Amiga 2000 Technical Question

[scuzzb494]

Sounds like the anti-piracy dongle that came with RoboCop3 to me.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/car_0108/car120781.jpg

[scuzzb494]

If I boot to the hard drive then use the WB 3.1 disk sets to upgrade will it over write the current version of work bench and leave the hard drive mounting sequence intact? I am afraid of accidently messing up the SCSI drivers for the hard drive when doing the upgrade.

Personally I wouldn't upgrade. The computer is a classic machine and really the less you do to it the less likely you are to break stuff. The kit is getting real old now. Dunno if anyone mentioned the battery. Just hope you have checked and made sure its not leaking. I don't think you showed a picture of the front of the machine... Doesn't look like this does it ?

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_jan05/a_scuzz_jan05_36.jpg

Just that I have the Quantum drive in mine...

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/car_0807/car_3108_002.jpg

Great thing about the Amiga is that you can simply copy the whole of your Workbench to another part of the hard drive and then if you upgrade and don't like it just copy it back.

http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_204.html

Can you verify that Workbench version by the way ?

The trick with older computers, if you do want the computer to survive is not to try too hard to make it into something it isn't. No upgrade really will give you the jump that makes you think it's getting more modern. The hardware just isn't up to it. So before you start fiddling and then bust something I would reflect on the classic nature of what you have and preserve and look after it. Well done.

[scuzzb494]

What I told you will work fine - IF - you have the 3.1 ROM installed. None of that will mess up you setup however. Good luck
Go ahead and upgrade! 3.1 will make it much more user friendly setup, and it will still play games, and serious applications. Any old games that don't want to run on 3.1, just run Degrader and they will work.

Still easier and quicker to just get an A1200 to do that. Harder to get an Amiga 2000 with a classic set-up. Not exactly the original but certainly closer to the purity of the 2000 era than the 3.1. I wouldn't swap out a 2000 for an OS that meant I had to ever degrade it, whether hardware or software. Leave it commando and save the classic computer for a future generation so they can enjoy what it was to use an A2000 with the OS as is. There really are way more convenient Amigas that can run 3.1.

I guess I am just sensitive to any prospect of breaking these beloved machines given that I have recovered way too many in my time from folk that had great ambition but gave up and detroyed the computer as a consequence. I am not suggesting any failure by the current owner I am just encouraging the guy with the classic car not rip out dashboard cus a more modern one looks better. It really is very hard to gets things back the way they were.

Everyone to their own I guess.