11 Feb
1998
11 Feb
'98
10:32 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
perfectly in the "8-bit" portion of the
slot. I am almost sure this unit
could allow one to use IBM compatible hardware. Am I wrong about this?
Nope, you're 100% correct. What this unit did was more-or-less convert
your A500 into the desktop style A2000. The latter had ISA slots which
allowed you to buy something called a 'bridgeboard' so you could run PC
software. The ISA slots were designed to help the emulation (which as far
as I'm concered wasn't an emulation.. you actually had a PC in there).
Does anyone have any solid technical information on
this? Unfortunately
in all the books and manuals I brought home not one was for this thing.
I have a friend who was a very faithful Amiga user when this came out. I
remember him being very excited about this and showing me the article
reviewing it in AmigaWorld. I can find out if he's still got that
particular issue if you'd like.
ok
r.