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Zetr0 · 20 July 2007, 15:09

@Alexh

errr, i tihnk i may of confused you there my friend, I was thinking of a cheaper version without a cpu, in otherwords just a ram card for the a600 that clips over the chip in the same way.

sorry about that ol'boy

(just been playing Wings!)

alexh · 20 July 2007, 15:29

Aint gonna happen. You'll have to live with a PCMCIA SRAM card.

Zetr0 · 20 July 2007, 15:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh

Aint gonna happen. You'll have to live with a PCMCIA SRAM card.

Booooo Hiissss.... Boooo.... (you keep crushing my dreams

)

would it be possible (ie, not to much work) to change the actual CPU in the A600 to the 68010 ?

alexh · 20 July 2007, 16:23

Why would you want to?

You still couldnt run AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 (020+)
Some (most?) games wouldnt work due to incompatibility.

If you REALLY wanted to do it, you'd need an SMD solder station as the A600 CPU is surface mount.

You would also need a PLCC 68010 and they are pin compatible.

Zetr0 · 20 July 2007, 16:25

@Alexh

Thankyou

the reason, simply.. the quit key for WHDLoad

cv643d · 20 July 2007, 18:02

alexh:

Relax and take it easy, this is just a hobby

alexh · 20 July 2007, 18:47

Quote:

the reason, simply.. the quit key for WHDLoad

Bah, get an IDE flash adapter and small startup-sequence

DrBong · 21 July 2007, 17:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zetr0

I was thinking of a cheaper version without a cpu, in otherwords just a ram card for the a600 that clips over the chip in the same way.

Even without the 030 CPU, I think that would make for one expensive ram card! Would be easier and cheaper to find a pcmcia mem card or do what alexh (the Ami dream crusher) suggested

Zetr0 · 21 July 2007, 18:32

@alexh,

you can indeed run OS3.5 on an a600 with 3.1 roms, as i was running it for some time, I stepped it back to a custom OS3.1 because of memmory foot print using a fair old bit, and boot times were a little slowww...

I have now a 4MB memory card for it so thats not really a problem, I was just curious if a simple 4MB internal memory card could be made maybe with a FPU similar to the HAWK boards on the 1200. this way the pcmcia port could be used for other things, like compact flash / scsi etc.

BinoX · 21 July 2007, 18:47

[quote=Zetr0;345735I was just curious if a simple 4MB internal memory card could be made maybe with a FPU similar to the HAWK boards on the 1200. this way the pcmcia port could be used for other things, like compact flash / scsi etc.[/quote]

Hmmm.. an interesting suggestion there.... I'll look into that too... Dunno about the FPU, but a RAM expansion should be alright, just autoconfigging it is the awkward part... (But I'm looking into how to do that at the moment)

Zetr0 · 21 July 2007, 19:00

why not run jumpers, instead of auto config... this would be the way i would design it.

BinoX · 21 July 2007, 19:22

I mean getting the system to recognise the RAM as being there from the start...

Making a RAM expansion that clips over the CPU and gets allocated in software is theoretically easy...

The trick is making the system allocate the RAM itself

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20 July 2007, 15:09	#21
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	@Alexh errr, i tihnk i may of confused you there my friend, I was thinking of a cheaper version without a cpu, in otherwords just a ram card for the a600 that clips over the chip in the same way. sorry about that ol'boy (just been playing Wings!)

20 July 2007, 15:29	#22
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,354	Aint gonna happen. You'll have to live with a PCMCIA SRAM card.

20 July 2007, 16:23	#24
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,354	Why would you want to? You still couldnt run AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 (020+) Some (most?) games wouldnt work due to incompatibility. If you REALLY wanted to do it, you'd need an SMD solder station as the A600 CPU is surface mount. You would also need a PLCC 68010 and they are pin compatible.

20 July 2007, 16:25	#25
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	@Alexh Thankyou the reason, simply.. the quit key for WHDLoad

20 July 2007, 18:02	#26
cv643d Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 762	alexh: Relax and take it easy, this is just a hobby

21 July 2007, 18:32	#29
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	@alexh, you can indeed run OS3.5 on an a600 with 3.1 roms, as i was running it for some time, I stepped it back to a custom OS3.1 because of memmory foot print using a fair old bit, and boot times were a little slowww... I have now a 4MB memory card for it so thats not really a problem, I was just curious if a simple 4MB internal memory card could be made maybe with a FPU similar to the HAWK boards on the 1200. this way the pcmcia port could be used for other things, like compact flash / scsi etc.

21 July 2007, 18:47	#30
BinoX Miggy Man Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom Age: 40 Posts: 831	[quote=Zetr0;345735I was just curious if a simple 4MB internal memory card could be made maybe with a FPU similar to the HAWK boards on the 1200. this way the pcmcia port could be used for other things, like compact flash / scsi etc.[/quote] Hmmm.. an interesting suggestion there.... I'll look into that too... Dunno about the FPU, but a RAM expansion should be alright, just autoconfigging it is the awkward part... (But I'm looking into how to do that at the moment)

21 July 2007, 19:00	#31
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	why not run jumpers, instead of auto config... this would be the way i would design it.

21 July 2007, 19:22	#32
BinoX Miggy Man Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom Age: 40 Posts: 831	I mean getting the system to recognise the RAM as being there from the start... Making a RAM expansion that clips over the CPU and gets allocated in software is theoretically easy... The trick is making the system allocate the RAM itself

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