Hello from Finland!

[Jamppa]

Hi!

Well, finally i've been able to log into this site! Been trying for a few days but now the admins seem to have finally accepted that i'm not a spambot!

Anyhow, i'm really excited about the A600 i recently bought from ebay, which arrived in the post yesterday - Had alot of fun playing Cannon Fodder last night when the kids went to bed!

So, about me - had both the A600HD and A1200 from ages 12 to 16. Really stupid of me to sell the A1200 in '96, but needed the cash. Not quite sure where the A600 went, possibly traded it in for the A1200. Everybody seems to say the same thing but it's so true that they don't make games like they did for the Amiga!

I'm planning to really upgrade the thing, hopefully even connect to the internet? I'm hoping someone is going to help me out a bit with all the things i'll need to buy?


Anyhow, very happy to be here - GURU MEDITATION TO ALL!!

-Jamppa

[Jamppa]

Thanks!

Well internet access is not entirely necessary since we have PC's for that but, I thought it would be amusing if friends happened to be visiting and if they asked to check their email, only to be confronted by my A600!

Yes, i've been browsing the AmigaKit website and from what I can make out, the first thing start off with would be to install a Kickstart 3.1 ROM chip? add some extra memory (i've already checked the trap door - nothing to report), install a hard drive (any suggestions/size etc?), then possibly update the OS. Have I missed something? How about the OS, do you know if I can install OS3.9 or should I just go for the latest version? (which is...?). Regarding the extra RAM, is there anywhere else you can put it other than the trapdoor? From what I can remember the trapdoor allowed a 1MB expansion, is there any larger ones I can put there? and is it necessary to install anymore than an extra 1MB?
Quite interesting that the prices for the hardware are just as expensive as they were in '94!

[Jamppa]

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[Jamppa]

pVC wrote:

Extra memory is needed if you want to do anything more "serious". There's new 8M expansion around, which sounds to work well. http://lvd.nedopc.com/Projects/a600_8mb_2/index.html

I had a look at the site (and link to the shop) and it sounds interesting. Have you personally installed one? was it/do you know if it's difficult? If so, how long did you have to wait for it to arrive? Forgive me for the stupid question but what's the difference between a fully populated board and an unpopulated one?