S-Video (SVHS) adaptor that fits inside the 23pin connector plastic?

or an A500/A600 accelerator that accepts tons of ram? Maybe a full 020 or 030 :-)

[tokyoracer]

Well i'd defernately buy one aslong as it's not 100's of pounds. :-)

[Colani1200]

Crumb wrote:
A600 accelerator that accepts tons of ram? Maybe a full 020 or 030 :-)

That would be delicious...  8-)

[kolla]

Floppy drive emulator with buildt in memory card reader is something I'd buy a handfull of if available :-)

Just curious, what limits the size of a floppy in AmigaOS? Would perhaps trackdisk.device get very confused if it found a 2GB df0: for example? I have earlier pondered on why there never was a CD-drive solution for the external floppy ports, the speed would ofcourse be bad, but I would assume no worse than floppies.

[kolla]

Maybe some info about this A600 RAM expansion could also be added to http://amiga-hardware.com ? :-)

[alexh]

http://amiga-hardware.com is DEAD

It stopped being updated almost 18 months ago when its founder Ian passed the flag to new SysOp Mario.

BBoAH's new address is http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/index_e.html

I'll add the details to BBoAH now as an "unreleased" prototype and when they start shipping I'll change the category.

[alexh]

kolla wrote:
Floppy drive emulator with built in memory card reader is something I'd buy a handful of if available :-)

While very interesting, they are of little added value for the Amiga platform due to cheap hard drive support and the excellent WHDload software.

kolla wrote:
I have earlier pondered on why there never was a CD-drive solution for the external floppy ports

Such devices (albeit flash based) existed earlier on other systems (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC etc.) because of their lack of hard drive support.

[alexh]

http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=1786