Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “Phoenix Microtechnologies”
5 expansions in database
Manufacturer Phoenix Microtechnologies, Australia | Date 1990 | Amiga A500, A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- FastRAM expansion
- supports 0.5, 1, 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations
- memory autoconfiguration
- autoconfiguration disable switch
- connects to the side expansion port
- versions for A500 and A1000 differ in case and passthrough option, passthrough connector is only featured in the A1000 version
- battery backed realtime clock
Manufacturer Phoenix Microtechnologies, Australia | Date 1990 | Amiga A500 | Interface trapdoor slot |
- memory expansion
- 512kB RAM
- four 1M×1 DIPs
- connects to the trapdoor slot
- battery backed up clock
- disable switch
Manufacturer Phoenix Microtechnologies, Australia | Date 1991 | Amiga any Amiga | Interface parallel port |
- 8 bit mono sound sampler
- maximum sampling rate: > 20 kHz
- monaural input: 1× RCA (line input) and 1× microphone input (jack)
- jumper to select either RCA or microphone jack as input
- level adjustment knob (gain control)
- provided with schematic in the manual and hints how to change certain properties (gain, roll-off, sampling rate) by changing components on the PCB
- connects to the parallel port
- AP420.dms
tool disk
120 kB
Manufacturer Phoenix Microtechnologies, Australia | Date 1991 | Amiga A1000 |
- 8 MB RAM for the Phoenix A1000 motherboard
- 16 ZIP sockets
- takes 1M×4 ZIPs
- connects into the 96 pin DIN connector
front side
back side
Manufacturer Phoenix Microtechnologies, Australia | Date 1990 | Amiga A1000 | Autoconfig ID 2101 / 34 |
- replacement A1000 motherboard
- replaces the original A1000 motherboard
- includes all ports of the original A1000 motherboard
- adds a Zorro II and a video slot
- Paula, Denise, the CIAs and the 68000 have to be transfered from the old motherboard
- Agnus is not transfered, it is replaced by Fat Agnus
- ECS compatible
- Kickstart 1.3 preinstalled
- can hold four Kickstarts, two of which can be selected with the Kickstart Swap Switch
- two sockets for standard Commodore Kickstart ROMs
- four sockets for a set of up to 4×8 megabit EPROMs
- one socket for a 16 bit wide EPROM (8 megabit)
- internal RS232 serial header (same as on the A2000 motherboard)
- monochrome video output (RCA) instead of the A1000's composite colour output
- PGA FPU socket and oscillator socket
- disk drive swap switch - allows booting from a floppy disk drive other than DF0:
- software switching of the 7.5 kHz audio filter - disabling the filter dramatically improves sound quality
- battery backed up clock
- all chips are socketed
- memory on motherboard
- 16 DIP sockets accept up to 2 MB RAM
- accepts 256k×4 DIPs in groups of four
- possible configurations:
- 512 kB Chip RAM
- 512 kB Chip + 512 kB Fast RAM
- 1 MB Chip RAM
- 1 MB Chip + 1 MB Fast RAM
- 2 MB Chip RAM (requires Super Agnus to be installed)
- optional memory daughterboard (
- 16 ZIP sockets for 8 MB RAM
- takes 1M×4 ZIPs
- connects into the 96 pin DIN connector
)
- SCSI controller
- autoboot ROM
- 5380 controller IC
- 50 pin internal SCSI header
- optional DB25 external connector kit
- optional internal hard disk mounting kit
- SCSI-Direct support
- does not support the RDB standard
- on revision I motherboards a hardware interrupt logic is implemented
- allows the SCSI subsystem to work with disconnect/reconnect and diskchange interrupts
- provides better compatibility with SCSI2 hardware and CD-ROMs
- increases performance of non-HD devices
- A-Max driver
- optional genlock clock module
- with a 2 MB ECS Agnus genlocks are not supported without this module
- connects into the oscillator socket of the Phoenix motherboard
front side
- Phoenix.pdf
user manual (english)
1297 kB - PhoenixGenlockModule.pdf
Genlock Clock Module Installation Instructions (english)
78 kB
- Phoenix-J.dms
support disk, version J
435 kB - Polled-pbscsi.lha
Aminet
replacement SCSI driver (pbscsi.device v7.17)
15 kB
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1991-06
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1992-03
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1992-06