Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Owned a 1000 and 500 now im back!  (Read 2286 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline BIG-IRONTopic starter

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Join Date: May 2004
  • Posts: 111
    • Show only replies by BIG-IRON
    • http://www.nojohnkerry.org/
Owned a 1000 and 500 now im back!
« on: May 22, 2004, 03:15:26 AM »
Hello all My name is Joe, although I go by my college nickname BIG-IRON. I am an old amiga guy getting back into the machines I loved so much. Im working on getting an Amiga 3000 off of ebay, I bet its from someone who posts here! any words of advice? I will need some advice on how to set her up, optimize her and get her on the internet so any help will be apprdciated. Also does anyone know of a user group in Southern California or want to get one started? Also does anyone in So Cal have Amiga stuff for sale? Im looking for a 3000 or 4000 and anything else I might need.
BIG IRON (Or \\"heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive,ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes.
 

Offline SamuraiCrow

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 2281
  • Country: us
  • Gender: Male
    • Show only replies by SamuraiCrow
Re: Owned a 1000 and 500 now im back!
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2004, 03:24:56 AM »
The first thing I'd suggest for a 3000 would be to get a Picasso96 supported graphics card to get some 256 color display modes not counting HAM.  (Sure CyberGraphics also works but P96 is incorporated into AmigaOS4 if you eventually move up to a PowerPC Amiga.)
 

Offline Dalamar

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Join Date: Dec 2003
  • Posts: 190
    • Show only replies by Dalamar
Re: Owned a 1000 and 500 now im back!
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2004, 04:48:19 AM »
Welcome back!  I've just restored a 3000D to working order.  It's stock and I'm having fun with it right now.  I would agree that a graphics board is a good idea depending on what you want to use it for.

The only user group I know of in CA is the one up by me here in Sacramento.  www.sacc.org.  I've seen a couple of other So Cal users on here.
-Dal
[color=993300]\\"Stop blowing holes in my ship!!\\"[/color]
--------------------------------------------------------------
...
- A500/4000/3000
 

Offline shIva

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 751
    • Show only replies by shIva
    • http://preshi.blogspot.com
Re: Owned a 1000 and 500 now im back!
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2004, 10:40:26 AM »
wb BIG-IRON :-)
shIva
the answer is [color=CC3300]42[/color] Support  Distributed Amiga - moo ;)
 

Offline sumner7

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2003
  • Posts: 1172
    • Show only replies by sumner7
Re: Owned a 1000 and 500 now im back!
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2004, 11:37:51 AM »
Welcome BIG-IRON! :pint: