Another New/Old Amiga user

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Cool. Your Amiga came out of the closet.

When you switched to 3.1, you should have held down the two mouse button before booting in order to make your 2000 "compatible" with your older games. In any case, if you're going to play some, be sure to head on over to WHDLoad site and put your disk games on the harddrive so that you don't have to deal with the swapping anymore.

Unless you just happen to find an 68060 accelerator with a bunch of RAM on it in the attic too, stick with OS3.1

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KatManDEW wrote:
Thanks for all the info and tips.

Is the battery that blue barrel shaped thing under the drive bays? If so, how do we get that puppy out? It looks like it's spot welded to the connectors that go into the motherboard.

Obviously, if the battery is soldered to the motherboard, grab your soldering iron :flame: and take it off. Looks like you lucked out. If you look at some peoples pictures, those type of batteries turn into fuzzy acid factories and ruin motherboards.

Be sure to give the floppy drives a super good cleaning.

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Depends on how skillful you are with the iron. You can clip them off if you don't want to risk it. The Amiga will run fine without the battery. You'll just have to set the date and time each time you turn it on.

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old trusty AsimCDFS

Programs to unpack them

What problems are you having with WHDload?

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How to Amiga WB

Try that. Tons of info on setting up your workbench and other useful info. Perhaps you need to replace Install (in your C: drawer) with Installer.

Minimig is just a modern incarnation of an A500, so that all the various specialty chips are combined into a single chip, with the means of using PC monitors, mice, & keyboards. All on a tiny PCB. You put game programs that are in ADF format on a Compact Flash, which acts as a HD. Its a portable Amiga.

Be sure to contact Joe at Software Hut about the memory. Their website is seriously out of date and stuff they list hasn't been there for years. He'll usually get back to you pretty quickly.

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Sounds good.

So far, you have a choice of using a null modem cable + Amiga Explorer (part of the Amiga Forever software from Cloantro), buying a Deneb card so that you have USB capabilities, your CD drive, and the old floppy disks.

I've found that Amiga Explorer works very nicely.

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I can only vouch for ImageFX, since its the only one I use.

Nova Design

Copies of Art Department Pro often show up. I used to use it in the past, and results were OK.

a copy here

Photogenics

Idruna website

If I had the space, I would get an A1200.

They're called CF to IDE adaptors. It'll let you use Compact Flash cards in place of a harddrive IF you use IDE.

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KatManDEW wrote:

How do I utilize the registration info listed on the Make CD site? The registration screen for Make CD has a entry box for "Registration number", and ghosted extry boxes for name and address.

The registration info on that site says:

Serial Number: 555555555
License Key: H8HsRww)7Uz)!iXE5PUMfgP#VymA6

It should work. I entered mine with no problems.