Testing: Cyberstorm PPC/CybervisionPPC, Ariadne II, Hydra, Micronik Z3, Piccasso IV

[Karniv4]

Folks,

I'm going to put this gear on ebay, sadly its been sat there neglected for a good few years.
So my question is, whats worth the hasstle of trying to set up and testing/flogging? and whats the easiest way to prove the hardware?

Its been such a long time, and sadly my scsi HD has died, so its not a case of hooking everything up and powering on!
To top it all, I cant find the mouse! so i've been recalling in fits and spats how to use the keyboard for everything.
So, as you can imagine, no mouse, using floppies only, testing is a bit of a challenge!

The setup is:
A1200 + Micronik Z3 board
Cyberstorm PPC 604e/060 with 128MB
Ariadne II Eithernet card

The Hydra card and PicassoIV (Break off section for ZII has been broken off) where in use when I had the miggy in ZII mode prior to getting the Cyberstorm. (or hell, it would have been used in the A1500 i had...now where did that go...)

So far, I've managed to boot the miggy, so the 060 + CybervisionPPC is working...(played around with it a bit, and wollowed in some nostalgia)

Any pointers to make my life easier would be good about now, its surprising how much I've forgotten! (i'm getting some "Oh yeah, i remeber that" moments, but to be honest, I just don't have the time to spend on it!)

Andy.

[fitzsteve]

I don't think you'll get very far without a Mouse and Hard Drive.

You could build and test that it powers to the early boot screens and maybe boot a workbench floppy but you won't be able to run any PowerUP apps without a full setup.

Unless you boot OS4 from Floppy & CD, that would prove the PPC is working.

You can move the mouse pointer in Workbench with the Cursor Keys if you hold the Right Amiga Key an I think the ATL Keys are the Mouse Clicks.

Where abouts in the world are you?

Steve.

[amiga92570]

http://powerup.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=24

[alexh]

If thinking of selling and you don't mind taking a small hit on the top price there are many buyers who would take the hassle out of it by buying "sold as seen".

http://www.amibay.com

[Karniv4]

Steve: Yeah I remebered the mouse shortcut, and I brought up the boot menu screen with the "esc" key...lol I've forgotten how I did that now...shesh my memory.

Im in UK, Hampshire way.

Amiga92570 : Bloody eck, that looks like just the ticket, thanks, will try it out!.

alexh : I won't sell it unless it works to be honest, It was working the last time it was used, but I'm far to honest to sell something that I'm not 100% happy with.

Thanks for the input fellas.

Andy.

[alexh]

I understand. I bought lots of Amiga stuff "untested" (aka broken) at lower prices and all turned out to be serviceable. Most vendors I bought from just rated their time as more valuable than the top prices.

[Buzzfuzz]

You can also use OS3.9, install the PPC librariers from http://phase5.a1k.org/ and then run http://aminet.net/search?query=whichamiga
 
Proves the CS working and maybe even the CS Vision, I also have a Vision but not yet installed.

[A4000_Mad]

http://powerup.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=24

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