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Re: Newbie Amiga questions
« on: June 16, 2006, 05:14:20 PM »
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jnordness wrote:
Hey there. I was wondering if there was any way to hook up a hard drive to my A1000.


  Technically, yes; it's possible, but you'll need to get a harddrive controller for it.  I can't recall the name of any at the moment but they'll probably be next to impossible to find anyway.  So practically, the answer to your question is No.  Sorry.

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While browsing for games online, I noticed a lot of them say "for AGA". Do I NEED to have the AGA chipset to run them, or can I put a graphics accelerator in the 2000 to run them? Thanks!


You NEED to have the AGA chipset, a graphics card will not do the job.  In fact, a graphics card won't even do OCS/ECS so if you have a graphics card you'll need to either have two monitors or a switch to swap your monitor's incoming signal from the graphics card to the Amiga's RGB port. (some graphics cards have a passthrough for the Amiga's video signal but not all so be aware of that.)
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