Effy wrote:
If you want a kicking A500 then get a kickstart 3.1 and a scsi controller in your A590 (or a A590 with a scsi controller inside). You can forget about OS 3.9 but it is perfectly possible to run OS 3.1, providing you have a bit more than just 512 Kb Ram. The scsi controller will also allow you to use up to a 4 Gb harddisc if you don´t make any modifications. If you use another filesystem that is modded then you can use everything over the 4 Gb barrier I think. But 4 Gb on an A500 is enough to start with. The controller may also allow you to use a scsi cdrom which is very cool is you´re only used to floppies !!! I used to have a Mtec 68020i in my A500+ with 4 Mb Simm on it, and that really rocked at that time !!
The A590 I have has both the XT and SCSI interfaces in it.
I've also got the 512K RAM upgrade in the amiga itself. (I've actually got two, I didn't expect my amiga to come with one already in it and I bought another before the amiga arrived). And both expansions I did the Lithium ION battery upgrade to.
And I'm in the process of getting some RAM to stick into the A590. (16 256kx4 cmos chips). Good thing about that RAM is that it was commonly used on old trident ISA vga cards.
Where I'd get a kickstart 3.1 rom is beyond me. There doesn't seem to be any amiga outlets local here in AU.
And I knew that it could take up to a 4gig drive, (I found that out in another thread here), but, does a 4.3gig drive qualify? I suppose it does as formatted it's a little less than 4gig. The reason I wonder this is because I see plenty of 50pin 4.3gig SCSI drives on ebay.
