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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TrumpCard 500 on a 1000?
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Date: 5 Dec 90 18:37:56 GMT
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In <1990Dec5.002202.16419@stretch.cs.mun.ca>, roger@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Roger White) writes:
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>I have a chance to purchase a cheap Amiga 1000 with 512k RAM. If I buy
>an Amiga 500 512k expansion card, would this work to give me an extra 512k
>(1 meg total) as well as the clock? or will I have to buy A1000 specific mem
>expansion? If this works, what other 500 (or 2000) hardware will work with
>a 1000?

Tha A500's expansion memory card is completely difefrent, in that it plugs into
a slot in the bottom of the A500, and has a pinout that is applicable to that
slot only.

Basically, anything that will plug into the side expansion slot will work in
both machines. Your best bet, if purchasing the 1000, will be either the A590
(if you want a hard drive and expansion memory), or an A1000 specific expansion
memory board. I don't know if there are any A500 expansion memory boards that
plug into the side expansion slot.

>Also, what is this I hear about a graphics mode not available with the
>1000? Is this fact or blatant rumour? Will it make a difference with
>most software? with any software? 

Well... depends on what you mean by 'not available'. While it is true that you
cannot just buy an CS chip set and plug it in (the pinouts of the older chips
and the ner ones is different), you can have the newer chipset if you want to
spend the 500 bucks or so to add something like 'The Rejuvenator'. It is a
daughterboard that accepts the newer chipset and allows memory expansion.

>Finally, will all software created for a 500 work on the 1000?

Can't guarantee it all, since not all programs are written properly, but for
the most part, yes, they will run on both.

-larry

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