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- From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
- Subject: Re: 10 MB fastram onb a2000: technical question
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:20:35 GMT
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- In article <frits.721490862@galaxy> frits@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) writes:
- > Recently I saw in the German Amiga magazin an add from WAW Elektronik
- > where they advertised a chipram expander for the a500/a2000 that also
- > had an extra 2 MB on board with which you can get a total of 10 MB Fastram.
-
- Well, the are not the only ones selling such an add. As you need the 2 MB
- Agnus and need a trick to adress Denise, too, those cards have the Agnus,
- 1 MB and some critters on it.
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- >
- > I have no plans at all of buying it, but I am interested in how they might
- > have done it. If I read the hardware manual(1.3) I have at home correctly
- > the memory map of the a500/a2000 allows for 8 MB fastram, 2 MB chipram and
- > the rest is reserved for chip registers and so on. Where might they have put
- > the extra 2 MB fastram?
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- It's on the card. They use the 2MB Aguns of course, too.
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- >
- > I know this is possible with a bigger processor, but if I read the add
- > correctly they intend it for the standard a500/a2000 with a 68000 processor.
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- No need for a bigger CPU.
-
- >
- > Just curious,
- > Frits
- > --
- > Frits Kuijlman frits @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl
- > Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
-
- Have care, there are several adds for thoise ram-adds.
- Compare the prices, i found one for 299.-DM on the CSS Fair.
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