BridgeBoard .. Questions to any users.

[Ilwrath]

From what I've read, this BridgeBoard is probably going to be a real 'Pain'.

Shouldn't be too much worse than installing/configuring a real 286.  Which, of course, is rather a pain in the arse, but FreeDOS would probably be the way to go...  (If for no other reason than it strives for compatability, and it's the only MS-DOS style free OS that has any amount of support.)
http://www.freedos.org/

Is anyone using a 2286 board, and is it worth the trouble??

I have one in an old A3000, but I haven't sat down and properly installed everything and configured it.  

Is there any drivers to allow the Amiga gfx to use an ISA GFX card with the BB installed??

Not that I know of.  I've heard that it was attempted, but the end result was too slow to be of practical use for anything more than displaying still-images.  It would be a neat trick, even for just that, though.  :-)  But I don't know if that driver was ever released.  I searched Aminet and couldn't find it.  So, as far as I know, the ISA graphics cards can only be used by the PC.

There is a driver for an ISA ethernet card across the 286 card, though.

[Ilwrath]

This makes 4 people from michigan posting in a row.

Yeah, and a 5th one that has already posted in this thread, as well.  (Hmm... Maybe with the upcoming NHL strike and as little as Hockeytown gets recognized as Detroit, I should change my location field...)

We used to have a lot of BBS and user group support around here, so that was probably part of why we're still around, and ended up at A.o.

Be warned, though, the 286 has no concept whatsoever of 'plug-n-play' so be prepared for some fun IRQ/base address handling!

Yeah, and those multi-purpose cards are always the worst, because they need like 5 memory addresses and 4 IRQs.  Though if you get it running, it would be quite useful to the 286...