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ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« on: April 03, 2013, 03:06:27 PM »
on ebay there is a zorro 11 2slot adaptor  for the a500 IVS /JB6017

 ..can someone tell me could you attach a graphics card to this ..or is it only for harddrives etc..
interesting bit of hardware ..never  saw one of these before ..
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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2013, 04:28:00 PM »
Nice one, not on the usual hw databases. Should work with a gfx card of course.
 

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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2013, 05:25:40 PM »
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Nice one, not on the usual hw databases.

Actually it is http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/trumpcard500.
 

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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2013, 07:48:35 PM »
Hah - should have remembered it; did notice it earlier when going thru zorro adapters. My memory sucks...
 

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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2013, 08:16:59 PM »
I can only see one zorro slot on this device. Is the vertical pin header supposed to be a second slot?
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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2013, 12:57:24 PM »
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I can only see one zorro slot on this device. Is the vertical pin header supposed to be a second slot?

I was wondering the same thing.  I only see one zorro slot.
 

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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2013, 01:27:11 PM »
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I can only see one zorro slot on this device. Is the vertical pin header supposed to be a second slot?

Yes, that provides the second slot. The original Trumpcard kit had a slot connector attached to the pins like in this picture http://bboah.com/download_photos/trumpcard_3_big.jpg.
 

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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2013, 02:53:18 PM »
There is a pic of the bottom of the two slot version at http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=1214

It shows the second slot connecting behind that row of pins.

It looks like two slightly different cards to me.
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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2013, 03:59:12 PM »
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There is a pic of the bottom two slot version at http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=1214

It shows the second slot connecting behind that row of pins.

It looks like two slightly different cards to me.

so really its just  half a harddrive  ..the connector  part ?  ..im only interested if a graphics card  is possible...what if any card would go in such a slot ..except  for the harddrive ..scsi  i guess ..
A500 3.1/8meg/2gigscsi ...wants a 040
CD32/SX1/FMV/FLASHDRIVE/  wants sx32pro
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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2013, 04:44:53 PM »
It should in theory.  IVS used an off the shelf SCSI card and an optional RAM card in the second slot if it had one.

I've seen Picasso II cards run on home brew ZII add on slots, so it should work.

There are multiple plans for them on aminet and they are extremely simple.
 

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Re: ebay a 500 zorro 11 2 slot adaptor question
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2013, 05:45:19 PM »
Yeah, that's a trumpcard controller. I had one of those for a while. Nice piece of kit. Gives you two Zorro II slots. They ARE actual Zorro II slots. Never tried a graphics card, though, 'cos I never had one, at the time. It's a bit of a power hog, though, so don't expect to use it with the original A500 brick. I had a bigfoot at the time, that I gave a guy for the cost of shipping...... only he never paid for the shipping, cheap @$$hole!
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