Another New/Old Amiga user

[redfox]

@KatManDEW

A late welcome, but welcome to the group.

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redfox

[rkauer]

KatManDEW wrote:
What's the best photo/image editor for the Amiga? Can I convert PC images to use on my Workbench screen?

 If you don't mind to use a paint program (not exactly what you want), Cloanto (the same company who make Amiga Explorer) have their paint program for free.

Is DOpus 5.xx still available?

 Nope. But new 4.15 is available for free.

I received a registration key for MUI, named MUI.KEY, but I don't know what to do with it?

 A hat? A paper airplane? Nah, just toss the unpacked key into the L drawer.

 

 Would a Highway USB Controller with Norway Ethernet for Highway USB be OK instead of an X-Surf?

  Subway is an USB controller for the A1200! Norway is (sadly) out of production.

 But why on hearth you want USB? "Because I can?" If you want just Ethernet, check what kind of bridgeboard you have and toss an old, trusted ISA NIC into your A2000!

If you were going had an A2000, and you wanted to get another Amiga, would you get a A1200, or a A3000, or a A4000, or an ACube? Something with a tower case?

 I'm a die-hard fan of "classic" Amiga. I have some here. My favourite is the A2000, hands down.

 Notice that I have a towerized A1200 with a 040 CPU, 64Mb Fast RAM, Mediator, Voodoo card, PCI Ethernet NIC and big HD and DVD.

 And Acube is the maker of the SAM 440ep board, not the name of the computer.

Have you ever heard of using a memory card as a hard disk? I saw something about someone using on on a website...

How can I repay all of you for all the help?

 As other mentioned, Compact Flash cards (some brands, be warned) works as IDE HDs very well. To use them with your SCSI controller, you need a SCSI to IDE bridge (most famous is the Acard 7720).

 So you need: the CF itself, the IDE to CF adaptor and then the Acard SCSI to IDE. Lightning fast to boot and no moving parts. Prices are not SO "yummy", BE WARNED. Small units are cheap, of course.

[KatManDEW]

Very interesting rkauer. That's an awesome sounding A1200 system you have! I might have to think about getting an A1200 and slowly beefing it up. What do you like about it versus an A3000 or A4000?

Copying my MUI.KEY file to the Libs drawer took care of my MUI registration. Thanks!

How do I utilize the registration info listed on the Make CD site? The registration screen for Make CD has a entry box for "Registration number", and ghosted extry boxes for name and address.

The registration info on that site says:

Serial Number: 555555555
License Key: H8HsRww)7Uz)!iXE5PUMfgP#VymA6

[KatManDEW]

I went digging around in the attic looking for some of my old Amiga stuff, and lo and behold I found a A1000, a external disk drive, and a bare bones A2000 with what appears to be a dead power supply.

Several of my friends had Amiga's, and I forgot that I inherited some of the hardware when they gave up on it.

I still can't find my bridgecard, and the combo audio amp and joystick autofire box that I built.

If I reinstall my bridgecard, and an NIC, how will that work? What network files will I need for MS-DOS? I've never used a network without Windows...

[Amiduffer]

KatManDEW wrote:

How do I utilize the registration info listed on the Make CD site? The registration screen for Make CD has a entry box for "Registration number", and ghosted extry boxes for name and address.

The registration info on that site says:

Serial Number: 555555555
License Key: H8HsRww)7Uz)!iXE5PUMfgP#VymA6

It should work. I entered mine with no problems.

[KatManDEW]

The registration screen asks for "Registration number", as in the attached pic. the info on the site is;
Serial Number: 555555555
License Key: H8HsRww)7Uz)!iXE5PUMfgP#VymA6

The Save and Use buttons, and personal information input boxes are ghosted...

[KatManDEW]

If you were going to get a A1200 starter system, what would you recommend?

[KatManDEW]

I found my bridgecard, but I'm not sure it it's worth reinstalling. It's a 286. I can't remember how it worked, ie: as far as hard drive access. I still have the files and icons for it on the Amiga side.

Also found my home made audio amp box, with joystick/mouse switcher and rapid fires. Whoo hoo!

[KatManDEW]

I got the MakeCD32D beta update, which does not require registration, and I burned a CD with my Migrant, and it worked! Whoo hoo!

I found the app on Aminet which allows the Amiga to use a NIC with the Bridgeboard, so now I've gotta dig around and find an old ISA NIC.

Here's the old girl with my home made audio amp and joystick auto fire box, which is a pretty sweet little deal, if I do say so myself  :-)

[BinoX]

KatManDEW wrote:
If you were going to get a A1200 starter system, what would you recommend?

Depends what you want to do with it...

For a simple system probably just a standard A1200 with a fast RAM expansion or 030 accelerator card with RAM and an IDE adapte so you could plug a CD drive in

[KatManDEW]

After all these years, I finally got some labeling on my home made amplifier, mouse/joystick switcher, with rapid fires :-D

[QuikSanz]

@KatManDEW,

How many watts is your micro amp/switcher?

Chris :-D

[KatManDEW]

I can't remember how many watts, but it's not much. It's plenty for me.

[just4funuk]

A couple of years ago I decided to get an Amiga 2000 that had been sitting around doing nothing up and running. Because I could not aford to purchase an Amiga 4000(Wish I had not sold my A40000 in 1999).

Any way I got the machine up and running with a keyboard I then purchased a Geforce 040 from the USA off ebay.I wanted to get the machine to run one of the newer version's of amiga OS so I purchased Amiga OS 3.5 and also a set of 3.1 Roms for the Amiga 2000 and after doing all this my Fusion forty could not be reconized by the new Kickstart Roms. So I found another Amiga user who blow me som new roms for the Fusion forty so it would work with kick start 3.1.

But I could not get the machine to install OS 3.5 and eventually gave up and the machine has been sitting doing nothing for 2-3 years. Could anyone on here spend some time to help me get OS 3.5 installed.

I have manged to get the machine working with a fuged version of 3.1 and I can Read CD's with it but when I try to install 3.5 it fails.I suspect it may be the ICD is not compatable.

Any pointers or advice would be grateful received. Or if someone has a working startup-sequence on there machine that has the same hardware as me maybe they could post it on here so I can use it.

Amiga 2000
Geforce 040
ICD SCSI controller.

Thanks