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to: Ingo Juergensmann
from: Joacim Melin
date: 2017-12-26 11:56:48
subject: Re: VXL 30

IJ>    Hello Joacim!

 IJ> 25 Dec 17 16:44, you wrote to all:

 JM>> I have this accelerator for the Amiga 2000, VXL 30
 JM>> (http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=196),
 JM>> installed in my Amiga 2000 with 8MB of extra RAM.  It's great over
 JM>> all, but a few things have been troubling me a bit so I thought I'd
 JM>> ask around.

 JM>> I also have a Golden Gate II+-card installed to be able to utilize ISA
 JM>> network cards in my Amiga 2000 The card itself is tested and works,
 JM>> but I cannot get the ISA NE-2000-card (with physical settings for IO
 JM>> and IRQ) to work.

 IJ> You want to use the NE-2000 NIC from Amiga OS? Or just DOS/Windows
 IJ> side?

 JM>> My question is this: Is anyone aware of any (if at all) strange
 JM>> behaviour with the VXL 30?  My old Amiga 2000 had a GVP G-Force 030
 JM>> and a Golden Gate II+-card and it worked perfect.

 IJ> How much memory did the G-Force 030 have? 4 MB?

 IJ> AFAIR there is only a 8 MB window for AutoConfig address space. If
 IJ> the 8 MB of the VXL 30 binds into that memory space, this can be an
 IJ> issue.

 IJ> Ingo

Thanks Ingo.  I want to use it with AmigaOS.  I wonder if there is a way to
remap the VXL 30 RAM to not occupy this memory space?  My old G-Force
030-card had 12 megs of RAM. 


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