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Article #2920Re: Amiga 2000 and XT Bridgeboard Use
From: ose cursus
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 12:46
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 12:46
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Sorry for the late reply (just back from holiday).
jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>a) Can it access the 3.5 drives in IBM 720k mode?
Only if the drive is external! Internal drives can NOT be
accessed from bridgeboard side as standard IBM drives!
(But I think this question was already answered).
>c) Any comments from experience to warn/advise me about the system?
4,77 MHz is really slow. There is an alternative bridgeboard (X-Pert
Turbo-PC bridgeboard), which uses a NEC V20 processor (minor incompa-
tibilities) with 8 MHz and is about 80 % faster than the normal A2088.
A small problem of this board is that the clock runs faster too,
so you need a program (XTIME, delivered with the package) to correct
the timing. This board is about 100$ more expensive than the A2088.
Apart from that, the screen emulation by the Amiga (MDA and CGA) is
extremely slow. You could buy a graphics card, but this will cost you
an extra (multisync)-monitor if you still want to use the PC and
Amiga-side at the same time (no more Amiga-multitasking from the
PC-side).
Comments and questions are welcome,
Freddy Aries
University of Nijmegen (KUN)
The Netherlands.
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