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Originally Posted by sidrulez!
How does the amiga 1208 with 8meg on board compare with the card feom amigakit for £80?
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It has about 119mb less available Ram
The ACA Card has 1mb which can be used for Maprom, this means if you want you can copy the on-board Rom to Ram, this speeds up operations and also you can even use your own custom Rom, for example if your Amiga only has 3.0 Rom you can Map 3.1 to Maprom instead of replacing the physical chip.
The only thing the ACA can't do that the 1208 can is there is no option to add an FPU, however this is not needed for the majority of software and if you probably don't and never will need it.
There is one small point to mention, the ACA cards can introduce timing issues on some Motherboards, they are best used on a well serviced board (i.e with new Capacitors) and a good reliable PSU such as a converted ATX. In the event you have timing issues these can be fixed by your reseller such as Amigakit.
Second note as above, the 1208 will Map it's Rom in the ZorroII space so you wont be able to use the PCMCIA port when using 8mb, it is fine if you allocate just 4mb by jumper or swap the Simm. The ACA does not have this issue.