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Title: Amiga 2000
Post by: pincoo on September 26, 2011, 03:00:04 PM

I've got my new a2000 under my hands and now I wanna upgrade it at all!
 
Can anyone give me an advice on the "state of the art" of an a2000 upgrading?
 
Thank you very much,
 
pincoo

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: B00tDisk on September 26, 2011, 03:32:26 PM

Quote from: pincoo;661395

I've got my new a2000 under my hands and now I wanna upgrade it at all!
 
Can anyone give me an advice on the "state of the art" of an a2000 upgrading?
 
Thank you very much,
 
pincoo

Picasso II or IV, SCSI controller or Buddha IDE controller, USB card, something that'll add fast ram, an accelerator (there was a recent re-run of 060 cards from GVP, you might find one for a not-insane price) and if you want to go with PC stuff, a 2386, bridgeboard etc.

CD-ROM whether added via usb or internally is of course a must.

A chip ram upgrade (2mb megachip if you can find it) should also be on your shopping list.

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: bbond007 on September 26, 2011, 04:27:23 PM

Quote from: B00tDisk;661397

Picasso II or IV, SCSI controller or Buddha IDE controller, USB card, something that'll add fast ram, an accelerator (there was a recent re-run of 060 cards from GVP, you might find one for a not-insane price) and if you want to go with PC stuff, a 2386, bridgeboard etc.

CD-ROM whether added via usb or internally is of course a must.

A chip ram upgrade (2mb megachip if you can find it) should also be on your shopping list.

Softhut did have the TekMagic A2000 060/50MHz for $480. I think there was something funky with the SCSI-2 on that board, but I can't remeber the details. I would contact Joe before ordering :)

If you get a GFX card you may want to skip on the chip ram upgrade...

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: Digiman on September 26, 2011, 10:12:36 PM

Quote from: bbond007;661408

If you get a GFX card you may want to skip on the chip ram upgrade...

Unless of course he also wants standard TV output graphics with or without a genlock, to do any hobby programming or just use decent quality high frequency samples in MOD tunes ;)

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: B00tDisk on September 27, 2011, 12:04:32 AM

Quote from: Digiman;661449

Unless of course he also wants standard TV output graphics with or without a genlock, to do any hobby programming or just use decent quality high frequency samples in MOD tunes ;)

Yes yes and yes.  There's plenty of reasons to have maximum Chip RAM beyond just display.

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: orange on September 27, 2011, 04:18:39 PM

perhaps it might be better to invest in Zorro3 Amiga.
I noticed that A2000 with '040 doesn't feel much faster than '030 A3000.
though it might have been misconfigured.

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: Robert17 on September 27, 2011, 05:44:17 PM

The Funk with the Tekmagic 2060 is that the onboard SCSI Can only boot from a partition that is formatted using a filesystem that is held in ROM, i.e FastFileSystem only.

You can use other filesystems, but you have to mount those partitions later on.

A Zorro 3 based amiga would be faster in use, but where's the fun in that? :-p

Robert

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: cha05e90 on September 27, 2011, 07:30:21 PM

Quote from: orange;661544

though it might have been misconfigured.

Seems so. My A2000/040 (40MHz, Blizzard 2040) runs circles around a standard A3000/030. And my A2000/060 (Blizzard 2060) is even more snappier... :D

Title: Re: Amiga 2000
Post by: Nostalgiac on September 27, 2011, 08:17:32 PM

Quote from: cha05e90;661567

Seems so. My A2000/040 (40MHz, Blizzard 2040) runs circles around a standard A3000/030. And my A2000/060 (Blizzard 2060) is even more snappier... :D

same here, when i had my 2630/2mb card I was almost as fast (5% slower ... but that is a guess from 18 years ago) as a stock A3000 a friend had. So even a 040 should be quite nice

Tom UK