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New to Amiga.
« on: May 22, 2011, 05:16:49 PM »
Well, I am not 100% new, I used to mess around on my friends A500 back in the day.  A few years ago, I was given an A2000.  The other day, I cleared the dust off and powered it on.  Everything seems to be working.  It has what looks like a ram card and maybe an accelerator card.  

My question is, what to do now?  I doesn't have a NIC, is that something I can find on ebay?  Mostly I just want to play the old games.  The system I was given came with a ton of old games we used to play.  

Would any linux run on it?  just wondering what sort of tinkering I can do.
 

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Re: New to Amiga.
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 07:59:29 PM »
Yeah it has a hard drive and boots into something.  I'll take a look when I get home to see if the cards have some sort of manufactor/model number on them.  It was given to me with a bit of stuff, there is also an additional card it came with that isn't plugged in.  I would have poked around a little more, just forgot to grab the keyboard and mouse before I powered it on :)
 

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Re: New to Amiga.
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 03:19:22 PM »
Ok took a look at the system yesterday.  Has 2 cards plugged in, one has a scsi cable plugged into it, couldn't see any manufacture or model number.  The other is a memory board with 8mb worth of simms on it.  The card not plugged in is a pc card, barely looks like it was ever used.  I also has an A520, Perfect Sound, DigiView and Color Splitter.  Not sure what they used it all for.  

I will have to find a video card that will let me use a flatscreen.  Any suggestions?