whats this card

[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

[Robbie]

I know what these cards are!!!! I have a few of them at my house. and I posted here ages ago too asking what they were. I think they're multi screen cards. yours are under a different name but the chips are the same and mine are made by chartscreen or whatever too. I got some amigas from an air traffic control college and they used these cards along with software to simulate the air traffic control screens. so I'm pretty sure you won't be able to use them with workbench or anything, but maybe? who knows. they were designed to have a couple of monitors connected to the computer displaying different things (each computer I got had 2 of the cards in).

hope this helps!

[leirbag28]

You know what? it sound like these cards Really were for Flight simulators.that would explain why each Amiga2000 had 2 of them...because they need to be able to simulate all the windows in the cockpit of an airplane..........so I assume each monitor had a diferent window in it, and you probably had two monitors very close together to look like one Giant window from an airplane. Or something like that.

[lordnicon]

Robbie wrote:
I know what these cards are!!!! I have a few of them at my house. and I posted here ages ago too asking what they were. I think they're multi screen cards. yours are under a different name but the chips are the same and mine are made by chartscreen or whatever too. I got some amigas from an air traffic control college and they used these cards along with software to simulate the air traffic control screens. so I'm pretty sure you won't be able to use them with workbench or anything, but maybe? who knows. they were designed to have a couple of monitors connected to the computer displaying different things (each computer I got had 2 of the cards in).

hope this helps!

same here mate i got mine from a air traffic control place too.

[Robbie]

the same cards I got were used to display the radar screens that you get in air traffic control towers. where the planes are shown as little dots etc?? If you've got all the software on the computer that you got the cards with, and you plug in a normal monitor in the video port you'll see a program run at startup which initializes the cards.

[Robbie]

same here mate i got mine from a air traffic control place too.

ahh well there you go. where abouts? I don't think there are that many colleges for air traffic control are there? I got mine ages ago from the one in bournemouth.

[lordnicon]

well i tryed to use a monitor by using the 9pin male plug but nothing (do i need a cable going to the card from my video card)

[lordnicon]

i got mine from a man that worked at gatwick airport

[Robbie]

I've never used them to be honest! just took them out. I don't think they were designed for the AmigaOS so I've never even tried using them for that. I've seen the software they use on the hard drive and I think you need to be using a normal monitor to load the software and get them running, and even then it would only be for a air traffic simulator.

If your computer came as the same kinda spec as mine you should also see a microway flicker fixer in the video card slot which you can use with a modern svga monitor if you get an EGA to VGA adapter.

[lordnicon]

yeah i have the same video card as you too.
i'll try and find a EGA to VGA adapter thanks.

i would like to try and get the cards working the software that was on there has gone  :pissed:

[Robbie]

lol well it just so happens that I bought one the other day! because i'd never used the flicker fixer before, just the standard video port.
I got mine from Saturn Computers. Came by royal mail pretty quickly.

[lordnicon]

lol cool thanks.

do you have the software to make the cards work or where i can get it form i don't like having card with don't work lol

[Robbie]

err...well I did have it...somewhere  :-) but when I got this computer it had an old A2090a hard disk controller and a REALLY old 40mb hard drive in there and i've taken both out now. I don't have any of it anywhere else! sorry!

I'm not sure where you'd get it from either, I'm sure i must have searched the net for it before. Google would be your best bet for finding it though I guess.

[lordnicon]

i looked on google with out the software name i'm out of luck.

i have this hard drive controller in mine  http://www.amiga-hardware.com/a2091.html

[Robbie]

yup that's a better one! I'm guessing you have a memory board with 2mb on it and an A2620 accelerator too? I don't think the roms are new enough on the a2620 to use it with an operating system later than 1.3 which is a pain.

[lordnicon]

i have a2620 but i cant see any ram on it but i don't know
a2091
a2058

hummm it new to amiga so i don't know whats diffrent with the OS