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20 expansions found
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1986 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 10 |
- 64 DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
- supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
- accepts 256k×1 DIPs only
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back side
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1986 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 10 |
- RAM expansion card
- 64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
- 2 MB RAM preinstalled
- supports only 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations, it cannot be set to 6 MB
- accepts 1M×1 DIPs only, 120 ns or faster
- no waitstates
- jumper settings
| J1 ON ON OFF OFF |
J2 ON OFF ON OFF |
- 2 MB - 4 MB (U16-U32 and U55-U62) - diagnostic mode - 8 MB |
- notes
- some revision 3 boards have 8 MB pre-installed from factory with DIP chips soldered in (no sockets)
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back side
- A2058.dms
install disk
100 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 8,9 |
- Arcnet interface
- developed from the Ameristar Arcnet Controller
- Arcnet networking system - old, slow but cheap and reliable, useful for small LANs and simple network sharing
- Arcnet requires RG62 coaxial cable instead of the RG58 used on Ethernet systems
- uses 93 ohm terminators opposed to the 50 ohm used by Ethernet
- the Arcnet interface hybrid chip comes in two different versions, HCY 9058 for bus networks and HCY 9068 for star networks
- the manual says the card uses a bus network layout with up to 256 nodes but many A2060s has 9068 hybrids for a star network layout allowing only four cards to be connected together
- to solve this the HCY 9068 can be simply replaced with a HCY 9058 chip
- interrupt driven (polled I/O) - one interrupt on the Amiga yields into a busy system
- to reduce traffic the driver uses the Arcnet hardware's four buffer as a single FIFO buffer
- the badly written driver (a2060.device) has some bugs in the FIFO buffer which results in lost packets and packet collisions - increased traffic on the Arcnet bus
- manual says 2.5 Mbit/s (300 kB/s) transfer speed but only max 100 kB/s is achievable
- socket for optional network autoboot ROM
- bus activity LED connector
- supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
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back side
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 90,112 |
- Ethernet interface
- based on the Ameristar Ethernet Controller
- AMD Am7990 Ethernet controller
- 10 Mbit/s transfer speed
- 32 kB buffer shared between the Am7990 and the Amiga
- uses DMA transfers for the onboard buffer
- BNC and DB15 (AUI) connectors
- Thick Ethernet 10Base5
- segment length: 500 meters without repeaters
- network length: 2500 meters without repeaters
- 100 nodes per segment
- min. node spacing: 2.5 meters
- requires transceiver cable
- Thin Ethernet 10Base2
- segment length: 185 meters without repeaters
- network length: 925 meters without repeaters
- 30 nodes per segment
- min. node spacing: 0.5 meters
- no direct support for 10BaseT
- SANA II and MNI drivers
- supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 1515 / 3 |
- SCSI and ST-506 controller
- supports seven SCSI and two ST-506 devices at once
- the SCSI drives are controlled by the WD 33C93 IC
- the ST-506 drives are controlled by the Zilog Z80B CPU
- the 33C93 chip can be controlled by either the 68000 (default) or by the Z80
- DMA transfers are provided by the custom Commodore 8727 IC featuring a 64 byte FIFO buffer
- the Z80 CPU has 2 kB RAM to buffer commands from the Amiga, 8 kB PROM with driver routines and 1 kB RAM for storage of variables
- cannot autoboot
- does not support the SCSI Direct protocol
- does not support partitions and drives larger than 256 MB
- the ST-506 interface does not support 16-head drives
- 50 pin internal SCSI connector
- DB25 external connector
- hard disk activity LED connector
- on Zorro III machines the card only works if the driver and all the buffers are loaded into chip RAM
- A-Max II driver (hddisk.amhd)
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Company Commodore, USA | Date 1988 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 1515 / 3 |
- SCSI and ST-506 controller
- supports seven SCSI and two ST-506 devices at once
- the SCSI drives are controlled by the WD 33C93 IC
- the ST-506 drives are controlled by the Zilog Z80B CPU
- the 33C93 chip can be controlled by either the 68000 (default) or by the Z80
- DMA transfers are provided by the custom Commodore 8727 IC featuring a 64 byte FIFO buffer
- the Z80 CPU has 2 kB RAM to buffer commands from the Amiga, 8 kB PROM with driver routines and 1 kB RAM for storage of variables
- three autoboot ROMs
- custom bootblock design
- does not support the SCSI Direct protocol
- does not support partitions and drives larger than 256 MB
- the ST-506 interface does not support 16-head drives
- 50 pin internal SCSI connector
- DB25 external connector
- hard disk activity LED connector
- on Zorro III machines the card only works if the driver and all the buffers are loaded into chip RAM
- A-Max II driver (hddisk.amhd)
- hard disk kits
- the A2090A was sold in kit form which included the controller itself, a hard disk, cables, installation disk and manual
- A2092: A2090A bundled with a 20 MB Miniscribe 8425 hard disk
- A2094: A2090A bundled with a 45 MB Toshiba MK-134FA or a 46 MB Rodime RO-3055 hard disk
- all of these hard disks are ST-506 drives
front side
front side
back side
- 2090a.dms
Installer's Heaven
A2090A install disk
346 kB - A2090A-Miniscribe8425.dms
A2092 install disk, mountlist for Miniscribe HD
337 kB - A2090A-RodimeRO3055.dms
A2094 install disk, mountlist for Rodime HD
337 kB - A2090A-ToshibaMK134FA.dms
A2094 install disk, mountlist for Toshiba HD
338 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Amiga A2000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 4 |
- autobooter
- provides autoboot functionality for the Commodore A2090 SCSI controller
- two autoboot ROMs
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1991 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 2,3,10 |
- SCSI controller
- Western Digital 33C93
- uses the same DMAC custom chip for DMA transfers as the A3000
- knows the Rigid Disk Block and SCSI Direct protocols
- built in XT IDE (8 bit) hard disk controller - the connectors and LED are not installed but their place is visible on the card
- 50 pin internal SCSI header
- DB25 external connector
- a 3.5" hard disk can be mounted on the card
- 16 kB autoboot ROM (can be disabled) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
- revision 7.0 of the ROM is necessary for 68040 machines
- supports SCSI network sharing
- supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
- A-Max II driver (scsi.amhd)
- memory
- sixteen DIP sockets accept 0.5, 1 or 2 MB RAM
- supports 256k×4 (44256) chips, 120 ns or faster
- cannot use DMA to transfer data to 32 bit fast RAM
- if Zorro II DMA memory is not available the driver falls back to programmed I/O transfers
- performs extremely slow in the A4000 because of the above mentioned two problems
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back side
- A2091-130.dms
setup disk v1.30
381 kB - 2091install127.DMS
Installer's Heaven
install disk v1.27
378 kB - A2091Turbo.lha
A2091Turbo v1.3 - DMA fix for A4000
5 kB - a4091patch2.lha
Installer's Heaven
another DMA fix for A4000
7 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 69,70 |
- serial interface
- a complete computer on its own leaving the Amiga free for other tasks
- 65CE20 @ 3.58 MHz controls the I/O operations
- has 4 times the computing power of a C64
- 16 kB RAM
- the RAM is addressable by the MC680x0
- seven 8 pin mini-DIN serial ports
- not completely RS232C compatible, the RI signal (Ringing) is missing
- has jumpers for each port to exchange the RxD (Recieve Data) and TxD (Transmit Data) lines - nullmodem mode without using special cable
- seven adaptor cables with DB25 RS232C compatible serial ports supplied (80 cm long)
- 50-19200 bps transfer speed for each port
- the card is capable of 115200 bps mode but only with the supplied software
- up to five A2232 can be installed into one machine giving a total of 36 serial ports
- supported by NetBSD (normal and turbo modes) and OpenBSD
Rev 5, front side
Rev 5, back side
Rev 6, front side
Rev 6, back side
Rev 6 with RTS/CTS handshake mod, front side
Rev 6, front side
- A2232-3313.zip
driver update
serial.device v33.13 (01.08.1991)
9 kB - A2232-3311.dms
install disk
serial.device v33.11 (22.05.1990)
104 kB - a2232.dms
Installer's Heaven
install disk
103 kB - a2232tuning.lha
Installer's Heaven
driver update
23 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1991 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II, ISA | Autoconfig ID 513 / 103514 / 103 |
- IBM AT emulation
- 80386 SX @ 16 / 20 / 25 MHz (32 bit internally, 16 bit external bus)
- optional 80387 FPU
- sixteen ZIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
- 1 MB factory installed
- supports 256k×4 or 1M×4 page mode ZIPs, 80-120 ns or faster
- accepts ZIPs in groups of four
- 64 kB AT compatible BIOS
- upgrading the BIOS and fitting a ZIP to SIMM converter makes possible to use 16 MB RAM
- 128 kB dual-port RAM for data exchange between the BridgeBoard and the Amiga
- can use a PC hard disk (with additional ISA controller), virtual drives on Amiga partitions (hardfiles), you can even have an Amiga partition on the PC hard drive
- PC floppy drives can be used in an internal bay, Amiga floppy drives can be used as PC only or shared, external Amiga drives can be connected directly to DB23 floppy connector of the BridgeBoard
- only two floppy drives are accessible by the BridgeBoard
- the Amiga supports MDA (monochrome) and CGA modes through the native display (CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes) - you can toggle between Amiga and PC screens
- with an ISA VGA board a separate monitor is needed
- the card uses the Amiga's serial or parallel ports for printing
- for modems it can only use an internal ISA modem or serial card
- PC beeper on board
- much slower than a PC with the same processor
- card occupies 512kB in the Zorro II address space - when installed, only 7.5 MB of the address space is left for other expansion cards
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front side
back side
- CBM-AmigaJanus21-3683.dms
install disk v2.1
janus.library v36.83 (21.8.91)
280 kB - CBM-PCJanus.zip
PC Software
99 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1988 | Amiga A2000 | Interface CPU slot | Autoconfig ID 514 / 80 |
- processor
- 68020 @ 14 MHz, synchronous with the motherboard
- 68851 memory management unit
- factory installed 68881 @ 14 MHz, supports FPUs up to 68882 @ 25 MHz
- can be upgraded to 68030 with the Harms Professinal-Pack 030 board
- memory
- 2 or 4 MB 32 bit RAM
- 16 or 32 256k×4 page mode ZIPs 80-100 ns
- not expandable
- RAM can be disabled or autoconfigured by setting a jumper
- notes
- the first accelerator board for the A2000
- boot ROMs below rev 6 are incompatible with Kickstart 2.0 and above
- the ROM address space overlaps the upper 256 kB of the 512 kB Kickstart ROMs (Kickstart 1.3 is 256 kB only)
- by the time AmigaOS loads, the boot ROMs are supposed to be off but due to a bug in the A26x0 ROM code they remain active, causing an address space collision
- fitting a rev 6 or 7 ROM pair solves the problem
- some boards are reported being incompatible with the newer ROMs either
- in 68000 fallback mode the RAM is still available
front side
back side
- A2620_A2630_Addendum.pdf
Addendum to A2630 User's Guide and A2620 Installation Guide (english)
15 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A2000 | Interface CPU slot | Autoconfig ID 514 / 81 |
- processor
- 68030 @ 25 MHz, PGA
- 68882 @ 25 MHz, PGA
- can be upgraded to 50 MHz with CSA's Rocket Launcher
- memory
- 2 or 4 MB RAM on board
- capable of DMA, but does not support burst mode
- 16 or 32 256k×4 page mode ZIPs 80-100 ns
- expansion slot for third party RAM boards
- RAM can be disabled or autoconfigured by setting a jumper
- notes
- jumper selects whether autoboot into AmigaDOS or UNIX
- boot ROMs below rev 6 are incompatible with Kickstart 2.0 and above
- the ROM address space overlaps the upper 256 kB of the 512 kB Kickstart ROMs (Kickstart 1.3 is 256 kB only)
- by the time AmigaOS loads, the boot ROMs are supposed to be off but due to a bug in the A26x0 ROM code they remain active, causing an address space collision
- fitting a rev 6 or 7 ROM pair solves the problem
- in 68000 fallback mode the RAM is still available
- jumper settings
- rev 6
- rev 9
| J301 - | RAM size: ON - 2 MB, OFF - 4 MB |
| J302 - | B2000: ON - german A2000 |
| J303 - | RAM autoconfig: ON - disabled |
| J304 - | OS: ON - UNIX, OFF - AmigaOS |
| J202 - | FPU clock: ON - same as CPU clock |
| J200 - | reserved |
| J202 - | FPU clock: 1-2 - same as CPU clock, 2-3 - from oscillator U203 |
Rev 6, front side
Rev 6, back side
Rev 9, front side
Rev 9, back side
- A2620_A2630_Addendum.pdf
Addendum to A2630 User's Guide and A2620 Installation Guide (english)
15 kB - A2630.pdf
User's Guide (english)
2.1 MB - A2630_R2B2-Umbauanleitung.pdf
Umbau einer A2630 Turbokarte auf 28 bzw. 30 MHz (german)
41 kB
- A2630_ROM_v04.zip
ROM Images Rev. 04 (Kickstart ≤ 1.3)
18 kB - A2630_ROM_v07.zip
ROM Images Rev. 07
19 kB
Company Commodore / DKB, USA | Date 1993 | Amiga A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro III | Autoconfig ID 513 / 84514 / 84 |
- Fast SCSI 2 DMA controller
- NCR 53C710
- autoboot ROM
- 50 pin internal connector
- 50 pin HD Centronics external connector - expensive cables and terminators
- place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
- active SCSI bus termination
- no RAM option
- only works with Buster 11, either installed in A3000 or A4000
- does not work with A3640 equipped A3000s
- early, Commodore built boards booted only under Kickstart 3.x
- supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
- DIP switch settings
| switch 1-3 | - SCSI ID |
| switch 4 | - fast bus: ON - disabled |
| switch 5 | - delayed autoboot: ON - enabled |
| switch 6 | - synchronous mode: ON - disabled |
| switch 7 | - termination: ON - disabled |
| switch 8 | - LUN: ON - enabled |
Rev B, front side
Rev A, front side
Rev B, back side
- A4091-4014.dms
install disk
68040.library v37.30 (18.1.93),setpatch v40.14 (7.10.93)
203 kB - A4091-4002.dms
install disk
68040.library v37.30 (18.1.93),setpatch v40.2 (17.2.93)
185 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port | Autoconfig ID 514 / 32 |
- Arcnet interface
- connects to the side expansion port
- socket for optional network autoboot ROM
- 2.5 Mbit/s (300 kB/s) transfer speed
- supports up to 256 nodes
- 2 kB buffer
- connector for optional RAM expansion board with 0.5 or 1 MB RAM
- enhanced power supply for the A500 is included to replace the original one
PCB, front side
Case, front side
Case, front side
Case, bottom side
Case, top side
PCB, back side
top side
top side
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1992 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port | Autoconfig ID 514 / 3,10 |
- CD-ROM drive
- single speed - 153 kB/sec (Mode 1), 171 kB/sec (Mode 2)
- custom Matsushita interface, neither SCSI nor IDE
- uses DMA transfers
- 0.5 sec average access time
- caddy mechanism
- supported CD formats are Audio CD, CD+G, ISO-9660 CD-ROM, CD+MIDI
- stereo input (two RCA sockets) for Amiga Sound
- stereo output (two RCA sockets) for mixed sound output (Amiga + CD audio)
- stereo headphone jack with volume knob
- drive activity LED
- CDTV compatibility - special ROM which is merged into the A500 ROM
- 40 pin expansion header for optional memory expansions
- AmiTrix CD-RAM/570
- HK-Computer Vector 2MB A570i
- Nicolas Welte 2MB for A570
- rear expansion slot for optional plug-in cartridges
- connects to the side expansion port, no passthrough connector
- external power supply
- compatibility switch
- compatibility problems with many A500 expansions - does not let boot other devices on the expansion bus
front side
back side
A690 (A570 prototype), front side
A690 (A570 prototype), back side
- a570util.dms
Installer's Heaven
utilities disk
23 kB
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port | Autoconfig ID 514 / 2,3,10 |
- DMA SCSI and XT IDE controller
- Western Digital 33C93
- both SCSI and XT IDE mode can work simultaneously
- autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
- autoboot disable switch
- time-out switch for drives which spin up slower than 30 seconds
- RDB compatible
- 50 pin internal SCSI header
- internal 40 pin XT IDE header (8 bit only)
- DB25 external SCSI connector
- supported by Linux
- A-Max II driver (scsi.amhd)
- memory
- sixteen DIP sockets accept 0.5, 1 or 2 MB RAM
- needs 256k×4 DIPs, 120 ns or faster
- notes
- place for a 3.5" hard disk inside the case
- hard disk activity LED - it can be toggled by jumper to show SCSI or XT-IDE activity
- connects to the side expansion port, no passthrough connector
- external power supply - turns on automatically when the A500 is powered up
- DIP switch settings
| switch 1 - | autoboot ROM: ON - enable |
| switch 2 - | LUN: ON - enable |
| switch 3 - | time-out: ON - enable long wait period for drive |
| switch 4 - | reserved |
PCB, front side
Case, front side
Case, left side
Case, rear side
Case, rear side
Case opened, top side
PCB, back side
- A590Setup.dms
Installer's Heaven
install disk
342 kB - A590_RAM-Test-10.dms
RAM test disk
265 kB
Advert Part 1 (AU)
1991-07
Advert Part 2 (AU)
1991-07
Company Commodore, USA | Amiga CDTV | Autoconfig ID 514 / 106 |
- No description available.
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Company Zeus Electronic Development, Germany | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2189 / 1514 / 112 |
- Ethernet interface
- AMD Am7990 or Am79C90 Ethernet controller chip
- 32 kB buffer
- 10Base2 (BNC) and 10Base5 (AUI) connectors
- socket for optional boot EPROM
- A2065 emulation mode - selectable by jumper
- uses the drivers of the A2065
- even the autoconfig IDs are set to the A2065's
- the 79C90 IC may cause compatibilty problems, it is advisable replace it with a 7990, which is also on the A2065
- the native mode uses a slightly different memory layout which allows an additional ROM on the board (though there is no empty socket for it)
- SANA II compatible
- slightly faster than the Commodore A2065
- the BNC port is sometimes unreliable, the card works best with the AUI port
front side
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back side
- ConneXion.pdf
user manual (german)
48 kB
Company Hardital, Italy | Date 1989 | Amiga A2000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 10 |
- FastRAM expansion
- 2 MB (16 DIP chips) soldered on board
- 48 DIP sockets accept up to 6 MB RAM
- supported configurations are 2, 4 and 8 MB
- accepts 1M×1 (511000) DIPs only
- 7 segment display shows RAM size in MB
- can only be used in Amigas with Kickstart 1.3 and below due to bug in Zorro handling - the expansion is shown as "defective" on Kickstart 2.0 and above and not usable
- due to the large size of the board, it physically fits only in A2000 and Towers
- Switch Settings
| Description | Setting |
| 0 MB | OFF OFF ON OFF |
| 2 MB | ON ON ON OFF |
| 4 MB | ON OFF OFF ON |
| 8 MB | ON OFF OFF OFF |
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 97514 / 3 |
- production line test card for all of the A3000's I/O functions
- tests the correct functioning of SCSI, floppy, serial, parallel, mouse, game and audio ports
- includes the complete circuitry and custom chips of these ports from the A3000 motherboard: DMAC and WD33C93, two CIAs, Paula
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