Hardware specifications and bus connections

Autoconfig is allotment of the Zorro II and Zorro III amplification bus blueprint for configuring amplification accessories in Amiga systems. Zorro II was aboriginal acclimated in the Amiga 2000, admitting a agnate amplification bus is present on the Amiga 1000. Zorro II is a almost aboveboard addendum of the 68000 bus.2 Autoconfig requires the 68000 abstracts and abode bus to be accessible to all accessories on the bus. In theory, a basic abode system, as acclimated in PCI, would crave a accessory afterlight to Autoconfig.

The Amiga 2000 can board 5 Zorro amplification cards, such as, RAM expansions, SCSI controllers and clear cards. However the accepted does not put a absolute on the amount of devices. In the A2000, two Zorro II slots are accumbent with ISA slots. The Zorro bus and ISA bus can be affiliated by agency of a "bridgeboard", such as, the Janus Accouterments Emulator, which allows appetite of Intel 80286 or 80386 systems.2

Zorro III is the 32 bit auto-configuring amplification bus of Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 systems.3 From the A3000 architecture onwards, it was accounted adorable for all enumerable accouterments expansions to use Autoconfig. It is OS-legal for non-Autoconfig accouterments to be absolutely abandoned and the accepted was adopted in AmigaOS 3.1.