Amiga 2000 build-up

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I've been slowly assembling pieces here and there for an amiga 2000 build-up.  I'm very interested in sort of maxing out machines, to see how much I can add, how monstrous a machine I can make.  I also like the idea of making new hardware work with old machines.

So to that end, here's what I have:

An amiga 2000 with 16-bit isa connectors soldered to blank spots on the motherboard, so all the isa slots are 16 bit now.
A 286 bridgeboard
A megachip
An A2091 with a scsi drive hanging off of it.
A GVP 68030 with a scsi controller and memory
A deneb
A 5/25" floppy drive (for the bridgeboard)
Two external amiga floppy drives

Other things I could attach:
A scsi tower with 5 bays
A scsi floppy drive
A scsi memory card reader
A scsi zip drive
Several scsi dvd drives
An ISA scsi controller
An ISA caching IDE controller
An ISA soundblaster card
An ISA VGA board
An ISA ne2000 network board

I'm also planning to attach an HP scanjet 3c and an HP laserjet 3 printer.  I have a herd of external scsi drives I could also attach.

For the deneb, I'm planning to attach a keyboard, mouse, ethernet dongle, usb sound card, a memory card reader, and a hub.

Would a USB pc floppy drive work?

I was thinking I would make (out of furniture grade plywood) a sort of holster.  It would hold the 2000 case on its side, cover the bottom of the case, and provide a place to mount all the usb goodies and corral the wiring, hopefully with as many cheesy LEDs as possible.  lol

So what else should I hook up to this thing?  

Which USB sound card? (the more lights, knobs, and switches the better)  

And which ethernet dongle?

Also, what will a usb joystick look like?  Will they work with most games?  

brian

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Will the Deneb really support all of this? especially the add-on sound card.

From what I understand, yes.  :-)

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I thought ISA slots on the 2000 were inactive? Happy to be corrected though

PZ.

Inactive until you plug in a bridgeboard.  Then they're visible to the DOS side.

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I would change the old 5 inch for a 3.5 HD drive so you can read IBM disk with files that can be crossed over to the amiga side.

That's a good idea.  I considered removing one of the amiga internal floppy drives and adding a 3.5" drive for the DOS side, but later decided the extra amiga floppy would be more useful.

Another thing I considered was creating a new plywood case for the 2000. Leave the top off and install the 2000 case bottom in the new case like the bomac tower did.  Then cannibalize some steel from another tower case for the drive bays.  Then it would also be easy to upgrade the power supply.

brian

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Could be particularly useful with the Etherbridge driver.

I thought about that also.  But since I have the deneb, i decided to go that route and free up a slot.

brian