Hi all,
Several years ago, I went to visit an old C= buddy from back in the "days". After a bit of chatting, he pulled out a box of "junk" Amiga stuff... cables, loose disks, manuals, etc, and informed me it was all going in the trash if I didn't take it. I almost passed on the offer, until I spotted the GVP A530 in the box. Though I hadn't used my own A500 in years, I thought it might be fun to play around with it someday, so I took the "junk" home. (I had always wanted *something* cool for my own A500, yet could never afford it since I was just a kid.) At this point, I really had no clue as to the "cult status" of the A530, in fact, I *almost* trashed it all later myself, LOL.
The case was somewhat abused (nicotine, crayon marks, etc), and the hard drive gone, but otherwise it seemed to work fine. Not in perfect shape, but nonetheless an A530, "gratis" even... so that's pretty cool.
Its sat in my garage for years, and I've finally decided to clean it up, install a hard drive, etc. (Then I'll get bored, and it'll sit for another 10 years, LOL.)
Therefore...
I have a few questions for those more familiar with the device:
Will any 68-pin SCSI drive do? (I'm expecting the usual Amiga size-limit issues.) If so, any recommendations on a quiet SCSI drive?
Can I format the drive using PFS3, or is there some necessary GVP software? (Actually, I've thought about doing this on the PC with WinUAE, then installing in the A530.)
Overclocking -- I have a 50 MHz 68030 CPU and FPU laying around, thought I'd install them, replace the oscillator and see what happens. Any thoughts?
And finally... anyone want to trade for a GVP A1200 accelerator? j/k ;p
cheers
Damion
