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14 expansions found
Company Spirit Technology, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A500, A1000 | Interface side expansion port | Autoconfig ID 2034 / 5 |
- 6× empty ISA slots
- 1× empty Zorro II slot for the OctaByte 8 MB memory card
- contains an AX-S 2000 bridgeboard (AX-S Interpreter)
- allows using of inexpensive 8 and 16 bit ISA cards with the Amiga
- supplied with basic drivers for hard drive controller and A/D converter cards
- the user has to write his own drivers for his other ISA cards with the help of the included AX-S Resource Library and sample driver source code
- 3× 5.25" drive bays
- 200W power supply
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1990-03
Company California Access, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- expansion chassis
- a large metal box with plastic faceplate, sitting behind and overhanging the A500 - overall it's a bit larger than an A2000
- only the A500's keyboard and floppy are exposed
- connects to the side expansion port - no passthrough connector
- four Zorro II slots
- three ISA slots inline with the top three Zorro slots
- cards are mounted horizontally
- the Zorro expansion bus is buffered, closely emulating the A2000 bus design
- two 5.25" front drive bays
- one 3.5" internal drive bay
- optional mounting kit for installing a California Access CA-880 external floppy drive internally - the drive is connected to the A500's DB23 external floppy connector
- 200 watt internal power supply with monitor power connector
- power and hard disk activity LEDs
- does not give full A2000 capabilities to the A500 - it lacks CPU and video slots
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1990-12
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1990-12
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1991-01
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1991-03
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1991-07
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1993 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro II busboard
- expands the A500 with three Zorro II slots
- the Zorro cards are mounted vertically
- passthrough connector - its usability is limited because of the missing Buster Chip
- optional external power supply - the power source can be selected by jumpers
- disable switch
- power LED
front side
back side
Company Bill's Boards, USA | Date 1988 | Amiga A1000, A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- expansion chassis
- a set of three boards:
- driver board - connects to the side expansion port and drives a high quality / low loss cable which feeds the motherboard
- motherboard - holds the expansion slots
- bus termination board
- six Zorro II slots
- six or seven ISA (four or five AT, two XT) slots which are inline with three Zorro slots
- the arrangement of the slots is similar to the A2000 motherboard
- the Zorro slots do not fully support the three additional interrupt lines of the Zorro II specification (compared to Zorro I)
- the motherboard is sized and drilled to fit in a baby IBM AT case (which is not supplied)
- a power supply is required but not supplied
Company Pacific Peripherals, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- No description available.
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1987-04
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1987-07
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1987-11
Company Phoenix Electronics, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A1000, A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro II expansion chassis
- two Zorro II slots
- connects to the side expansion port, has passthrough connector
- unbuffered design, supports only one DMA device
- lack of buffering means that configuring information must pass from one card to the next:
- a jumper allows use of the second slot if the first is unoccupied
- another jumper lets using peripherals connected to the passthrough connector in case both slots are empty
- optional internal power supply with power connector for a hard disk drive
- does not supply -12V to the Zorro slots
- no power switch
- variations
- Expansion Technologies has sold it under the name ToolBox, but only Phoenix has manufacured it
- the only difference is the logo on the chassis
no PSU 1 Amp PSU 3 Amp PSU A1000 EEC-2100
PEC-2100EEC-2110
PEC-2110EEC-2120
PEC-2120A500 EEC-2500
PEC-2500EEC-2510
PEC-2510EEC-2520
PEC-2520 - PEC: Phoenix Expansion Chassis
- EEC: Expansion Technologies ToolBox
- compatibility
- boards reported to be working:
- Commodore A2052
- Commodore A2058
- Commodore A2088XT
- Commodore A2090
- Commodore A2090A
- IVS TrumpCard
- MicroBotics 8-Up
- Phoenix PEC-2000 / Expansion Technologies Flash!Card
- Xetec FastCard
- boards reported to be not working:
- ASDG Dual Serial Board
- C-Ltd Kronos
- Checkpoint Serial Solution
- GVP Impact SCSI
- Microbotics HardFrame
- Supra 2400zi
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1989-03
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1997 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro II busboard
- 3× Zorro II slots
- 2× ISA slots
- 1× video slot
- 1× CPU slot for A2000 processor boards
- 1× A500 side expansion port
- the ISA slots are inline with a Zorro slot
- the video slot is slightly offline with its neighbour Zorro slot and the distance between them is larger than in an A3000 - cards using both a Zorro and video slot are ruled out
- connects to the side expansion port connector
- four ROM sockets for installing Kickstart 1.3, 2.0 and 3.x consequently
- the board is part of the Micronik A500 Classic tower system
- 2× 5.25" external drive bays
- 3× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- 200W power supply
front side
back side
Company Pre'spect, Canada | Date 1991 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro II adapter
- transforms the A500 or A1000 side expansion connector into a Zorro II slot
- a small circuitry ensures correct timings
- the Zorro card is mounted vertically and "naked" (no case)
- attention has to be paid for the orientation of the Zorro card - wrong installation damages the card and/or the Amiga
- available with or without passthrough connector
- the usability of the passthrough is limited because of the missing Buster Chip on the A500 and A1000
- up to two NakeD-Ups can be used together
- special pin-out versions may be required for certain Zorro cards
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bottom side
Company Palomar Peripherals, USA | Date 1988 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- No description available.
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1988-01
Company Intelligent Data Systems, Germany | Date 1992 | Amiga A500, A1000A2000, A3000, A4000 | - - | Interface side expansion portZorro II |
- multifunctional Zorro slot expansion
- Zorro slot converter, EPROM burner and Kickstart switcher combined into one expansion
- ProKick XL features 4 Zorro II slots (ProKick only one)
- plugs into side expansion connector
- passthrough connector
- EPROM burner
- meant for burning Kickstart EPROMs from 256 KB (Kickstart v1.x) to 512 KB (Kickstart v2.x/v3.x)
- supports 27C2001 (2 MBit) and 27C4001 (4 MBit) EPROMs
- already prepared for 8 MBit EPROMs - using them require a change of GAL and FPGA (IC1 and IC2)
- Kickstart files may not be split
- only burning possible, no erasing
- Notes
- the ProKick / ProKick XL can also be installed in an A2000, with limited use though
- Zorro cards are mounted vertically
- the Kickstart installed on the ProKick is mapped to the memory range $F80000-$FFFFFF, thus the original Kickstart ROM, or the Kickstart WOM and Bootloader ROM in case of A1000, is not accessible
- 512 kB or 1 MB of EPROM space can be installed in total
- expansion doesn't work with only one EPROM equipped, so always both sockets have to be occupied
- part of the EPROM can be used for own software, e.g. Autoboot driver, if the Kickstart doesn't occupy all of the EPROM space
- optional angled adapter:
- available as an accessory for the ProKick (not suitable for the ProKick XL)
- plugs into the Zorro slot
- allows horizontal Zorro card mounting
- offers an additional Zorro II slots (two in total)
- a design tower case was available that allowed mounting the ProKick XL and an A500 motherboard in it
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Company Pre'spect / BSC / Micro R&D, Canada | Date 1990 | Amiga A500, A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro II adapter
- transforms the A500 or A1000 side expansion connector into a Zorro II slot
- expansion itself and the mounted Zorro card is "naked" (no case)
- attention has to be paid for the orientation of the Zorro card - wrong installation damages the card and/or the Amiga
- Standard Version:
- no passthrough connector
- Zorro card is mounted horizontically
- Pro Version:
- passthrough connector
- Zorro card is mounted vertically
- the usability of the passthrough is limited because of the missing Buster Chip on the A500 and A1000
Slingshot, front side
Slingshot, back side
Slingshot Pro, top side
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1993-04
Company Pacific Peripherals, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A1000, A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro II expansion chassis
- 2× (SubSystem 500) or 3× (SubSystem 1000) Zorro II slots with DMA support
- 1× 3.5" drive bay for an optional 2nd floppy drive
- external power supply
- connects to the side expansion port
- fits under the Amiga
- optional RAM card - The Advantage
- 64 DIP sockets accept up to 2 MB RAM
- supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
- uses 256k×1 DIPs
- zero wait states
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1987-11
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1988-01
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1988-10
Company Expansion Technologies, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A1000, A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- ToolBox is a name variation of the Phoenix Expansion Chassis
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1989-01
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1989-03
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1989-08
Company Computer System Associates, USA | Date 1986 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- expansion chassis
- 1× CPU slot
- meant for the optional Turbo Amiga CPU processor card
- 7× Zorro II slots
- some Zorro cards are not compatible with these slots
- only five of them is autoconfig - the other two is for the 32 bit static RAM cards which connect to the Turbo Amiga CPU card through four 40 pin ribbon cables
- 4× ISA slots
- 2× 5.25" drive bays
- 200 watt internal power supply
- connects to the side expansion port - no passthrough connector
- optional SCSI controller card
- NEC 5385E SCSI controller
- Motorola MC68450 DMA controller
Advert (US)
1987-03
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1987-09