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³¼BRIDGEBOARDS¼³
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Ever since the 'birth' of the Amiga,
different kinds of PC emulators have
been available. Some of the most
popular ones lately have been the
Vortex ATOnce and ATOnce Plus,
offering an 8/16 MHz 286. The
problem, though, is, that these are
not hardware-expandable, and their
compatibility isn't sufficient. Ac-
cording to some dealers, only 75 % of
PC software runs on ATOnce, and that
definitely isn't enough to call it a
reliable PC.
The solution is the bridgeboards,
which ARE hardware-expandable, and
actually offer you a 'real' PC to work
with. The bridgeboards are, as most
of you will know, only available for
the Amiga 2000.
Currently, 3 different bridgeboards
are available: The A2088 (4.77 MHz
8088 XT), the A2286 (8 MHz 80286 AT)
and the A2386 (20 MHz 80386 SX). The
A2088 and A2286 come with a 5.25 inch
floppy drive and MS-DOS (3.3 I think),
and the A2386 comes with MS-DOS 5.0.
All cards support PC partitions on
Amiga harddisks. A lot of people have
already purchased one of these cards,
and others are, like I, thinking about
doing so.
Now, a warning to Danes: Do NOT, I
repeat do NOT buy these cards in
Denmark, the prices are f...... high.
Check the following list:
Denmark Germany
A2088 2855 500
A2286 4695 1800
A2386 ???? 4000
(All prices are in DKK, 1 DM = 4 DKK.)
The A2386 doesn't seem to be available
in Denmark (yet?), so no price is
listed for that one. The Danish pri-
ces are taken from "Amiga Warehouse",
and the German prices are taken from
"BBM Datensysteme". As you can see,
going to Germany to buy your
bridgeboard will save you many times
the price of the ticket to Germany.
Now, what I would like to see here in
Top Secret is a complete review of
these bridgeboards, so if any of you
have tried all 3, thus being able to
compare them, especially whether or
not buying the A2386 will get you good
value for money, please write an
article about it for Top Secret.
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