hollnbgh@coral.bucknell.edu (11/27/90)
David Tiberio writes: >Yes, you can get 2.3 megs of chip ram, at a lower price too! Call MAST >at (702) 359 0444. I think it costs 239$, or at the most $330 with more ram. >Check the early summer of 1990 Amiga World. MAST however does not advertise >in every issue. You are talking about the MaxiMegs 2 and 2.3 meg RAM boards available from MAST. These two boards are for the A500 only (fit in A501 slot). They do not use the 2-meg Agnus (you need 1.3 ROMs and 1-meg Agnus). I don't know the particulars, but they apparently use some software trickery to operate (I called and they are done with the hardware, but not the software). It does cost $329 for 2.3-meg version. Since these boards were designed before the A3000 was released, they probably did not know about the 2-meg Agnus. They do not have any board for the A2000 that gives more Chip RAM. Their 2 meg board makes an A500 have 2.5 megs of Chip RAM (does 2.3-meg board give 2.8 megs of Chip???), which is probably a lot trickier to accomplish because I think there is only 2-megs of address memory space reserved for Chip RAM in the memory map (right?). -- Dale P.S. M.A.S.T.'s said that their Infinity Machine accellerator card will be ready in February 1991. Yeah, right.