A1000 Help

[JimS]

Back when I had my 1000 in operation, I put a DKB Kwikstart board in it. - That does require surgery, you need to pull a PAL chip off the 1000 and replace it with one supplied with the DKB. So if you buy one off eBay or something, be sure to get that chip.  I had both 1.3 and 2.0 in mine but retired the 1000 before 3.x came out.

I also had a Phoenix box that gave the 1000 two A2000 style Zorro slots. I put a CBM 2058 ram card and a SCSI card in there. Worked great.

[JimS]

Starke:

   My main real Amiga is the A2000. Nothing special, just a 2000 with a GVP 030 combo, 2091, and a Toaster. It's mostly retired now too. Most of the time I use UAE on my crappy PC. It's got a copy of the hard drive from my 2000, so it's almost like running my 2000. Except that "start toaster" icon doesn't do anything. ;-)

   As for OS4 and beyond, I'm in a wait & see mode. If reasonable hardware shows up, I'll look at it. I'm not going to buy into it, just for the sake of having an Amiga. Actually, I'm almost more interested in the Minimig.

-Jim
 
Oh yeah, I use a PIII machine salvaged from the trash. It runs Win98SE.

[JimS]

The Minimig interests me for several reasons.

1: It's just too cool. ;-)
2: It's a classic Amiga, and I'm more interested in the classic at this time.
3: It's hackable, being open source. I've been wanting to learn FPGA design, this looks like a fun place to start.
3: It's small. You could make a nice portable Amiga, like Dennis posted to the Minimig thread.

You can't buy it, you have to build it yourself. Dennis (the designer) has said he will release the design to open source. So I guess some people are figuring someone will build them for sale, if they don't feel up to the task of doing it themselves.


I'm not the best person to ask about emulated games under 3.9. Most of the games I play require 1.3. It's easy enough to switch ROM files in the emulation and come up under 1.3 if needed. It amazes me how well it works now. I ran Deluxe Music and played MIDI files thru my pc's sound card. I never got that to work before.