Amiga 2000 upgrade

[Ken86Stang]

Ok, picked this up, and wondering what to do to this.

What would you do?

Amiga 2000
Rev. 4.3 MB
Flicker Fixer
2 - 880K floppy drives
KS 37.175
1 Meg Agnus
Normal Denise
GVP 50mhz Accelerator board;
030 CPU/68882 FPU/68030 MMU w/8 megs memory

Any Suggestions?

[Retro_71]

Give it to me.. :-D
But seriously (i was serious), you can do a few things depending on whether you want to play games or mess around with apps or Video Editing (will need a toaster board for that).
Does it have a hard disk installed and how big is it? (i would think it's a SCSI)
Is workbench already installed and which version?
Maybe think of getting OS3.9.

I pretty much have the same system as you, but i have 2 x 4GB HDD & CD rom, 3.1 roms, but no flicker fixer. (trying to get one). I have 3.9 install and mainly use it for games and to transfer files from pc to amiga (either thru the serial port or the CD rom)
If you can decide what you want out of it then i can give you more ideas.
Regards and enjoy

[Jeff]

First of all congratulations that's a nice machine! Check and remove/replace the battery. Next you might want a 3.1 ROM, an ethernet adapter, and a graphics card like a Picasso II or similar. That would compliment your flicker fixer nicely.

[AMC258]

Get a Toaster/Flyer.  They are cheap now.

[Iznougoud]

From what I've heard, AOS3.9 is somewhat lagging on a machine without RTG. So you might want to take that one under consideration.

Retro_71: how did you manage to squeeze two HDDs and a CDROM into an A2000? One HDD and a CDROM is about it for me. I really would like to know, it would be nice to utilize the SCSI-controller in a more efficient way.

My system:

B2000, ROM 3.1
Blizzard 2040/40Mhz
Picasso II+
Scandoubler
Vlab Macrosystems digitizer (oh, how useful it is to digitize from VHS and such in the age of MPG, AVI and such
1Mb ChipRAM and 128Mb FastRAM
4.2 SCSI HDD
SCSI CDROM
Looking like mad for a Zorro-NIC. Would love to upgrade the Blizzard-card to 68060-standard. Considered expanding the amount of ChipMem to 2Mb

Running AOS3.9, and I've come to really enjoy that OS. But as noted, I'm not sure it would be quite as lovely without the Picasso-board.

[Nostalgiac]

how did you manage to squeeze two HDDs and a CDROM into an A2000? One HDD and a CDROM is about it for me.

easy enough - I had one floppy + HD in the 3.5 bays, CD/RW below, and another HD mounted on a scsi board as most of those came with space to mount an HD anyhow.
Since fitting a 2gb drive... I got rid of the second drive :-)

ta
Tom

[DoogUK]

not much lag if you have a zorro graphics card, os3.9 runs ok on my a2000 without one.

[Darrin]

I upgraded my ROMS to 3.1, installed a CD ROM, installed OS3.9 and added a Cybervision 64/3D graphics card.

I'm looking for a flicker fixer for it.