Help indentify these components!

[Rivkid]

odin wrote:
The 1500 is merely a rebadged 2000, primarily marketed at 'home office' users if I am not mistaken. Here's a bit of history on the A1500.

yeah I'd read that - apparently if you peel the 1500 sticker off theres likely to be a 2000 sticker underneath - I'm not curious enough to ruin the finish finding out!

[Dandy]

Rivkid wrote:

reddwarfer wrote:
Darn!
I just sold a 20Mb MFM drive.

Gah!! Who to? Whats they're address lol!!

Well - I still should have two 20mB MFM drives laying around somewhere in my cellar - so if you're really interested...

[Rivkid]

Well I've bid on a 2091 with a 52mb drive but if I don't win it yes I'll definitely be interested.

[Zac67]

If the A2090 has "A2090" printed on it, it's an A2090a (autoboot version). If it says "HARD DISK CONTROLLER", it's no autoboot.

The autoboot version can work quite nicely in an unaccelerated A2000, but it may be a pain to set up due to it's outdated software (predates RDB).
You can use any SCSI drive up to 512 MB, probably dirt cheap at eBay (even larger ones, but only the first 512 MB of them). Forget about MFM drives, they're slow and much more unreliable.

Just use a small OFS partition to boot from and mount the real FFS/DCFFS/SFS/whatever partition and don't set up any partition larger than 256 MB (according to BBoAH).

[da9000]

@OP:

the AGA-2000 has a DB9 *VGA* output, which cannot be used on an EGA monitor. What you need is a DB9-to-DB15 converter cable or make your own, which is pretty simple if you have some dead IBM clone hardware laying around to grab the plugs from (a DB9 from a serial port, and a DB15 from a dead VGA card). Here are the pin-outs:

Although Microway is not our product, (Ours is HD-SUB 15 pins) but we'd like to help any users. ;-)

Wish you have got what you need.

If don't, please refer the following: DB9 for VGA pin outs. (differs from a EGA or CGA connectors)

Pin 1: Red Video
Pin 2: Green Video
Pin 3: Blue Video
Pin 4: H Sync
Pin 5: V Sync
Pin 6: Red Return
Pin 7: Green Return
Pin 8: Blue Return
Pin 9: Ground

The RGB returns are equal to the Ground.

Any pin outs question please send to tech_at sign_biocon.com.tw

What you call an AGA board is in fact Microway's Flickerfixer.

It is THE ORIGINAL (the first) Flickerfixer and they are the ones who coined the term flickerfixer. Back then, these sold for nearly 1000$.

It uses the old type of VGA connector which is pin compatible with EGA, a DB-9 connector. You can easily find adapters to convert the output to a standard VGA-15 connector on eBay.

[Lex]

Tahoe wrote:
The memory expansion is THIS ONE. It looks like it is populated to the full 8MB...

Nope, it's not the 8MI (18 pin DIPs) but the 2MI (16 pin DIPs). So there's only 2MB fastram in this Amiga.

[murple]

Wow, I haven't seen an MFM cable in years. You really do not want to use that. MFM drives are ancient, slow, big, pieces of {bleep}. Any one you find is going to be very old now and I wouldn't trust any unreplaceable data on one. If you find one cheap/free, maybe use it as a temporary thing, but long term you should find a SCSI or IDE controller.

The "AGA card" (god, I wish there were AGA add-ins for A2000s) is like other people said, a flicker fixer. Those are quite cool, as you can use a PC monitor and use interlace modes without getting a headache.

The RAM card does max out your Zorro bus, so, be careful about other cards you use. I got bit in the ass by that recently myself.

[reddwarfer]

Gah!! Who to? Whats they're address lol!!

Heh, I only asked £1 for it aswell!

[Rivkid]

reddwarfer wrote:

Gah!! Who to? Whats they're address lol!!

Heh, I only asked £1 for it aswell!

dammit.

ah well I've bought this now :



2091 SCSI card. It has 2mb ram on board and a Quantum 52MB hard drive formatted with Amigados 1.3. SCSI chips v6.1

The extra 2mb RAM will be nice - can't wait to get it up and running woo!

[Rivkid]

murple wrote:
Wow, I haven't seen an MFM cable in years. You really do not want to use that. MFM drives are ancient, slow, big, pieces of {bleep}. Any one you find is going to be very old now and I wouldn't trust any unreplaceable data on one. If you find one cheap/free, maybe use it as a temporary thing, but long term you should find a SCSI or IDE controller.

The "AGA card" (god, I wish there were AGA add-ins for A2000s) is like other people said, a flicker fixer. Those are quite cool, as you can use a PC monitor and use interlace modes without getting a headache.

The RAM card does max out your Zorro bus, so, be careful about other cards you use. I got bit in the ass by that recently myself.

I've just found this in my drawer at work :



am I right in thinking this will connect that flicker fixer to a monitor? If it is man what are the odds of finding that lol!!

When you say max out the zorro what do you mean? My i/o cards will be ok won't they?

[Quixote]

;^) Another bit of helpful advice for resurrecting old Amiga accessories:  Visit this site.  They specialize in hosting driver disk images for obsolete hardware.  They've gone to the trouble of obtaiing permission from the various copyright holders, so everything is above board and legal.

Have fun with your new setup!

Rivkid wrote:

I've just found this in my drawer at work :

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am I right in thinking this will connect that flicker fixer to a monitor? If it is man what are the odds of finding that lol!!

I think you're right and I think the odds are just as good as finding a DB-9 / DB-25 serial port adapter.

These were quite common on the PC from 1988 to 1994.