is a A2000 internet capable?

[KThunder]

justthatgood wrote:
... I just can't imagine trying to use the Amiga "browsers".

there are a bunch of guys here telling him first hand experience that it isnt too bad. just know the limitations. get a video card and acelerator, and lots of ram. i have a 3000 with full ram and a video card and it works quite well.

ive seen a few threads like this where people who have actually done this say it works and to try it, and a bunch of people who havent, saying all kinds of negative stuff and i was just wondering why? if you have never run an amiga on the net of course you cant imagine it. you have several amigas, try it, actually try it. then give us an informed realistic opinion.
btw this wasnt meant to be a personal attack it just seems that you arent as poor as you say: you have two heavily upgraded 4000s and a heavily upgraded 2000. you just havent tried.

[KThunder]

justthatgood wrote:
... Remember a while back when I mentioned selling my Amigas to make money so I could survive and actually pay some bills. Most of you basically said I had issues and the money that I would make wouldn't be worth the "trauma". Yes I'm still poor, and I have all those Amigas, and tons and tons of bills..

yeah i remeber that. i think my advice was along the lines of go ahead and sell one or more of your machines. what internet do you have now?  

[KThunder]

probably the three hurdles people have to jump with amigas on the net are:
1. access speed- do NOT use the normal serial port unless you are running 14.4 modem or so

2. images- you really really need a video card. even simple pics have to be converted including dithering possibly

3. flash, java, etc. most amiga browsers dont handle this stuff well if at all.

[KThunder]

@mr_a500

the serial ports on amigas have no buffer to them and are dependant on chipset timing. something you alluded to in your post (screen depth) a real serial port (gvp ioextender or other) can lock any serial speed without dropping bytes retransfering or logging out without regard to screen depth or cpu loading

you dont absolutely need a video card especially if you turn off image loading etc. however if you have to load images they have to be converted and possibly dithered to be displayed in 16 color or whatever. this takes time and many people dont like that.

an amiga running with a video card at 16 or 24 bit depth wont have to do hardly any conversion of images. this would make surfing much more enjoyable and realistic.

i usually run at 8bit video so some stuff has to converted i can deal with that.