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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 Ram questions
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 13:42:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 13:42:06 1987
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[My mailer never heard of uiuc.edu, so here goes ... ]

In article <7200012@uiucdcsm> schwager@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>-Are there any expansion rams available for the A500 besides the A501?

Well, MicroBotics makes a pin for pin replacement. Like the 256K 'nosepiece'
on the A1000 it does the same thing as it's CBM counterpart but costs a bit
less. They also have prototypes of (but I haven't seen any commercial ones)
of a StarBoard that plugs in to the left hand side (PortBoard???) Supra is
advertising a hard disk interface, although I don't know if you can add RAM
to it or not. (You can on the Amiga 1000 one)

>-Correct me if I'm wrong: graphics images can *only* be stored in chip
>ram, so if you've got an image stored in another place in expansion ram,
>it has to be moved to chip ram in order for it to be displayed.

This is correct, images can only be *displayed* from CHIP ram, they can be
*stored* anywhere. 


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