ICD Upgrade to A500?
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I have an A500 with 1 meg and an external disk drive.
For some time now I have been considering whether to upgrade or wait till I
can afford an A2000 (or better) with more ram, hard drive, accelerator and
maybe a bridgeboard.
As I read reviews and comments about the ICD products intended to upgrade
the A500 internally, they seem an attractive way to get the configuration I
want without obsoleting what I have (especially since I can't get nearly
what I paid for my A500 if I try to sell it).
I am looking at their Prima Speed (which, as I understand, includes an
accelerator with hard drive controller and hard drive placed internally in
the A500 plus their Shuffleboard to make the external drive df0:), their
Flicker Free Video 2 (to enhance video), their AdRAM 540 for more ram, and
their Kickback (to allow switching between 1.3 and 2.04). I will probably
install a Fatter Agnus (1 meg) also, and I plan to get a larger power
supply to power it all.
I am interested in hearing from anyone who has experience with or knowledge
of ICD's products to upgrade the A500. I am particularly interested in any
compatibility problems that exist between any of the products.
Is there an internal bridgeboard type hardware alternative available for
the A500, and if so will it work with these ICD products? With all the
other stuff inside the case will there be room for anything else?
via Whap! Al Benglen
74615,500
Al,
I would suggest that you forget about upgrading your A500 and go for an
A2000. I had an A500 for a long time, and expanded it eventually to 4.5M
of RAM and a 42M hard disk. I bought an A1500 a few weeks back (an A1500
is like an A2000 without a hard drive), with a 240M hard drive and an extra
2M RAM. I only wish I'd done this much sooner. Why? Because it seemed to
me that the A500 was approaching its limit. Sure, I could have bought me
an accelerator, larger hard disk and more memory, all in one neat unit.
But what if I wanted to expand more in the future? Plus, I didn't want to
end up with a hard disk with no computer for it to plug into the side of.
> With all the other stuff inside the case will there be room for anything
else?
My thought too. Plus, would all these bits hanging off the main board work
together reliably?
I was also anticipating that I would have a need for a second computer, and
this was a major factor in my case.
As for ICD's products, I haven't had any experience of them.
Regards,
Shraddhan – via Whap! from Hertfordshire in the UK