New to amigas...

[AmigaEd]

Welcome, Nice to meet you. You're in for a different experience with the Amiga!

My PC can do what ever the Amiga Did and More..

Just for future reference, the above statement isn't a great way to win friends here... Some people take their Amigas very seriously and for good reason.

• Can Amiga's Accept HD Floppies... (even if they dont read all of the 1.44MBs)
• Do i NEED a Commodore Monitor... I was planning on hooking it up my TV and Speaker system...
• Is there any DIY or Cheap Sound Input Cards... Saw something on youtube.. but the guy didn't make a schematic, so i didn't know if there's one out here..
• I Might Do either Game Programming or just basic things.. is there any sites with tutorials on doing this?
• Also, Can i Copy Software\Data From PC to my Amiga? (Things such as Demos\Trackers\MOD Music... i guess it partially refers back to Question #1

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Also:

• Whats a good Cheap IDE Card for it? (Debating on getting one if i need it for CD or a HDD?
• If i find an HDD Drive \ IDE Card... How Big can Amiga Handle?

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Thanks in advance...

I think I'll start with Question #5 - Yes, you can transfer software and data between your PC and Amiga. There are several ways to go about this and the best way usually depends on how much memory you have in your Amiga.

Anyway, Checkout the following (in no particular order)...

ADF Sender Terminal (for transfer of Disk Image files between Amiga and PC)
http://adfsender.stoeggl.com/

Amiga Explorer (for transfer of Disk Image files between Amiga and PC)
http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/

CrossDos (for direct reading of PC disks on the Amiga)
http://www.l8r.net/technical/t-crossdos.shtml

Question #1 - I think you will find that the drive on the Amiga 2000 will not read High Density  floppies formatted as HD. (someone please correct me on this if I'm wrong.) Of course you could cover up the hole in the corner of the HD disk with tape (This is the hole in the corner opposite of the write protect hole). You can now format the HD disks as DS/DD disks.

Question #2 - You could most likely hook up the composite output from the Amiga to a TV but my experience has been that it looks pretty terrible. I find it's hard to beat a good Commodore monitor. For newer alternatives, I know some of the users on here have had some good luck with RGB to S-Video adapters and some of the new LCD TVs. Some TVs have been reported to not work so you might want to search for other threads on this topic.

Here is one suggestion of an adapter...

http://www.amigamaniac.com/RGB_to_PAL_NTSC_adapter.html

Hope this helps.

Regards,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Depends what kind of friends you want...

The good ones ... of course.

[AmigaEd]

good advice... i'm not really one of those Ignorant PC Fans... : It wasn't supposed to sound like some ignorant comment (even if it did seem like one)... I' m not the BEST with explaining

No problem and no harm done. I still have my original Amiga 1000 from 25 years ago. It still works great and is still cool. I can't say that for much of IBM PC based hardware that I've owned.

I'll Probably be using the Monitor if the guy thats giving his amiga to me has one... if not, i'm probably screwed untill i can get that adapter

There is always emulation... You could try using WinUAE or E-UAE until you get your hands on some real Amiga hardware. (Shields up, Mr. Sulu!)

Regards,
AmigaEd