rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) (03/28/88)
I have an A1000 with a fully populated 2 Meg StarBoard II. In the event that I decide to buy an A2000, or A2500AT, or A2500UX, or whatever, how will the SBII work in it? I know that Microbotics has an adaptor to put the uncased SBII in an internal Amiga slot. Now, the A2000 comes with (I think), the .5Meg of CHIP RAM and .5Meg of fast RAM. With the SBII plugged in, does that mean I'd then have 2.5 fast and .5 CHIP for a total of 3Meg? Also, will the SBII auto-configure in that case? Also, with the A2500's which will (I have heard) have the Fat Agnes chip which can address more chip RAM. Will the SBII also work with that? And can the amout of memory that the "fat" custom chips access be set by the user, or is it hardwired into the chip. Finally, will programs that work under 1.2 on the A1000 work on the A2500 even with UNIX? Thanks for any answers. ******************************************************************************* * Richard L. Carreiro "Havlicek stole the ball!!!!" * * rlcarr@athena.mit.edu -- Johnny Most 4/15/65 * *******************************************************************************
ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Ralph L. Vinciguerra) (03/29/88)
I put a Starbaord II into my A2000 with their adapter. I now have .5 meg chip, 2.5meg Fast and no apparent problems. Autoconfigures just right. But I wish I has a memory test program !!! The one that came with the starboard II insists on running under AmigaDOS 1.1 !! I can't even remember where I stashed those disks. Any ideas ? (like a general purpose, runs from the workbench, under 1.2 mem test)