"New" Amiga 3000....

[Darrin]

#1.  Remove the battery.

#2.  Remove the battery.

#3.  Remove the battery.

#4.  Add a Deneb (or Subway via a IDE adapter with a clockport) for USB and DVD ROM.  Plus a Zorro graphics card.



Depending on how many floppy drives you have fitted, Mechy sells a nice SCSI multi-card reader that you could install (with a bit of front case cutting) to mach transferring files between your PC/MAC and the Amiga easy via SD/CF Card.

[Darrin]

there is a RTG driver for USB? You mean video? I want to try it...

Also, subway is pretty slow for RTG. Is it faster when connected to a clockport adapter vs a real A1200 clockport?


thanks

Sorry, the RTG was supposed to be seperate from the USB (something like a Cybervision64).  As far as I'm aware there is no USB RTG solution in the works.  Chris Hodge actually looked at drivers for a PC USB-Graphics card dongle in a thread on this board, but it wasn't doable (can't recall if it was a lack of documentation or a hardware issue).

[Darrin]

Also, subway is pretty slow for RTG. Is it faster when connected to a clockport adapter vs a real A1200 clockport?

I remember doing RTG over a serial null modem cable with my A3000 and my A1200 via Siamese, sending my output to an old Packard Bell 120MHz Pentium.  I got a nice 16bit 1024x768 display for Workbench.  I never got the ethernet connection working (didn't have a network card in my miggies back then).  I keep meaning to try it with the Minimig.  Image the Minimig v1.1 using a i7 PC as a graphics card.  

Somehow I doubt Siamese will work on Windows7, but it might work on a virtual XP machine running on Windows 7.

[Darrin]

I agree, don't cut your case!  You can mount the SCSI card reader internally in the HD spot, although you wont be able to install a floppy drive in the location just forward of the HD mount.

I have been working on my A3K, although this is not its permanent spot, you can see the SCSI card reader in this photo. They work very well and it is very fast on a stock 3000.

That's the way I'd mount it, but my A3000 has a molded front that only has a space for the floppy to go through a slot and into the bare drive(s) behind.  It doesn't have pop-out plates like the A2000 and A4000 so to access all of the card slots you would need to cut a window in the plastic.

I hate the A3000 case with a passion.  Badly thought out for future expansion, it should never have left the drawing board.

If a certain company who shall remain nameless really wanted to make "Amiga" cases then they should produce a replacement A3000 desktop case with a bit more space and some extra drive bays.  If you could it a Mediator A3000D into it then all the better.

[Darrin]

If the God Lord didn't mean us to butcher computer cases then he wouldn't have invented the Dremel.  :p

[Darrin]

No wireless N adapters. but you could use a wireless bridge.

mech

I got one of these from Walmart earlier this month:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Universal-Wi-Fi-Internet-Adapter/14550215

I bought it for my Blu-Ray player and it works perfectly and it should work on my Amiga too.

If you have encrypted your wireless network then you do need to attach it to a PC first to access the built-in menu, enter the passcode, check it connects and then you can simply attach it to any other wired device.  You can either power it with the supplied DC adapter or it also comes with a cable to draw power from any handy USB socket.