Greetings, Amigans

[davide405]

My Amiga 500 has been sitting in a box for over 2 years.  I realize that on this board, that is tantamount to confessing to child abuse, but it doesn't seem to have suffered any harm.

I unpacked the beast, booted up Lemmings and remembered how much fun I used to have with it; not just with applications, but also tinkering with the configurations and so forth.

I have conceived an ambition to connect it to the internet :-o , so I have joined this fine board in order to learn more about how that might be accomplished.

In advance, I thank you for your support :-D

[davide405]

Thank you for the welcome, sir. :-)

I can be patient in following my quest 8-)

[davide405]

Thank you for the welcome :-)

I do have a harddrive, and a whopping 8 meg (or so) of RAM.

I have switchable ROM for 1.3 and 2.1, but I've had trouble with the disk for the 2.1 OS :-(

Ah well...

Win, lose, or draw, it will be an interesting project.

[davide405]

Thank you!  That is a wealth of information :-D

I look forward to a pleasant hour or so just exploring the links 8-)

[davide405]

I have considered moving up :-P from the A500...

Judging from what's available on eBay, that might be a more practical solution, but...

As you observed, part of this exercise involves tilting at windmills :lol:

[davide405]

Thank you for the several specific suggestions and warnings. :-)

I have the "Fatter Agnus" chip on board (I'm fairly sure) for a full meg of chip RAM, but that would seem to be only half enough...

The quest continues 8-)

[davide405]

Is it possible to shoe-horn 3.1 ROM chips (there are two of them, aren't there?) into an A500?

[davide405]

I do have a modem, but it's a piece of vintage hardware itself...

An RS1260 (I think) that has the two headed dongle for connection to the weird serial port on the A1000.

[davide405]

Sorry, my ignorance is blaring again...  Was it the parallel port on the A1000 that's non-standard?

Maybe the two headed dongle is a pass through...