Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “VMC Harald Frank”
3 expansions in database
Manufacturer VMC Harald Frank, Germany | Date 1996 / 1997 | Amiga A1200A2000, A3000, A4000 | - - | Interface clock portZorro II | Autoconfig ID 5001 / 2,3 |
- serial and parallel interfaces
- Hypercom 1 / PortJnr
- tiny 2x4 cm board
- connects to A1200's clock port
- Exar 16C650 UART chip
- one DB25 RS232 serial port
- 50 to 460800 bps transfer speed
- 64 byte FIFO buffer (32 byte receive, 32 byte send)
- may have problems with 1D4 motherboard revision
- requires some modifications in order to work together with the Melody 1200 audio board
- not compatible with Mikronik towers
- Hypercom 3 & 3Z / PortPlus
- Hypercom 3: connects to A1200's clock port
- Hypercom 3Z: Zorro II version
- Exar 16C552 or 16C553 UART chip
- one DB25 bidirectional parallel port with 500 kB/s transfer speed
- one DB9 and one DB25 RS232 serial port with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
- 32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
- A1200 version may have problems with 1D4 motherboard revision
- requires some modifications in order to work together with the Melody 1200 audio board
- not compatible with Mikronik towers
- Hypercom 3Z serial ports are supported by NetBSD
- Hypercom 3i
- expansion module for the Hypercom 3Z / 4 and the ISDN Blaster
- Exar 16C552 UART chip
- two additional DB25 460800 bps buffered serial ports
- one additional DB25 500 kB/s buffered bidirectional parallel port
- 32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
- Hypercom 4
- Zorro II
- two Exar 16C554 or 16C654 UART chips
- four DB25 RS232 serial ports with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
- 32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
- up to five Hypercom 4 can be installed into one Amiga
- supported by NetBSD
Hypercom 1 / PortJnr, front side
Hypercom 1 / PortJnr, back side
Hypercom 4, front side
Manufacturer VMC Harald Frank, Germany | Date 1998 | Amiga A1200A2000, A3000, A4000 | - - | Interface clock portZorro II | Autoconfig ID 5001 / 6,7 |
- serial and parallel interfaces
- Hypercom 3 Plus
- available in both Zorro II and clock port versions
- the latter connects directly to the 26 pin expansion port of Buddha/Catweasel or connects with a cable to A1200's clock port
- the Zorro II version is based on the HyperCom 4 Plus, it uses the same PCB
- Exar 16C552 UART chip
- one DB25 bidirectional parallel port with 500 kB/s transfer speed
- one DB9 and one DB25 RS232 serial port with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
- 32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
- not compatible with Mikronik towers
- supported by NetBSD
- Hypercom 3 Tel
- expansion module for the ISDN Blaster
- Exar 16C552 UART chip
- two DB25 460800 bps buffered serial ports
- one DB25 500 kB/s buffered bidirectional parallel port
- one handset connector
- 32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
- Hypercom 4 Plus
- Zorro II
- two Exar 16C552 UART chips
- four DB25 or DB9 RS232 serial ports with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
- two DB25 500 kB/s buffered bidirectional parallel ports
- 32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
- up to five Hypercom 4 can be installed into one Amiga
- supported by NetBSD
Clock port version, front side
Clock port version, back side
Zorro II version, back side
Zorro II version, back side
- hypercom298.lha
VMC Harald Frank (Wayback Machine)
HyperCOM installation
712 kB
Manufacturer VMC Harald Frank, Germany | Date 1996 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 5001 / 1 |
- Siemens / ISAC-S, HSCX, HSCX-TE chipset
- max 2× 64000 bps transfer speed
- 128 byte FIFO buffer
- up to 10 different MSN numbers per device
- support for ISDN SetClock
- supported protocols on B channel
- X.75, T.70 NL, T.90, V.110, V.120, PPP
- supported protocols on D channel
- 1TR6 and EDSS1
- expansion port for the Hypercom 3i and Hypercom 3 Phone I/O modules
- due to a couple of bugs in the ISDN Blaster PALs, the expansion port is not ready to take any expansions by default
- Michael Böhmer from E3B describes the required hardware patch
- up to 5 ISDN Blasters can be installed into one Amiga
- supported by NetBSD
- bugs
- the card configures with a chained config request, so the Amiga thinks the card in the slot behind the Blaster is located on the same PIC - this bug is mostly harmless and correctable
- the card stores only the upper three bits of the base address, assuming that it will get a place in the address space between 0xe80000 and 0xef0000 - this bug is not correctable
- the address decoding does not differentiate between the ISDN chipset and the expansion socket - this bug is only noticeable when an expansion module is present; it is correctable
front side
back side
Connector, right side
front side
back side
- ISDNBlaster.pdf
user manual (german)
254 kB
- vmcisdnv3b100.lha
VMC Harald Frank (Wayback Machine)
VMC-ISDN installation
372 kB