Amiga 3000 Desktop Technical Information
KICKSTARTS:
1.4 or the 'Boot ROMs' looked for a file called devs:kickstart to boot up
2.04 available in ROM and as a kickstart file. All 3000's were to come with
either one of these.
3.1 This is available as an upgrade
ROM chips are a pair of 40 pin DIPs.
CPU:
68030 at 25MHz or
68030 at 16MHz
FPU:
68882 at 25MHz
68881 at 16MHz for 16MHz machine
CHIPS:
Denise - 8373 SuperDenise
Paula - Standard Paula
Agnus - 8372B Agnus for 2 meg CHIP RAM
Gary - Fat Gary
Amber - De-interlacing chip to provide 31KHz video
Buster - SuperBuster -07, -09 and -11
DMAC - SuperDMAC -02, -04
Ramsey - Ramsey -04 and -07
RAM:
CHIP RAM Uses 44256 DRAM DIPs for up to 2 megabytes
FAST RAM uses 1x4 Static Column OR Page Mode ZIP DRAM for up to 16 Megabytes
or
FAST RAM uses 256x4 Static Column OR Page Mode ZIP DRAM up to 4 Megabytes
or
FAST RAM uses 44256 DRAM DIPs for 1 Megabyte of FAST RAM. May not be used
in conjuction with ZIPs.
For more information on 3000 RAM expansion, click here.
PORTS:
15KHz Video
31KHz Video
External Disk drive
Parallel Port
External SCSI Connector
Serial Port
Mouse/Joystick ports
5-pin DIN Keyboard Port
Left and Right RCA Audio
SLOTS:
1 Video Slot In line with ZorroIII slot
1 xxx pin CPU slot
4 ZorroII/III 16/32-bit Expansion slots
2 16-bit ISA slots (for use with BridgeBoard Devices) inline with ZorroIII slots
MOTHERBOARD REVISIONS:
7.x Used a ROM tower to hold the ROMs
9.x Eliminated use of a ROM tower
Also has labels on the motherboard for jumpers
Amiga 3000 Jumper Settings
50-pin SCSI Connector
Amiga 3000 RAM Expansion Settings