This has probably been done to death, but.
Ok, so I have reanimated my A4000/30
I am amazed it works. (although in need of some tlc from people with the skills to make things last for ever. (amigakit) furry battery, brittle simm sockets and other odditys))
what are the top 5 recomended upgrades for it? (apart from a cpu upgrade)
I am looking at it from a developer point of view and would like to know if it is worth kiting it out with usb, lan or stick a cf-card in it?
Currently I am using a PC for all the donkey work and using winUAE for testing, but, you can't beat the real thing, can you?
Lan would be nice I think, as I wouldn't have to plug/unplug things all the time for testing and what not...
and what options are there? (new, second hand/ebay/amibay/etc)
I would realy like to hear your expert opinions.
Cheers
First thing to do is remove that "fuzzy" battery ASAP! Then disassemble the A4000 completely and neutralize the whole area around where the battery was with something that will stop the battery acid from eating your motherboard traces and ruining your A4000 forever.
After you have done the above and re-assembled your A4000, I would suggest that you buy a Deneb card for it which will give you USB and flash-ROM. One of my A4000's is now booting from an USB stick inserted in the internal USB socket on the Deneb card and boots quite quickly (thanks Tim for setting up the Flash ROM with updated Kickstart ROM modules and copying everything to the USB stick). You then can add a cheap USB LAN NIC stick.
