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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: hppacito on October 20, 2005, 03:56:55 PM
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Hallo everybody !
Finally I decided to buy an A500, after dreaming years and more years over the machines I never had !.
I know that probably an A1200 would had been a better choice, but I want it just for fun, to learn a bit, and to modify it a bit, due to my electronics background. Let's see what can be done... there is a lot of Amiga sites that don't exist anymore. I hope it is not that late.
Greetings... btw, I'm doing my phd in Physical Organic Chemistry !
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Hello and welcome, This site is one of, if not the best for Amiga users. I have been here for many years, but just started being active and posting a few months ago. If you are like most people, having an A500 will just whet your appetite for Amigas and you will want bigger, better, faster ones after you expand the A500 as far as you can.
Good luck on your pHd!
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Good choice!!! and welcome aboard.
Expanding the amiga 500 could be fun, but some accelerators are hard to find nowadays, keep trying!!.
With 1Mb of ram you could run ALL the software of kick 1.3, and all the games!!!! I recently had upgraded mine with a 512kb expansion and it rocks!!!!.
Hello and good gaming with your 500.
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Willkommen :pint:
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Cool, another Amiga user! Welcome!
The A500 is just the start... before you know it, you'll end up with a full collection! Only another six to get! :-D
- Ali
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Thanks for the warm welcome !
The first mod will be the DB-23 to Scart, to see any colors...
Igot a couple of DB-23 in a "Mac II emulation" dongle, without the roms... is quite interesting piece of hw... I'm wondering if that can act as another floppy on its own... has a couple of 74LS393 besides the rom sockets... I have to make a schematic.
After that, I'll add 2 megs of Fast RAM, using one of the circuits from aminet/hacks.
btw, I was wondering if the 68k can be run asyncronously with regard to the main 7MHz clock... I'll have to test it. As I don't know if I'll be able to get a 68hc000... I got a 68010P10... with an inverter and a 10MHz clock... I can get a bit more power...
lte's see :roll:
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Welcome!
Good decision. Greetings to Freiburg!
mfg
textory
munich
@InTheSand: Right! I already got 50% of the collection!
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Welcome dude!
:-)
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@Textory: which ones do you have?
I've got A1000, A500, A3000, A600, A1200... Just need to find a cheap A2000 and A4000 from a New Zealand seller and I'll be sorted! :-D
- Ali
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@InTheSand
Well, I got a A2000 (schizophrenic, because it has a 8088 bridgeboard inside...), A1200, two A500 (one of them with greenscreen, one day I'll fix it... promise!) and a very very dead A600.
The two A500 count as one A1000? ;-)
Ah... and a C64, but once (1991?) it was drowned in beer. You know the effects of liquids on circuits... >sigh<. I just kept the carcass ... nostalgia.
Hope you find an A2000/4000. In the German eBay.de are some offers, but I guess the shipping to New Zealand will double the price...
Good luck!
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The first you have to do, or at least, is what i would do, is to get rgb output from the machine by making an RGB cable.
You can easily obtain a hard-to-find db23 from a {bleep} cheap db25 by cutting the unused 2 pin part, and viola. You´re done.
Then, if you feel adventureous, you can do really fun things with the 500.
That machine its hack-o-matic of the computers. Mine its running 14mhz 68000 with different clocks on the same mobbo in order to keep the customs running ok. You can easily do a zorro and cpu slot expander, so you can add cards to the 500, like 68060, scsi, ram, ethernet, graphics, sound, eprom burners....
Like i said... damn fine and fun machine
regards
-DEQ
PD: Mmmm there is a custom kickstart module floating arounf the net for A500 and 2k machines ;)
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@InTheSand
Only another six to go!
Is that including the AmigaOne :-)
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Hi, and welcome aboard. The A500 is a good first choice. I'm sure you'll get hooked on the Amiga crack and spend all your time on ebay now looking for more toys.
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textory wrote:
Ah... and a C64, but once (1991?) it was drowned in beer.
I would like to be drowned in some good German beer ;-)
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@ DeQuevedo,
I have a Zorro II slot expander for the A500/A1000, but have never seen or heard of a A2000 CPU slot hack for the A500, please tell me more.
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@ InTheSand,
You are forgetting the A3000T, A4000T, CDTV and CD32 to complete your collection. I am almost there with the following:
1 - A1000 (my original w/Spirit Insider 1.5mb RAM & AdIDE)
1 - A1000 (dead gift to be converted to WinUAE PC machine)
1 - A500 w/GVP A530/40mHz 030 & 6882
1 - A500 w/Supra SCSI and 14mHz AdSpeed
1 - A2000 project waiting to be resurrected w/recent 060 card
2 - A3000D's w/WarpEngine 040/40mHz & SCSI-2
1 - A3000D dead eBay (purchased for cards installed) project
1 - A4000D dead eBay (purchased for cards installed) project
1 - A4000D converted to Power Tower w/060 50mHz & PPC 233mHz
1 - A4000D converted to Toaster Oven
1 - A4000T main Toaster machine
1 - A1200 060 w/SCSI-2 64mb RAM
1 - A1200HD Magic Pack Brand New in box turned on once
1 - CDTV
1 - CD32 w/SX-1 purchased from Jim Drew (Emplant/Mac emulator programmer)
1 - CD32 Brand New in box never opened
Amiga Forever/WinUAE installed on every PC and Mac in the house.
I am missing the A3000T and an A600HD. Once I fix up some of these project machines, maybe I can find someone to trade with so I can complete my collection. Jeeze, I must be one sick puppy to still have all these old antiques taking up all this space!
P.S. My sister and brother-in-law live in New Zealand and I was just there, all over the North Island in February. Beautiful place. We could make a deal and I'll pack an Amiga or two with me on my next visit. :-D
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thats one f*cking big collection
you must be rich or something :-o
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Greetings, welcome to Amiga.org!
I just traded an A500, I still have an old (but complete) A1000 system here.
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@ SamOS39,
No, not rich in any sense of the word (monetarily anyway, currently off work due to injury with no other income coming in and my life savings is disappearing month by month), but I have been steadily collecting since 1987 and have never sold any of my Amigas (yet), so that explains why so many. I had several of them setup a few years back and taught some local neighbor kids how computers work just for fun for a while. My intention in keeping several right now is to network them and create a Video Toaster/Flyer render farm with at least 5 nodes of 040 and 060 A2000, A3000s & A4000s. I have a wireless NIC to setup for the A1200/060 so maybe it will join in the rendering fun too. If you think my hardware collection is huge, you should see the software collection that goes with it. I really need to start thinning this collection down to what I want to keep and put the rest on eBay, but for fanatics like me, it is hard to let these items go as most are reminders of many fond memories.
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@Amigadave
Ain't that the truth, it's tough to let go of an Amiga. I have so many now they're flowing out of the closet. An to think after the Gateway/Amiga/Amino debacles (around '98 of so) I sold a bunch and pared down to just one A4000/060, A3000/060/PPC and an A2000/030. For a long time I hardly used them, checking email every now and then. But about a year ago I got the urge to start using them again and have bought a whole mess of others, fixed a few and treated myself to models I never owned, like the A1200.....even bought a ppc card for it!
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Cyberus wrote:
Willkommen :pint:
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