What you have here is the first set of documents from old Commodore that I managed to assemble. This is definitely a work in progress, and it doesn't progress fast. Much of the Amiga stuff was done on Amigas, but unfortunately at different times. So I didn't necessarily still have the programs necessary to read and convert some of this documentation to ASCII and/or the portable document format (PDF, Adobe's Acrobat format, as close as you're likely to get to a universal format).
There are gaping holes in this stuff. For example, while I have a printout of Nyx specifications (Nyx was the AAA prototype), I don't seem to have the files anywhere. I also did a really nice paper on AAA for the 1993 DevCon, but that hasn't turned up yet either. (Editor note: A kind developer has scanned these for me and I have converted the scans to PDF, see below). I have the original paper on Acutiator, and some the drawings (in Art Expression form, but what did I do with my copy of Art Expression?), but I haven't yet found the PCI-level Acutiator main docs, such as the Abaca spec, or the full description of TPUs. At one point I had nearly every schematic, in the fairly useless Mentor format, stored away on disc, but I don't know what happened to it.
So this is a work in progress. Anyone with material to contribute should. I'm sending this out, to Team Amiga, to the Jay Miner Society, in the hopes of seeding a permanent record of the Amiga's technology, some of which has yet to be replicated in the mainstream.
- Dave Haynie
somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
April, 1998
Notes from the editor:
All files and the directory structure remains in the same format as received from Dave Haynie, with the following exceptions:
| Chips | ||
| Buster specs (PDF) | ||
| AA - Lisa specs (PDF) | AA - Register bits (PDF) | AA - Register names (PDF) |
| CPU modules | ||
| A2620 documents | A2620 PALs | |
| A2630 documents | A2630 PALs 1 / A2630 PALs 2 | A2630 specs |
| A3640 documents / A3640 readme | A3640 PALs | A3640 scans / A3640 schematics |
| Research | ||
| A2631 PALs | ||
| A3000+ specs (PDF) | A3000+ DSP3210 prog.notes (PDF) | A3000+ PALs |
| Acutiator specs (PDF) | Acutiator TPU specs (PDF/PS) | |
| DoubleThink AT&T DSP3210+68040 CPU board specs (PDF) | ||
| AT&T DSP 3210 design notes (PDF) | AT&T DSP 3210 resource list (PDF) | |
| Gemini Multi-CPU card, picture | Gemini Multi-CPU card, PALs | |
| Nyx AAA prototype system, notes | Nyx AAA prototype system, netlist | Nyx AAA prototype system, PALs |
| Advanced Amiga Architecture (AAA) overview (PDF) | ||
| Systems | ||
| A2000 docs | ||
| A3000 docs | A3000 PALs | |
| A4000 docs | ||
| Zorro III | ||
| Readme | A4091 PALs | BigRAM readme |
| Specification Addendum (PDF) | BigRAM docs | |
| Issued patent (PDF) | BigRAM PALs | |
| Specification (PDF) | ||
| Other memorable items | ||
| In the beginning was CAOS, by Andy Finkel |
This page is maintained by Petter Nilsen(spamtrap, real address starts with pni, same domain).
Last changed: September 17th, 2000.
