Question about Hydra Systems AmigaNet 500

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You're joking, right?  Just looking at the picture I can tell that card doesn't have an RJ45 jack.  So right off the bat I can tell you it won't "just plug in".  Networking on the Amiga is tricky, and moreso if you try to do it with old hardware like that.  You'd be better off to research something like the Plipbox.  Heck, even a Zorro adapter hanging off the side and connected to a modern card like the X-Surf 100 would be a better option for ya.  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I want to do that!! I want to connect the x-surf 100!! Where can I find such adapter? I don't care if it is * naked * without a case. I can always have fun and customize a case for it, if I want too. But that Zorro adapter you mentioned hanging, dangling on the side with x-surf 100 is the real solution I want. Are you saying if I do that, I will go get good speed and can do 512 Kb/sec download and stuff? I am happy with that number.

Again, where can I find the adapter?

I get a couple meg a second on my A2000, so yes, certainly, that speed is possible.  I run MiamiDX (Genesis, Roadshow, or any other TCP/IP stack will do), and plug right into the modern network at my office.  Obviously you're going to want some kind of internal solution that provides accelerator, extra memory, and a hard drive, of course.  Using a network with an unaccelerated, hard-drive-less Amiga isn't going to be very fun.    You might start by researching all those components, and plan carefully what you want to do.  Are you just wanting to download files off Aminet, or be able to browse the web, for example?

The adapter itself, most people make those themselves, I think.  Try posting on Amibay to see if anyone has one for sale?  They come up for sale pretty regularly over there.  Also google search "amiga 500 zorro adapter".  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hehe, well, you can't see that much, but here are inside and  front photos too This baby was going to be demolished, but I happened to rescue it just in time at the recycle center, got it for free with me.

That is a damned shame how people would send a nice system like that to the recycle center.    Kudos for saving her!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

hat then is exactly really is the difference between A500 and the rest of the Amiga system?

A full 32-bit bus?  Probably other things that I'm too tired to think of right now.  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Not sure I know what this means either

Sounds like a sexual thing.  I'd take the @danbeaver route and block this clown.  :hammer: