My new Amiga 3000

[jValdron]

Hi there,

Got my Amiga 3000 a couple weeks ago, but got kinda busy with studies and work.

So here it is! I've ran SysInfo it got the following info:

Motorola 68030
Chip Memory 2MB
Fast Memory 4MB
Quantum Fireball540S 520MB, scores 2MB/sec
No additional boards.

And while taking a look inside, the battery was pretty bad. I removed it immediately.

Check out my gallery: http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?u=7696

Got it for 80$ CAD, which, in my opinion is not too bad.

So anyone got any ideas of applications/games I can install on this. I tried to install Directory Opus 4 but didn't managed to.

Right now, my PC and Amiga are linked together with an homemade null-serial cable and using Amiga Explorer.

[jValdron]

I was actually looking for a cheap Ethernet card, couldn't even find one on eBay.

[jValdron]

Thought the fan was quite loud, so I managed to fit a noise control device along with the fan. Pictures are included in my gallery.

EDIT: Don't try this at home haha. I didn't realized that the chip would add more load on the output and overload the fuse.

[jValdron]

Yep, sure is a neat little machine Hope you have a better experience with WHDLoad than me anyway

[jValdron]

Wow!  Man it seems areound here everyone thinks they're sitting on a goldmine and throw these things up on ebay .  How in the world do you find these for $50 cdn?  Lucky!  

80$ CDN on Kijiji

A thing most guys does not realize: there is a gizmo called Lantronix MSS100, which is a ethernet modem emulator.

Yeah, like others says, couldn't you just use a null-serial cable?

As for problems installing Directory Opus.. what version did you try to install? I use Dopus 4.16 exclusively, as I just didn't like the later versions. Anyway, there are slightly different versions of basically the same DirOpus4,  strangely one found on Aminet wouldn't work on my 1200T. So, I say scour the Net, look for old coverdisks, etc. You should be able to find a version of DOpus that works on your system.
   As for other applications... Well, some ppl. here might say that 4MB fast RAM is plenty..... But if you want to get into applications more, you should think about getting more RAM.  For 'common' tasks, 2MB Chip/4MB Fast might be enough....

Will try a different version. The problem is that I'm relatively new to the Amiga scene. So, I'm not too sure of what I'm doing sometimes