Optimum A600 configuration for gaming?

[Eco]

Just picked up two PCMCIA memory cards from a local used computer part store. I have absolutely no idea whether they will work in my A600, this was a long shot  :-D

The cards are Intel cards that say "Flash" and "4 MByte Memory Card" on the front. They're manufactured in Japan and Philippines (1993). The card from 1993 says "Series 2". There's nothing else of use written on the cards.

The bad part is, I don't get to try them out for a month! I'm stuck in the States with no miggy in sight..

[Matt_H]

Couldn't you configure virtual memory to point to it, which would have the same effect?

No MMU on the 68000. Otherwise, I suspect that would work.

[adolescent]

@Eco

I doubt those will work.  I have a few "flash" cards and although they are recognised by the card info, they aren't able to be used as memory or storage.  You need to find a SRAM, or PSRAM card.

[adolescent]

BTW, this is the type of card I have, it works great with my A1200 and A600.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42191&item=3481735360&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[Eco]

Oh darn, good thing I only paid a few bucks for them  :-D

I'll be on the lookout for cards that specifically say "sram".

[Eco]

I'll just post to this same thread, since I have a new question which also concerns the optimum A600 configuration for gaming.

This time, however, I want to know how I can make my A600 as close to a "1.3 kickstart A500 with 512 chip and 512 fast" compatibility heaven. Can a degrader utility cut it? Is TUDE the best, or should I use something else?

Since I have 2 mb chip, it should be possible to kick into 1.3, make 512kb fake fast mem, and lose the rest of the chipmem. This should give me the target configuration, right? :-D

[adolescent]

TUDE should be able to do that.  Try:

TUDE FAKEFAST=1 KICKSTART1.3

You can also throw in a degrade in there and a screenmode if needed.  Like:

TUDE FAKEFAST=1 HERTZ=PAL DEGRADE KICKSTART1.3

 

[Eco]

Sounds good. After TUDEing it up, my A600 should be good for all the old demos and games! But not everything will require TUDE, of course.

In case anyone is wondering why to go with the A600 instead of a plain vanilla A500, there are compelling reasons:

- It's small, light and quite portable
- Colour composite output
- It has an IDE controller, and the hard drive fits right inside it

Between my A1200 and A600, I should be set to trash a few joysticks again :-D

[adolescent]

Just remember your IDE and PCMCIA will not be available when using Kickstart 1.3.  And, there will still be problems with games/demos that TUDE can't help.  

For instance, I haven't been able to get Dragons of Flame to work with TUDE and my A600.  I'm pretty sure I got it working on my A1200 once but I can't remember how I did it.  (I haven't really tried that much as the game isn't so good, but it's a very system un-friendly game to test degraders with...)

[Eco]

The degraded configuration is only for booting the incompatible old stuff off floppies. The non-degraded mode is good for networking, and creating the floppies from ADFs in the first place  :-D