Bought an A500. Now What?

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darksun9210 wrote:

memory cards? i'm not sure what amigaski has in mind here,
or the floppy simulator thing... and that ebay auction...

amigaski is either stupid or a troll... just check his post history, most of it makes less sense than a Dr Seuss book... I suggest ignoring him at all possible opportunity.

I agree a copy of AmigaForever and a $5 USB->Serial adaptor is probably the best route.

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kedawa wrote:

darksun9210 wrote:

WHDLoad? whats that? - its a program that takes floppy games, and allows you to have them installed, and run from hard disk. much quicker, and no more disk swapping! :-D
but bear in mind, that alot of WHDload modified games want one whole meg of chipram, so you may have to do the "cut and jumper" modification to your A500 to turn the 512k expansion in the trapdoor into chipram. more detail on that can be found or asked for as needed. also fastram will help as WHDLoad can "pre-cache" the game data there for instant midgame loading. helpfull for swapping scenes in adventure games for example.

I think my A500 may already have this mod.
I was looking at the memory map using the software on my extras disk, and it shows 1024K chipram and 0K fastram.
Does that mean it's modded already?  Or is there some way that amigados can use fastram as chipram?

Sounds like it... if it wasn't for the fact you have Workbench 1.3, I might have suggested you had an A500+... Ok simple way to check, have a look in the trapdoor underneith the machine.