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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

3482.0. "PC board for A500" by VIVIAN::S_GOLDSTEIN (Steve G...DTN 847-5415 ) Thu Feb 15 1990 04:16

    Well its finally happened for all A500 users:-
    
    	A PC board that plugs into wait for it the A501 Memory slot!
    
    The board is from a Dutch company called KCS. U.K. distrbutors is 
    Bitcon Devices (Tel:-091 490 1975)
    
    The board is based on an NEC V30 mircoprocessor running at 8MHz has 
    Phoenix BIOS and the board is fitted with 1 Meg Memory,and a clock.
    
    In MS-DOS mode the machine has 704K plus 64K of extended mem.
    
    The PC Power Board supports Monochrome,Hercules and CGA video, it will
    also support the internal 3.5" disk, one external 3.5" and one 5.25"
    unit.
    
    Installation is via a short GFA Basic program. 
    
    The Ami joystick port can be used/config as PC COM1,COM2 and the serial
    comm can be set upto 9600 baud.
    
    There is still a lot of work left to do on this board (software wise)
    to support Harddisk and to format the internal 3.5" disk.
    
    How much .? 299 pounds sterling. and you get a small PCB,1meg of mem a
    clock, a RAM-resident Hypertext-based DOS help utility Phoenix DOS Help
    Microsoft's MS-DOS V4.01 and PC GW Basic.
    
    All info obtained from:-
    New Computer Express and Popular Computing Weekly.
    	
    		Steve G

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3482.1	Memory use ?	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Thu Feb 15 1990 07:57`	6
	Very interesting... Does it say anything in the article if the 1MB can be used by AmigaDOS when the PC board isn't being used ? I'd be concerned that I couldn't migrate to 1Mb chip with a fat agnus if the amiga couldn't see the new memory. Alan T.
3482.2	More details can be got from..	BAHTAT::HILTON	Two in the box ready to go	`Thu Feb 15 1990 11:38`	11
	Apparently you can get more details about this from: BITCON, on 091 490 1975 88 Bewich Road, Gateshead Tyne+Wear NE8 1RS Greg
3482.3	Dutch review.	JGO::CHAPMAN		`Fri Feb 16 1990 06:42`	9
	Ther was a review of this in a Dutch magazine about two months ago. I didn't pay too much attention since I have a 2000, but it was a very positive review. I remember it didn't support a hard disc (even as a partition on an Amiga drive?) though. I will look out the details again over the weekend and post if it adds anything of value. Colin
3482.4	The Amiga can see 512k of the ram.	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Fri Feb 16 1990 08:21`	8
	I just get the March copy of Amiga User International at lunchtime, and there's an article about this board in it. Apparently the 1Mb of ram on board is split into 2 512k banks, one of which can be seen by AmigaDOS as the normal $C00000 A501 512k, and the other bank can be used with some supplied S/W as a 512k ram: type disk. (It can't be seen by AmigaDOS to autoconfigure) Alan T.
3482.5	Anyone using the board ?	MAN01::KRAUSS		`Fri Feb 16 1990 09:29`	11
	Two more questions: 1. Is it possible to use the board with 512K of memory while running the Amy with a BigAgnus-chip ? 2. Is there something like this for the A2000 ? (No, I don't think of a PC-XT/AT Bridgeboard, but something like this which is not C= ) Thanks Michael
3482.6	Dr.Oxide in U.S.	CSC32::A_ANDERSON	Had Screw Driver did Travel	`Mon Jun 18 1990 23:42`	8
	Is this the same one mentioned in the June issue of Amazing Amiga (pg48)? It is called the Power PC Board and will be sold by Eric Miller (Dr. Oxide). I wrote to Compusave about three weeks ago asking for more info, if I get anything new I will post it here. They were selling at New York world of Amiga for $550.00. Maybe I can finnaly put my Rainbow out to pasture.