Posts by turrican9

Quote from Jens

Sound-wise, there are no problems. It's about the capacitors used for the POT inputs - they are a single capacity, not switched depending on the SID type.

These capacitors don't play any role in mouse position data transfer, so the "problem" reported by the diagnostic cartridge only affects fully-analogue paddles (not even the paddle emulation that you have with Micromys). With those paddles, you'll have a small offset, but you should be able to get from min to max without problems.

Jens

So this is a common problem and my Sid's are okay?

I have 3 8580 Sid chips with the same fault when using diagnostics. Tried them on various rev.A and rev.B shortboards. They sound fine and everything works. I have not tried paddles though, as I don't have any.

Quote from Jens

"kind of" - while the actual IDE speeder doesn't do anything on the ACA500plus, it has it's own way of improving CF card speed that works with all ACA12xx accelerators. You will see considerable CF card speed increase with any A1200 accelerator.

Jens

Yes, of course. I see great improvements if I use my ACA1221 or ACA1233 in my ACA 500/ACA 500 Plus. But in his specific case he would reap the benefits of the extra IDE speeder thing in the ACA1234 that the A1200 can take advantage of. While at the same time putting one of his other ACA12xx accelerators into his ACA 500 Plus and of course get the 'general' ACA12xx IDE improvements from those. Without 'wasting' that extra IDE booster A1200 thing that the ACA1234 series has.

Quote from dhester

What is the best accelerator to use with the ACA500plus? I already have ACA1221EC and ACA 1233n which I use in my A1200s. Is the ACA1221lc ok or should I go for a ACA1234? or do I use one of the ACA1221EC or ACA1233n and buy the ACA1234 to put in the A1200?

I have the X-surf 500 so want the accelerator to speed up web browsing.

Sorry for all the questions, just got the ACA500plus and absolutly love it.

One good option would be to buy an ACA1234 and put that one in your A1200. Because of the IDE speeder thing. Which would be wasted if you put it in your ACA 500 Plus. Then you could put either your ACA1221EC or ACA1233n into your ACA 500 Plus..

Quote from utri007

OK, nothing can be done to make it work. I send it to recycling.

I can buy it from you

Yes, it will

I have both the Original ACA 500 and the ACA 500 Plus. Love them both.

The Original ACA 500 needs an A1200 accelerator to really shine. I have mine paired with a fully unlocked ACA 1221. It's a really nice setup. Perfect for whdload games and Demos.

The ACA 500 Plus on the other hand is very capable without any A1200 accelerator. I really love this one. Has just enough fast RAM to preload whdload slaves like Monkey Island 2 and Fate of Atlantis. With it's overclocking capabilities it can rival or beat many 020 accelerators. It's also very versatile as you can set your Amiga 500 to run as a bog standard A500 without the need to unplug the ACA 500 Plus. And can also use DF1 as DF0 without the need for hardware modifications. Perfect for an external Gotek. Another thing is since this is based on an overclocked 68000, certain whdload games does not suffer from slowdowns (can be fixed with 'cache' in tooltip sometimes) due to the 68000 being a true 16bit CPU instead of 32bit that can cause slowdows due to async bus.

Alot of great features. Really love these devices. Love all my stuff from Individual Computers.

Quote from olherlin

If it doesn't work, may it damage the motherboard ?

There is no reason it shouldn't work. And even if for some very, very strange reason it didn't work, there is no reason why it would damage the motherboard.

I believe yours is a Rev.3. Should work just fine with the A512

Quote from Lou3810

Thanks for the suggestion I'll look into that. So booting Degrader prior to launching I game wouldn't work on my board revision?

I would say just try it. But if you set PAL globally in the whdload bootfile and save it you don't need to boot the degrader. Don't know if your talking about the program called degrader or if it's the bootdisk that simply switches the machine between PAL/NTSC which should be linked somewhere in this forum.

It would be easiest to force PAL globally in the whdload config file. 8375 NTSC cannot be switched to PAL via jumpers on the motherboard. ACA500/Plus can do it or via a tool booting from disk. That's why I suggest in your case to do it via whdload

So you cannot expand the horizontal width with your monitors settings or widen it with the monitors pixel clock adjustment?

Edit, just noticed you already have your adjustment at max horizontal width. How big are the black bars? You have a picture of your screen? It could be that your monitor is not switching to 720x576 but another resolution. You could try experimenting with the config tools pixel clock if this is the case. See if you can get it to switch to 720x576

No problem. Let me know if it works for you. This profile is tuned around 50Hz vertical frequency to have almost smooth scrolling. If it doesn't work for you I may have a 60Hz version aswell

For PAL you need to make a 720x576 profile to show the correct full overscan.

Here is my profile for my AGA MK2 I use on a Phillips 17 inch 5:4 LED screen.

It would be very nice with full TAP emulation for sure. Personally I find that the CRT images that has the TAP loading screen and music is very nostalgic for me and I find it much better than nothing.

With that said, I have a TheC64 (the emulator based remake of the C64) and that one has full TAP support. For me I only loaded a couple of TAP images out of nostalgia and after that I mostly used D64, D81 or CRTs because it's alot more convenient and faster. Just as back in the day I would rather use floppy disks than tape. Only in those cases I didn't have a particular game on floppy I would load the tape version.

But again, I would love to have the full tape emulation feature on my TC64s, even if I would probably end up not using this feature much.

might I suggest OneLoad64. This is a huge collection with 2000 CRT games. The thing is that lot of the CRTs include the tape loading screens with the loading music. So you get the nostalgia as if you were loading from your tape deck

correct. TC64 disables the internal CPU so no support for tape loading

Here are my two working ones. Have a couple more I got from China I haven't tried yet. And have 3 different ones I've tried that don't work thus far. But these two works perfect. And this is using TC64V2. I don't own a V1

serial: BL1217422422G (left one)

serial: BL1833851626Z (right one)

try to buy various types of 16gb sandisk sdhc cards and see how they work out for you. I had bad luck with a 32gb sandisk card I tried.

In my experience my two TC64V2s can be quite picky about SD cards. I am using two different Sandisk Ultra SDHC 16GB cards that works well. But I've tried quite a few other SD cards that works in windows and SD2IEC but not working nicely on my TC64V2s. Some of them have trouble reading the directory without me re-inserting the card and some go corrupt after trying to write to them.