Imagenes del segundo prototipo (aparentemete el final) de la aceleradora para Amiga 500 y 1000 ACA500 desarrollada por Jens de Individual Computers.






Las principales caracteristicas de la aceleradora son:
Procesador 68ec00o a 14mhz, 1.5mb de ram y 512kb de map rom, dos slots para tarjetas CF y posibilidad de conectar cd rom slim, clockport, y slot de expansion compatible con el de la A1200.

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OK guys, now I am allowed to bring out the "big news" about the flash contents of the ACA500: It's Kickstart ROM images!

The ACA500 will be delivered with two Kickstart licenses: V1.3 and V3.1. This will let (almost) all A500's out there run the most important software: Some games/demos require Kick1.3 to work, and for WB-based programs, Kick3.1 is the first choice.

The word "almost" has to be explained: the flash chip on the ACA500 is only 512k, and that' not enough to hold both Kickstart images. Only Kick3.1 is in there as crunched image, and Kick1.3 is stored as a "diff" from 1.2 to 1.3. This gives you the following choices:

With physical 1.2 ROM: V1.2/V1.3/V3.1 With physical 1.3 ROM: V1.3/V3.1 With physical 2.0 ROM: V2.0/V3.1 With physical 3.1 ROM: no choice, just Kick 3.1.

This doesn't mean a disadvantage, because you can still load a Kickstart image from CF, so the small size of the flash chip on the ACA500 and the physically installed ROM chip don't actually make a difference.

In addition to that, the FAT95 filesystem will be in the ACA500's flash, so you can use a PC-formatted CF card "out of the box". If that wasn't in the flash, the user would have the task to transfer data (the filesystem) into the A500 before he can use the transfer-method "CF-card". This is a classic chicken-and-egg problem, and the pre-installed filesystem and automatic mounter can break the circle of "you need to transfer data in order to install the transfer method". It will just work without an error-prone installation procedure.

Also check the news on the Hyperion site and my website (does anyone want to make this a separate news item in this forum?)

Jens

Esta muy bueno!. Hace que una A500/A1000 den un salto gigante!. Vamos a ver que pasa.

yo me mande unos mails con jens, tenia todo listo, le faltaba solucionar un tema de licencias sobre los kickstarts, aparentemente va a tener los ks 1.2, 1.3 y 3.1, hace unos dias firmo un acuerdo con hyperion y eso se soluciono (en el sitio de individual computers y el de hyperion se puede ver esa novedad) asi que me parece que la aparicion de la aca500 es inminente. tambien vi fotos de otro prototipo que aparentemente va a ser el de produccion que en vez de parado es acostado, como para meter en cualquier gabinete de los que van en el costado onda rochard 800

Se oye bien todo y seguro que si finalmente aparece disponible en el mercado, va a tener mucho éxito, porque como bien se sabe la A500 es la maquina mas popular y muchos Amigueros, que son fieles a ese modelo en específico y es una oportunidad perfecta para actualizar la maquina.

Excelente noticia!