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A1050 A1060 A1300 A2000 1MB RAM A2031 & A2032 A2052 A2058 A2060 A2065 A2088T A2088XT A2090 A2090A A2090B A2091 A2232 A2286AT A2300 & A2301 A2320 A2386SX A2410 A2620 A2630 A3630 (A3400) A3640 A4091 A501 A501+ A520 A560 A570 A590 A601 Amiga 1000 Amiga 1200 Amiga 2000 Amiga 2500 Amiga 3000 Amiga 3000T Amiga 4000 Amiga 4000T Amiga 500 & 500+ Amiga 600 Buster Tower CD1300 & CD1301 CD32 CDTV CDTV Flash Memory CDTV II CDTV SCSI Full Motion Video Moniterm adapter RGB to VGA adapter Wraptest / A1000 Diagnostic Board Wraptest / A3000 Test Fixture
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1985Amiga
A1000Interface
trapdoor slot
256 kB Chip RAM expansion
eight 64k×4 DIPs
connects to the front panel expansion slot
without shield, front side
without shield, back side
with shield, front side
with shield, back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A1000Interface
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
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1987Amiga
A1000Interface
RGB port
genlock and sound mixer
connects to the 23 pin RGB connector and slips under the A1000
allows overlaying Amiga graphics onto an incoming video signal
composite input and output (two RCA connectors)
two stereo audio inputs and one stereo output
audio mixer for the two inputs
horizontal position and hue adjustments
DB23 RGB passthrough connector
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000Interface
CPU slot
the built-in Fast RAM card of the A2000-A (which has only 512 kB Chip RAM on its motherboard)
512 kB RAM soldered on board (16 DIPs), 150 ns
16 additional DIP sockets accept another 512 kB RAM for 1 MB total
accepts 256k×1 DIPs only
maprom function
possible configurations:
512 kB system RAM
Kickstart RAM
1 MB system RAM
Kickstart RAM + 512 kB system RAM
connects to the CPU slot
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000Interface
video slot
video modulator
allows TV sets to display Amiga graphics
colour composite output (RCA)
monochrome composite output (RCA)
a DIN connector provides RF modulated video and stereo audio output
the A2031 is PAL, the A2032 is NTSC version
front side
back side
slot cover, front side
front side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 10
64 DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
accepts 256k×1 DIPs only
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig 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)
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig 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
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig 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
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISA
IBM XT emulation
NEC V20 @ 4.77 / 7.15 / 9.54 MHz (PLCC)
the different clock speeds are switchable by software (Ctrl-S, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-D)
640 kB RAM
16 kB XT compatible BIOS
no floppy drive supplied - it uses the built in 3.5" Amiga disk drive
the drive can either shared between the Amiga and PC, either assigned exclusively to one of them
can use any other Amiga floppy drives too: internal or external, DD or HD, 3.5" or 5.25"
parallel interface and mouse are emulated by the Amiga
piezo beeper
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
513 / 1
IBM XT emulation
8088 @ 4.77 MHz
optional 8087 FPU
512 kB RAM
16 kB XT compatible BIOS
360 kB 5.25" floppy drive supplied
720 kB 3.5" - uses external Amiga floppy drives on the external connector
CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
can use Amiga parallel ports
could be upgraded to 386 with the Roßmöller 386si
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 1 515 / 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)
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 1 515 / 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
Company
Commodore, USA Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 4
autobooter
provides autoboot functionality for the Commodore A2090 SCSI controller
two autoboot ROMs
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig 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
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig 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
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
513 / 2
IBM AT emulation
80286 @ 8 MHz
optional 80287 FPU
1 MB RAM
16 kB AT compatible BIOS
battery connector to store BIOS setup
1.2 MB 5.25" floppy drive supplied
1.44 MB 3.5" supported
CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
can use Amiga parallel ports
Main board, front side
Main board, back side
Daughterboard, front side
Daughterboard, back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000Interface
video slot
internal genlock
A2300: NTSC genlock
A2301: PAL genlock
allows overlaying Amiga graphics onto an incoming video signal
composite input and output (two RCA connectors)
23 pin RGB connector for attaching an Amiga monitor
a small switch on the bracket allows to toggle between incoming video, overlayed video and Amiga graphics
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
video slot
deinterlacer
a video deinterlacer board based on the Amber chip from the A3000 motherboard
doubles all 15.75 kHz screen modes to 31.5 kHz
HD15 VGA connector
enable / disable switch
full overscan support
dual port static RAM bank - new video and cleaned video are read in and outputted simultaneously
although originally designed for the A2000 it works in the A4000
some modifications are needed to fit the board securely into the A4000 video slot
the board gets confused by some of the doubled AGA modes, and rather passing them through it tries to double them to 55 kHz or above - on these modes the board has to be disabled with the switch
it samples 12 bits for each colour, on the A4000 the upper 12 bits of the 24 bit AGA information, so AGA screen modes with more than 32 colours or HAM6 will have the colours quantized to a certain degree
compatible with some genlocks
front side
back side
A2320.pdf
Installation and User's Manual (english) 637 kB
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
513 / 103 514 / 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
front side
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1030 / 0 1004 / 245
RTG graphics card
Texas Instruments TMS34010 @ 50 MHz
2 MB RAM, sixteen 1M×1, 100 ns ZIP VRAMs
1 MB video frame buffer, 0.75 MB program overlay, 0.25 MB overlay bitplanes
screen modes
256+3 colours from a 24 bit palette
screen modes - only two is available one time by installing the appropriate oscillators
14.318 MHz - 512×512 interlace, quad buffering
14.318 MHz - 640×400 interlace
36 MHz - 800×600 non-interlace (default)
44.9 MHz - 1024×768 interlace
48 MHz - 1024×768 interlace
67.88 MHz - 1024×768 non-interlace (default)
80 MHz - 1024×1024 interlace
default is 800×600 and 1024×768 non-interlaced
software switching between the two clock sources
notes
RS343 compatible video sync on green and / or separate TTL sync
programmable synchronization timing
HD15 connector
no video passthrough
originally built for A3000UX machines
intended to use its not very well developed TIGA system
CyberGaphX 2, 4.2 and EGS drivers
supported by NetBSD (except for X server) and OpenBSD
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000Interface
CPU slotAutoconfig 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
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000Interface
CPU slotAutoconfig ID
514 / 81
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
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
rev 6
J202 - FPU clock: ON - same as CPU clock
J200 - reserved
rev 9
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
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1993Amiga
A4000Interface
CPU slot
processor
68030 @ 25 MHz, QFP
option for 68020 (meant for an even cheaper version of A4000)
optional 68881 / 68882 FPU, PLCC or PGA
notes
no memory option - but it has faster motherboard RAM access than that of the A3640
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1992Amiga
A3000, A4000Interface
CPU slot
processor
68LC040 / 68040 @ 25 MHz
can be upgraded to 50 MHz with the Doubler 4000
general notes
no memory option - slow motherboard RAM access
memory can be added with the X-Calibur memory expansion board
does not support the 040's burst RAM access (7/7/7/7 clock cycles - 14.3 MB/s memory bandwidth)
on many A3640's the electrolyt capacitors are mounted in the wrong direction, reducing lifetime - even the PCB print is wrong
A3640's made by Amiga Technologies have the capacitors in the right direction, but the PCB print is still wrong
A3000 notes
only v3.1 or v3.2 versions of the board work in A3000
v3.1 works but has problems with certain Zorro cards which use DMA
v3.2 works correctly
with Kickstart 2.04 the card does not work with the combination of Ramsey-04 and static column fast RAM
at least bank 0 should be page mode RAM
the combination of Ramsey-07 and DMAC-04 works perfectly
with Kickstart 3.1 there's no such problem
Rev 3.1, front side
Rev 3.2, front side
Rev 3.2, back side
Rev 3.1, back side
blank PCB, front side
blank PCB, back side
Company
Commodore / DKB, USA Date
1993Amiga
A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
513 / 84 514 / 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
1991Amiga
A500+Interface
trapdoor slot
1 MB Chip RAM
eight 256k×4, 70 ns DIPs, soldered on board
optional battery backed up clock
metal shield
connects to the trapdoor slot
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988Amiga
A500, A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
RGB port
video modulator
allows TV sets to display Amiga graphics
provides a standard UHF RF output as well as a standard composite video output
three RCA connectors:
RF output
colour composite output
mono audio input - connected to the stereo Amiga output with an Y-cable
channel selector switch
atrocious video quality
PAL and NTSC versions
PCB, back side
PCB, front side
PCB, front side
PCB, front side
PCB, back side
Exterior, top side
A520.pdf
User's Manual (english/german/french/...) 147 kB
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1992Amiga
A500Interface
side expansion portAutoconfig 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
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
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1989Amiga
A500Interface
side expansion portAutoconfig 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
Advert Part 1 (AU) 1991-07 Advert Part 2 (AU) 1991-07
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1992Amiga
A600Interface
trapdoor slot
512 kB or 1 MB Chip RAM
one or two 256k×16, 80 ns SOJs, soldered on board
battery backed up clock
metal shield
connects to the trapdoor slot
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988
short description
A2620 or A2630 processor card
1 MB Chip RAM
original chip set (OCS)
A2090 SCSI controller card
five Zorro II slots
one video slot
three drive bays
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990
short description
68030 and 68882 @ 16 or 25 MHz
1 or 2 MB Chip RAM
up to 16 MB Fast RAM
enhanced chip set (ECS)
built-in SCSI controller
four Zorro III slots
one video slot
three drive bays
Rev 6.3 motherboard, rev 6.1 daughter board, front side
Rev 6.3 motherboard, rev 6.1 daughter board, back side
Rev 9.3 motherboard, rev 7.1 daughter board, front side
Rev 9.3 motherboard, rev 7.1 daughter board, back side
Rev 6.3 motherboard, rev 6.1 daughter board, front side
Rev 6.3 motherboard, rev 6.1 daughter board, back side
Rev 9.3 motherboard, rev 7.1 daughter board, front side
Rev 9.3 motherboard, rev 7.1 daughter board, back side
Advert (US) 1991-06 Advert (AU) 1991-00 Advert (AU) 1993-01
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988 & 1991
short description
68000 @ 7.14 MHz
A500:
512 kB Chip RAM, expandable to 1 MB
original chip set (OCS)
A500+:
1 MB Chip RAM, expandable to 2 MB
enhanced chip set (ECS)
Rev 3 motherboard, front side
Rev 3 motherboard, back side
Rev 5 motherboard, front side
Rev 6A motherboard, front side
Rev 6A motherboard, front side
Rev 6A motherboard, back side
Rev 8A motherboard (A500+), front side
Rev 8A motherboard, front side
Rev 8A motherboard (A500+), back side
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Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000
fixes a buffering bug in the first production run of the Buster chips
Buster is based on the PAL equations of the original German A2000 bus controller logic
the German PALs contained a bug which did not let the buffers between the 68000 bus and the Zorro bus point away from Zorro when a Zorro bus master talked to a Zorro bus target
in Germany it was fixed by a replacement PAL, but with the Buster it had to be corrected with the tower
front side
Company
Commodore, USA Amiga
CDTV
internal genlock
CD1300: NTSC genlock
CD1301: PAL genlock
allows overlaying CDTV graphics onto an incoming video signal
CDTV-only, genlocked, and external-only video modes
controlled by the CDTV remote controller
replaces the CDTV's video card
composite input and output (two RCA connectors)
S-VHS output
CD1301, front side
CD1301, rear side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
CDTV
flash ROM
used in the development of the CDTV custom ROMs
connects into the two CDTV EPROM sockets
front side
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Amiga
CDTVAutoconfig ID
514 / 106
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Company
Commodore, USA Date
1994Amiga
CD32Interface
trapdoor slot
MPEG video decoder
allows the playing of CD-i Digital Video or Video CDs (MPEG 1)
C-Cube video decoder and LSI-Logic audio decoder chip
the MPEG animation can be genlocked with the Amiga graphics
plugs into the rear expansion port
limits the maximum possible amount of Fast RAM to 4 MB
can be used with the Paravision SX-1 but not with the DCE SX32 / SX32 Pro
Board, front side
Board, back side
Case, front side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
video slot
a display adapter for connecting Moniterm Viking high-persistance monitors to the Amiga
designed by Commodore but sold by Moniterm Corporation
performs the same function as the video buffer module in the Commodore A2024 monitor
in fact, the 15" cathode ray tube of the A2024 is manufactured by Moniterm and uses the same technology as the 19" Viking monitors
a Viking monitor with the Moniterm adapter card is functionally identical to the A2024
the Viking monitors are driven by the A2024 screenmode of Workbench
the Moniterm adapter builds a high resolution screen from a series of Amiga display frames
10 Hz mode (10 Hz NTSC, 8.33 Hz PAL data refresh) - the screen is composed of 6 pieces
15 Hz mode (15 Hz NTSC, 12.5 Hz PAL data refresh) - the screen is composed of 4 pieces
NTSC, 60 Hz display refresh - 1008×800 with Agnus, 1024×800 with Fat Agnus
PAL, 50 Hz display refresh - 1008×1024 with Agnus, 1024×1024 with Fat Agnus
256 kB framebuffer
uses the digital video signals of the video slot
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back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1992Amiga
any AmigaInterface
RGB port
converts the Amiga DB23 RGB port to HD15 VGA
connects directly into the RGB port
bundled with A4000s
PCB, front side
Exterior, front side
PCB, back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A1000Interface
side expansion port
Amiga 1000 diagnostic tool - wrap around test
tests the correct functioning of serial, parallel, internal and external floppy, mouse, game and keyboard ports
the main PCB is connected with cables to the appropriate ports of the A1000
diagnostic software (Lomax) is in ROM, attached to the side expansion slot
video test patterns results are shown on the RGB monitor
diagnostic results are shown on the 8 bit LED row of the main PCB
Main board, front side
Main board, back side
ROM cartridge, front side
ROM cartridge, back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 97 514 / 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
front side
back side