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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: mdv2000 on April 20, 2009, 03:41:57 AM
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Can a stock Amiga 2000 HD run the original Amiga UX that came with the 2500UX models?
Just wondering....
Thanks,
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Stock? As in 68000 and 1MB of RAM? No. Check the requirements (http://www.amigaunix.com).
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Great Link Matt - and once again without an Accelerator, I am out of luck! They just sooooo expensive!
Oh well, maybe I can get it to work in UAE! I just always wanted to mess with it. I remember reviewing colleges when I was in high school and saw schools like Virginia Tech (Computer Engineering) could use Amigas with Unix for their curriculum...
Thanks for the info!
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mdv2000 wrote:
Great Link Matt - and once again without an Accelerator, I am out of luck! They just sooooo expensive!
Oh well, maybe I can get it to work in UAE! I just always wanted to mess with it. I remember reviewing colleges when I was in high school and saw schools like Virginia Tech (Computer Engineering) could use Amigas with Unix for their curriculum...
Thanks for the info!
But wait, you need only a cheapo A2620 or A2630, right? At least that's what the 2500UX housed.
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Yeah, AMIX would be interesting to get running in WinUAE. It's a challenge because it relies on some very specific hardware components. WinUAE is starting to get into the emulation of specifics, but I don't know if it's fully there yet.
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Until UAE emulates a MMU who will be out of luck.
But if one is really into such things he could try to run down a copy of Minix.....
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But wait, you need only a cheapo A2620 or A2630, right? At least that's what the 2500UX housed.
Cheapo huh? Wonder where I could get one... haven't seen one of those for sale yet on ebay or Amibay - everthing I see is normally expensive - well over $100!
If anyone had one at the right price - I'd buy one, but haven't seen on yet!
BTW, Thanks for the info!
Mike
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And just how much is "the right price"?
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Until UAE emulates a MMU who will be out of luck.
I thought that had been added sometime in the past few years. Guess not. Oh well.
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You just can't buy an accelerator for an amiga below 100 $. That's just wishful thinking.
A2630 or 2630 are pretty low end accelerators though, so around 100$ should be the right price. GVP 030's should be 100$-200$ (depending on how much RAM they have on) and 040-060 should be above 200$-300$ mark (AMIX won't run on 040-060 though AFAIK, so beware)
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mdv2000 wrote:
But wait, you need only a cheapo A2620 or A2630, right? At least that's what the 2500UX housed.
Cheapo huh? Wonder where I could get one... haven't seen one of those for sale yet on ebay or Amibay - everthing I see is normally expensive - well over $100!
If anyone had one at the right price - I'd buy one, but haven't seen on yet!
BTW, Thanks for the info!
Mike
What do you think is a fair price? (I have extras.)
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Dave,
I don't know what others would consider "fair", but with hardware this old you have to weigh scarcity/demand/reliability all together. I guess its only worth what you can get for it or willing to pay for it! And being a free market person I am, if you can get more, then do so because it is what I would do! To me about $75 + shipping is all I could pay for an A2620/2630 accelerator.
Thanks,
Mike
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Ahem - not an exactly Amiga-ish proposal, but why not run Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD on a cheap piece of PeeCee hardware? Amix doesn't really feel very Amiga actually (does any U*ix?). It's a very interesting piece of software in its own right, but there's nothing cheap modern hardware can't do.
For the sake of 'modern OS hits ancient hardware' I've resurrected a PowerMac 9500 running Mac OS Tiger (a BSD derivate with a Mach kernel) - just slightly younger than a 4000 and rather cheap.