treeman wrote:I was thinking a serious memory upgrade like the 8mb you said and rom selector would be a really cool mod, its just a wish list for now. Back when I was a kid the 512kb upgrade to make the ram 1mb was the dream so I already achieved that 😀
Sweet... Yeah... 1mb is a minimum upgrade. If you are only planning to play games, then that is actually enough.
Though if you plan on a different kickswitch than 1.3 then it is in my book only good, if you plan on getting a harddrive too.
Using gotek and original chipset only, then 1.3 is enough, and those 8mb FastRam are a waste.
Meaning, that you will not really be able to use them, because most games just need that 512k Chip plus 512k Slow.
Like Lotus-II, or Alien Breed. They run at normal speed on 1mb were the 512k is only SlowRam.
Though...
If you want to go all in, and have that expanded 500, with 100% compatibility and butt-loads of features for text editing.
Then I think you need some more. And IDE and 8mb FastRam are indeed a welcomming upgrade.
And because it is an Revision5 board, you need to have that "Ooops-Bug" corrected first.
For that you need this device here. It is ratherr cheap and I plan on buying one my self.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-500-Rev-5-Kick … bpapf:rk:1:pf:1
Next you need some FastRam upgrade, in order to get more room for programs. Like writing ADF files from disks,
or writing disks from ADF files. That can be done, using ADF-Blitzer, and writing back to disks can be done with ADF2Disk.
So an 8mb for sandwiching between CPU and motherboard are a way to go.
There are many solutions, and the following are one of many.
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?32896-A6 … xpansion-boards
Then you need an IDE adaptor thing. Again there are many, and some autoboot and some does not.
It is a question of how expensive you want it, and the non-sutobooting ones just need a kickrom with IDE drivers.
That would be kickstart 2.x version 37.350 and up. And if you do not want the HDD to run when using 1.3
then this is the best choice. Else you need to remove the HDD it self when booting 1.3.
This is the aproach I personally like, having 1.3 for disk games, and then flipping to 3.1 if I need to work on HDD.
The following are one example of an IDE adaptor for the Amiga500
https://archiwum.allegro.pl/oferta/kontroler- … 7171384736.html
You can just go all in, in one giant go (excluding the Oops-bug pcb), and buy eighter a Wicher-500i, ACA-500 or HC533.
Yes... You still need that Oops-bug upgrade for the Rev.5 board, if you want to use other and newer kickstart roms.
As and example, then my Rev.5 will not boot a 2.x version 37.300 chip. Anyway... Here are links to the 3 accelerators.
You can get the one I have (TF-530) yet that is 156 Euro including shipping to an EU country. And it is the best for
WHD-Loader. The advantage of the 68000 versus 68030, is that the 68000 gives 100% compatibility.
And if the 68000 is clocked at 33 or something MHZ, then you still get lots of speed. It is just a priority what you choose.
https://amigastore.eu/597-wicher-500i-accelerator.html
https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/ACA500plus.html
https://sordan.ie/product/583/turbo-card-hc53 … -ide-amiga-500/
By the way... The HC533 should have SCSI device build in, so you can actually boot HDD off an Kickrom 1.3 which
is kind of neat if you want to run HDD on Kick 1.3. Yet it is not really my cup of tea. I much prefer 1.3 to be HDD-Free.
And there are a number of other accelerator's out there. Those however are mostly external.
Uhhh.... And there is an DIY harddrive controller as well...
http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/hw/amiga/a500hdd/
Hope you can use all these informations in some way or another....
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