New products for C64 and Amiga from Individual Computers - Page 3

Zetr0 · 16 July 2012, 11:52

so to start saving for an ACA500, ACA620, ACA1220

Good thing I have a Birthday and Christmas comming up eh?

Schoenfeld · 16 July 2012, 12:06

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Originally Posted by nikos.rizos

There are several different shaped Chip ram expansions (MiniMegi, MiniMega, WAW etc) for the 500. Is there any chance you know if these will physically fit with the ACA500 on it's own or the ACA500/123X combo?

These chipram expansions are the reason for the two-level accelerator design: The adapter as shown in this morning's post on the first page is just a passive thing that rises the accelerator itself above Agnus and potential chipram expansions. I know it sounds like a high tower, but the A500 is a huge machine compared to the A1200 or A600.

Jens

duga · 16 July 2012, 12:10

Does it matter if the trapdoor expansion is considered real chipram or slowram?

Schoenfeld · 16 July 2012, 12:13

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Originally Posted by duga

Does it matter if the trapdoor expansion is considered real chipram or slowram?

You should make it real chipram, because ACA500 puts 1MByte of fastmem into the $c0.0000 area. The other 1MByte fastmem is reserved for Maprom'd Kickstart. If the trapdoor expansion is "fake-fast", then it will be disabled by the fastmem-overlay. Only the RTC of the trapdoor expansion would be usable, and you probably don't want that.

Jens

duga · 16 July 2012, 12:18

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Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

You should make it real chipram, because ACA500 puts 1MByte of fastmem into the $c0.0000 area. The other 1MByte fastmem is reserved for Maprom'd Kickstart. If the trapdoor expansion is "fake-fast", then it will be disabled by the fastmem-overlay. Only the RTC of the trapdoor expansion would be usable, and you probably don't want that.

Jens

Good to know. I guess this will make a lot of A500 owners change their 512 KB chip mem + 512 KB slow mem machines to 1024 KB chip if they haven't already done this.

mombasajoe · 16 July 2012, 12:22

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Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

Our new accelerator for the Amiga 500 has already been discussed in user forums, but will be released with some changes, so customer demand is met in both price and features. The ACA500 is powered by a 14MHz CMOS-68000 processor with 2MBytes RAM and a mass-storage controller for CF-cards and CD drives. Autoboot from CF-card is possible from Kickstart V1.3 and higher. Thanks to our TrueIDE technology, any CF card can be used, even if the card identifies as "removable device". A CD-ROM drive can be connected to the easily reachable IDE port on the side of the A500.
The relatively moderate increase in speed is enough to run WHDload.

This sounds very interesting to me! I wonder how it it will be plugged into the A500 because I already use an 8MB Alfa Power controller with CF Card.

gunni · 16 July 2012, 12:38

wow! thanks Jens! I'll definitely be grabbing the ACA500!

pete_uk · 16 July 2012, 13:54

Great news Jens. I might finally get a Ram card for my A1200

kipper2k · 16 July 2012, 13:56

Jens,

Would you be interested in selling/disclosing where you got the 150 pin connectors for the A1200 expansion slot ?

tom256 · 16 July 2012, 15:35

Perfect Turbo Boards for WHDLoad in awesome price

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BTW Jens I found in China MC68030RC50C in price ~ 42$.
Maybe it will allow you to lower price of ACA boards :]

Schoenfeld · 16 July 2012, 16:01

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Originally Posted by kipper2k

Would you be interested in selling/disclosing where you got the 150 pin connectors for the A1200 expansion slot ?

I have my own tooling. Cost me an arm and a leg, but it's RoHS-compliant and I have guaranteed pressure-per-pin. And I can make almost any colour :-)

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Originally Posted by tom256

BTW Jens I found in China MC68030RC50C in price ~ 42$.
Maybe it will allow you to lower price of ACA boards :]

Nope - China sells lots of things, but no good MC68030RC50C. You get sample parts that are good, and you get mass-re-printed 68030RC16B units. This won't make the accelerator cheaper, but put me out of business the minute I have transferred the money. I buy my stuff from trustworthy sources. Oh, and I don't buy overpriced. 68030 are traded for "gold price plus a few percent". If someone wants more money, I'm not a customer.

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Originally Posted by mombasajoe

This sounds very interesting to me! I wonder how it it will be plugged into the A500 because I already use an 8MB Alfa Power controller with CF Card.

Please read the other posts in this thread: ACA500 requires you to remove *anything* from the 86-pin port and from the 68k socket. At such a low price, you cannot expect me or my resellers to give support for compatibility for the myriads of expansions that there have been for the A500. Your first move MUST be bringing your A500 back to (almost) stock condition.

Jens

kipper2k · 16 July 2012, 16:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

I have my own tooling. Cost me an arm and a leg, but it's RoHS-compliant and I have guaranteed pressure-per-pin. And I can make almost any colour :-)

Jens

Hi Jens, you almost answered my question

, are you willing to sell some of the connectors, like about 100 in any colour. my intention would be to make a simple small memory expansion board for people for the A1200.

Lord Aga · 16 July 2012, 16:53

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Originally Posted by kipper2k

in any colour

Make 'em pink

gibs · 16 July 2012, 19:19

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Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

The relatively moderate increase in speed is enough to run WHDload. For those who want more CPU power, the ACA500 has a CPU-slot compatible with our accelerators for A1200 computers. This makes even our top model ACA1231 available to the A500 computer.

Will the ACA1231 be stable with all A500 motherboard revision ?

brett71 · 16 July 2012, 19:31

Did I read correctly that there might be an networking add-on for this device? Being able to network my A500 would be awesome, even just on the LAN to my PC.

mombasajoe · 16 July 2012, 20:52

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Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

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Please read the other posts in this thread: ACA500 requires you to remove *anything* from the 86-pin port and from the 68k socket....Your first move MUST be bringing your A500 back to (almost) stock condition.

Oh yes, I´ve found it in post #25 now. Sorry. In spite of that it still sounds very interesting regarding the retail price. I´m looking forward to it.

TjLaZer · 16 July 2012, 21:39

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Originally Posted by mombasajoe

Oh yes, I´ve found it in post #25 now. Sorry. In spite of that it still sounds very interesting regarding the retail price. I´m looking forward to it.

There really is no issue people. As anyone that has an upgraded A500 with stuff that plugs into 68000 socket, 86-pin bus etc just needs to leave that system as is and enjoy it as such and simply just get another Amiga 500 for this A500 upgrade!

Can't have everything.

Like the saying goes: Have your cake and eat it too

Can the ACA500 be overlocked to 16MHz?

lost_loven · 16 July 2012, 23:19

can we wish list here too? I would like a production run of network cards for the big box machines. Be a nice addition on my a3k.

lost

duga · 16 July 2012, 23:40

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Originally Posted by lost_loven

can we wish list here too? I would like a production run of network cards for the big box machines. Be a nice addition on my a3k.

lost

A Zorro 3 FastEthernet card for €50-90 bundeled together with the mythological Roadshow68k TCP/IP stack and we have a winner.

17 July 2012, 00:03

If you take all three, do we get a discount then

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Great stuff, am interested in the BIGRAM+, ACA1220 and ACA500.

16 July 2012, 15:35	#50
tom256 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 166	Perfect Turbo Boards for WHDLoad in awesome price . BTW Jens I found in China MC68030RC50C in price ~ 42$. Maybe it will allow you to lower price of ACA boards :] Last edited by tom256; 16 July 2012 at 15:49.

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16 July 2012, 11:52	#41
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	so to start saving for an ACA500, ACA620, ACA1220 Good thing I have a Birthday and Christmas comming up eh?

16 July 2012, 12:10	#43
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16 July 2012, 12:38	#47
gunni Registered User Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Dunfermline Posts: 141	wow! thanks Jens! I'll definitely be grabbing the ACA500!

16 July 2012, 13:54	#48
pete_uk Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Stevenage / England Age: 42 Posts: 53	Great news Jens. I might finally get a Ram card for my A1200

16 July 2012, 13:56	#49
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16 July 2012, 19:31	#55
brett71 Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ames, IA, USA Posts: 521	Did I read correctly that there might be an networking add-on for this device? Being able to network my A500 would be awesome, even just on the LAN to my PC.

16 July 2012, 23:19	#58
lost_loven Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: winnipeg Posts: 358	can we wish list here too? I would like a production run of network cards for the big box machines. Be a nice addition on my a3k. lost

17 July 2012, 00:03	#60
Analyzer Posts: n/a	If you take all three, do we get a discount then . Great stuff, am interested in the BIGRAM+, ACA1220 and ACA500.

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