Hi All,
I have an Amiga 2000 , I would like to upgrade it, as cheap as possible!
Upgrading the A2000 is easy... You can make it as cheap or as expensive as you want.
I want to be able to connect to internet/network and watch movies
Forget it. You are much better of by digging up a free P166MMX with Windows 98 or NT4. And I'm serious on that.
It is not difficult to get a classic Amiga like the A2000 on the net. E-mail, FTP, chat and the like will work quite nicely. But browsing the web on a classic Amiga is pure hell. The available browsers lack anything but the most basic internet technology (css anyone?), need more cpu power than even a 68060 expanded classic Amiga can deliver and then I'm not even talking about watching movies. You mean, like Youtube? Now thát is hilarious! :-D
I'm not bashing the Amiga, but take the girl for what it is: an extremely nice retro computer, still usable in many ways. But surfing the web is not one of those...
Upgrade roms to ? on 2091
Increase memory on 2091 and 2058 with 41C1000 (?) chips[FONT="][/FONT]
Add accelerator card
Add RJ45 card
add a video card
Replace any of the chips on MB?
My suggestion? Put in Kickstart 3.1. Upgrade the roms on the A2091 to 7.0. Max out the ram on both the A2091 & A2058. Put in a flicker fixer, such as the A2320 or the more capable Indivision ECS. I expect you have a 40 MB hard drive, not a 40 GB one? If so, put in a nice 4 GB one. Replace clock battery!
That gives you a pretty nice classic A2000.
You want more? An accelerator card would also be nice. Jens seems to be preparing to make a new one for both the A500 and A2000. Looking at the ones he made for both the A600 and A1200, they will most likely be very nice, though they will not be the fastest ones available.
You could also expand your A2000 even further with an ethernet card and an RTG card. But by now, you are going to need serious money.
