My "New" Amigas

[adolescent]

Got some Amiga stuff this weekend.  

A2000
Rev 4.2 motherboard, Kickstart 2.04, with A2620, A2058, A2320, and ICD AdSCSI Advantage cards, leaky battery, bad power supply, etc.  All in original CBM box.  Even has old Cherry keyboard (red Amiga keys!).  

A4000
In custom tower.  Looks like a standard 040 box.  But, need to open it up this week to see if it has anything extra.  Also came with the original case (virtually unused), in it's original box.

Boxes of books, software, cables, etc.  A SuperGen genlock, an A1080, and an "Amiga compatible" AST monitor.  

Price: FREE

The really cool thing is it came from Joe Kagerer of JEK Graphics (maker of Pro Fills 1-3).  Talking with Joe was fun.  I'm always in awe of anyone that actually made a living doing Amiga stuff.  Joe showed me his old Amiga demo tape and his animations are very good (although the subject matter was a little dated).  

I'll be taking pictures of things as I get them cleaned up and put back into service.  (Had to throw up at least one brag here first...)  It's my first A2000 so I'm a bit excited about that.  At first I was thinking Toaster but since it has an Amber board, I might just try Amix on it.  

[weirdami]

I'd like to see that demo tape.

[Krusher]

I'm just wondering, Are those jummy chubby Amiga boxes more populair in the USA then Europe? Since a lot of them seem to be there. :-?

[adolescent]

weirdami wrote:
I'd like to see that demo tape.

I'm going to try to get some of his animations and artwork off of a number of Syquest disks and hard drives.  I'm guessing some of it may end up on his webpage.

[tokyoracer]

Free, FREE!? Insane, why arn't I that lucky? :-(

[adolescent]

@Krusher

For the A2000 and A3000 probably.  I don't think so for the A4000 though.

[Krusher]

tokyoracer wrote:
Free, FREE!? Insane, why arn't I that lucky? :-(

You have too many of them girls  :lol:

I have none. Yet  :-D Working on it.

@adolescent: Never liked the 4000 though, altough I'd like one. 3000 is my girl now, since I never had her model. Wanted too, but way too expensive at the time.

[adolescent]

@Krusher

I still have my original A3000 (which I purchased new in 92 or 93).  The A2000 is more of a curiosity.  I won't be throwing tons of money into it like I did with my A4000.  I'll just clean it up as much as I can.  Install some needed upgrades; maybe an 030 card to replace the A2620, a CD-ROM, and a new battery.

BTW, my current A4000 is broken.  Sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesn't.

[McVenco]

Krusher wrote:

I'm just wondering, Are those jummy chubby Amiga boxes more populair in the USA then Europe? Since a lot of them seem to be there. :-?

I think only the AGA machines are split over the continents like that. The A1200 was more popular in Europe, while the A4000 (partly because of the NTSC-only Videotoaster) was more widespread in the USA.

The other bigboxes are equally spread I think. A2000s are pretty common and cheapish, even over here (I've got 4 - wanna buy one? :lol:)

[tokyoracer]

@ Krusher, I'm sadly committed to this one but I mean you are in the high life man, i'd choose free Amiga's over sex anyda... Oh hi darling.

:-)...... :nervous: ...... :egad:

[Krusher]

McVenco wrote:
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The other bigboxes are equally spread I think. A2000s are pretty common and cheapish, even over here (I've got 4 - wanna buy one? :lol:)

 :crazy: I already have problems giving attention to one Amiga, let alone more of them  :lol:

tokyoracer wrote:
@ Krusher, I'm sadly committed to this one but I mean you are in the high life man, i'd choose free Amiga's over sex anyda... Oh hi darling.

:-)...... :nervous: ...... :egad:

 :roflmao: Now that's dedication  :lol:

[countzero]

adolescent wrote:

BTW, my current A4000 is broken.  Sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesn't.

caps ... or shaky chipram slot.

[alexh]

adolescent wrote:
A4000
need to open it up this week to see if it has anything

You need to open it ASAP at see if the battery needs to be removed before it leaks. If it hasn't already.

[tokyoracer]

Battery leakage? That would be out of taste to make a joke out of that, especially publically. :lol:
In all seriousness, were is the battery on the mobo? I want to check mine out.

[McVenco]

tokyoracer wrote:

In all seriousness, were is the battery on the mobo? I want to check mine out.

Yours has been removed ages ago already :-)