Who has what Amiga??

[phill25]

I'm just trying to get an understanding of who has what Amiga and why..
Mainly because I'd love to get my Amiga 1200 towered but also consider having an Amiga 4000 as its been something I've always wanted to own and by looking at some of the pics on this forum, my eyes have opened right up and I'm really interested in really going for this :-D

Would anyone like to start the ball rolling for me??  :idea:

[pyrre]

My setup:

A 1200
Blizz PPC 603e+ 210MHz 040 25MHz
64MB ram
BVision gfx- card (currently not working properly)
6GIG Conner HD
ZIP 100 drive
Commodore 1942 monitor
Nokia 44BS 14" monitor
Some kind of tower dont remember the name of it...
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A500 STD (to be upgraded, slightly. HD and ram,
looking for A530. or of that kind.)
Actionreplay MKII


To be upgraded:
The SCSI cable for ppc scsi (mini 50pin to std 50pin)
CD-rom drive
Some of my other SCSI disks...
Memory, if i can find some more
Network
USB
A bigger monitor
Scandoubler



I have had amigas since I was a fist big. (though my first computer were a C64). To me it is the nostalgia. and the fun of using the best OS ever.... Fun though to play the old classic games...

[Kronos]

Hmm, got an A4k RBM-towered sitting in the basement. Came with  so many cards that all slots were filled (not easy on a tower conversion  :-o ). Got it quite cheap some years ago, not as cheap the one you are eyeing, but given all the extras it was a sweet deal.

Also sitting there is the trusty A2000 which was my main Amiga for 8 years. Maxed out with a Blizzard2060, but I sold that when I got the A4k (stupid me), now back to it's orginal A2630.


Main "Amiga" is my Pegasos2 which replaced the Pegasos1 some years ago (and is soon to be joined by anoter one).

So yes I'm totally  :crazy:  :crazy:

[phill25]

Well I'm curious as to what way is best to go for me..  As I've said plently of times, I'd love a A4000 in a tower.. My ultimate Amiga goal for damn sure :-)

I've only started using my Amiga 1200 recently and its just great :-)  I have loads of memories of friends playing The Settlers with me and Indyheat, oh my god :-D :lol:

I'm just wondering, where can I find a tower for either 1200 or 4000 that's not stupidly expensive??
That is one thing I hate about Amiga's.. People tend to rip you off when selling something :-(  Tis a shame...

Whats a Pegasos 2??  Is that the new hardware for the OS 4?  Its been so long since I've read or heard what the Amiga is doing now, I just prefer to ask!! :lol:  Its easier!

[SamuraiCrow]

I have an A1200 with Blizzard 1230 and SCSI adapter with a 16 meg EDO SIMM.

I also have a MicroA1-c which runs AmigaOS 4 prerelease 2.

And, to answer your other question, there is no version of AmigaOS 4 that runs on the Pegasos 2, it runs an Amiga-clone operating system called MorphOS.

[Varthall]

My system:

AmigaOne XE
G4 933 MHz
512M of RAM
Radeon 9200, 256M of memory
Soundblaster PCI128
Thermaltake Extreme Spirit cooler
bigtower case
running AmigaOS4 final

Why? It's one the fastest Amiga ever made (not including emulation, though), no stacks of hardware plugged together, and it runs the best version of AmigaOS I have ever used.

Varthall

[phill25]

Whats the biggest size piece of ram I can add to my Blizzard 1230?  I was looking at a 128mb simm, is that too much??

Also what is the biggest size hard drive the Amiga 1200 can handle, seen a couple 20Gb units on ebay for about £5, just wondered if it would be worth my while to get one or two??

MorphOS?  Where might I find more information about it please?  Google?

[phill25]

What can it do that a towered 1200 or 4000 (maybe with PPC??) can/cant do??

Where did you buy it from?  What do you use it for?

Sorry for the questions, just really interested :-)

[Piru]

MorphOS? Where might I find more information about it please?

An Introduction to MorphOS
Wikipedia: MorphOS
Lots of info at wikipeg.org (check out the Pegasos book for example)
MorphOS for PowerUP accelerated Amigas

Oh I have:

Pegasos II
7447 (G4) at 1 GHz
1GB of RAM
120GB + 200GB IDE HDDs
ATI Radeon 8500LE, 64M of memory
NEC USB 2.0 PCI card
Running MorphOS development version

I also have some towerised A1200 with overclocked BPPC + BVisionPPC and the goodies, but it's in a closet these days.

Well, using Pegasos is quite natural for me, being one of the developers of the OS in question. If you ask me, it's the best amiga compatible there is (yes better than the "amigaone", too).

[phill25]

Many thanks for the links :-D  I'll have a good read of them tomorrow after I'm home from work :-)

[SamuraiCrow]

A towered A1200 with a PowerPC accelerator card has a much smaller PowerPC chip than is used in the AmigaOne series.  The AmigaOne was sold by Eyetech but is discontinued.

The Pegasos 2 was also discontinued but, unlike the classic PowerPC version of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS classic is a freely available download.  MorphOS runs some PowerPC Amiga software and a lot of classic Amiga software as well.

The current hardware capable of running MorphOS is the Efika computer from Genesi.  It is a tiny thing with 128 megs of RAM that has a slower PowerPC chip but it will still run circles around a towered A1200 with an '030.

The biggest problems with AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS is that, unless you're running the classic versions on an accelerator card on an A1200/4000, you'll have to run an emulator like EUAE to get the old software to work.

For more information about MorphOS see MorphZone and to see more information about AmigaOS 4 see AmigaWorld or Amigans websites.

[phill25]

Shame I'm not nearer to you else I would have made an offer on the Towered 1200 you've got :-D

Where could I get a Pegasos from?

[phill25]

Where could I buy/download Amiga 4 OS from??

[Piru]

@phill25

Where could I get a Pegasos from?

The pegasos has been discontinued, but by eyeing ebay or amiga.org/morphzone.org you might find one for sale.

I remember seeing "for sale"-post here recently, for example.

[SamuraiCrow]

The AmigaOS 4 prereleases came with a discontinued computer called AmigaOne.  Since AmigaOS 4 is getting ready to ship on CD-ROM, according to this interview with one of the developers you might want to hold off on the PowerPC systems, for a while to see what it will run on or won't and if new hardware for it will become available.  It will definitely run on a PowerPC-accelerated A1200 but the accelerator cards are very expensive for that reason.

The only new hardware capable of running MorphOS is the Efika, a small form-factor system intended for use in embedded systems.  It's not much of of a step up from a PowerPC-accelerated A1200 since you'd still have to emulate the custom-chips to run any old classic Amiga software.