whats this card

[lordnicon]

i just got a amiga 2000
it has 2 card which i do not know what they are can any one hellp.
all the info i can see on the card
Architect-256
from
the resolution series

if any one can help that would be great
ask if you want anythink else

[shIva]

some further information would be great, or perhaps a digicam picture of that card. this might help indentifying it ;-)

[Ilwrath]

A description of any ports or connectors on the card may help, as well.  Heck, is it a Zorro II card or ISA card?  Too many things here we don't know.

[MaDDuck]

my guess......
a TBC (Time Base Corrector)


Anyone else want to make a wild guess???

[Ilwrath]

my guess......
a TBC (Time Base Corrector)


Anyone else want to make a wild guess???

Actually, that was my wild-guess, as well.  That's why I asked "Zorro II or ISA?"   If it's ISA, I'd bet it's a TBC.  ;-)

[MaDDuck]

or.............
It could be a flickerfixer! :-?

Or
A SCSI card! :-?

it could be ANYTHING!!!!!  :-? :-?

Good thing he didn't list it on ebay this way, I'd of probably bid and won it just to see.

I LLOOVVEE a surprise! :-D  :-?

[amigamad]

Says something about the card here http://www.relec.ch/Occasions.html

Using googles translate on the site gave me this ,Chart "Architect-256 from The Series resolution". comprising 2 catches dB 9 (1 male and 1 female) and and 4 cards: Synchro, R, V, B - would seem to be a graphics board.

[lordnicon]

yes your right thats the one  :-D i would add a crapy pic but i can't  :nervous:

how do i get it to work i have no disks or anythink

edit
i have 2 of them do you know how to wire them up
i would just like to say i am new to the amiga 2000 i just had the 500 and 600 but i i get the 2000  :hammer:

[MaDDuck]

amigamad wrote:
Says something about the card here http://www.relec.ch/Occasions.html

Using googles translate on the site gave me this ,Chart "Architect-256 from The Series resolution". comprising 2 catches dB 9 (1 male and 1 female) and and 4 cards: Synchro, R, V, B - would seem to be a graphics board.

Awe man!!!
I was SOOOOO close.

$HI+!

[lordnicon]

lol i'v been looking around for days lol

so i guesss i need a cable to go from  my video card to the architect-256 cards then what does any one have this card  :-?

[lordnicon]

oh come people i'm in need of hellp

i hate not knowing what they are

here are some pics very bad pic but pic all the same http://homepage.ntlworld.com/margaret.greenfield1/card.htm

[sir_inferno]

well, the output connectors "seem" to be SRGB composite connectors [i'd say they where buggered up bnc attempts???] and two HD15's???

we'd need to see any other connectors on the board, are there any pins in visible groups sticking out? or are there any places where pins could go in?

thanks...

[vpcs]

IIRC These card were used in Flight Simulators.. Special software was intergrated with them. Last one I saw was at McGuire AFB in NJ....

[Ilwrath]

well, the output connectors "seem" to be SRGB composite connectors [i'd say they where buggered up bnc attempts???] and two HD15's???

Those aren't HD15s... Those are DB9s.  

Surely the 4 RCA connectors are RED, GREEN, BLUE, SYNC.  This card does some video processing/output.

Those 2 DB9 connectors, though.  1 male, 1 female.  That doesn't make this any more clear, though.  They might be a communication of some kind.  Perhaps these cards originally had a breakout box of some kind?  Of course they still could be video, as I have an early NEC multisync monitor that uses a DB9 instead of an HD15.

And look at all those ZIP chips on those cards!  A row the full length of the Zorro card.

Can you do two more things?  

Those "tall" chips that look like they're standing up along the top of the card...  What is the model number on them, and how many are there?  They're ZIP memory modules, and knowing that piece of information, we can see how much RAM is on that card.  That may give some hints as to what it does.  (edit: after looking at the pic again, those maybe aren't ZIPs at the top....  Anyhow, what's the writing on them?)

Also, what's the model number on that large ceramic chip in the bottom-center of picture 2?

At this stage, I'd go with vpcs's explaination.  These two cards may have originally been dedicated hardware for use in a simulator of some kind.

[lordnicon]

ok yes it was used for a imulator of some kind (no idea what )

if they are RCAs then they are very small ones coz they are not norm RCAs

the writing on the chip is
"AM95c60-16GC
 /30 001LYEN
(c)1987 AMD"
the writing at the top of that is
"ARCHITECT-256
from
the resolution series"
it also has "(c) charscreen LTD 1991"

EDIT the chips at the top
"D42274V-10
9229FUO29
NEC JAPAN" and there is 16 each side the chip so 32 all to gether