hi, thanks for all the posts, all i realy want to do at the moment is have a bit of a nostalga trip an play a few old games, i've already got f19 stealth figher of ebay so i can pretend i'm 14 again 
so i see that upgrading the a500 is really a no no
i have a couple of mice, an external floppy drive, and a gvp impact series 2 a500-hd8+ and am looking for a joystick
the thing is with the gvp, i think the amigas have warped a bit with age, i'm afraid to force it into the slots its very tight, and on the one amiga that it did seem to fir eventually, when i powered everything up, lights came on but got nothing on the screen? any ideas
where do i post asking the kind folks in amiga land for workbench disks i can buy/borrow/copy?
I think you wan'na get that GVP up and running on the best A500. Probably the V2.0 one. If you're a little bit ofay with electronics and opening stuff you can open them up and check the state of the MBs. You mentioned warping and if the units were stacked in a pile with weight on top for years they could be warped an this could be a problem with plugging in the GVP. Best thing to do is open them up and check their state, or if you're not confident get a friend who has PC building experience.
Once you get the GVP unit up and running it will give you the platform to extract ADFs to disks. (A bit of work to set up your rig to do this but if you're lucky the GVP will boot on the v2.0 A500.)
The problem with standalone A500s is there is no way to get them to do anything unless you have a way of creating floppy disks from ADFs. You are reliant on buying disks off ebay/amibay or on someone's good nature to supply freshly cut ADFs too you.
Using something like WHDload isn't an option on a vanilla a500.
I'm happy to send you WB disks, but I'm in OZ and you're in the UK. Other option is to relocate to OZ
Seems to be a popular thing these days.
'Cummon UK Amigans. Let's give noely02 a hand..
