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From: cpb@doc.ic.ac.uk (C P Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Various '030 questions
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Date: 17 Jan 91 12:26:36 GMT
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I have a CSA Mega Midget Racer on order for my A500. I wonder if anyone can
answer these questions for me:

The 4Mb of 32-bit RAM is Addmemmed (or equivalent). Is there a way of booting
up into Wb as normal so that the memory is added to the system map, and then
saying something like "reboot from floppy, but remembering your added memory"?
I want to do this so that games like Indy 500 will operate from fast 32-bit
RAM, rather than the 16-bit stuff which will be the case if I just boot
normally. I saw an '020 board which had a resident program to automatically
do the addmem on reboot, but it had the side effect of trashing the A590 rigid
disk block (ie unusable).

The system I ordered is 25MHz, to what extent can I crank this up by
overclocking? The design is async so no problem there. Maybe 28MHz? 30?
Someone I know has clocked an '040 at 42MHz, no timing problems...

Has this board been released in the US? Over here they are dirt cheap for
what you get (25MHz 68030, 68882 + 2Mb RAM is about $1000).

Thanks in advance.

Phil

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