He has replied to my emails today, and paid and arranged delivery of an A508 card
so he is replying and going through his mail
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He has replied to my emails today, and paid and arranged delivery of an A508 card
so he is replying and going through his mail
Yep he answered my mails too :)
Elvis is back in the building;-)
I have paid the 7 december but till now he didn't reply if the package has been sent. I have wrote, till the 7, 3 email and one private message here at amibay, no reply at all. I'm very disappointed.
I understand he's busy and involved into several projects, but reply to a mail doesn't requires days or weeks.
[QUOTE=ikorodu;740783]Mine also came this week. I'm having a bit of trouble getting the case closed on my A500+, see here http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80535Quote:
Originally Posted by gebes
You had any luck?
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In the end I decided to send the machine for a service to Mutant Caterpillar Games who did a wonderful job to both of my breadbin C64's involving recapping, installing Jiffydos, installing heatsinks, fresh thermal paste, Lumafix chip installation, and a good clean. He's managed to fit to my A500 ( NOT + ) , both the A508 and also the Indivision ECS. Ian sent me a short video, not great sound, but shows it fitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnxE...ature=youtu.be
He also advised me the following
In fact the A508 and the Indivision ECS do *not* fit next to each other.
Luckily, a little while back I repaired an arcade board which used a 68000 (Street Fighter), and so when I wanted to test the 68000 I had to buy in some 68000-size sockets. So I put the A508 into a socket, and then that socket into the 68000 socket, and it left *just enough* room. I put a bit of insulating tape on the bottom of the 68K where it has about 1mm clearance from the Indivision, just to be safe.
The keyboard when the machine is closed is actually touching the 68000, but unless you're incredibly clumsy, it shouldn't matter as it's only just touching it and not shorting anything.
I had him do the work , as wasn't confident enough with the soldering, and wanted to send the whole machine rather than just the motherboard itself. So it appears to be a squeeze to fit both the A508 and indivision in, but can be done. Hope the youtube video works and Ian at Mutant Caterpillar comments also help out.
Kipper makes an offset spacer that shifts the card to the rear and to the right. Have a look on his web page.
The card that Kipper2K sells is what is required by the A500 usually to push the card above the Kickstart ROM next to it. However, the problem here (I'm the one who did this for gebes, by the way :) ) is that the A508IDE pushed right next to the Denise. The Indivision ECS has the Denise chip at the top of the board; the support chips go below it right into the same space as the A508IDE uses. By fitting another socket between the CPU socket and the riser which you mention, there's just enough room.
You can just see in the video that the riser is directly above the Indivision ECS - without the extra socket, there's just nowhere for one or the other to go.
Hopefully that'll help somebody else in future - yes, you can have the A508IDE and the Indivision ECS, as long as you buy another socket for 50p or whatever!
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Originally Posted by Spirantho
If you get the correct riser board from Kipper there is plenty of room around Denise:
EDIT: wrong link.... BrB
EDIT2: Hmm, you might be right:
Attachment 99840
Received my 8mb card today, looks great, not installed it yet but foresee no issues
main learning point here is be patient with kipper2k, he does come trough but isn't great at responding to email (at all lol)
anyway, time to decide I want a vampire 2 now :-s
It's a great card, and echo what you say about Kipper2k.
Thats look nice has it sold
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