Amiga 600 Uses?

[meega]

They hold doors open quite well. :-P

[meega]

Well....

You should be able to put the hard drive from your A1200 in it, and that's about it. It can use PCMCIA, so 4MB slow RAM is available there, or some other dongly interface like a Squirrel (instead, not at the same time). You might replace its 68000 with a 68010 for a useful speed boost. Anything the A600 can do the A1200 does better and faster. An A500 is more expandable, and an A500+ also offers ECS. The lack of an expansion slot cripples the A600. It doesn't even have a full keyboard. And the original power supply is too weak to cope with an external floppy. It's a doorstop, imo.

[meega]

arkanoid wrote:
ok...I'll get the rope...the rest of you guys find a tree!!! :-)

lol

You want us to tie you up? :idea:

[meega]

arkanoid wrote:

meega wrote:

arkanoid wrote:
ok...I'll get the rope...the rest of you guys find a tree!!! :-)

lol

You want us to tie you up? :idea:

no need, the wife does that on the last Friday of every month....as a treat   :-D

And then doesn't untie you until the last Thursday, so that you can really enjoy yourself? :-D

[meega]

Enjoy your A600 for what it is - a cute little machine. Some people have indeed done amazing things to them - because they are small and that is exactly what they wanted/needed, the form factor. For me, the absence of the numeric keypad is a big no-no which is compounded by the lack of a proper expansion slot. My advice, and it is well meant, is to add your A600 to your collection and include it in your sig. Don't spend any money on it at all - it just isn't worth it. As I have said, you should be able to transfer the hard disk from your A1200, and that probably would be the best that you could do and would indeed be worthwhile. You can direct whatever you have as a budget toward the A1200, it is a far better machine.

[meega]

Gwion wrote:
I Love DPaint IV and III thats really fun but i have no manual for it so its a bit complicated.

My Amiga graphics package is ImageFX_1.51 from a magazine coverdisk (it was the reason I bought that magazine that month). Manual? Instructions? What are they? Never had them... there was nothing there... nada... :crazy:  :lol:

[meega]

Gwion wrote:
How do I load games from HD? There are some games on there now i just dnt know how to copy the games from floppy to HD.
I think i'll go for the Apollo '060.

A lot of games/programs have an "Install to HD" icon/utility somewhere, and that will put the game on your HD for you. You just have to follow the prompts. If the game is on more than one floppy disk then the Install program is quite often not on Disk 1 of the set.
If the game is an AmigaDOS compatible disk - i.e. you can see the files on the disk in Workbench - then it is often enough to simply copy the entire thing into a drawer on your hard disk and maybe add an Assign or two in a startup-script to point to that location.
If the game needs codes or has some other copy-protection, then this will not circumvent it - you will still need to enter the right code(s) from the manual or wherever when requested.