New owner (again).

[ravenpi]

Hey, all.  I bought an A1000 back in the day, and still consider it the epitome of home computing.  That being said, in '94, I went over to Linux, and that's been pretty much my thing since then.  EXCEPT... I just got an A500 for my birthday.  Going retro, here.  So a few questions:
* How do I get the old games onto floppy?  I'd love (say) Ballistix, and Lemmings, and that Defender clone that was pretty awesome.  Likewise, the FF disks.
* Does the A500 support stock parallel pinouts?  Pretty sure my A1000 didn't, and I'd like to hook it up to my Gemini 10-X.  (Or maybe I'm mixed up, and it was just the RS-232 that was Amiga-specific.)
* Any way to get it on Ethernet/TCP?
* Any way to get it to talk to an LCD panel?

Thanks for taking time to read the questions of a re-newb...

-Ken

[ravenpi]

Well, no, game playing isn't -- by far -- my only thing, but it's certainly the thing I've perhaps missed the most.  Well, that, and all those awesome screen hacks.  Not only that, but I'd love to have some fun playing those games with my ten-year-old daughter.  I think that'd rock.  Would also be fun to immerse myself back into AmigaDOS; indeed, I still have the manual with me -- it's traveled from job to job over the years.

[ravenpi]

I'll answer in order:
Oldsmobile Mike: excellent!  Thanks for the links!

Arnuph1s: clearly, I have some reading.  "Vampire?"  *googles*

UberFreak: Gotek USB floppy emulator; a lot of chatter about Windows when I googled it. Can I do this without Windows?  I'm pretty much 100% Linux.

Lord Aga: ACA500 Plus/Vampire.  Clearly, even more googling in my future.

rednova: Yeah, I had nothing against floppies other than access times.  But always enjoyed just how well the Amiga dealt with multiple devices.

Sir_Lucas: heh; your name reminds me of the 68020 project that was in the Amiga Transactor magazine: the Little Ugly Cheap Accelerator System.  Moving on, I'll check out the link.  Thanks!

paul1981: noooo?  I don't think that was it.  Lemme google some, here.  Nope, no dice.  Yet.

Magnetic: thanks!  I'll definitely go check out the FAQs and stuff.  Even knowing that there is such a thing to be referenced is already a huge help.

amoskodare: thank you kindly!  Let's face it -- the Amiga was the best home computer, ever.  Indeed, it was only because I got so good with it that I did as well with my transition to being a Linux admin/user as I have.  It'll be fun to go back in time.

klx300r: sorry; re-reading, I see it was easy to misconstrue my intent.  Not trying to get my A1000 going; that, alas, is long gone.  But my new A500 -- I'll check into the ECS.

Magnetic (again): awesome!  I'll check that stuff out.  Much obliged.

gertsy: yeah, I've been using Linux as my primary work-and-home OS since '94, so I guess I do qualify as a "Linux head." :-)   I'll check out the link.  Might go for the buying-it option, as I'm leery of trying to flash stuff if the directions are aimed at Windows users (but saying that, I haven't checked out your link, which may well be Linux-related).  Thanks!