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Trekiej 
Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 15-Aug-2019 22:51:27
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If I add a Z2 Ram Expansion to my A2000, how will it recognize that the board is present?
This would be with a 68000 installed.
edit:
With 8 meg and under I understand.
How about 16 meg or greater?

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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I guess this could be a little bit of a stupid question?

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 16-Aug-2019 1:25:57
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@Trekiej

The 68000 only has a 16-Meg address space and of that, 8 Meg is reserved for ZII RAM, so anything greater than 8 Meg would not be available via ZII.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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@Steady

Thanks, I was wondering about that.
A 32 bit processor would be needed, I bet.
I guess I would have to look to see what the memory maps look like between machines.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 16-Aug-2019 4:55:01
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@Trekiej

Yep, a 32-bit processor and that expansion would have to have the RAM on-board because there is no ZIII in an A2000. ZII is still restricted to the 8MB window and will not auto-config it, however if the expansion with the 32-bit CPU has a ROM it might detect and map the RAM itself.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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@Steady

Hmm, one more interesting thing to learn about Z2/Z3.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 16-Aug-2019 13:29:32
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@Trekiej

UPS is bringing an A2000 to me today.
The battery leakage does not appear to be as bad as the first board I bought.
I am learning to repair traces on the old board.
I am not for sure how much items will need to removed before I get all the green removed.
Only 2 or 3 traces need to be fixed on the first board I bought.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 17-Aug-2019 0:10:32
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@Trekiej

The A2000 arrived today. It had a missing Kickstart.
At first I had a black mono screen when turned powered.
I removed the power supply sled and found out that the board had a missing KS.
I used my A500 1.3 Kickstart and it powered up without a problem.
It has a bad spot by the battery.
It is a rough looking machine, I believe she will be okay.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 17-Aug-2019 9:19:18
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@Trekiej

Hope the machine works well for you. Enjoy!

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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@Steady

Thanks, I found out that the front face plate has two busted mounting pegs(?)
I need to find out if it is possible to weld plastic.

I put Vinegar on the battery leak area.
The area looks to be fairly isolated.


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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 17-Aug-2019 17:16:19
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@Trekiej

Depends on plastic, some plastic reacts to nail polish remover.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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I guess this is ABS plastic.
Similar to a hot glue gun, I wish I could put a small circular piece of plastic between the Face and Stand-off and heat is some way.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 19-Aug-2019 14:21:31
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And some plastic reacts to turps. It starts to melt. Best to keep plastic away from the turps.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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I wonder how well a glue gun would work.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
Posted on 20-Aug-2019 17:09:46
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@Trekiej

Can you post a picture of the broken mounting pegs?

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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https://trekie.weebly.com/blog/archives/08-2019

I uploaded some pics.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/techman2007/48587985776/in/dateposted/

Last edited by Trekiej on 21-Aug-2019 at 04:11 AM.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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Try posting a link to the image on flickr instead of embedding the image inline.

Update:

The link works now, but it asks me to sign in, and I don't have an account...

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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@bison

Sorry, let me check to see if they are made Public.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Ram Expansion
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@bison

Please try again.

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