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- From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
- Subject: Re: Chip RAM accelerators?
- Message-ID: <10667547.47.714025561@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Summary: What are they?
- Keywords: Amiga hardware chip-ram Black Knight Periphals
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- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University
- References: <92Aug17.001602.17998@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:26:01 GMT
-
- In article <92Aug17.001602.17998@acs.ucalgary.ca> eto@acs.ucalgary.ca (Seijn Eto) writes:
- >From: eto@acs.ucalgary.ca (Seijn Eto)
- >Subject: Chip RAM accelerators?
- >Summary: What are they?
- >Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 00:16:02 GMT
- >
- > Having heard some news about CHIP RAM accelerators by
- >Black Knight and apparently by RCS, I was wondering whether
- >anyone has specs to post about these products? Also, since they
- >can work with A500/2000 machines, could these things be what are
- >required to run the new 'AA' chip set in these machines? That
- >seems to make sense since they provide the higher bandwidth
- >required for the increased resolutions and colors...
- >
-
- Black Kinght Peripherals is supposedly an Australian company and they
- advertise in the Australian Commodore and Amiga Review.
-
- Below is a transcript of their advertisement. What is all means is up to
- you! I'm not a electrical engineer - only an eco/eng student.
-
- =-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- THE FAST LANE
-
- The Fast Lane combination of Chip RAM accelerator and 2Mb chip ram expansion
- removes the biggest bottleneck in the Amiga - slow access to chip RAM. TFL
- gives superfast access to display memory by allowing the CPU and custom
- chips to access chip ram transparently and simultaneously. Works with 1 and
- 2Mb Agnus chips. With TFL unaccelerated machines can access diplay ram at
- the same speed as fast RAM. Accelerated Amigas will have up to 3 time the
- bandwidth (depeding on how they access the Amiga address space). The SPEED
- DEMON CPU accelerators from BKP will access CRAM at the blinding speed of
- 21.6 Mb/sec (6x the bandwidth of fast ram). The price is $349 without RAM.
- Add $150 for 2Mb of memory (if you already own our Top Chip 2mb chip ram
- expansion, you can use its memory on The Fast Lane). Also needs 1 or 2mb
- Agnus.
-
- This product should be available to beta testers in August.
-
-
-
- TOP CHIP
-
- Two meg of chip RAM for your A500/2000. THis supersmall unit includes 2mb
- of memory than can be later used in The Fast Lane. The unit plugs into any
- A500/2000 and does not require soldering or cutting of traces. It can be
- switched between 512k, 1mb or 2mb of chip ram under software control, and
- will remember the last used configuration on power up.
- Price $249
-
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-
-
- Note: All prices are in Australian $. Any typos are my mistake!
-
- Their contact address is
- Black Knight Peripherals
- PO Box 197
- Toronto NSW 2283
- Tel/FAX (02) 901 3624
-
-
- I have no association whatsover with BKP except that I would LOVE to become
- a beta tester.
-
-
- Hope this helps
-
- -Jif
-
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