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John William

Posts 563
09 Dec 2022 17:46


I have one question in mind. I bought kickstart 3.2.1 from amigastore.au, already have a hard drive which have installed OS 3.2.1 in it. If I buy this card EXTERNAL LINK  can I still use the kickstart 3.2.1 in my motherboard? Can I not use any kickstart rom in the core of the card? Can it be just plain pure accelerator and not take over everything?
 
  Like for example, any features that my current A500 doesn't have such as RTG, SAGA, 68080, speed, USB, Ethernet, MicroSD, RAM this card takes over and add to it...but terms of Kickstart, custom chipset, controllers of the motherboard (CIA) etc, my A500 still takes over it. It will be like V2 500 in treatments. Is this something possible? If it is possible, I will save money and buy this card in two month period.
 


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6197
10 Dec 2022 10:40


Yes you can use any Kickstart on the V4 cards.
From KICK 1.3 to 3.X and also running Emutos/Atari is possible.

Yes you have the option to use the card in 2 modes.
a) A "simple" accelerator, only adding 512 MB Fastmem, Fast CPU, Ethernet, Fast IDE, RTG Video, 16bit Audio
Amiga Games play from Amiga Video out... as always.

b) As Chipset upgrade.
This gives you all the above plus Amiga games come on DIGITAL-VIDEO,
and you have 6 MB chipmem, and you can play AGA games.


John William

Posts 563
10 Dec 2022 15:55


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

    Yes you can use any Kickstart on the V4 cards.
    From KICK 1.3 to 3.X and also running Emutos/Atari is possible.
   
    Yes you have the option to use the card in 2 modes.
    a) A "simple" accelerator, only adding 512 MB Fastmem, Fast CPU, Ethernet, Fast IDE, RTG Video, 16bit Audio
    Amiga Games play from Amiga Video out... as always.
   
    b) As Chipset upgrade.
    This gives you all the above plus Amiga games come on DIGITAL-VIDEO,
    and you have 6 MB chipmem, and you can play AGA games.
   

   
   
   
    ......
   
    Did you say AGA games? You are saying I can play AGA games on my A500? What about my kickstart 3.2.1...can kick3.2.1.rom be integrated into the core then? Then I am buying this...what am I doing not buying it?
 

One last question. Is there any possibility of installment payment plan? If not, that is fine. I will save up.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6197
11 Dec 2022 07:33


John William wrote:

Did you say AGA games? You are saying I can play AGA games on my A500?

Yes this is correct.
Using the V4 Accelerators you can run AGA games on Amiga 500 or Amiga 600, on any Amiga.
 
 
John William wrote:

What about my kickstart 3.2.1...can kick3.2.1.rom be integrated into the core then?

All cards ship preinstalled with ApolloKickstart, and you can "flash" any Kickstart to it.
 

You can also install several different Amiga OS on the same CF.
E.g. OS 1.3, OS 3.1 and ApolloOS togeher, and you can switch between them using ApolloBoot.


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