How far can an A2000 go?

[Atheist]

All I have is an A2K with a GVP Impact II with 8 Megs of ram and a SCSI Fujitisu 180 Meg HD. It has a Supraturbo 28 MHz acellerator in it, but every time I start it, the first access to the HD causes it to Guru(tm).

Don't you still just love using it? Every time you press the on button, you're in Lala land.

Amiga! Still captivating, after all these 17 years!

Amiga 2000 owner, user, Fanatic, since 1989!

[artman]

My pride and joy is an A2000 my Daughter picked up at a garage sale in Dayton, Ohio for $25.00, no keyboard or mouse.  Now it's got an 060 Blizzard card in it with 128 meg of ram, OS3.9, 4gig HD, CDRom drive, Cybergraphics643D card with version 4 software and a flickerfixer.  Also got an external  28.8 modem, and to tell the truth, I think it actually connects and browses faster than my Compaq AMD-K6-2 machine with a 56k modem.  We live in the boondocks of Northern Michigan, and the phone lines up here really suck.  Slows things down awful. :-P

[Tesral]

artman wrote:
My pride and joy is an A2000 my Daughter picked up at a garage sale in Dayton, Ohio for $25.00, no keyboard or mouse.

to tell the truth, I think it actually connects and browses faster than my Compaq AMD-K6-2 machine with a 56k modem.  We live in the boondocks of Northern Michigan, and the phone lines up here really suck.  Slows things down awful. :-P

I wouldn't doubt it.  My ancient A4000 (Think Eric Schwartz "The Survivor") with its old MC68040/40 perform comparably to my new Gateway pentium 4 1.8 gighrz. with windbloze 98.  (I shudder to think what XPired would do to an otherwise decent machine.)

2000s are amazingly scalable due to how the Amiga architecture is put together.  Replace processor, graphics, memory, rom chips.  With the right add-ons it can soldier and carry it's weight right next to a souped up 4000.  I personally too a 1.2 rom floppy only 2000 and "with a few things I found around the house"  Turned it into a rockingly good 2.1 hard drive booting modern software using beast circa 1994.  The 3.1 chips were not out yet.

Check my Amiga page for the machine I am running.  URL below got to the "Amiga Page"

[Oli_hd]

Hi

Don't forget, the Coldfire guys have said they want to make an A2000 card...

Yep, I do intend to make one for the A2000, It like the second version people want to see made but tuff because it will probably be the third  :-P

I *think* there is also talk of putting an AGP slot, USB etc. on the card, too.

Hehe, Not AGP, It cant be done without a lot of work (Which the Atari guys who are working on a similar product just found out, hehe guys you should have asked me  ;-)  (Mmm Atari bashing again, At long last))
USb yes, IDE yes, 10/100 ethernet... Ermm If I have to (People seem to want it and it isnt to hard to fit I guess)

On a different note the prototype PCB came today and pictures are uploaded to the news group @ http:/.groups.yahoo.com/group/amigacoldfire