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 Message 1403 
 Ingo Juergensmann to Joacim Melin 
 VXL 30 
 26 Dec 17 20:09:30 
 
   Hello Joacim!

26 Dec 17 11:56, you wrote to me:

 IJ>> How much memory did the G-Force 030 have? 4 MB?
 IJ>> AFAIR there is only a 8 MB window for AutoConfig address space.
 IJ>> If the 8 MB of the VXL 30 binds into that memory space, this can
 IJ>> be an issue.
 JM> Thanks Ingo.  I want to use it with AmigaOS.  I wonder if there is a
 JM> way to remap the VXL 30 RAM to not occupy this memory space?  My old
 JM> G-Force 030-card had 12 megs of RAM.

Well, when the G-Force 030 maps the memory to a different address space then
it might work. Maybe you can check the address spaces against this table:
https://amigacoding.com/index.php/Amiga_memory_map or http://ami
adev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node00D4.html (or others)

Additionally, there might be some special functions the G-Force might use
together with the GVP bridgeboard which the VXL cannot use.

Anyway, I doubt that you will have a real speed improvement with use the
NE2000 NIC on the PC side from AmigaOS. It will be quite slow and maybe it's
better to buy a real Amiga NIC instead.

Ingo


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