WTB A500 Fast Ram Expansions

mfletcher · 02 July 2008, 18:55

Hi,

Im looking to buy any A500 fast ram expansions that you might have available... Im looking to expand my A500 > 1MB threshold.

If you have any, reply here or drop me a PM.

Thanks!

Mark

alexh · 02 July 2008, 20:04

Which revision A500 is it? NTSC?

If it is not an A500+ then one upgrade would be a CHIP RAM expansion.

A MegAchip / MiniMegi. As you are in the US there are lots more of these available for some strange reason (perhaps they sold more B2000's over there or something?)

Although they are still expensive

Judging by your other posts I think you are looking for an internal RAM expansion eh??

If not, do you have a anything connected to the side-car slot on the A500?

A GVP HD8+ SCSI hard drive with RAM would give a nice 8Mbytes of FastRAM and a SCSI hard drive too. An A590 would give 2Mbytes and a hard drive.

Photon · 05 July 2008, 13:08

AmigaKit has some 1MB expansions for A500 in stock, which would give a stock A500 1.5 MB ram. But those are slowmem expansions, some call it fastmem by mistake. If you want proper fast ram, expansion port boards or CPU boards are possible.

The trick might be to find someone with a working SCSI or IDE interface with populated memory slots to sell them

02 July 2008, 18:55	#1
mfletcher Bawbag. Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chicago, USA Posts: 375	WTB A500 Fast Ram Expansions Hi, Im looking to buy any A500 fast ram expansions that you might have available... Im looking to expand my A500 > 1MB threshold. If you have any, reply here or drop me a PM. Thanks! Mark

02 July 2008, 20:04	#2
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,337	Which revision A500 is it? NTSC? If it is not an A500+ then one upgrade would be a CHIP RAM expansion. A MegAchip / MiniMegi. As you are in the US there are lots more of these available for some strange reason (perhaps they sold more B2000's over there or something?) Although they are still expensive Judging by your other posts I think you are looking for an internal RAM expansion eh?? If not, do you have a anything connected to the side-car slot on the A500? A GVP HD8+ SCSI hard drive with RAM would give a nice 8Mbytes of FastRAM and a SCSI hard drive too. An A590 would give 2Mbytes and a hard drive. Last edited by alexh; 02 July 2008 at 20:12.

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Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	AmigaKit has some 1MB expansions for A500 in stock, which would give a stock A500 1.5 MB ram. But those are slowmem expansions, some call it fastmem by mistake. If you want proper fast ram, expansion port boards or CPU boards are possible. The trick might be to find someone with a working SCSI or IDE interface with populated memory slots to sell them

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