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amigakit.com
21st March 2010, 08:45
AmigaKit.com is pleased to announce ZorRAM, a new modern memory card for Zorro 3 Amiga computers.

The new card will be supplied with 128MB of SDRAM memory as standard. It features a low profile Zorro card and has full Autoconfig support.

It will be available exclusively from the AmigaKit webstores within the next 6-8 weeks. Pricing will be announced shortly.

Project Development
During 2009, it became apparent that old Zorro 3 memory boards were scarce and consequently selling for over-inflated high prices in the second-user market. We approached our hardware partners E3B and Individual Computers with a brief to produce a modern day memory card for the A3000 / A4000 (T). After encountering many problems and employing E3B's expertise in the area of Zorro expansion development, the ZorRAM card was developed.

We would like to thank our hardware partners for the many months of development work put into this project.

www.amigakit.com Amiga Computer Store
Phantom
21st March 2010, 12:01
Nice news, but one silly question.

If I have 128MB already, then I will have 256MB in total with this card?
amigakit.com
21st March 2010, 13:26
Yes, it will add to your memory. So if you add more cards you will have more memory.
Phantom
21st March 2010, 16:58
Nice. :)
Harrison
22nd March 2010, 12:41
I'm very interested in this too. My A4000D only has the standard max ram of 2+16MB, so this would add a huge boot to the system, and would make OS3.9 more viable.

Looking forward to seeing how reasonable the price will be.
Phantom
22nd March 2010, 13:41
Dave, I thought that you had at least an 060 on your A4000. :huh2:
Harrison
22nd March 2010, 15:26
Nope. Just a standard 25MHz 040 I'm afraid, and the A4000 itself was originally the 030 version. Couldn't afford anything fast back at the time when the A4000 was my main computer, and when I eventually could then I was buying PC hardware.
Phantom
22nd March 2010, 16:26
PC Hardware? :rant:



















:p
amigakit.com
22nd March 2010, 19:34
We are looking at approximately £86 + vat or US $135 for the 128MB card
Phantom
22nd March 2010, 23:06
Over 100 euros... and what about the 256MB version?
amigakit.com
12th May 2010, 20:52
Production of the new ZorRAM memory expansion (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) is complete and they are being quality tested this week.

Here is the final production photo:

http://www.amigakit.com/images/zorram.jpg
Phantom
12th May 2010, 23:08
Nice. :)
woody.cool
13th May 2010, 03:01
I'm tempted to get one for my A3000
Harrison
13th May 2010, 07:25
Is there a final price for this board yet?

And, if it is around the price you mentioned above (£86), why so expensive, considering how cheap ram is now? custom PCB fabrication isn't that much...
amigakit.com
21st May 2010, 23:13
Some initial tests of the initial ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=958) we have received from production.

I am testing 4x ZorRAMs in an A4000 Rev B (desktop) with a Commodore standard Zorro daughter card and Commodore A3640 Rev 3.1 and Buster 11. Apologies for the bad picture :-) Testing goes on...

http://www.a1k.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=26662&d=1274461887
Phantom
22nd May 2010, 10:26
1GB Classic Amiga. :shades:
amigakit.com
26th May 2010, 21:07
First batch of 256MB versions are now available. We will start shipping pre-ordered ZorRAM units immediately.

Product link:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...roducts_id=958
amigakit.com
27th May 2010, 00:55
We have also today tried 4x ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) 256MB installed together with a 4060T accelerator (68060) with 128MB SIMM memory- here is the result:

http://www.amigakit.com/images/4xzorram-4060t.jpg

Is this the most memory ever seen on a Classic Amiga ?
Puni/Void
27th May 2010, 07:16
We have also today tried 4x ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) 256MB installed together with a 4060T accelerator (68060) with 128MB SIMM memory- here is the result:

http://www.amigakit.com/images/4xzorram-4060t.jpg

Is this the most memory ever seen on a Classic Amiga ?

:o

That IS the most memory I've ever seen on a classic! Amazing!
Harrison
27th May 2010, 10:31
That is definitely great to see so much ram possible at last on a classic Amiga.

Great work to everyone who was involved with this ram board at AmigaKit. :thumbs:

If I had spare money I wouldn't think twice about buying some of these for my A4000, but sadly at the moment real world things have to come first, such as car insurance and road tax this month. :(