don27dog wrote:
Hello all,
I was home at my parents over the holidays and stumbled on my old Amiga 3000T and decided to bring it back with me.
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After blowing off the dust I noticed I was missing the floppy drive, keyboard and mouse.
I don't have high hopes for this machine but would like to make it functional and boot up some old games and bring back some memories.
Anyway while waiting for the keyboard and mouse I hooked up a monitor tonight and turned on the power.
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a 2.0 Roms (37.175) screen with an animated diskette inserting into a floppy drive. I assume this means the HD isn't booting.
Anyway from here I opened the case and found 3 SCSI hard drives.
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The cd-rom appears to light up, but I don't have any disc's to try in it. So this is where I stand.
You can get replacement floppy drives from
AmigaKit I'd recommend upgrading to the 3.1 roms so that you can try the newer OS versions like 3.9 or at least 3.1. You can get the Roms from AmigaKit as well.
You'll need install disks for the OS. As I said, I'd get the 3.1 ROMS and 3.1 disks to start. That should let you install on one of the good SCSI hard drives.
Play around, have some fun - if you want to go further get a copy of 3.9(so I'm told - I'm still waiting for my ROMs to install 3.5 on my A4000.)
If you do as recommended in the previous post and remove the battery and get just a floppy you can start playing bootable flopy games. (If you have some)
Otherwise, get yourself up and running as I mentioned and then take a look at WHDLoad and ADF files.
I hope that gets you going.
I think you'll also notice that a lot of people here will want your A3000T. I know that I'd love to have one in my collection.
So if you decide to put it back in a closet for 12-13 years, please consider shipping it to my "closet" I'll pay shipping and give her a good home. :-D