using IDE68K board and 4mb/8mb fastmem board
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I'm definitely up for one too.
Im also interested if the board will fit in a CDTV 
Hi All,
I have started the design for the 8mb A500 board with IDE, should be finished this weekend. Board will use the 4mb/8mb fastmem board and will fit in the CPU socket of the Rev6 boards and higher (and maybe the Rev5 board too) without interfering with case closure. The CPU adapter board can always be used for those hard to fit ones.
The board will have a CF socket. In order to keep the board size down i am leaving off the IDE 44 pin header as the circuit board is too busy. In order to keep costs down i have to use minimum 0.006" traces so that limits what i can do based on the size of the board. As a 2 layer board it is tough to get everything in. The board size has not increased all that much, i had to relocate the ram chips to allow for the CF card to sit on the top right of the board.
I am moving back to Thunder Bay in October so i will probably have more than usual on my plate. I'd like to at least get the first batch up and running before the move happens, we'll see.
I have started the design for the 8mb A500 board with IDE, should be finished this weekend. Board will use the 4mb/8mb fastmem board and will fit in the CPU socket of the Rev6 boards and higher (and maybe the Rev5 board too) without interfering with case closure. The CPU adapter board can always be used for those hard to fit ones.
The board will have a CF socket. In order to keep the board size down i am leaving off the IDE 44 pin header as the circuit board is too busy. In order to keep costs down i have to use minimum 0.006" traces so that limits what i can do based on the size of the board. As a 2 layer board it is tough to get everything in. The board size has not increased all that much, i had to relocate the ram chips to allow for the CF card to sit on the top right of the board.
I am moving back to Thunder Bay in October so i will probably have more than usual on my plate. I'd like to at least get the first batch up and running before the move happens, we'll see.
If this is going to be produced, then i'm definitely interested in one board. Count me in, please!
Interested in 2 boards if its fits in a CDTV, 1 board if not ....
Can you confirm if it will fit an A1000 ? (might even have 3 then
Hi,
It will fit in an A1000 and work with the A1000 adapter board (it just relocates it a bit so it doesn't interfere with the floppy cable
Interested in at least 1 unit, probably more .. would be really cool if it would fit the CDTV 
Interested in 2 boards if its fits in a CDTV, 1 board if not ....
Can you confirm if it will fit an A1000 ? (might even have 3 then
Hi,
It will fit in an A1000 and work with the A1000 adapter board (it just relocates it a bit so it doesn't interfere with the floppy cable
....and the Cdtv ?
I am interested in one as well!
Hi,
It can be done using the same design i am using for the new A600 board. i didn't think of doing it this way as people can still use the trapdoor to enable RAM in the $c00000 area. The A500 will see all this memory as there is no PCMCIA slot that conflicts with the 8mb fastmem.
