Back in the Amiga game...

[corsavert]

Geez... posted to the wrong forum first try :oops: ... let's get this in Introductions where it belongs:

Picked up a system from the local for-sale newsgroup the other day, to get back into Amiga systems after 15 years away. I used to sell the A1000 when it first came out ($2995 Canadian!) and the A2000. Had a 1000 for many years.

Just picked up A500 as follows:

A500 rev6a
stock PS
Bigfoot PS
Mega Midget Racer 68030/33 & 68882/33 & Ram expansion (how much? not sure yet. Actually they are 50mhz chips but I'm told the board runs them at 33)
sidecar SupraRAM 500 (4Mb)
sidecar GVP Impact HD+ Series II (4Mb RAM, SCSI, & 50Mb drive)
Supra Drive SCSI case & 500Mb drive
100Mb SCSI ZIP drive
1084S
1010 floppy
A501 RAM/RTC
GO-64! emulator
Perfect Sound digitizer
Canon BJ printer
Amiga original mouse
Aftermarket mouse
Boxes and boxes of original software, manuals, & 1000+ "blank" floppies - it filled the back of my station wagon.

So far I have the A500 booting and showing 1mb CHIP & 8mb FAST available. No HD operating yet though.

I assume I need to find drivers etc for the GVP HD controller before the Amiga will see it. They're in the pile somewhere....

Be ready for questions!

ttyl
corsavert (canada)

ps - total cost - less than a steak dinner out for my wife and I  ;-)  

[Tomas]

welcome back! sounds like a very nice a500 package :-)

[PMC]

@corsavert

Nice system dude...  You'll have hours of fun playinground with that one.

Feel free to ask whatever questions you may have and we'll do our best to help you.  We're good like that here....

[kd7ota]

VERY good package you picked up.

I miss lots of Amiga games and still want to catch up on them.

Some games that I want to play are the AD&D games like Gateway to the Savage Frontier.... and the Sierra games such as King's Quest 4....

Amiga versions were superior because the sounds and music were just that much better.  :-D  :-)

[Glaucus]

Hey there and welcome!

Just curious, but you mentioned that you used to sell Amigas....  Which store, if you don't mind me asking. I bought my first A500 at the CompuCenter in St. Vital mall back in '87. Of course, back then you could buy Amiga's just about everywhere, even FutureShop carried them. Ahhh....  those were the days....

I can't remember where I got my A1200 from, although it may have been MicroMart, or perhaps Cory's...  can't remember. The Commodore A4000/040 I bought off ebay from some guy in the US (and still have it on my desk, although it rarely gets used).

  - Mike

[corsavert]

heh I had to go back to an old resume to check exactly when... but I was at MicroMart from early 84 til late 86 - just near the end of the C=64 era and just in time for the first Amigas!

Les