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New
eFlasher available
[27
March 2004]
Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of
the new eFlasher program for the eFlash 4000 Zorro III
card.
Version 1.4 of the eFlasher program and version 1.0
of the eFlashConfig script have been released today
for all registered users of the eFlash 4000 cards.
The eFlasher program is the tool developed for the eFlash
4000 Zorro III cards. It helps to manage FlashROM memory
contents of the eFlash 4000 card. It installs AmigaOS
ROM Updates and other modules, which can be started
from the eFlash 4000 memory during the Amiga boot process.
The eFlasher program features:
•
supports the BoingBag-1 and BoingBag-2
AmigaOS ROM Updates,
•
works with any resident modules,
•
supports multiple modules in one file,
•
AmigaOS updates done during the Amiga
boot process are detected by the Setpatch automatically.
eFlashConfig is an easy to use script to enable managing
contents of memory in FlashROM of the eFlash 4000.
About the eFlash 4000 card:
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with extremely
fast 32-bit design, fitted with 8Mb of FlashROM memory.
The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which
are run at the computer's boot-up process. Every resident-capable
programs, libraries, devices, and AmigaOS ROM Updates
can be stored in the FlashROM memory of the eFlash 4000
card and executed without reboots on a cold Amiga start.
This dramatically reduces the boot time of classic Amigas.
The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which
are run at the computer's boot-up process. Every resident-capable
programs, libraries, devices, and AmigaOS ROM Updates
can be stored in the FlashROM memory of the eFlash 4000
card and executed without reboots on a cold Amiga start.
This dramatically reduces the boot time of classic Amigas.
The eFlash 4000 card can also initialise PCI cards installed
in Mediator-equipped A3000 and A4000 computers before
the AmigaOS system starts. The computer could be booted
from mass storage devices connected through various
PCI controllers, e.g. Spider Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cards
and Ultra-ATA/133 PCI controllers, when drivers are
available.
Users of the AmigaOS4.x operating system will have an
additional benefit: the eFlash 4000 card will give them
a possibility of definite shortening of the system's
start time by executing the AmigaOS code from the FlashROM
memory.
Thanks to the extremely fast design and the linear memory
addressing, the eFlash 4000 card can be also used as
a very fast non-volatile memory for storing the data,
whose reading is time critical. FlashROM memory installed
on the eFlash 4000 card allows also direct execution
of programs stored in this memory without the necessity
of copying programs code to the system Fast memory.
The FlashROM memory installed in the eFlash 4000 Zorro
III card is directly available in the Zorro III Amiga
memory space. This FlashROM memory can be read at the
full speed of the 32-bit Zorro III bus.
The access time to the FlashROM memory of the eFlash
4000 Zorro III card is over ten times faster than the
access time to FlashROM of the Flash Zorro II cards.
It is not only because Zorro III protocol is much faster
than offered by Zorro II. It is also because the FlashROM
of the eFlash 4000 card is directly readable in one
megabyte of linear memory space with the 32-bit datapatch,
while in Flash Zorro II cards the FlashROM is readable
through sixteen kilobytes memory window with the 8-bit
datapatch.
If your Amiga is equipped with Zorro III bus, the
eFlash
4000 card is the best FLASH solution for you!
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