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05 December 2018, 16:47
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Upgrade Advice Needed
Hi guys, I just bought myself a 500 same as I had when I was a kid and want to make it a bit more user friendly. I am looking to make it boot from flash where I can also have all my games stored. Also, possible increase the memory. I don’t want to change the look or hack it up at all so after something internal that will sort this. Network access would be a bonus. I have seen loads of cards about but not sure what best. Any advice would be appreciated.
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05 December 2018, 17:05
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Bit Copying Bard
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Kelty, Fife, Scotland
Age: 41
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Welcome Mark,
You've got a few options, but personally I'd recommend three things: 1 - ROM (and therefore OS) upgrade, if you want to run games from a Compact Flash card you'll have a better time using a more recent version of the OS (the new 3.1.4 release is lovely to use). 2 - Something like the HC533 accelerator, giving you 8mb fast ram and an IDE port (I have one and I use a Compact Flash adaptor to boot from) 3 - A Plipbox for network - sits on the parallel port, can easily be encased in something that looks 'right' for the machine I'm sure other people will offer other suggestions too 
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05 December 2018, 17:09
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Thats perfect thanks
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