Update Amiga 600

[utri007]

A600 is nice little computer, it is quite difficult to expand, but you can isntall hd and LAN to it easily.

If you own an Amiga 600 with Kickstart 2.x and a revision below 37.300, you need to upgrade in order to use the internal IDE controller

Here kickstart 3.1

http://www.vesalia.de/e_kickstart[154].htm

There is some new hardware availlable for A600, 030 acclerator and scandoubler. Notice that Indivision ECS is not just scandoubler, it also accelerates graphics.

http://www.vesalia.de/r0e_amiga_hardware_amiga_600.htm

But yes, A1200 is better choise, but if you want to hobby amiga, A600 is ok and you can allways get A1200 later

[utri007]

Actually hard drive can be any size, but at least boot partion need to be less than 4,2gb

This is what you need

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/ffstd64

You can use that kind of PCMCIA solution to transfer adfs to you miggy, BUT you should rather look for WHDload games, so that you don't need to play with floppies. WHDLoad instals games to hard drive.

http://www.whdload.de/

I would suggest you to buy Cloantos's amiga explorer 9,95€ and PCMCIA network card 1€ -10€, so that you could use lan to transfer whdloadized games direct to your miggy's HD.

http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/

It has quite many nice features, example, if you drag adf image to your amigas floppy drive from PC side it writes it directly to disk.

Because you are from Denmark, you can get easy and good display solution with LCD-tv. With LCD-TV hires modes doesn't flicker, you just need right kind of cable.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=226

[utri007]

Can you explain why we need KS3.1 with the A600? KS3.1 is almost exactly the same as KS2.x. The only difference is the DataTypes, so you can view files with MultiView. But for KS2.x there are also plenty viewers for free on Aminet. For example PPShow or ViewTek (VT) and many other little viewers. Even the Icons and WorkBench layout is the same as KS2.x.
I would understand if you use KS3.1 on the A600 for running O.S.3.9, but that's to slow or not nice looking (ugly with 16 colors), even with an 030 accelerator.
So, if not using O.S.3.9 then one should stick with KS & O.S. 2.x, and then you don't even need a 1.3<->3.1 KS-switcher, because KS2.x can run the old games just fine.

Some versions of KS2.0 doesn't have scsi.device build in and one version have buggy scsi.device, limiting hard drive size about 100mb

A600 is nice WHDLoad machine, I really don't understand why would anyone want to play with floppies.

PS. Is possible to get 68010 cpu for few euros. 010 will allow quit key with whdload