a600 with aca620

[Amiga1992]

The only advantage of an A1200 with 8MB of RAM wuould be the ability to run AGA games. Other than that, the A600 with that config will be as good as the A1200. With 8MB Fast the A1200 will also NOT run with preload the bigger games, but most games will be OK, just like the A600 with ACA620!

[demolition]

Originally Posted by gntavelis

a500+ with aca500 (with or without softkicking 3.1 rom) : waste of time , hate to say because i really like a500.

ACA500 can work with a 2MB trapdoor upgrade which gives +½MB chip and +1½MB slow in addition to 2MB fast from the ACA. In total it would give it 1MB chip and 3½MB other mem, which would be ok for most WHDLoad games, up to 2-3 disks.
Alternatively, a 500+ with Kipper2k's 8MB+CF upgrade and +1MB chip (total 2+8MB) runs most things fine as well if you stick an 010 CPU in there (this is exactly how my 500+ is configured). Many slaves have been updated to now also run fine on 7MHz CPUs.

Edit: An A600 with an ACA620 is also much faster than a plain 1200 with an 8MB trapdoor upgrade (no CPU) due to the faster fast mem and slightly higher clocked CPU. Also, softkicking on the ACA620 doesn't cost any fast mem since the KS is located in the hidden memory area.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by demolition

Edit: An A600 with an ACA620 is also much faster than a plain 1200 with an 8MB trapdoor upgrade (no CPU) due to the faster fast mem and slightly higher clocked CPU. Also, softkicking on the ACA620 doesn't cost any fast mem since the KS is located in the hidden memory area.

True all that. It kicks the shit out of my A1200 with an 030 in boot times and all.
What a fantastic machine the 600 becomes with it, and for cheap!

[gntavelis]

After some time of waiting today finally i've got my ACA620.

I am pretty sure that my a600 have kickstart rom 37.299. Is there a way to create a boot workbench disk with the drivers that needed for the amiga to "see" my cf card?
I have already order a 3.1 rom but i cant wait until this will come... :/

[fitzsteve]

Perhaps you can run ACATune/Maprom from your Floppy Disk?

So put ACAtune on a bootable Floppy Disk and a Rom Image for KS3.1 for A500/A2000/A600 then create a simple startup sequence to call for:

acatune -maprom <location of rom image> -maxmem >NIL:

Hopefully then you can start to load Workbench from the CF

[gntavelis]

* super duper silly question is ON *

how i can create a bootable disk? i just make a disk copy of the first workbench disk and then i change a little bit the startup-sequence?
Cant figure out how i can put a 512K rom file with acatune and the boot files on a 880K disk.... :/
<location of rom image> can be somewhere on my cf card?

[fitzsteve]

I haven't actually tried the above yet (just thinking of a solution out loud lol)

I will try and help you further with this later when I am back at home.

If you load the IDE driver from the floppy Disk then you can put the Rom image on your CF card and use ACATune/Maprom function as normal.

I was thinking just to put the Rom Image on the FDD but actually this method could be very slow and prone to errors reading the 512k file off floppy each time.

There have been a few boot Disks made up for this and similar such as comfy which is a boot Disk to get PCMCIA support, maybe one of these could be modified to suit you needs (do a search for comfy on these boards)

Edit:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...ighlight=comfy

[demolition]

Originally Posted by gntavelis

how i can create a bootable disk? i just make a disk copy of the first workbench disk and then i change a little bit the startup-sequence?
Cant figure out how i can put a 512K rom file with acatune and the boot files on a 880K disk.... :/
<location of rom image> can be somewhere on my cf card?

Actually no boot files are needed, only a boot sector. You can make an empty disk bootable by typing 'install df0:' in a cli.

The disk only has to contain the following 3 files:
acatune
kick40063.rom
s/startup-sequence

where s/startup-sequence contains this line:
acatune -maprom kick40063.rom

This should easily fit on a single floppy. It is also possible to mount the CF card and load the ROM from there, however it is much more complicated, so I'd just for this solution since it is not a long-time solution you need.

Edit: Now noticed that this is basically a copy of Steve's previous post, so that must mean it is a good solution.

[gntavelis]

Guys thank you so much I will try it today!!
The rom file will be located to the chip or fast ram? Yeah i know i always *ask* but i havent received my a604n yet :/ I checked yesterday the packet is in Greece but i have to wait for a week or so to be delivered to me:/

[demolition]

The ROM file will be located in neither fast nor chip mem, but in the hidden memory of the ACA620. Since it has 16MB RAM on board and only exposing ~11MB to the system, it has spare memory which it uses for things like maprom. So the system won't be able to see that it is not a physical ROM.

[fitzsteve]

1mb of the Fast Ram on the ACA620 is reseserved for the Rom, so that's where it goes. And yep you read right you can use 1mb Roms, great for building your own custom Rom with updates, I run (or ran since I don't have my ACA's anymore) Custom OS3.9 Rom with the Boing Bag updates inside for a nice rebootless setup!

[gntavelis]

i am very happy

i will have my chip ram so i will play sotb3 tonight yessssssss