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Offline BillHarrisonTopic starter

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Hi all.  When I was younger (late 90's) I was really interested in Amigas.  Could never afford one, but always went to the nearest computer store and played around.  Demos, a few games, they were really ahead of their time.

Well, I got into PC's, and have been for a while.  About 5 years ago, I ran into a guy with a few BRAND NEW Amiga 2000's, with HD (80mb I think) in box.  I snapped one up, paid 75 bucks, seemed fair enough at the time.  Well, I just stumbled over it in the basement, still in the box, for the hundredth time.  

Why did I buy this?  I Plugged it in once, ran the old newtek demo that i was so impressed with years ago, and realized its nothing my PC cannot do.  Or my mac.

BUT, and here is a stupid question:

Can this thing be "modernized"?  Can I make it useable for say web surfing/ basic image editing / email?  I know it will never be a power house and replace my main system, but If I could set up a terminal to browse the web, check email, and so on without having to worry about virus's etc, I would not mind spending a little cash on the project (Plus I just hate to see it languish, It is what got me interested in computers to start with!)

Any suggestions?
 

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Re: What can I do with a brand new Amiga 2000? Any suggestions?
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2006, 05:28:47 PM »
Obviously this would be a labor of "Love", of sorts, more a labor of cool geekiness to keep it moving, and do some web surfing etc with it.  I obviously could put something to gether alot cheaper than that, in the pc world, but it would not be as cool as doing all that with a hopped up amiga.  

Just looking for some ideas of what can be done,  and some prices would not hurt.  I would not mind spending around 250 on this endeavour, a bit more if it turns out to be really cool.

 

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Re: What can I do with a brand new Amiga 2000? Any suggestions?
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2006, 05:48:58 PM »
Thanks for that info, thats all stuff I was not aware of.

So I am thinking I would be better off with a 4000?  Desktop model?

I could box this up nicely and probably get what I have in it back, and use that towards a 4000.

I have a 1200 floating around , but it has some video errors, and I never could figure it out, definitely something hardware related.

Bill