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From: RN6%WINDSOR1.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca (Blair Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Power PC Board
Message-ID: <24570@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:08:07 GMT
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Hmmm...don't know what happened to this post after I mailed it the first
time, so here goes again:


Hi all, a question about the new Power PC Board that was advertised in
the August, 1990 version of AmigaWorld. This is a product put out by
a company called Pulsar (Dr. Oxide by some other name, I think) and it
enables A500 users to replace their A501 memory expansion and add a XT
8 MHZ board in their machine. It is not a bridgeboard though, as it
completely takes over the Amiga: so you either have your A500 OR the Power
PC Board.

It uses a NEC V30 Phoenix Bios and has support for the internal and external
3.5" and 5.25" drives and well as making use of the serial, parallel,
joystick and mouse ports. They say it comes with "512K RAM expansion and
512K RAM Disk"... this is the confusing part. Does anyone know exactly
what this "512K RAM Disk is? Is it memory that adds to your FAST
memory or is it used only as a RAM disk?

I also assume the HD support is not ready yet, but have been told be some
hardware types that this is only a software problem (are they right?) But
the really big question is: since I have an old machine that has since added
the Fatter Agnus chip, and uses the A501 expansion RAM as the 2nd half of
the 1 MEG CHIP memory, will the insertion of this Power PC Board STILL make
use of this or will I then have 512K CHIP? If anyone has used this, could
they let me know what they think of it; any thoughts would be
appreciated.


    // R. Blair Middleton. University of Windsor
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