A500 upgrade

[fjudde]

@compuguy1986

Is it possible to boot at df1:? Anyway havent tried.

I have a pc cdrom SCSI (Pioneer 10X) and that one works with my Grands Slam.

[zipper]

There has been some towers for A500 that give you the opportunity
to really max out, as I've done:
A500T in Micronik tower, with 3 ZorroII slots and A2000 CPU slot.
Mobo enhanced to ECS + HD floppy; Blizzard 2060 clocked to 57 MHz,
96 MB fast, CV3D and PicassoII+ or PicassoIV, SCSI CD-Rom, FastSCSI
4 Gig HD, monitor switcher, external flickerfixer, 1.3/3.1 ROM switcher
and for 1.3 use Oktagon2008 + HD + 4MB.

[gnarly]

A500T in Micronik tower, with 3 ZorroII slots and A2000 CPU slot. Mobo enhanced to ECS + HD floppy; Blizzard 2060 clocked to 57 MHz, 96 MB fast, CV3D and PicassoII+ or PicassoIV, SCSI CD-Rom, FastSCSI 4 Gig HD, monitor switcher, external flickerfixer, 1.3/3.1 ROM switcher and for 1.3 use Oktagon2008 + HD + 4MB.

Bloody hell! Thats the A500 I always wanted. Alas my A500Plus never got beyond 2mb RAM, A590 20mb HDD and a MediaVision Reno CD drive/discman.

My mum still uses it for MegaBall and Bally :-)

Wow! That is a 500!

Another queston. Does anybody have a list or setup that is the ultimate? Tower or no. What I mean is, are there certian definitive upgrades that are considered the best? What is a maxed out A500? I build PC's so my brain kinda works on this "what is the best mode."  

Does your A500 detect disks in all those drives? I have read that sometimes with PC to Amiga floppy mods that while the drives work the Amiga does not automatically display what is in the drive like it does on a genuine Amiga drive.

[fjudde]

Does your A500 detect disks in all those drives? I have read that sometimes with PC to Amiga floppy mods that while the drives work the Amiga does not automatically display what is in the drive like it does on a genuine Amiga drive.

Actually I don't really know but what I remember I have never noticed such behavior, but I can't be completely sure. Since I've been moving around lately, I have all my belongings in boxes. So I can't test it for you. But I can tell you that I could run them all att the same time. For an example: DF0: Formating, DF1: copy to DF2:, DF3: Virus scan. Plus a lot of other programs running (Powerpacker,scenery, ADpro etc.) just to demo the multitasking ability to friends.

[Damion]

I've got a GVP '030 40mhz laying around somewhere...
Never tried it really, it was actually given to
me by a friend that didn't want it anymore. He
was probably going to toss it otherwise.

Cool. This seems to be a popular upgrade expansion. Yet I can never figure out from the info. online what it includes. I think it is just an external processer, but I am not sure. Do you know know what it has?

[ikir]

COLDFIRE NOW :-D

[Ilwrath]

I've got a GVP '030 40mhz laying around somewhere...
Never tried it really, it was actually given to
me by a friend that didn't want it anymore. He
was probably going to toss it otherwise.

Nice....  I had forgotten...  A friend of mine had a GVP '030 expansion for his 500...  It really was the Ferrari of A500 expansions back in the day.  You could add FastRAM (GVP SIMMS), a hard drive, and even the GVP 286 emulator, I believe.  And it all fit in a very nice case made out of exactly the same type of plastic as the stock A500, so it looked very natural sitting there hooked to the side expansion.

Anyways when/if you find the directions to the floppy converson give me a pm or email.