Total Amiga NEWB

[Tenacious]

@ 8bitugy1

The 2000 was designed in about 1987, before most computers had CD drives.  (It's truely amazing how the Amiga can be updated to modern needs.)  The motherboard does not have connections to patch thru the audio output (left, right) from the CD drive.  Your drive is internal, right?

If so, I think Amigakit sells a backplane cover that includes hardware for mixing Amiga audio with CD audio.

There are a number of CD playering utilities on Aminet. At least one is included with OS3.9.

Does your machine have retargetable graphic boards or an accelerator?  If not, you may want to acquire these before moving from OS3.1 to OS3.5 or 3.9.

[Tenacious]

Final Calc and ProCalc were probably the 2 best (commercial) spreadsheets available.  They show up from time to time on eBay.

Your 2000 will run spreadsheets and most classic games and OS3.1 just fine as is. The accel and RTG were to let os3.9 run at it's best.  OS3.9 was mentioned to prettify and extend your Workbench experience.

You might be better served getting some books ("The Amiga Companion", "Denny Atkin"s Best Amiga Tips and Secrets") and more experience with the OS first. Aminet has an enormous selection of free files (Directory Opus, PPaint, Hippoplayer, Ordering, Play16, PlayCD, Textview, Visage, NoteIt!, Yam, NComm, all kinds of games) for Amiga.

OSes 3.5 and 3.9 are largely OS3.1 configured with standardized (and attractive) eye candy and updates.