Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!spdcc!m2c!ulowell!dino!miner From: miner@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: upgrades and standards (or Live! for the A2000) Message-ID: <1778@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu> Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 14:51:47 EST Article-I.D.: dino.1778 Posted: Tue Oct 27 14:51:47 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 02:42:13 EST References: <5596@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <5634@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: miner@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Rich (My watch band broke and they discontinued the line) Miner) Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 30 In article <5634@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>(Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes: > [ His feeling on the A2000-A1000 form factor change ] > While DEC is in general giving their customers a much nastier time than >CBM, they *still* provided a facility so that old peripheral controllers >will work on the new hardware. We have recently acquired the bus-adaptor that Micro-Botics has come out with to allow the star-board II to be placed in the A2000. It works nice for their RAM and can be used for disk controllers and other peripherals. We actually just got Amiga Live! working in the A2000 with the adaptor. Since micro-botics only intended the device to be used for their RAM it does not bring up all of the 86 lines used by A1000, just the ones they needed. I am not sure if this was a poor design decision or a marketing decision. The result is that for a few lines you might need to add some jumpers. But you _can_ get many A1000 side-mounts to work this way. As I mentioned, we have Live! working fine in the A2000. It required us to add the CDAC, -5V, and +12V lines to the microbotics bus adaptor, but it works. Now we can finally process images with real video input, using our coprocessor!! >Sure, the internal bus is nice. But there's no way to put (expensive) >old cards into it. Wrong! I would suggest if all you have is one or two side mounts that you should seriously consider the upgrade, while it is still available. The bus adaptor costs around $30, it's a bargain! -- Rich miner@ulowell.edu 617/452-5000x2693 ULowell CPE Imaging Research Lab