WTB: Amiga 2000 486 Bridgeboard

[giZmo350]

Anyone selling an A2000 486 bridgeboard?
Or does PC Task do just as well of a job?

[giZmo350]

I have a ton of old DOS games on 3.5" floppy (all like new and boxed) that are still really fun to play (Sierrra-Online, Infocom, etc). I Currently have an old 486 with a really nice VESA graphics card that I use to play the old games. It would be great to consolidate to one machine. I wouldn't be installing Windows (ver 3.11 - Ugh!). It's mostly a matter of desk space and monitor usage. Two machines in one!

[giZmo350]

You have that many exclusive DOS games to make all that hassle and expense worthwhile? 486 & 586 Bridgeboards are extremely rare and not cheap! I just read in an Amiga mag that the 386 Bridgeboard was a major pain to install and configure and that the 286 board was much easier that way. Wonder if anything newer would be that much more difficult.

Those Infocom games... most all of 'em can be had natively in Amiga format. Just curious... what games do you have on DOS you can't get for the Amiga?

Well, I know they're hard to find + $$$ but thought it wouldn't hurt to throw out trawling line. I actually have a TON of this stuff and thought it would be easier to just crack 'em out of the box rather than hunt them all down for the Amiga. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Amiga ports because of the digital joystick.! I've thought about selling them but it would take forever on ebay unless I could sell them as lot. Just jotting down the titles would take forever. I collected WAY TOO many PC games in my day. Quit a few of them are impossible to get now and have no Amiga ports. I mean, this stuff has filled my basement! Plus, I have all the manuals that you really need to play a lot of the games. For one example, I have Sim City 2000 - OK, that's an easy one to get for Amiga...  but I also have Streets of Sim City (that's the add on that allows you to drive around in the cities you created) and a bunch of saved citys. I don't think "Streets" was ported to Amiga. I have almost no arcade style games for the PC - that's where the Amiga really shines. Plus, I paid for all these PC games! Arg!

[giZmo350]

Yea, I have a great DOS machine now but just thought I'd ask....  ;-)

I knew they (386/486) were rare but didn't know they were THAT rare!
Actually I think I've ever seen only one 286 on ebay... mostly 8088 cards.

I thought about getting a KVM to save monitor space but that isn't really ideal either as I need different size monitors for all these machines I have...  a Mac Mini, a PC, an A2000, a DOS machine....   etc.

I need to get a table like Cammy has!

Thanks for all the replys...   ;-)

[giZmo350]

486 bridgeboard went for about 30 bucks last week on scumbay I think...may have been week before.

They do have a cool factor though yes. R@RE just means it's expensive until the next cash stricken person lists it up on scumbay for 0.99 on a free listing weekend lol

Stuff is only worth what ONE person will pay as a maximum, reality is nobody actually wants most of this stuff and it goes for peanuts when it does appear on scumbay so comes down to how desperate people are. I sold The Pawn on 5 1/4 floppy for a 'RARE' format for 60+ bucks, but without that one guy it would have gone for 15-20 probably.

Well, you are right about what ONE person is willing to pay. There is a beautiful Commodore A2386SX BridgeBoard on ebay right now. It's located in Budapest, Hungary and is going for some crazy cash. Comes with Janus software. I'm so tempted to get it. The fun factor would be great. Thanks for this great input guys as I have always wanted a bridgeboard in an A2000 since the machine orginally debuted back in the day. I would read the magazine ads and reviews over and over back then. hahaha. Thanks for this great link http://members.iinet.net.au/~davem2/overclock/a2386.html spirantho! I have a lot of old PC expansion cards; SB, IDE, Video, etc... to make the project complete. This would be a fun project! And thanks again on everyone's great input on this subject! I'm still going to keep an eye everyday on ebay though for some possible better prices.

[giZmo350]

http://www.accuratefiles.com/fileinfo/gs5fd3ac8h82i0

I couldn't find it at a better location, it's one of those mega-download places.

That is the Amiga A500 A2000 Technical Reference Manual_1987.pdf

Section 4 has a lot of information on one version of the Bridgeboard including memory maps and a good description of the Janus library.

Oh hell yeah! Downloaded! Thanks!