New products for C64 and Amiga from Individual Computers

[DonAmiga]

great news and spoiled for choice too

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by DonAmiga

great news and spoiled for choice too

+1

I'll be adding a few of these to my shopping list for sure! Better grab at least one of each before they sell out lol

@jens is it possible to use Blizzard 1260 or even Blizzard PPC with the ACA500?

[Akiko]

Nice array of brand new products

Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

I'll only guarantee it to work with my own A1200 accelerators. If it works with others: Good for you! If it doesn't, I can't give any additional support. I mean.. look at the price - it barely covers production cost and only pushes sales of my other products (well, at least that's the plan).

Jens

Any chance you will consider something similar to the ACA500 for the CD32?

All it would need is basic IDE plus the expansion slot, and as the CD32 has no standard keyboard interface it would also stimulate sales of the Lyra 2 and possible future production runs of the Indivision AGA 4000/CD32 MK2 making the product more viable.

[desiv]

Jens, will certain features be able to be disabled if need be?
For instance, I already have a tomthul (homebrew) non-autoconfig 8M FAST RAM in my A500, so if there was any possibility for them to work together, I'd probably have to disable the 2M on your board..

Other people with other expansions might have similar questions..

Just wondering..

Thanx,

desiv

[Schoenfeld]

Originally Posted by desiv

Jens, will certain features be able to be disabled if need be?
For instance, I already have a tomthul (homebrew) non-autoconfig 8M FAST RAM in my A500, so if there was any possibility for them to work together, I'd probably have to disable the 2M on your board..

Other people with other expansions might have similar questions..

The answer to this is easy, and maybe disappointing at first sight: ACA500 does not allow any other expansion than a chipmem expansion. As mentioned yesterday night, the lower 68000-adapter will block the 86-pin port to send a clear message: Nothing allowed here. Further, the 68000 socket will have to be empty, otherwise the mechanical mounting concept won't work.

I know you guys want some halfway portable machine, and if I want to achieve the low price that I have announced, then support must be kept to a minimum. Any other piece of hardware will require support, and neither I, nor my resellers will be able to do that for such a low price. As a result, I'll provide something that relies on a "fixed architecture".

Jens

[Methanoid]

Jens, what are the 10 small holes in the ACA620 for? Future expansion? Please tell all!!

[CrashMidnick]

same question as Fitzsteve ... other accelerators will be supported ?

[Zetr0]

okay, now I am all interested .... what lead times are we looking at here!?

=)

[Schoenfeld]

Originally Posted by Methanoid

Jens, what are the 10 small holes in the ACA620 for? Future expansion? Please tell all!!

That's a JTAG connector, as on many other designs I've made. It's for factory use: The CPLDs get their program through that connector.

Originally Posted by CrashMidnick

same question as Fitzsteve ... other accelerators will be supported ?

Please read post#11.

Jens

[McVenco]

Is there any possibility to have the Quitkey in WHDLoad working with the ACA500? IIRC you need at least an 68010 for that. Maybe something that can be put in the maprom?

[Methanoid]

Will all the boards be in white like recent ACA12xx boards? The ACA620 looks hand soldered and green - presumably all white with some Individual Computers branding on the visible side?

[cv643d]

Originally Posted by Akiko

Any chance you will consider something similar to the ACA500 for the CD32?

All it would need is basic IDE plus the expansion slot, and as the CD32 has no standard keyboard interface it would also stimulate sales of the Lyra 2 and possible future production runs of the Indivision AGA 4000/CD32 MK2 making the product more viable.

I will destroy my Apollo 1260 if you make one

[Riempie]

Great news! Bad news for my wallet!

I almost already have everything I can wish for in my A1200, but I still have an unused clockport in my A1200 (subway usb's are out of stock). Hoping to see some cool stuff which makes use of the clockport...

[Schoenfeld]

Originally Posted by McVenco

Is there any possibility to have the Quitkey in WHDLoad working with the ACA500? IIRC you need at least an 68010 for that. Maybe something that can be put in the maprom?

I'll try to feed the 68000 an alternate IRQ vector in order to achieve that. I've written an eMail to Bert Jahn to find out what I can do on the hardware side. After all, it's just logic ;-)

Originally Posted by Methanoid

Will all the boards be in white like recent ACA12xx boards? The ACA620 looks hand soldered and green - presumably all white with some Individual Computers branding on the visible side?

All the photos I have posted are hand-soldered prototypes. The prototype board house makes green only. I have ordered the current PCBs for mass-production in red with white silkscreen print.

Jens

[squidbass]

for the ACA500

[dirkies]

very nice, I am interested

too bad the bigramplus is not a card that accepts with a socket todays DIMMs (we got loads of 256MB DDR1 & DDR2 modules here are work which are no longer used and will be recycled), then we could boost A4000 memory to even more memory and easy to fix if a DIMM is dead, just replace it on the board.

[Jakodemus]

Too bad, that the BigRamPlus overlaps ISA-slot. Of course it doesn't matter for ordinary user, but with bridgeboard you really need those ISA-slots. Luckily I already have Zorram.

[nikos.rizos]

@Jens

In order to use a CF card with the ACA500 the sidecar port must be open?
I mean can a CF card be mounted ontop of the ACA500 or it needs to be with a loose IDE cable?

TIA

[Schoenfeld]

Originally Posted by nikos.rizos

@Jens

In order to use a CF card with the ACA500 the sidecar port must be open?
I mean can a CF card be mounted ontop of the ACA500 or it needs to be with a loose IDE cable?

The CF-Slot is on the accelerator, you do not need a cable or an external adapter. The outer appearance of the A500 will not be changed - it still looks the same way it did without an accelerator (wife-compatible ;-)).

Jens

[nikos.rizos]

Awesome!
Thanks for your fast reply Jens

ACA500 + ACA123X dream setup if you ask me.

One last thing.

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?

MfG
Nikos