Amiga 500 with GVP A530: SCSI to Ethernet adaptor, possible?

[mechy]

This is total nonsense. Zorro ethernet boards are not rare. The 1200 is actually a worse base to build on with all the things that need to be fixed, and when having done that,the 1200 will still be slower and have more bottlenecks in the end when compared to a fully expanded 4000.You can also use cheap usb ethernet off the deneb USB cards and then there are the mediator pci ethernet too if you have one. You seem to have made your choice due to lack of knowledge.

Mech

Solution: A1200/A600.

It is VERY DIFFICULT and in some models not worth it and impossible to have internet connection in ALL OF THE AMIGA models, all, all, all, ALL except for the A1200/A600. Especially the A1200, especially this model is the only Amiga model THAT EVERYTHING IN IT IS EASY. Hard drive in it easy, USB port on it is easy, internet connection on it is easy, and even running AmigaOS 4.1 on it is easy, EVEN towering it and allowing you to play quake games on it IS WAY easier than any other model out there.

So if you want internet on an ANY Amiga model, A1200. You want to run AmigaOS 4.1, then you should have A1200 computer and if you want USB get an A1200. Want an Amiga model with the highest rate for potential new hardware development, A1200 is the way to go. It is that simple.

I had the choice between two A4000D and both of them have video toaster and all sorts of hardware upgrades and A1200 and I toke the A1200. Because I knew if I wanted to get any of these A4000 computers with internet I am going to have hunt down a VERY RARE and VERY expensive card to give it ethernet support and it is not even wireless.

[mechy]

Anyone tried an Asante EN SC SCSI to Ethernet adapter on an Amiga 500 with a GVP 530? Does Parallel Port to Ethernet exist? Stock A500 with 1MB RAM, kick 1.3.

If there were drivers,in theory it would work. but there are none i know of.

another solution albeit slow would be use a lantronix serial to ethernet
adapter.. these were common used on early c64 days before ethernet solutions came available. they should work on the A500.
look for usd-10 and uds-100  there are several others that may work.
it will be very slow but should work.

mech

[mechy]

I had my A1000 with a x-surf hacked to the side and a viper 520cd inside with 020/33mhz ,8MB ram,540M ide hd,and 3.0 roms on the net with Ibrowse and aweb in 16 glorious colors. It actually worked better than expected, I just had ibrowse use fastram.

On my A500 i have a 4MB ram expansion(baseboard) in the belly slot and a gvp ANET 500 side car(which is just a side car with a hydra ethernet card inside). it will get online with no problem. irc,ftp,and email will always be easy on a limited machine, it will browse with 4MB but its not so great with 68000 7mhz.
When i use that setup with the CSA derringer accelerator inside and 32MB of 32bit fast ram,she really does well.

the lantronix device is pretty slick,it allows going from serial to ethernet.You won't win any land speed records but a accelerated A500 does ok on serial especially with better serial.devices.

How much RAM does one need to work with internet?

@Karlos, thats why I would have liked to see Ethernet on the FPGA-Replay