Building my dream machine

[skurk]

Hi folks,

I'm a long-time Amiga user.  I used my Amiga day and night between 1988 and 1996.  Mostly for demoscene stuff (coding, watching demos).  I then switched to Linux, but used my Amiga a little now and then.  A couple of years ago I bought an A4000/030@25 which I'm currently upgrading to a "dream machine", the kind of thing I dreamed of in my teens.

The stats are (brag alert):
- PicassoIV with 17" LCD monitor
- X-Surf network adapter
- 40G 2.5" hdd
- 32x CDRW
- Lyra PS/2 keyboard adapter with Happy Hacker keyboard
- On its way: Kickstart 3.1 and OS3.9
- On its way: Cyberstorm 68060@50
- Planned: 128M RAM

I find myself spending more and more time infront of this beauty.  In fact, I've had serious problems getting to bed in time lately.

It's like the good old days again.  68k assembly still is as beautiful as poetry.

-skurk

[amigakit]

Welcome to Amiga.org!

[Gav]

Yes i too also built the amiga i always wanted after being away from the scene i had read amiga format in 98 and seen all these towers...So a few yrs later once i was getting money that wasnt £5 pocket money i started to buy and now here i am lol..

Yeah welcome to amiga.org which is the best amiga message board with lots of ppl who are always willing to help.

[tonyvdb]

Hi skurk, Welcome to Amiga.org

If you havent done so yet may I suggest that you buy yourself a nice tower case and install the A4000 in there, it gives far better airflow and room to add more hard drives and other devices. Getting the  Mediator board is also a great idea once place into the tower.

[Piru]

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Main
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.msg            dc.b    'skurk, welcome to amiga.org!',10,0


[McVenco]

skurk wrote:

a "dream machine", the kind of thing I dreamed of in my teens.

Welcome!

It sounds all too familiar :-D
I too have bought my dream machine a short while ago: a 4000/040 which will be upgraded a CyberVision 3D/64, an XSurf and Buddha/Catweasel very shortly. I only need some more RAM and a bigger harddisk, and then I'll have the machine I always wanted when I had just an A500 some 10 years ago.

[philipj]

Hi skurk, same situation here as well (seems to be a re-occuring theme) but unfortunately I haven't been able to get enough money together to quite build my dream machine yet.

The A4K is a nice machine, well designed and looks nice even now when displayed on a desk (with all the neo-silver/black PC cases of today I mean).

I know what you mean about the classic hardware, it's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle made out of crystal-studded pieces and gold trim! :-)

[skurk]

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone.

tonyvdb: I have been thinking about throwing everyting into a tower, but decided to stay with the original casing for two reasons.  1) Having a customized tower shipped to Norway is euh-xpeh-nsive, and 2) I like to show everyone that this is an Amiga, not a PC running UAE (which it might look like).  For now.  Maybe I'll go tower later, time will show

Piru: snappy assembler response coming up soon

amigakit: Can't believe I didn't order the KS3.1 chips from you.  I ordered my chips at a local store in early November, a friend of mine ordered his from your store at the same time.  He got his after 1 week, I'm still waiting for mine