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[News] A500 Power Board available againANN.lu
Posted on 05-Mar-2000 09:48 GMT by Christian Kemp10 comments
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Ron van Herk of Computer City writes: Please find enclosed a press release concerning the renewed availability of the Amiga 500 Power Board memory expansion / PC emulator. Read more below. Those who own and use an Amiga 500 can come across the problem of not being able to replace a defective memory expansion for their computer. Well, not anymore. The A500 Power Board is available again.

. The expansion board offers the following features:

  • 512 K memory expansion to be configured as fast memory or chip memory (depending on Agnus version)
  • 512 K ramdrive
  • PC emulation through hardware (16-bit NEC CPU)
  • Real-time-clock
The price for the A500 Power Board is EURO 34,99 including posting & packaging within Europe mainland. Orders from outside Europe mainland add EURO 10,00.

The A500 Power Board is available from all local Amiga dealers and distributed through GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH.

For more information:
Computer City
Zebrastraat 7-9
3064 LR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Europe
Phone: +31-10-4517722
Fax: +31-10-4517748
www.compcity.nl/a500power

Trade enquiries please contact:
GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Straáe 9
79761 Waldshut-Tiengen
Germany
Telephone: +49 7741 83040
Facsimile: +49 69 25577025
Email: amiga@grentrade.com
Homepage: www.grentrade.com
Around the World:
UK - Tel/Fax +44 (0) 207 6813472
SWITZERLAND - Tel/Fax +41 1 274 2949
US - Tel/FAX +1 212 504 2719

A500 Power Board available again : Comment 3 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Dave Rosseter on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Not Exactly the newest device. Looks like the board design copywright date is 1996, according to the picture on the website.
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 4 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Sledge on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
This device was sold around 1990. It wasn't even useful back then. I
don't understand that anyone would like to have this board now either.
Seems more like some sort of nastalgic trip or just a plain joke to
me.
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 1 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Iank on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Wow, what a monumentally useless device. Might have been cool ten years ago though.
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 2 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Now if there was a G4 on it instead of a NEC V30... :-)
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 6 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Frank on 05-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Heh yeah, someone probably found some old stock and is trying to push it...
Otherwise, someone is seriously derranged.
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 5 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 05-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Sledge):
Sledge is right, this product first became available in 1990 and was known as the "KCS
Power PC Board". It was distributed in North America by a company called "Pulsar".
Believe it or not, the orginal suggested retail price in Canada, was $799.99!!! It
came bundled with an official version of MS-Dos v.4 complete with a thick MS-Dos
manual. I bought it used, dirt cheap a few years ago thinking I might revive one of my
Amiga 500's some day...just for kicks...I haven't so far. :P
I saw an A500 fitted with one of these boards being auctioned off at eBay about a month
ago and could not believe people were offering over $100 - $150 for it. Perhaps people
were getting confused with the "Power PC" label? :)
BTW, the IBM emulation is only for XT DOS...but the feature I like is that in addition
to 512k of expansion ram, it also adds a 512k "hard" ramdisk...sort of like a tiny
hard disk for A500 owners who lack one.
Anyways, my guess is someone found a crate of these boards under a pile of dust in an
old warehouse somewhere, and Computer City is checking out what A500 owners are left
out there that might be interested. I happen to own 3 or 4 A500's in addition to my
1200's and 3000 Tower...but I haven't fired up an A500 in years.
Regards,
Vince.
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 10 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Roj on 06-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Plain English):
.(don't want this, my Amiga's featureless browser is better for some silly reason (sarcasm))
This is where I get a little miffed at the Pee Cee heads on here. The Amiga browsers, well, AWeb anyway, have more underlying features than either of the Pee Cee browsers. It's the *plug-ins* that make the difference, and that has more to do with lack of overall Amiga support from proprietary companies than a mark against the browsers.
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 7 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by XDelusion on 06-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
SO how fast is the PeeSea Emulation, and can I run a GUI on it, say NewDeal Office or Win 3.11? I think this would be kind of kool, but how much would that be in $$?
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 8 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Plain English on 06-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
A question of emulation?
Why?
You could probably get a cheap PC for about £400 / $600 with a HI RES MONITOR (oooh!) and 16bit sound (aaah!) cheap modem with a PROPER WWW browser (don't want this, my Amiga's featureless browser is better for some silly reason (sarcasm)).
Upgrading an Amiga 500. Mmmmh. I think I did that when I got my first amiga (1989).
A500 Power Board available again : Comment 9 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Smithy Wiffy on 06-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (XDelusion):
It's a V30 NEC, ie: 286 equivilent. It's 16 years out of date, would run Windoze 3, slooooowly. You'd get a better speed out of PC-Task 4 on an 060... :)
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