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Broadband solution for the amiga 500
« on: August 04, 2004, 06:16:12 PM »
I stumbled upon the following link and found there is a broadband solution for the C64!
Broadband C64
I can't believe this can exist and there is nothing for the Amiga 500. I have seen proprietary nic hardware for the Amiga 500 but nothing that gives a TCP/IP stack to connect to a router. Wasn't the Amiga 500 one of the best selling Amiga models? Why is there so little interest for its hardware when so many of my friends had the 500 versus other models? Just food for thought.
 

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Re: Broadband solution for the amiga 500
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2004, 07:56:21 PM »
That would be great, but of course the 500 doesn’t have any Zorro slots that the xsurf requires. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard for the manufacture to make a left expansion slot version for the 500, but again this is a classic example were the A500 gets ignored. I don't understand why these companies don’t make  a 500 version,it just means extra money/sales for them.
 

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Re: Broadband solution for the amiga 500
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2004, 10:22:30 PM »
Interesting Holly.
I have an a530 turbo 40mhz. I see a 99-pin expansion connector that looks like a ribbon cable could hook up to it but no Zorro like slots for any card. If there was a way to connect this up, space wouldn’t be a problem, I would just build a case around whatever mess I end up with.
As far as slingshot or bodega bay goes, they are imposable to find. Note there was something once called a HI-Q tower once. I guess I will have to build a sling shot like device as mentioned earlier. It would just be nice if there were already a complete solution. As far as a market for this I feel many people like me bought there A500 10 or more years ago when they were young and poor, as we grow older and more financialy successful, we now have funds for hardware we couldn't buy in the past. I know this would be a niche for the enthusiasts market, but I bet there are more people than me that would be willing to pay money for "new" devices to expand the 500. I got my old cranky Mac se 30 hooked up to broadband and surfing the Internet with early browsers. There is no reason I see that this cant be done for the 500, a much more capable machine. So come on developers, tap into this undiscovered resource. If the C64 can do it than the might Amiga 500 can do it. YOU CAN DO IT. lol.
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Re: Broadband solution for the amiga 500
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2004, 11:27:07 PM »
Cool, good info Wol. Im having a little trouble reading the grey boxs on the left on the jpg. Is that from Amiga user international? Is that the whole artiicle?
Yea looks like I will be soldering. Thanks for the article, and thanks to all for the great info and ideas here.
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Re: Broadband solution for the amiga 500
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2004, 04:05:25 AM »
@redrumloaa
My goal is to get my amiga 500 hundred on a broadband/network connection simply because I want to, and I like the challenge. The mac thing I mentioned earlier was a little bit of a challenge but I did it. I’m the kind of guy who would try to connect a Univac to broadband if I thought it was possible. I just like the coolness and geekdom involved.
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Re: Broadband solution for the amiga 500
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2004, 08:26:37 PM »
Very interesting red. I didn't know there was an Amiga version of DoubleTalk. I do have several models of Macs so this could work to some extent. Although my main goal is to surf the net/email/ possiable ftp server via broadband.
First I believe that I will have to upgrade my roms from 1.3 to something higher as Miami requires this if I'm not mistaken. There have been some really fascinating ideas generated from this discussion, again thank you to everyone for all the ideas.
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