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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: lymang on December 08, 2005, 10:43:38 PM

Title: Accelerator
Post by: lymang on December 08, 2005, 10:43:38 PM

Well OK!  The great Amiga.org folks spoke and gave me everything I could have needed on the Kickstart thread.  So having upgraded to 1.3, and gotten opinions on my next kickstart upgrade, I nevertheless decided to try the accelerator.  It's a GVP 68030 card with the RAM expansion (8MB, there's other slots not full either!) and the hard drive controller (it came with a hard drive too!)

I plugged it into the slot, attached the hard drive (guessing at the Pin 1 orientation since nothing on the socket that normally indicates it was there) with the cable the eBay seller provided, and fired it up.  Voila!! It worked first time and I have a DH0 (233MB) on my screen and a RAM Disk too.  It looks like the seller ran the default install/format utility on the drive as there isn't very much there.

This is not so much a question (yet) just more of a comment on my success (which has been good so far).

I have to admit, I have no idea how to "shut down" the amiga other than just turning it off, but of course that scares me now that I have a hard drive.

Next, I move to the software forum for some postings about how to get games onto my hard drive, now that it is all up and running!!

Lyman Green

Title: Re: Accelerator
Post by: itix on December 08, 2005, 10:50:57 PM

The shutdown procedure on Amiga is similar to MS-DOS. I.e. just turn
it off.

Title: Re: Accelerator
Post by: Markus_Bieler on December 08, 2005, 10:56:39 PM

You can just switch it off. The only thing you should look at:

If the drive-light is on wait until it is off. (Floppy and HD-light)

There is no shutdown function in the OS

Title: Re: Accelerator
Post by: lymang on December 08, 2005, 11:45:53 PM

Thanks guys.  It's just not something I'm familiar with - it's been a LONG time since I had a system I could just shut off.

Lyman

Title: Re: Accelerator
Post by: aardvark on December 09, 2005, 12:23:24 AM

As far as i'm concerned, that is the chief advantage of an Amiga.  I have seen 7.0 roms for accelerators on Ebay, though not frequently.

Title: Re: Accelerator
Post by: Argus on December 09, 2005, 12:16:02 PM

I would next add a cdrom drive to your setup, any scsi cd rom should work.  Ralph Babel, the creator of the guru rom for the gvp boards, has a web site where you may download a wb 1.3 compatible cdrom filesystem.  check it out.

Title: Re: Accelerator
Post by: PPC on December 09, 2005, 12:19:56 PM

Quote

lymang wrote:
Thanks guys.  It's just not something I'm familiar with - it's been a LONG time since I had a system I could just shut off.

Lyman

 :laughing:  

Yup the Amiga does not keep you waiting around  :-D