Merging my Amigas

[mrescher]

Hey all!

Was after some advice on the best software updates I can get out of my Amiga system without spending more money (I've been out of the scene for a while and have just got a mint A4000/040 of eBay).  Not condoning piracy (and willing to prove ownership of any parts with silly photos or whatever!)

I have:

1 A500, 3Mb fast ram, with HD and 3.1 kickstart
1 A4000, 16Mb fast ram, with HD and 3.0 kickstart
1 Amiga Forever 6.0 (OS 3.9?)

(oh, and an A600HD in the post for my girlfriend so I can reclaim my A4k in exchange for the lemmings and pinball discs!)

What I want to achieve is:
1 - the latest OS on the A4000 and stop using Amiga Forever.
2 - forgoing that, read CDs on the A4000 in 3.1
3 - network the A4000 - maybe with serial cable - I don't want to spend anymore on hardware for now.
4 - get the emplant board I found inside working - does anyone have the faintest idea how that works??
5 - use Dpaint5 (again I have the originals) on the A4k
6 - finally get WHDLoad so I can run games from the desktop on both the 600 and the 4000

the last 2 I can figure out (I think) but I'd love advice on any/all of the first 4.  If I can't rip the Amiga Forever OS I'd buy it but I don't really want to fork out more for A4000 roms (which is 2 chips IIRC)

Thanks so much in advance.

Mr Escher.

(PS. Anyone know if I can use the A500 3.1 Rom in the A600 when it gets here?)

[mrescher]

he he - cheers Cyberus.  I guess it's a pretty annoying generic question that can probably be answered by trial and error and/or research but it's a lot of effort to catch up on my amiga skills - really i did know once upon a time the ins and outs ;-)

Now I'm just marvelling at how my old games look when they're AGA enhanced. (well, arcade pool at least...) And can't wait to do some pixel by pixel art in AGA mode.

on a completely different topic - can those kickflash things accept a500 roms - meaning I can boot 3.1 from that?

I mean, it's a great old machine but really I don't have the deskspace as it is!

I'd still like to know peoples opinions though rather wearing my 'mint condition originals' as some collectors or the now defunct doommaster would refer to it

[mrescher]

Wow! thanks I guess that's 90% of what I need in one post.  I'll think about purchasing a ROM if I see them cheap on eBay but we really don't seem to get them out here (Australia) as often.  If need be I do have a 3.1 Amiga in the cupboard if it really needs a go.

I do use Amiga Explorer and honestly it is fantastic.  

What I meant by 'network' is 'get my Amiga on the internet' use my DSL connection over a null modem cable - has anyone tried this on Windows?  

I think I can figure the ins/outs on Linux but that machine is in another room so I'd have to do subnetting/routing to give my Amiga an IP address and not sure how to do this on Windows.

like this:

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Amiga <-- Null Modem --> Windows PC <-- Ethernet --> Linux firewall <-- ADSL --> Internet

But since this is becoming a bit of an AlternativeOS question I'm fine to leave it here and go research 'dialing in' over null modem elsewhere...

Final question (for now, I promise) anyone care to suggest a lightweight (as possible) HTTP (web) server for AmigaOS?  Just has to serve HTML and images - but if it can do simple CGI stuff that would be great too.

Thanks for your suggestions!  Man, it is good to be back!