These high-performance products have a proven track record in Europe
and now are making an impact on the North American market. Apollo combines
high-speed and stability with a truly aggressive price, making them some
of the hottest new products for the Amiga in years. The Apollo accelerator
line caters to nearly all Amigas, providing them with, in some cases, a
third-fold increase in speed over that of a stock machine, while maintaining
a price low enough to turn the heads of even the most frugal Amiga users.
Apollo Scan Doubler: $ 124.95
Apollo Scan Doubler w/ Flicker-Fixer: $ 164.95
Scan Doublers allow almost any PC monitor to be used in
native AMIGA modes on an AMIGA. Both Scan Doublers are
external and are easily installed(no tools needed). Does not work with
Newtek's Video Toaster
Mini Megi 2MB Chip RAM Board-NTSC: $ 139.95
Mini Megi 2MB Chip RAM Board- PAL: $ 139.95
Designed for Amiga 500/2000 users who require additional graphics memory
when doing animation, publishing and rendering work.
1230/ 40MHz accelerator w/o FPU: $ 124.95
1230/ 40MHz accelerator w/FPU: $ 149.95
030/40MHz processesor with 1 simm socket expandable to
a 32mb RAM simm.
1240 040/25MHz: $ 229.95
1240 040/40MHz: $ 289.95
040 processesor with MMU built into the CPU. Accelerator comes
with 1 simm socket expandable to a 32mb RAM simm and capable
of taking the SCSI Module ADD-ON
1200 SCSI Module: $ 79.95
SCSI II add-on for the 1240
2030 LITE 030/25MHz w/FPU for A2000: $ 229.95
2030 030/50MHz w/FPU for A2000: $ 279.95
A2000 acclerator w/SCSI and 2 RAM simm sockets expandable to
64mb of ram.
Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller
CatWeasel ISA for PC: $ 99.95-----A1200/
A4000 Model: $ 109.95
Add Kywalda FDD Adapter: $ 29.95
Zorro II Model w/ Buddha EIDE controller:
$ 134.95
Catweasel is a new floppy controller that works with standard PC disk
drives. The controller handles Amiga and MS-DOS disks, no matter if they're
DD or HD formatted. The HD formats are even handeled in higher speeds:
PC-HD disks are 2.15 times faster, and Amiga HD-disks are speeded up 1.3
times. This can be achieved, because the Amiga-HD drives spin at 150 RPM
as soon as you put a HD-Disk into the drive. The PC-drive on the other
hand spins at 300 RPM, no matter what kind of disk you insert.
Additionally, a strength of the Catweasel controller is reading
and writing extraneous formats: Macintosh, Atari 10/11 sector disks and
Commodore 1581 disks can be used in a standard 3,5" low-cost drive (*).
If you're connecting a 5.25" drive, even more formats can be handled:
MS-DOS disks with 360K and 1200K open up to the Amiga-world, and the good
old '64 disk is honored in a special way: A filesystem for the Amiga OS
is shipped with the catweasel, so you can copy the files from a 1541-disk
using the shell or Directory Opus. Copying files for Emulators is no longer
a problem, because a full disk is read within 12 seconds. A virtual file
"disk.info" shows an icon on the workbench, and another virtual file holds
the .d64 image of the disk, as it's a standard in '64 emulators.
With a software update that's available in early '97, you can use floppy
streamers with the Catweasel controller. With this sequential device you'll
be able to backup your harddisks with AmiBack, Quarterback or Diavolo Backup.
The speed will be about 2MB/minute. Naturally, this software update is
free!
The controller is connected to the IDE port of the Amiga 1200/Amiga
4000. You can still connect 2 harddisks or 1 harddisk and 1 CD-ROM. To
be compatible to the common 4-drive adaptors, a special adaptor is available
for the clock-connector port in the Amiga 1200, and it's fully compatible
to all known turboboards and harddisks. No problems with the clock on the
accelerator cards occur.
A Zorro-II version of the card is in the works. It will include
some additional features, as there are: 3 IDE-Ports for cheap CD-Roms and
harddisks, a bootrom for booting from Catweasel drives or a harddrive,
and a local expansion port. This expansion port can carry an optional I/O
module with 2 serial and 1 parallel interface. A special sysop's I/O module
will carry 8 serial ports. Each port has a 16-byte fifo to keep the interrupt-load
low.
Buddha EIDE Controller for Zorro II Amigas: $ 84.95
Features two IDE-ports, a BootROM, and Software by Elaborate Bytes (Oliver
Kastl). The whole Elabporate bytes' IDE package is shipped with the controller:
Atapi drivers, the CacheCD Filesystem, CD-Changer software, Autopark commands
for the newer harddisks, and a configuration utility for the controller
itself. Because the controller has got some special capabilities: The IDE
timing can be programmed by software, so even the eldest harddisks can
be run on the controller. It is also compatible with every known Atapi-CD
Rom drive, and even the NEC CD-changer is supported. For the Amigas with
AA-Chipset, a CD-32 Emulator is shipped with the card!
GRAFFITI GRAPHICS BOX: $ 99.00
Adds 256 color (from a pallette of 262,144) CHUNKY modes to all models
of the Amiga. With OCS/ECS chipset the maximum resolution is 384x576 pixels
and with the AGA chipset it is 768x576 pixels. Because of the chunky nature
of the Graffiti, it is easier to create and port texture-mapped games (like
DOOM), play AVI/FLI/ QuickTime animations and emulate other platforms,
like Macintosh or PC. The card is an external device that attaches to the
RGB port of any Amiga, and has an RGB output to connect the monitor (any
15kHz capable monitor, like the 1084 or M1438S). Two examples of software
using the Graffiti card are Nemac IV and Trapped. The card includes a 256
color IFF viewer for all models of Amiga, and very fast Graffiti drivers
are now supplied with the Emplant Macintosh emulator.
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