Taking the plunge

[Bradsco]

For all of the years I've had any association with the Amiga I've always owned the entry level stuff. A500, A1200 and then much later, a Micro-A1.

In the long interim, I was absent for the formation of color factions, but after reading through Jeremy Reimer's articles, the one bit of knowledge I'd never known was how Mr. Dickinson became a figure in the community. I found it pretty inspiring.

Since I've been toying with this idea already, I went ahead and got something new. It showed up today. A big thanks to the guys at Amiga On The Lake, and certainly the Amiga community. Hopefully I'll have time enough to make something fun with it.

[Bradsco]

Congrats!

Aaron at Amiga On the Lake is terrific to work with and I got my board, sound card and video card from them in December.   I went a bit crazy with the case and went with the Corsair Crystal White 570X -- but then again the Amiga deserves a bit of class!  Anyway building the X5000 system was very fun and it has worked flawlessly.

I had an A1000 and A2000 when they were new, but (sadly, now in hindsight) sold them to a friend and moved on.

Since then I have come back and have obtained a 500 and 1200.  They are fun too, but there is something reassuring about the X5000 and it just seems to fly.

Enjoy!

I agree about the case, and I've been looking. I've had an experience recently with the Fractal Design Focus case (in blue) and while it was a little thin for my taste, it still looks great, so I went with the red one for this build.

I did the same thing with my older machines. They were sold long ago, and I started picking back up. I've had the 1200 for maybe 6 years and picked up the Sam440 a couple years ago on a whim. Sadly it's graphics options are really limited so that made the choice to get something bigger that much easier.

[Bradsco]

How exciting. Wish I could afford one ... Enjoy!

Believe me, I debated for quite some time. I have a lot of other items I've been letting go to help fund this effort. In fact, I should probably let the Sam440 go now that I have this one. Any takers?!

[Bradsco]

I'm not terribly concerned with what might not be enabled on the board, because it's got more options than the Sam.

[Bradsco]

Enjoy.

I got my x5000 back in October. It's a nice machine. AOS4.1 FE has given me issues i.e. Random lockups, Gurus, etc.

I recently installed MOS 3.10 on a spare drive. It's fast, polished and just works!

Good to know. I've got a couple of machines for MorphOS (Mac mini G4 and a G5 Mac Pro) but you're right that I could probably just let those go and use the x5000 instead. My only concern is having a single compatible GPU with hardware acceleration for both OSes.