Mac user got an Amiga

[Anhaedra]

Hey, I got my hands on an Amiga 2000 with a 68030 50mhz card, (or so it says, but I've not seen a 50mhz 030 before) I was just wondering what I can do with this. I have no keyboard, mouse, or monitor, I know how to make a VGA adapter, but can I use an old PC serial mouse or keyboard, something like that? Or are they proprietary? I've always been into 68K Macs so this is the first Amiga I've gotten to play around with, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Haven't fired it up to see if it's got an OS installed because I have no monitor

I really just want to know what all I need to make this thing work, because I've seen a lot of pretty cool things these machines can do and they seem to have a lot of games (which seem better than the DOS versions)

Thanks

[Anhaedra]

It does have a hard drive, actually. I'll go try plugging it into my TV.

No video on plugging it into a TV, I took a look at the battery and there is some corrosion.

Will it run with the battery removed, or do I need to leave it?

[Anhaedra]

Okay well sorry about the picture quality but I only have my phone at the moment. It doesn't look too terrible to me, but there is some corrosion on the pins of the 68000 chip. That seems to be a very good indicator to me as for why it won't start up properly, heh.

[Anhaedra]

Too late? Did I kill it by turning it on?

Well the corrosion was the worst actually on the 68000 CPU socket, some of the contacts on the socket are eaten off... So this leaves me with two options i suppose, solder the CPU directly to the board, or solder a new socket in.

Just to be sure, were some of those pins meant to be missing? I have seen some machines cut off certain pins on the CPU (Think it was a Sega Genesis)

If so, which ones?

[Anhaedra]

The CPU appears to be fine, the socket is damaged.