Help me trick out an A2000

[runequester]

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?

[runequester]

GVP 2060 GVP Spectrum.

The Spectrum is supported under RTG according to bboah.

looks awesome but yikes, pretty pricey

[runequester]

Is there any sort of ethernet card for the amiga, or do I need to figure out something through the USB route ?

[runequester]

have you had any problems running with a usb stick as a hard drive or is it pretty straight forward ?
 
Also, if the machine is going to primarily run applications, and use RTG, will I get a lot of mileage out of the expanded chip memory ?

[runequester]

here's another question:

Lets say I get a card like the GVP 2060. This can take up to 128 mb RAM.

Would it be possible to add more ram in the zorro 2 slots or no?

[runequester]

Question is, why would you want to? I seriously doubt you would ever get near using all 128Mb of ram on a 68k Amiga.

At this point, Im mostly just wondering what routes to take and what is possible.

[runequester]

With 128Mb of fast ram you're going to be in a position where its more likely you'll run out of chipram before reaching the limits on the fast. Even with the Spectrum onboard you're gong to struggle to use it all. Also given the costs involved, even if it were possible to add more via the Z2 slots, that is a slot you have essentially wasted. Get a USB or a eithernet board before you start thinking about doing things "because I can".

yeah, you are probably right

If you want to do web browsing I could suggest getting a cheapy SFF Pentium 4 PC motherboard with a PWR Supply and nice display card. Running AROS, or for better mainstream browser compatibility an unbranded Amiga pimped full XP theme and WinUAE. A very cheap starter and it'll do what you're after X times faster than a 060 Amiga 2000.

But it won’t really be an Amiga. Will it..

The whole idea is to do it on an amiga I already have a linux pc that can do any "serious" internet stuff i need just fine. This is for fun