Help me trick out an A2000

[bbond007]

so if I was to trick out my Amiga 2000 to use as a workstation sort of deal, including some basic web browsing etc, what sort of equipment should I be looking for?


I figure I'll need:
Accelerator/RAM card
RTG card
Network card
Something that'll let me hook up a hard drive and possibly CD ROM

Any suggestions for the above ? Both in terms of which are great and what is actually possible to find

Anything Im forgetting?

You could see if softhut still has the TekMagic A2000 060/50MHz and GVP Spectrum. For Networking and other options, maybe go with the Deneb usb controller with USB networking.

[bbond007]

I'd stay clear of the TekMagic if possible and get the Blizzard 2060. The TekMagic needs the three finger salute on software resets in order to boot and the SCSI controller can only boot from FFS partitions.

It is something you can live with, but can get annoying in the end. It did for me so I decided to ditch the A2000. The SCSI controller on the TekMagic is super fast though, so it's not all bad.

Good advice if you can find a 2060. I had some Friends in RMAU that hat the Tekmagic and they never complained. Plus if SoftHut actually has them...

I had a rev 4.2 A2000 with fatter agnus, PP&S 040/28/32MB RAM, CV64/3D, Hydra Ethernet, GVP 4008 SCSI with GURUROM and 4MB fast ram. That was a very nice 2000 system! The only real drawback was that the SCSI was on the Z2 bus. Too bad the 1084 decided to die and take out the 2000 in the process. I ended selling or giving away all the parts. What a nice system though!

[bbond007]

Generally if you have enough fast ram, then you won't need to worry about chip ram so much when you're using RTG.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-Picasso-II-Video-Card-/250657513275

There's a great RTG card for the 2000 at a decent price.  Better than the Spectrum, I'd say.

I would say to expand the chip ram to 1mb no matter what you do. I'd not worry about the super denise if I was going RTG.

[bbond007]

Look at this and weep:

(Yes, it's 802.11n - and it's cheap.)

So what

I have wireless PCMCIA for my 1200 which is the size of a credit card