ShowCards v1.32 03/11/90 ShowCards is a utility which examines each plug in card on the expansion bus and displays information which _may_ be of use in building a CardROM list for use with Dave Haynie's SetCPU 1.5. Although ShowCards displays information for each card in the format required for a CardROM list, the address space of expansion memory boards is added to the system free memory list and I can see no advantage in the use of CardROM entrys for these expansion memory cards. ShowCards is useful for identifying the cards installed on a given machine without having to go under the hood. ShowCards examines each card on the expansion bus (starting at the CPU slot on a A2000 and working left towards the power LED). Presently, ShowCards identifies aproximately 2 dozen expansion cards by manuafacturer and product name. If you send me MAIL showing a dump from ShowCards and you identify any unknown cards by name, I can expand the list of recognized cards. ShowCards is based on an example in Appendix G of the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual. It turns out that some cards and software drivers (the Supra WordSynch for instance) automatically seek out 32-bit RAM and relocate the ROM image there. Using the CardRom option of SetCPU actually caused a performance decrease (measured using DiskSpeed version 3). To run ShowCards, just type 'ShowCards' at the CLI prompt. A sample run follows: ShowCards v1.32 by R. Wilcox ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mfg Product Device Size Offset ROM Size Item ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x202 0x51 0x200000 0x0000 0x200000 CBM_A2630 0x420 0x0B 0x010000 0x0000 0x010000 Supra_2400zi 0x420 0x0C 0x010000 0x8000 0x008000 Supra_WordSynch 0x202 0x0A 0x200000 0x0000 0x200000 CBM_A2058 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 68030 CPU 68882 FPU GenLock Detected NTSC Video Mode 1.0 MEG Chip RAM 4.0 MEG Auto-Config Exp RAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 32-bit RAM resides from $00200000 to $003FFFFF. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ROM image for the Supra_WordSynch is located at $002000B0 within 32-bit address space. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.32 * Denise Chip detected 1.31 * Bug Fix - ROM Size was truncated in earlier versions 1.3 * Recognizes CPU * Recognizes FPU * Recognizes Video Mode * Identifies 32-bit address space for recognized cards * Identifies cards which have a relocated ROM image 1.2: * Changed method of calculation of ROM size * Displays total memory added to Free List by autoconfig cards * Displays Agnus size * Tests for presence of slow memory at C00000 Please report any bugs. ShowCards is freely redistributable and offered 'as-is', etc, etc, etc! Bob Wilcox BIX rwilcox