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Title: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: fiat1100d on November 20, 2006, 08:55:29 AM

Hi everybody!

Just subscribed Amiga.org hoping to find a bit more life than on the newsgroups, which unfortunately are, day after day, becaming like a desert :-(

I do own the following Amigas: A600, A1200, A4000T, A500 and an A500+ motherboard for which I built a Zorro II + CPU slot expansion board a couple of years ago.

Now I am trying to get information about software for building a custom "3.9" ROM to be burned into EPROMs rather than having to buy one of those expensive Kickflash adapters.

Ciao!

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: keropi on November 20, 2006, 09:07:16 AM

expensive? a kickflash is ~35eur...

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: McVenco on November 20, 2006, 09:20:50 AM

Welcome to A.org!

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: fiat1100d on November 20, 2006, 09:24:29 AM

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keropi wrote:
expensive? a kickflash is ~35eur...

Well, yes, I bought pin compatible EPROMs for much less and so I find that board expensive, plus it wastes a slot :-)

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: keropi on November 20, 2006, 10:00:30 AM

so you have the eeprom writer too? that is not that cheap...

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: amigakit on November 20, 2006, 10:02:17 AM

Welcome.

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: philipj on November 20, 2006, 10:20:20 AM

Hi and welcome,

I only signed up yesterday after a year of thinking I didn't need to!

I guess the nostalgia got to me in the end. :roll:

Nice collection of Amigas; do you have the original Commodore 4000T?

I'll never forget when my Dad got me and my family the Amiga 500+ when I was 8 years old - it was like a whole new world was opened up! I've still got it today, even though it's been through the wars of my childhood.

Hope you stick around.

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: fiat1100d on November 20, 2006, 10:27:59 AM

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keropi wrote:
so you have the eeprom writer too? that is not that cheap...

Bought an "ancient" one on eBay a couple of years ago for about 60 euro, it is very useful to me. It is PC-based and I use it on my A4000T thanks to an A2286 bridgeboard ;-)

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: fiat1100d on November 20, 2006, 10:29:59 AM

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philipj wrote:
Nice collection of Amigas; do you have the original Commodore 4000T?

No it is an Amiga Technologies one. Unfortunately it is not perfect, since the onboard Fast RAM isn't seen. I had RAMSEY replaced but it didn't solve the problem :-(

I have an Apollo 4060 turbo board on it, with 64 MB of memory,  because since some time it doesn't work fine with 128 MN anymore :boohoo:

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: AlbyVai on November 20, 2006, 03:44:06 PM

Ciao, e benvenuto! Ci siamo sentiti per email tempo fa!

Giampietro  :-)

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: tonyvdb on November 20, 2006, 04:15:30 PM

Hello fiat1100d,

Welcome to Amiga.org Enjoy your stay.

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: Andeda on November 20, 2006, 07:44:51 PM

Hi there, and welcome to this wonderful site.

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: mariom990 on November 20, 2006, 08:58:24 PM

Me too fiat1100d (great car indeed :-D ) welcome there...

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: Waran on November 20, 2006, 10:31:10 PM

Benvenuto a amiga.org e tanti saluti della Svizzera!  :-)

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: _yak_ on November 21, 2006, 12:00:56 AM

@ fiat1100d

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Just subscribed Amiga.org hoping to find a bit more life than on the newsgroups, which unfortunately are, day after day, becaming like a desert

You won't regret it. Amiga.org is a very living place with a lot of friendly people happy to help you out. Welcome and enjoy your stay.

Title: Re: Greetings from Italy!
Post by: fiat1100d on November 21, 2006, 10:16:48 PM

Thank you guys!

While listing my Amigas, I forgot what I think is the most interesting one, the CDTV equipped with a rare SCSI controller :-)