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19 expansions found
Company Commodore, USA | Date 1986 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- IBM XT emulation
- 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
- optional 8087 FPU
- sixteen DIP sockets for up to 512 kB RAM - 256 kB is preinstalled in eight of the sockets
- supports 256k×1 150 ns or faster DIPs, in 128, 256, 512 kB configurations
- RAM can be expanded up to 640 kB using a RAM expansion card in an XT slot
- 128 kB dual port RAM visible by both the Amiga and PC (8 kB for mono display, 32 kB for colour display, 16 kB used for maintenance of records, 64 kB for data exchange, 8 kB used for I/O registers)
- connects to the side expansion port
- covers the mouse and game ports, they are passed through to the front of the Sidecar
- requires the A1000 to be expanded to 512 kB (ie. by the A1050 expansion cartridge)
- turning on power to the Sidecar unless the Amiga is powered up can seriously damage the Amiga - use the attached power-cord extender so the A1000 is powered through the Sidecar, though this means the A1060 has to be turned on all the time even if it is unused
- two display modes
- monochrome: instead of green text on black screen, the Sidecar can display four colours in PC monochrome mode - the colour of text, intensified text and the background are independent of each other and freely adjustable
- colour: text can be rendered in up to 16 colours, and graphics can be up to 4 colours
- neither modes support blinking of text
- can use the Amiga parallel port - it has to be dedicated to either the Amiga or the PC side exclusively
- printing works only for applications using interrupt handshaking - those writen with busy-wait loops will not work (eg. Print Screen)
- three XT ISA slots
- optional 1 MB memory expansion for the Amiga side
- 360 kB 5.25" floppy drive built in - up to four floppy drives are supported
front side
Case opened, top side
Interface board, front side
Main board, front side
- CBM-AmigaJanus21-3683.dms
install disk v2.1
janus.library v36.83 (21.8.91)
280 kB - CBM-PCInstall-334.dms
install disk v1.02
janus.library v33.4 (11.09.1989)
328 kB - CBM-PCInstall-331.dms
install disk
janus.library v33.1b5 (25.10.1988)
324 kB - CBM-PCInstall-322.dms
install disk
janus.library v32.2 (25.04.1986)
182 kB - CBM-PCJanus.zip
PC Software
99 kB
Company Atéo Concepts, France | Date 1997 | Amiga A1200 | Interface trapdoor slot | Autoconfig ID 2026 / 252,2534143 / 252,253 |
- ISA busboard
- four ISA slots with 9 MB/s transfer speed
- does not support DMA on its ISA bus
- the adaptor board plugs into the trapdoor CPU connector - accelerators / RAM expansions are still usable
- the busboard is connected by two ribbon cables and could be placed anywhere inside a tower case
- special cards are available for the bus: graphics (Pixel 64), Ethernet (AtéoNet), SCSI, I/O (AtéoSer, AtéoPar)
- any non-DMA ISA cards could be used if drivers were written for
Bus board, front side
Adapter board, front side
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 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 Eagle Computer Products, Germany | Date 1995 | Amiga A4000 |
- Zorro III busboard
- 8× Zorro II/III slots
- 2× extended video slots
- 5× ISA slots
- notes
- the video and ISA slots are all inline with a Zorro slot
- replaces the original A4000 daughterboard
- the board is part of the Eagle A4001 tower system, it cannot be fitted into the original A4000 case
- 6× 5.25" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- optional 230W power supply
- the original A4000 power supply can also be installed additionally
Company Expansion Systems, USA | Date 1995 | Amiga A4000 |
- A4000 expansion chassis
- allows using all four Zorro III slots of the A4000 while having a video card installed
- designed especially for Video Toaster Flyer users
- doubles the height of the A4000 case
- Xtender card
- 1× extended video slot
- 3× ISA slots
- connects between the A4000 motherboard and the A4000 daughterboard
- additions to A4000
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- optional drive rack for 3× 3.5" internal drives
- optional cable kit for Newtek Flyer - no need for octopus cable
- optional fan kit for increased cooling
- optional 250W power supply
- 3× hard disk activity LEDs
- 3× cutouts for 50 pin Centronics SCSI connectors
- 2× cutouts for DB9 connectors
Xtender card, front side
Xtender card, back side
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1997 | Amiga A1200 | Interface trapdoor slot |
- Micronik Z-1 (6860 rev4.0)
- 5× Zorro II slots
- 4× ISA slots
- Micronik Z-2 (6860 rev4.2)
- 5× Zorro II slots
- 1× extended video slot
- 4× ISA slots
- Micronik Z-2 (6860 rev5.0)
- 5× Zorro II slots
- 1× extended video slot
- 3× ISA slots
- a 72 pin SIMM socket for up to 8 MB RAM
- notes
- the ISA and video slots are inline with Zorro slots
- the video slot can be activated with the optional Video Slot Adapter
- connects to the trapdoor slot - the connector is passed through for accelerator cards
- the boards are part of the Micronik Infinitiv tower system
- 2× 5.25" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- uprated power supply
front side
back side
A1200 Adapter, front side
A1200 Adapter, back side
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1998 | Amiga A1200 | Interface trapdoor slot |
- Micronik Z-1i (6860 rev5.4)
- 5× Zorro II slots
- 1× extended video slot
- 2× PCI slots
- 2× ISA slots
- Micronik Z-2i (6860 rev5.4)
- all features of Micronik Z-1i
- two 72 pin SIMM sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
- notes
- the ISA and video slots are inline with Zorro slots
- the PCI slots cannot be accessed by the Amiga in any way
- the video slot can be activated with the optional Video Slot Adapter
- connects to the trapdoor slot - the connector is passed through for accelerator cards
- the boards are part of the Micronik Infinitiv tower system
- 2× 5.25" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- uprated power supply
front side
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1998 | Amiga A1200 | Interface trapdoor slot | Autoconfig ID 3855 / 1 |
- Micronik Z-3i (6860 rev6.2 - 6.3)
- 5× Zorro II/III slots
- 1× extended video slot
- 2× PCI slots
- 1× ISA slot
- 1× A4000 CPU slot - an A4000 processor board is required for Zorro III operation
- a 72 pin SIMM socket for up to 8 MB RAM
- SCSI controller (123.device) with 50 pin internal SCSI header
- Micronik Z-3i Mk2 (6860 rev6.6 - 6.8)
- 5× Zorro II/III slots (the middle slot is Zorro II only)
- 1× extended video slot
- 3× PCI slots
- 2× ISA slot
- 1× A4000 CPU slot - an A4000 processor board is required for Zorro III operation
- SCSI controller - Qlogic FAS216 controller IC, 50 pin internal SCSI header
- notes
- the ISA and video slots are inline with Zorro slots
- the PCI slots cannot be accessed by the Amiga in any way
- the video slot can be activated with the optional Video Slot Adapter
- the Zorro III slots are slower than the A3000 or A4000 slots
- connects to the trapdoor slot - the connector is passed through for accelerator cards
- the board is part of the Micronik Infinitiv tower system
- 2× 5.25" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- uprated power supply
front side
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1995 | Amiga A3000 |
- Zorro III busboard
- 7× Zorro III slots
- 1× video slot
- 6× ISA slots
- the video and ISA slots are all inline with a Zorro slot
- replaces the original A3000 desktop daughterboard
- the board is part of the Micronik A3000 Classic tower system, it cannot be fitted into the original A3000 desktop case
- 6× 5.25" external drive bays
- 3× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- optional 250W power supply
front side
back side
Company MicroniK, Germany | Date 1995 | Amiga A4000 |
- ISA version - Micronik 6960
- 7× Zorro III slots
- 2× extended video slots
- 5× ISA slots
- PCI version - Micronik 6980
- 7× Zorro III slots
- 1× extended video slot
- 3× PCI slots (cannot be accessed by the Amiga in any way)
- 3× ISA slots
- notes
- the video and ISA slots are all inline with a Zorro slot
- replaces the original A4000 daughterboard
- the board is part of the Micronik A4000 Classic tower system, it cannot be fitted into the original A4000 case
- 6× 5.25" external drive bays
- 3× 3.5" external drive bays
- 2× 3.5" internal drive bays
- optional 250W power supply
front side
back side
- Micronik_A4000.pdf
Assembly Instructions (english/german)
130 kB
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 RBM Digitaltechnik, Germany | Date 1996 | Amiga A1200 | Interface trapdoor slot |
- Zorro busboard interface
- acts as an adaptor between the A1200 motherboard and RBM Zorro busboards
- ONBoard 4000:
- connects to the ONBoard 1200 with two ribbon cables
- 7× Zorro II slots
- 5× ISA slots
- 2× extended video slots
- the video slots can be optionally activated by the VidiON module
- Eyetech single Zorro slot:
- connects directly onto the ONBoard 1200
- 1× Zorro II slot
- battery backed up clock
- connects to the trapdoor slot - the connector is passed through for accelerator cards
- the board is part of the RBM Towerhawk 1200 tower system
with Eyetech single Zorro adapter, front side
with Eyetech single Zorro adapter, front side
with Eyetech single Zorro adapter, front side
front side
back side
Eyetech single Zorro adapter, back side
- VidiON.pdf
user manual (german)
580 kB
Company RBM Digitaltechnik, Germany | Date 1996 | Amiga A4000 |
- Zorro III busboard
- 7× Zorro III slots
- 2× extended video slots
- 5× ISA slots
- the video and ISA slots are all inline with a Zorro slot
- only the first four Zorro slots are DMA capable
- designed only as a double sided PCB, not as a multi layer one (with dedicated ground and power layers) as requested in the Zorro III specifications
- replaces the original A4000 daughterboard
- the board is part of the Towerhawk 4000 tower system
front side
Company Eagle Computer Products, Germany | Date 1997 | Amiga A4000 |
- Zorro III and PCI busboard
- 7× Zorro II/III slots - only 4 is DMA capable
- 2× extended video slots
- 3× PCI slots (cannot be accessed by the Amiga in any way)
- 2× ISA slots
- 1× PCI/ISA single board computer (SBC) slot
- PC cards
- the SBC slot can take any industrial all-in-one PC card, for example:
- Siliconrax SBC cards
- Pentitrator (offered by the US distributor, AntiGravity)
- Speedfire (offered by Eagle)
- activates the PCI and ISA slots
- an SBC card is not a BridgeBoard, it cannot use Amiga resources, it requires its own memory, graphics card, drives, etc.
- Eagle and AntiGravity offered HiQ's Siamese system to integrate the Amiga and PC parts
- notes
- the video and ISA slots are all inline with a Zorro slot
- replaces the original A4000 daughterboard
- the board requires the Eagle 4000 tower system, it cannot be fitted into the original A4000 case
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front side
back side
back side
Company Eagle Computer Products, Germany | Date 1992 | Amiga A500 |
- No description available.
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1991-12
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1993-05
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
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1987-03
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1987-09
Company Digital Creations, USA | Date 1994 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface video slot |
- expansion chassis
- 4× extended video slots
- if multiple "video slot master" cards are installed (such as the Video Toaster or a genlock), only one of them can be active at a time
- a front panel selector lets choose which card is actually in control of the Amiga video slot
- passive devices (such as the DCTV or a flicker-fixer) can remain active all the time
- all four cards can be disabled giving the ability as though nothing is in the video slot of the Amiga - useful with higher frequency scanrates of the AGA chipset
- A2000 style slot covers
- compatible with SuperGen 2000s, Magni genlock, Kitchen Sync, Video Toaster, Opal Vision, A2300, A2320, AGA-2000
- 3× ISA slots
- 2× 3.5" drive bays
- 2× 5.25" drive bays
- 230W switching power supply
- Video Slot Box Interface card
- plugs into the video slot of the Amiga to act as the interface between the Amiga and the VSB
- one VSB Interface card is included with each Video Slot Box system
- by purchasing additional VSB Interface cards the Video Slot Box can be easily moved from Amiga to Amiga
- Video Slot Converter card
- converts a Video Slot Box video slot into a 23 pin RGB and a 25 pin parallel port
- allows the use of external devices such as the DCTV, SuperGen, SuperGen SX, G-Lock
Exterior, front side
Motherboard, front side
Motherboard, back side
Interface card, front side
Interface card, back side
Converter card, front side
Converter card, back side
Advert (US)
1993-11
Advert (US)
1994-07