From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
Subject: Re: Chip RAM accelerators?
Summary: What are they?
Keywords: Amiga hardware chip-ram Black Knight Periphals
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:26:01 GMT

In article <92Aug17.001602.17998@acs.ucalgary.ca> eto@acs.ucalgary.ca (Seijn Eto) writes:
>From: eto@acs.ucalgary.ca (Seijn Eto)
>Subject: Chip RAM accelerators?
>Summary: What are they?
>Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 00:16:02 GMT
>
>	Having heard some news about CHIP RAM accelerators by
>Black Knight and apparently by RCS, I was wondering whether
>anyone has specs to post about these products?  Also, since they
>can work with A500/2000 machines, could these things be what are
>required to run the new 'AA' chip set in these machines?  That
>seems to make sense since they provide the higher bandwidth
>required for the increased resolutions and colors...
>

Black Kinght Peripherals is supposedly an Australian company and they 
advertise in the Australian Commodore and Amiga Review.

Below is a transcript of their advertisement.  What is all means is up to 
you!  I'm not a electrical engineer - only an eco/eng student.

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THE FAST LANE

The Fast Lane combination of Chip RAM accelerator and 2Mb chip ram expansion 
removes the biggest bottleneck in the Amiga - slow access to chip RAM.  TFL 
gives superfast access to display memory by allowing the CPU and custom 
chips to access chip ram transparently and simultaneously.  Works with 1 and 
2Mb Agnus chips.  With TFL unaccelerated machines can access diplay ram at 
the same speed as fast RAM.  Accelerated Amigas will have up to 3 time the 
bandwidth (depeding on how they access the Amiga address space).  The SPEED 
DEMON CPU accelerators from BKP will access CRAM at the blinding speed of 
21.6 Mb/sec (6x the bandwidth of fast ram).  The price is $349 without RAM.  
Add $150 for 2Mb of memory (if you already own our Top Chip 2mb chip ram 
expansion, you can use its memory on The Fast Lane).  Also needs 1 or 2mb 
Agnus.

This product should be available to beta testers in August.



TOP CHIP

Two meg of chip RAM for your A500/2000.  THis supersmall unit includes 2mb 
of memory than can be later used in The Fast Lane.  The unit plugs into any 
A500/2000 and does not require soldering or cutting of traces.  It can be 
switched between 512k, 1mb or 2mb of chip ram under software control, and 
will remember the last used configuration on power up.
Price $249

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Note:  All prices are in Australian $.  Any typos are my mistake!

Their contact address is
Black Knight Peripherals
PO Box 197
Toronto NSW 2283
Tel/FAX (02) 901 3624


I have no association whatsover with BKP except that I would LOVE to become 
a beta tester.


Hope this helps

-Jif

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