cone 601
RAM EXPANSION CARD
for the A600
Multilingual
EditionA601 RAM Expansion Gartidge GB-3
1. Introduction
4 RAM Expansion Cartridge increasms the amount of memory availabée to your
Amiga. This alows you to run mare programs simultaneously and to create
larger graphics or documents. The increased RAM also allows you to keep fre-
quently used files in mamory so that you do mot have to repeatedly awap disks.
The AGO1 FAM Expansion Cartridge can be used in ABDD computers with
either 512K or 1 megabyte of on-board Ghip RAM. For AGO computers with
S12K of on-boand memory, two versions of the A501 ARAM Expansion Cartridge
are available, You can choose a S12K cartridge which will increase your
graphics memory to 1 megabyte ora 1 magabyte cartridge which expands your
memory to 1.5 magabyies. Fer ABO computers wih 1 megabyie of om-bognd
memory, a 1 magabyte RAM Expansion cartridge is supported for a total of 2
megabytes.
The FAM Expansion Gartrdige also provides you with a real-time clock, which
‘will maintain tha time and date for up te 3 manths, even when your system ts
powentd off, The clock has an intemal rechangeabhe battery thal may nol be
fully changed whan it is frat installed. Atter the intial installation, you may wart
fo leave your computer powered on for ap=romately 12 hours to charge the
batiery.
Note: The bartey dows nol provide backup power to fhe memory circuits. You
wil sti! jose any data stored in RAM when the system is powered off or re
booted.
You may find that a lew programs, particularly older programs, da not run cor-
rectly with ihe expansion FAM instaled. In this case, contact the program de-
veloper te-oblain a corrected versian,GBe4 ABO RAK Expansion Gertridge
2. Setting the Memory Configuration
in order tor the cartridge to function property, fo jumpers on the cartridge must
be set to designate the aniaunt of AM already present in your ABOO. (A jumper
6 a snail, plastic cap that fits over two metal pins on the cartridge.)
There ara Iwo Separate jumper blocks, each with thraa metal pins. ff your ABOO
computer has $12K of memory, a jumper should be placed ower ping 1 and 2
and over ping 5 and 6. Leave pins 3 and 7? exposed.
Agu atime = 4-24 s-07 |
[asco mea of 2-9 6 8-7
AGOO 512K AGO IMEG
H your AG00 computer has 1 magabyie of memory, a jumper should be placad
over ping 2 and 3 and over ping 6 and 7, Ping 7 and § should be exposed.
Note: The amoun of mamary Jn the AGOT RAM Expansion cartridge (512K or
1) does not affect the configuration of the jumpers. The jumpers nefiect the
anoutt of menory on ihe AGG motherboard.
Your A601 FAM Expanseon Cartridge can now be ifstalled in your Gamputer