15 years

[miles]

Well after 15 years of faithfull service my Amiga 3000 died tonight with a loud electrical zapping sound.  Seemed to come from some components around the scsi chip, c182 is burnt and the controller WD chip was so hot I burnt my fingers on it.  She was pissed that I got a PC today!  My SCSI ZIP drive decided to get the Click 'o Death too, just before she died.  Looks like UAE for me now!  Well I now have to deside to get another Miggy or split out the parts and sell them.  Parts are: Cyberstorm060/66/128Mb, KS3.1 ROMs, Buster11, Cybervision64/4Mb, Toccata, Multiface3, A2065, 1.76Mb FDD.  Bugger.  All my disks are SCSI and I am keeping them, so I will have to get a PCI SCSI card for this PC, years worth of software on them, and a bloody big ATX tower to put them in too!  :-(  :-(  :-(  :-(  Oh and all my email contacts and pictures are on the disks to.  :-(

[captainmoomoo]

man, i swear by WinUAE and AmigaForever (get cd version 6) - much faster than any other classic amiga on a good pc, with almost perfect emulation (but that does depend on what u wanna do with it)

[miles]

captainmoomoo wrote:
man, i swear by WinUAE and AmigaForever (get cd version 6) - much faster than any other classic amiga on a good pc, with almost perfect emulation (but that does depend on what u wanna do with it)

This PC does not quite class as good.  Celleron 466 (slot 370) with 128K cache, 256Mb SD RAM, 20Gb, Zip100, 52x CD, 52x24x52 CDRW, S3 3d AGP with 4Mb, SB128, 56K modem.  Would WinUAE be OK?  

I paid NZ $75 for the pc with just 90Mb and 6Gb hdd, added ram, hdd, zip and cdrw that I had spare.

I have ONLY used the Miggy for everything one would use a home computer for these days, played Quake quite well too!  I have Loads of software, lots of it on 3.5 FDD so a catweasel pci would be in order!  Amiga Forever sounds good esp. if it can boot without winblows :-)

[blobrana]

Hum,
sounds ok to run WinUAE on , thoughi would save up and replace that graphics card (a cheap 64Mb S3 Agp is only £25 nowadays), which will help it enormusly with the ,er, graphics...

Good luck...

[that_punk_guy]

That's sad. :-(

You know what you have to do now... Retrofit that case! (If it was still in the original case, that is.)

[Holley]

yeah, with a new Peg or A1 :-)

There's a few people who have mentioned having A3000s that wern't 100% (faulty PSU or just base 16MHz), so it'd be worth keeping an ear to the ground for a replacement.

[StormLord]

Just get an amiga 3000 or even a 4000 barebone they are cheap these days and with all the hardware you already have it will be the cheapest thing than trying to get this celeron machine to run UAE at 060 speeds, because emulation will always be EMULATION. I have a PC ith athlon@3000 and belive my 060/ppc amiga is faster in many thing than this UAE pc. and I don't mean benchmarks I mean everyday usage.

[Floid]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
sounds ok to run WinUAE on , thoughi would save up and replace that graphics card (a cheap 64Mb S3 Agp is only £25 nowadays), which will help it enormusly with the ,er, graphics...

Good luck...

It would help the Windows side with the graphics (to some extent, mostly if you care about 3D), but is this really going tomake any difference to WinUAE at all?

[Argo]

That's my plan. I'm looking for an A3000D case for just such a thing.

[miles]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
sounds ok to run WinUAE on , thoughi would save up and replace that graphics card (a cheap 64Mb S3 Agp is only £25 nowadays), which will help it enormusly with the ,er, graphics......

It's around the same price here $40NZ will get a TNT 2 64Mb card.  Shold help quite a bit with the graphics ;-).

Good luck...

Thanks, just hope my data on hard drive is ok so I can get it back.  It's all backed up...to Amiga ZIP disks and SCSI hard drives...I think I need an Amiga :-)

[miles]

that_punk_guy wrote:
That's sad. :-(

You know what you have to do now... Retrofit that case! (If it was still in the original case, that is.)

Sad but I'm glad it happened while I was here and awake, could have got home (or woke up)to a fire  :-o and I switched the Miggy off as soon as I could reach the switch (5 seconds) so I hope the drives are ok.  I know the zip drive is buggered anyway, no loss, might have a bit of target practice with it over the weekend...will post pics if I do  :-D

edit: It is in a modified AT Full tower case, got the original case here though no plans for it yet...will see ;-)

[miles]

Holley wrote:
yeah, with a new Peg or A1 :-)

There's a few people who have mentioned having A3000s that wern't 100% (faulty PSU or just base 16MHz), so it'd be worth keeping an ear to the ground for a replacement.

Can't afford a new machine, but I am one of them who was gonna wait it out on 68K anyway.  Now I'm stuck on a PC...aaarrrrgggghhhhhhh!  ;-)

I read a local paper a couple of years ago that had a advertisement for a working Amiga 3000 Monitor and extras for $10NZ, I had finished dialing the number given so fast the phone melted! haha, not quite ;-) missed it by 10 minutes, bugger.  Last A4k (030) I noticed went for $350 or so a month ago.