Amiga 500 ACA500

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Re: Amiga 500 ACA500

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Hopefully you have a Rev 6A, but they seem to be somewhat rare here in the US. Mostly what you see on eBay for instance appears to be Rev 5.

There is a 500 on eBay right now that could be a Rev 6A. It's 1.3 Kickstart and it has a green power light. Seller is asking for $300 though, so not exactly a bargain.


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They don't seem to work with NTSC Rev 5 boards either... been speaking with 2 different people who have had no luck... using a Rev 6A or above works or if it's a PAL board, there aren't any issues... starnge... I have even contacted its creator Jens to see if this issue can be resolved before I purchase one at the end of the year...
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Re: Amiga 500 ACA500

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If anyone in the US wants to get a Rev 6A board, they are plentiful on eBay if you expand the search results to include "Worldwide". There are always some for sale in the UK or Germany. I picked up 4 of them recently, but shipping and exchange rates are not in our favor of course ;)

I think there is some jumper or other way to change a 6A PAL board to NTSC and vice versa, haven't really looked into it yet. I mainly wanted to get some spare parts.

Hopefully you can get a fix from Jens on it. They do list it as working with Rev 5 boards.
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Re: Amiga 500 ACA500

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There is some discussion that the board will work with Pal rev. 5 boards, but not rev 5. ntsc boards. There is some info here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread. ... 689&page=2
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Ah, OK, thanks!
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As a follow-up to my post about changing a Rev 6A board from PAL to NTSC, I believe all you need to do is remove jumper JP4. I have not tried it yet though, so I can't say for sure if it indeed works.
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Well, there are still a lot of Rev 5 NTSC boards out there and I think the issue needs to be addressed... people shouldn't have to replace their boards in order to use this item... just my thoughts...
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Re: Amiga 500 ACA500

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Hello,

I have an ACA500, running on an NTSC A500 ,revision 6A motherboard, and an A501 memory expansion. The only issue I'm seeing is when booting with workbench 3.1 from the CF card, and running a WHDload game such as SuperCars 2, then when the intro music and screens is playing, and the CF card is accessed, then the audio cuts, and the video goes black just for the duration of the read/write on the Flash disk. Then the game continues. The same behavior was observed with other DHDLoad games or demos loaded from the CF card.

Thank you.

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Quick update...
I've tried loading SuperCars 2, using Whdload on WinUAE, and the same issue with the audio cuts, and video going black happened. So, it's not an issue with the ACA500.

Thank you.
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Re: Amiga 500 ACA500

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That sounds like a similar issue I had on my A1200 with WHDload. Black screen and cut audio when accessing CF card. I found it was down to lack of RAM, preventing WHDload from preloading the entire game into memory before it is started.
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Re: Amiga 500 ACA500

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Have never tried WHDload myself. It would be interesting to know if getting an ACA12xx (with the 128 MB) would resolve the issue and allow better use of WHDload. They are a bit pricey though. If you live in the US we are talking about $240.
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