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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: masteroku on December 14, 2010, 05:06:48 AM
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Hello, name is Daniel. Glad that I had found this place, cause I just bought an Amiga 2000. I am interested in the amiga computer cause since I started using computers(since the 5th grade), I thought only two machines were on the market, PC and Mac, until beginning of this year have i found out that there was third machine that competed with the two others. Since then, my interest for the amiga has grown. I bought my A2000 barely a week ago, so I am almost completely new to the Amiga system. I had experimented with AROS(Amiga Research OS), so I know a good deal of Amiga OS.
I got a few questions that I love to have answers for...
My A2000 does not have a hard drive, I want one, so far i found these two item on ebay for sale, they are two SCSI controllers, one 2091 other 2090.
-Will these enable me two install any SCSI hard drive?
-Which controller would be best?
-And will I need any software to install them or is it a "plug and play" setting?
Thank you so much in advance, and I hope to get to learn more of the Amiga computer system.
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Hey! Always good to see another Amiga user in the USA...so many of the folks here seem to be across the pond, so it's nice to have a little balance :) amiga.resource.cx (http://amiga.resource.cx/) is your best friend when it comes to upgrade information. In this case, it looks like the primary differences between the 2090 and the 2091 are that the 2090 also supports Shugart-standard hard disks (not very useful in this day and age, but there you go,) but does not support booting from the hard disk (very not useful.) The 2091 can auto-boot, and also supports XT-IDE disks, for what that's worth (another format nobody uses anymore except us vintage computer enthusiasts.)
The 2091 is most likely your better option, but I do have a GVP Impact SCSI controller (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/impact2000hc) that you can have for the cost of shipping. It's nothing fancy, but it does work and supports auto-boot. (As for software, auto-boot requires Kickstart 1.3 or newer - I have a spare KS1.3 ROM too, I believe.)
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Welcome aboard :)
The amiga is quite an amazing beast. When you consider what it could do, when it came out, it becomes clear why people speak of it almost as a religious thing
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Welcome to the nuthouse... :)
Now your an official Amigan your duty is to tell everyone you know just how much better the Amiga is than any other computer or console... :)
If not we'll set Doomy on you... :eek:
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Welcome to the nuthouse... :)
Now your an official Amigan your duty is to tell everyone you know just how much better the Amiga is than any other computer or console... :)
If not we'll set Doomy on you... :eek:
nnnnnnooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! anything but Doomy! :laughing::roflmao:
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Either SCSI card is handy but If you can get a 030 combo accelerator card (SCSI, Memory + 030 Processor) like this one in canada: http://cgi.ebay.com/GVP-030-Accelerator-Rev4-COMPLETE-AMIGA-2000-/300500990780?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item45f7413b3c
With one of these your A2000 will be a quite usable machine with a 3.1 rom and OS. U Should be able to pick one up on eBay cheaper.
Or maybe get a 2091 and a Accelerator like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-Amiga-2000-Cpu-UPGRADE-A2630-030-25mhz-w-4mb-/320628573350
If you can afford it and it works.
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Awsome, glad you all accepted me as part of the club. I will definitely buy a SCSI controller soon hopefully, and enjoy my amiga even more. I also hope to one day to buy the new AmigaOS 4.1, just need to get a machine that will run it(for instance the sam motheboards).
Where Amiga systems sold all over the US, or where they sold mostly in the nothern regions(nothern states)?I live in Texas so, I want to go to the flee markets or salvation armies or goodwill, to find Amiga parts or computers. Where will be the best bet to find Amiga stuff?
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Awsome, glad you all accepted me as part of the club. I will definitely buy a SCSI controller soon hopefully, and enjoy my amiga even more. I also hope to one day to buy the new AmigaOS 4.1, just need to get a machine that will run it(for instance the sam motheboards).
Where Amiga systems sold all over the US, or where they sold mostly in the nothern regions(nothern states)?I live in Texas so, I want to go to the flee markets or salvation armies or goodwill, to find Amiga parts or computers. Where will be the best bet to find Amiga stuff?
Welcome! (Don't become too discouraged by all the infighting here.) Regarding used Amiga gear, your best bet may be to peruse eBay, and users of Amiga.org in the US have stuff for sale on occasion too. Amiga was sold everywhere in the states, but flea markets are certainly going to be hit or miss. I may be able to help if you need something in particular. (I'm located in Connecticut.)
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I know of at least one other Amiga user in Texas, but I don't know how common Amiga stuff is down there. You can check thrift stores, but a lot of them are, unfortunately, not carrying computers anymore, since they don't usually distinguish between older machines with an active hobbyist community and plain old junker PCs (and you can imagine how many of those would get dumped there.) A better place to look would be your local recycling center; usually they'll let you have what you find there for less than or equal to its scrap value, and sometimes the sorters will even keep an eye out for stuff for you, if you ask nicely :) Finally, if you have a local county newspaper, sometimes they'll let residents put in free classified ads - this is a great way to locate systems that would otherwise be thrown out to make room in someone's attic.
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Awsome, glad you all accepted me as part of the club.
Club? This is a club?
Meh...Welcome to the insanasilum that is the org...You'll never leave... :)
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Club? This is a club?
Meh...Welcome to the insanasilum that is the org...You'll never leave... :)
I agree with that one.
The Amiga is an amazing machine.
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Yeah, I know ebay is the best place to look for amiga stuff. I also just notice that there is a marketplace forum in this website. Gonna check those out. Have any of you tried the AmigaOS 4.0 or AROS? AROS is prettty awsome(thats what got me into amiga), hopefully the developer team can get out a very stable AROS version soon.
Meh...Welcome to the insanasilum that is the org...You'll never leave...
Yep, never gonna leave the org, thats cool. I feel like that guy from the California Hotel song...
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Yeah, I know ebay is the best place to look for amiga stuff. I also just notice that there is a marketplace forum in this website. Gonna check those out. Have any of you tried the AmigaOS 4.0 or AROS? AROS is prettty awsome(thats what got me into amiga), hopefully the developer team can get out a very stable AROS version soon.
Yep, never gonna leave the org, thats cool. I feel like that guy from the California Hotel song...
Dunno what setup you have but OS4.0 on a 240Mhz PPC is slower than dying from AIDS... :)
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Welcome aboard Masteroku! I've got a handful of SCSI goodies and other misc. A2000 peripherals if you're interested in 'em. PM sent.
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Welcome aboard Masteroku! I've got a handful of SCSI goodies and other misc. A2000 peripherals if you're interested in 'em. PM sent.
Gawd the poor guys just in the front door and the pushers are after him already... ;)
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Dunno what setup you have but OS4.0 on a 240Mhz PPC is slower than dying from AIDS... :)
Correction. On your 240MHz it is. It works just fine on my 240MHz 603e/256MB, as did MorphOS 1.4.5 when I last tried it. I suggest, therefore, that mileage varies.
Then again, you find that WarpOS apps run slower than PowerUp ones. There was plenty wrong with WarpOS, particularly with the benefit of hindsight (using the poweropen ABI rather than the system v one, for instance), but context switch performance was most assuredly not one of them. Since that tended to dominate the performance of well-written applications on both kernels, I found the reverse to be true there too.
I think there's just something weird going on with your system :lol:
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@ Karlos
Look... just cos you had the BVision board doesn't mean there something wrong with my BPPC (although I'm begining to wonder...) It simply runs plain old PPC code a lot faster than WarpOS stuff, why I don't know but testing the same PPC or WarpOS software the benchmarks show WarpOS stuff to be a lot slower... :)
Now if you want to sell me your BVison board I'd be able to run some new tests on OS4.0 and report back the difference... ;)
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Gawd the poor guys just in the front door and the pushers are after him already... ;)
Hey, if it wasn't for us "pushers" - newbies would just end up screwin' the pooch on 'un-tested', overpriced dingy junk off ePay - that ironically, is going to end up coming right straight back here for help anyway :lol:
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hello new amiga-user!if youre searching for a nice new amiga-system you should take a look at amigakit or relec. they have really nice amiga-ppc systems for sale.
have fun with your new love, the amiga is such a wonderful computer!
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This place rocks man, I'm getting all kinds amiga stuff offers man, crazy. I wish i could try the OS4.1, but got no machines that can run that. I was only able to try AROS which I believe is like the OS4. I tried it live on my PC, works well, still had a lot of bugs, even had it installed as my third os(have linux, windows and AROS).
Is the AmigaShell(or command line) a lot like MS-DOS? does it have the same commands as DOS? My 1st pc only had MS-DOS(later got Win 3.1), so I had to learn the command line to access files and of course me favorite, games. I have my A2000 but I have yet to use it cause i am still waiting for the workbench 1.3 disks to arrive by mail(seller forgot to add them).
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The AmigaDOS shell is kind of a weird hybrid of MS-DOS and Unix, commands-wise, but it's mostly similar to DOS. There's a reference here. (http://winuaehelp.back2roots.org/background/amigados.htm)
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Awsome, glad you all accepted me as part of the club. I will definitely buy a SCSI controller soon hopefully, and enjoy my amiga even more. I also hope to one day to buy the new AmigaOS 4.1, just need to get a machine that will run it(for instance the sam motheboards).
Where Amiga systems sold all over the US, or where they sold mostly in the nothern regions(nothern states)?I live in Texas so, I want to go to the flee markets or salvation armies or goodwill, to find Amiga parts or computers. Where will be the best bet to find Amiga stuff?
Amiga stuff was all over the USA. I am in central texas(where are you located btw?).
these days your best bet is probabaly ebay and or amigakit.com and softhut.com
some people have good luck on craigslist.
Mike
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I live in Houston,
What do you guys think of the revival of the Amiga computer?
Is there a chance for the Amiga to be like it was back in the good ol' days?
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I live in Houston,
What do you guys think of the revival of the Amiga computer?
Is there a chance for the Amiga to be like it was back in the good ol' days?
this would be nice to see! but always keep in mind, there IS new amiga-hardware (sam440/460, soon the x1000) and also good used hardware (pegasus, amigaone etc.). amigaos4.1.2 works well and gets updates from time to time. morphos is a great system which is amigaos4 compatible with os4emu and works on powermacs too. and even the classic-amigas will get amigaos4.1 soon (ppc-only). amigaos4 already exists for classic-amigas. aros is also on a good way, soon it will also be able to run classic-amigaos1-3.9 stuff with a new soon to be built in 68k emu (ppc/os4 built-in emulation would also be nice but needs time). have fun with the amiga, i have!!
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Welcome Daniel! I'm pretty new here too. :)