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e5frog · 06 January 2020, 03:14

When I was setting up my brother's computer, he only had the standard 1MiB gfx mem so I moved my 1MiB trapdoor memory over (and bought a new one from eBay) - that A603 is really huge and near impossible (?) to remove through the trap door. Also swapped the caps, installed a 1.3/3.1 KS switch with a toggle switch next to the PCMCIA port. Also a little light RetroBrite (didn't have proper chemicals) - man those caps are hard to pull loose - the top shell is really really yellow, still quite yellow, but less so.
CF-card HDD that I spent a couple of days on before getting it right - then when just for fun trying the composite output I noticed color flicker, from both composite and RF (they originate from the same output on the CXA1145). So that will be upgraded as well to a CXA2075M:
https://www.ikod.se/cxa2075m/

All tabs that hold the upper half was broken so I made one from a piece of the plastic keyboard holding rail and melted it in place and on the other side I made a slot and put a screw in the diskdrive with a tooth lock washer - that holds the top in place there (because making a tab was time consuming and the plastic looks like crap anyway).

After looking for PCMCIA SRAM at insane prices I soon decided to spend £35 on an internal 4MiB RAM design by Sukko Pera instead (it's also on GitHub), the Sakura-IT PCMCIA version was also of interest but I didn't feel like building one and nobody seemed to sell them at the moment.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/293388790639

Anyway, I had already put the games I already tested (listed in the first post) in a separate folder and also tested a few more. The list is now updated with the latest finds. I'll try some more games but since he's getting 2MiB graphics mem + 4MiB other mem I don't think I need to go through the entire library of WHDLoad games to see which ones will work with just 2MiB. ;-)

I'm sure most things that is possible to run on a plain Amiga 600 (with enough memory) will run just fine. I have 2MiB gfx + 4MiB internal + 4MiB pcmcia and I don't have much problems when "WHDLoading". I have seen there's a 9.5MiB internal card as well, needs to be set down to be able to use the PCMCIA port, right? So for that reason a PCMCIA SRAM card is better - apart from it sticking out that much. The Sakura-card might perhaps be redesigned into an even shorter card...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/163822536868

I guess if going for acc.cards there's room for a lot more memory.

Hope the list is worth something to someone, at least I could use it myself.

06 January 2020, 03:14	#71
e5frog The Headstrong Join Date: May 2010 Location: Älvängen / Sweden Age: 49 Posts: 273	When I was setting up my brother's computer, he only had the standard 1MiB gfx mem so I moved my 1MiB trapdoor memory over (and bought a new one from eBay) - that A603 is really huge and near impossible (?) to remove through the trap door. Also swapped the caps, installed a 1.3/3.1 KS switch with a toggle switch next to the PCMCIA port. Also a little light RetroBrite (didn't have proper chemicals) - man those caps are hard to pull loose - the top shell is really really yellow, still quite yellow, but less so. CF-card HDD that I spent a couple of days on before getting it right - then when just for fun trying the composite output I noticed color flicker, from both composite and RF (they originate from the same output on the CXA1145). So that will be upgraded as well to a CXA2075M: https://www.ikod.se/cxa2075m/ All tabs that hold the upper half was broken so I made one from a piece of the plastic keyboard holding rail and melted it in place and on the other side I made a slot and put a screw in the diskdrive with a tooth lock washer - that holds the top in place there (because making a tab was time consuming and the plastic looks like crap anyway). After looking for PCMCIA SRAM at insane prices I soon decided to spend £35 on an internal 4MiB RAM design by Sukko Pera instead (it's also on GitHub), the Sakura-IT PCMCIA version was also of interest but I didn't feel like building one and nobody seemed to sell them at the moment. https://www.ebay.com/itm/293388790639 Anyway, I had already put the games I already tested (listed in the first post) in a separate folder and also tested a few more. The list is now updated with the latest finds. I'll try some more games but since he's getting 2MiB graphics mem + 4MiB other mem I don't think I need to go through the entire library of WHDLoad games to see which ones will work with just 2MiB. ;-) I'm sure most things that is possible to run on a plain Amiga 600 (with enough memory) will run just fine. I have 2MiB gfx + 4MiB internal + 4MiB pcmcia and I don't have much problems when "WHDLoading". I have seen there's a 9.5MiB internal card as well, needs to be set down to be able to use the PCMCIA port, right? So for that reason a PCMCIA SRAM card is better - apart from it sticking out that much. The Sakura-card might perhaps be redesigned into an even shorter card... https://www.ebay.com/itm/163822536868 I guess if going for acc.cards there's room for a lot more memory. Hope the list is worth something to someone, at least I could use it myself.