My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

[AmmoJammo]

[djos]

That is nuts!!

[AmmoJammo]

I dunno what this means, but it sure makes the performance look better :p

[AmmoJammo]

Thinking about adding two switches to my A500 so I can run games from floppy without any compatibility issues

Kickstart 1.3/3.1 switch
CPU 68000/68030 switch

But then I realised I modified my motherboard so the 512k trapdoor ram appears as chip ram? will this be an issue for games that need 1meg ram?

[kickstart]

Picked up this lot for the grand total of $Au50!

Two A500 consoles

In europe a500 was selling like a computer... in australia is a console? =P

[Lurch]

A lot of people these days call them consoles, not sure why, when or who started that.

It's a computer after all :-)

[som99]

A lot of people these days call them consoles, not sure why, when or who started that.

It's a computer after all :-)

Agree, ive never called them anything else then a Computer but I to have seen more people lately calling them consoles :S

[psxphill]

Agree, ive never called them anything else then a Computer but I to have seen more people lately calling them consoles :S

It's because console is a generic term. You have video game consoles and computer consoles.
 
In france they call game cartridges, cassettes. But again when most people talk about cassettes they mean an audio cassette tape, but thats not what it is.

[AmmoJammo]

btw, seeing I hadn't posted this here yet.. :p

[ddniUK]

Just catching up on this thread!

Awesome hackery!

[som99]

Nice speed increase now, starting to getting quite quick your machine, I would love to play around with it! Have you tried running something that pushes it's hardware a bit?

Edit: Removed the explanation about computer consoles since I don't want to stray to off-topic.

[AmmoJammo]

Have you tried running something that pushes it's hardware a bit?

got any suggestions? :p

[som99]

got any suggestions? :p

Try some work in POV-Ray that will stress it plenty when rendering!

There are various builds for 68K Amiga version 3.1 and down will run on classic hardware, I would say use version 2.
http://ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Old-Versions/

Would be fun to see how well it handles it

[djos]

They all seem to be windows versions?

EDIT: never mind, I found the "povami" files

[AmmoJammo]

Rom switcher....
confused? of course you are... :p

its the 3.1 rom soldered directly ontop of the 1.3 rom, with chip select (pin 10) tied to +5volt (pin 21) via 5.6k resistors, and then switched to ground (pin 30?) to enable each rom.

the black socket will have the switch connected, currently just bridged with some wire for testing

[djos]

LOL, you could have an all-in-one ROM for about $23 and keep your originals preserved!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/170896365915?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_754wt_1122

Im prolly gonna grab one of these myself as my current rom switcher is too big and wont let me install my new auto-config 8mb ram board.