30 Year Old Amiga Still Workin' It

[MiAmigo]

Here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/theres-30-year-old-commodore-amiga-still-controlling-heat-ac-19-public-schools/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=DT%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=DT%20Newsletter%202015-06-16:hammer:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I love how this story is bringing Amiga users out of the woodwork, but c'mon, the picture in *that article* isn't even one of the right computer!  :p

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69365

[giZmo350]

Dear Lord I know I started it but, plz let me stop it! :hammer:

[tonyvdb]

Honestly, who cares if a 30+ year old Amiga is still in service. dont we all have Amiga's in service at home doing things on a regular basis? Im sure if you look hard enough you'll find many Amiga's still in a building doing some sort of work. Even with HD I would not be surprised if there is still even a Video Toaster doing some sort of behind the scenes TV production out there.

[giZmo350]

I would not be surprised if there is still even a Video Toaster doing some sort of behind the scenes TV production out there.

I'm working on it! :biglaugh: Gonna try to get my Sunrize card working with AHI V6 this week! Oh, and check to see if the Toaster software works with OS3.9...

[tonyvdb]

Did you know that Newtek still honers the warrentee on those Toaster and Flyer cards. I had to get one of my cards fixed a couple years ago and they did it free of charge and even payed return shipping. When I spoke to one of the guys on the phone he said as long as they can get parts to fix them they will do it.

[giZmo350]

Did you know that Newtek still honers the warrentee on those Toaster and Flyer cards. I had to get one of my cards fixed a couple years ago and they did it free of charge and even payed return shipping. When I spoke to one of the guys on the phone he said as long as they can get parts to fix them they will do it.

 Wow, I didn't know that! Is that regardless of where the owner purchased it or did it have to be purchased from Newtek? I bought my Toaster stuff from DiscreetFX including a very pricey Flyer board. Come hell or high water, I'm gonna make some sort of production with this Toaster system!!!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I've heard they don't do that anymore.  That they did actually run out of parts, finally.  Search the forums, that's what others have posted.  Still, they made a good run of it!  

[tonyvdb]

Wow, I didn't know that! Is that regardless of where the owner purchased it or did it have to be purchased from Newtek? I bought my Toaster stuff from DiscreetFX including a very pricey Flyer board. Come hell or high water, I'm gonna make some sort of production with this Toaster system!!!

It did not seem to matter where you got it from. I had two systems going at one point only one of them i did buy new from Newtek the other was off ebay.
I only had to do some sort of re-flash to the board as it lost its programming or something like that. Still working great to this day.

[giZmo350]

Glad to hear everything still works great! I finally got two OS's dual booting on the Buddha + TrueIDE and currently struggling to get 2 9GB SCSI HDDs formated for use with the flyer. Trying to format from the SCSI interface of the Bliz. Although, I might be going about that incorrectly as my understanding is that the Flyer card utilizes the SCSI HDDs in a different manner (haven't got that far yet). And I still don't have that cable that goes from the Toaster to the Flyer (which do I need to get SCSI drives working from the Flyer?). Hmmm, anyways, having fun building it!

@OldsMikey... what version of AHI are you using with your Sunrise card?

[tonyvdb]

And I still don't have that cable that goes from the Toaster to the Flyer (which do I need to get SCSI drives working from the Flyer?). Hmmm, anyways, having fun building it!

Yes, the Flyer does use the drives differently but you can simply access those drives from the workbench screen once you put the drive devices into the dev drawer (FA1 FB2 etc...) They will show up on the workbench as drives (see my avatar for screen shot).

Your talking about that short ribbin cable that goes from the toaster card to the flyer card? or the big octapuse cable that goes from the flyer card to the drives? If its the later I have one I dont use.

[mechy]

Did you know that Newtek still honers the warrentee on those Toaster and Flyer cards. I had to get one of my cards fixed a couple years ago and they did it free of charge and even payed return shipping. When I spoke to one of the guys on the phone he said as long as they can get parts to fix them they will do it.

newtek officially announced they dont serivice or work on them anymore. this was about a year ago i think.

mech

[tonyvdb]

newtek officially announced they dont serivice or work on them anymore. this was about a year ago i think.

mech

Oh ok well it was a great run while it lasted

[giZmo350]

Yes, the Flyer does use the drives differently but you can simply access those drives from the workbench screen once you put the drive devices into the dev drawer (FA1 FB2 etc...) They will show up on the workbench as drives (see my avatar for screen shot).

OK, Cool! I'll go that route then....

Your talking about that short ribbin cable that goes from the toaster card to the flyer card? or the big octapuse cable that goes from the flyer card to the drives? If its the later I have one I dont use.

Yes, I'm talking about the ribbon cable. But, actually I need the octopus cable too (maybe you would like to sell?). DiscreetFX told me they sent them but, Mmm, Huh, never got them.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@OldsMikey... what version of AHI are you using with your Sunrise card?

This 'un, sir!  

http://aminet.net/package/driver/audio/AD516-AHI

You'll also need Studio16 software from here:  http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/ad516

Works fine but it doesn't take advantage of the AD516's DSP, so you need a pretty fast processor if you're going to be playing .mp3's or the like with it (unlike the MAS Player or Prisma MegaMix, if it ever gets released, which can do playback with a 68000).  Of course you've already got "fast processor" covered, so...