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Proud owner
« on: January 14, 2006, 10:04:24 AM »
Will hopefully be receiving my A500 Plus and A590 HDD early next week. Have already purchase my null modem cable so I can transfer some files over to the HDD... so finally I have an Amiga with a HDD... lol a shame it's not an A4000... so hard to come by down here :(

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Re: Proud owner
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2006, 09:41:52 PM »
Will be on the look out, havent seen anything locally along those lines.

Might have to look into getting a credit card, then I can start shopping on ebay :)

alittle off topic but an Amiga 500 plus comes with 1mb? So theres 2mb in the a590 so would have a total of 3mb? I also have a spare 512kb card so will be putting that in for the meantime.

also looking into wether I can get the a500 on the network using tcp/ip. I would have enough ram I guess, just needing a network card of some sort?

Maybe theres away of using the null modem cable like dialup networking on the PC?

I also guess I'd need to upgrade the ROM's to run OS3.x ? I have a copy of AmigaOS 3.5 but it's on cd, is there another way to install it? main issue is space, 20mb hdd isnt really going to be big enough. I'd have to look at upgrading that too ;)

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Re: Proud owner
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2006, 10:33:07 AM »
Yeah from NZ, hard to find any hardware down here thats for sure. Do you know of any local places selling Amiga gear? Theres a computer fair in Glenfield that I might go have a look at.

I see from your profile your from Nelson?

Comes with 2.x roms, what do I need to do to soft kick 3.1 roms?

My problem is I dont know if it comes with the a590 setup disk or workbench, will find out when it arrives I guess.
Could be fun trying to set it up with a new drive ;)

I have a dead A1200 dont know whats wrong with it, possible to pinch roms from that? ;)

Heading on over to trademe as we speak, thanks for the great info :)

Good to find another kiwi :)
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Re: Proud owner
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2006, 10:46:11 AM »
LOL just my luck no 50 pin scsi drives on Trademe, but will be keeping a lookout... thanks again :)
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Re: Proud owner
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2006, 10:53:44 AM »
Possible to use this drive?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auction_detail.asp?id=44837080

Going by the model number it's 50pin. Might offer him $15 :)
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Re: Proud owner
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2006, 11:42:23 AM »
Thanks for the info Argus, how do I tell if the roms are 2.04?

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