I just bought an Amiga 4000 - what to do first???

[Red_Eye]

Hahaha,
Yeah,
I was talking about software etc... but will check the battery.  

Took it to a computer shop but the guy was dumbfounded, so I need to find an amiga expert in Auckland, New Zealand to change the battery.

She boots up well

My boyfriend and I have always wanted an A4000 so I'm really excited about it

Thanks for all the interesting posts...

-red

[Red_Eye]

Framiga wrote:

by carls on 2003/8/15 1:20:52

@Framiga
What would be better - a thread that might seem scary but could save your Amiga's life, or a funny thread that might kill it?

we all don't know, the electronic aknowlegment that this guy has!

By the way, he hasn't post again after the first post!

Ciao

-sorry I haven't posted... was sick for a while.  I usually post from work where internet access is free  

[Red_Eye]

HEY another question :
It didn't come with a monitor so I bought a TFT 17inch flat screen, slim screen things...

BUT the amiga monitor cable has more pins than the TFT screen one does.

Can I buy an adaptor, or um... do I throw the monitor away?

Thanks HEAPS
Red.

[spirantho]

Hi Red,

Yes, you can buy an adaptor, but you don`t really want to, it'd be too limiting.
What you need to play games etc. is a scandoubler - I've got an Eyetech one which plugs into the Amiga's video port, and gives out a signal that the TFT monitor can understand. Check old threads on A.org for discussions about Scandoublers and Flicker Fixers (the latter lets you run more screenmodes which you won`t need).
If you want to do anything serious with your Amiga, though, you need a graphics card.... and for this you either need an Amiga specific graphics card - which will plug straight into the Amiga and talk to your monitor nicely - or else get a PCI backplane. This replaces the Amiga-specific connectors in the Amiga with standard PC-compatible PCI connectors. That doesn`t mean you can run _any_ PC card, but there are a few. I have PCI in my A4000 and it has a standard PC Voodoo 3 in it, runs Workbench on my Iiyama 4636AS 18.1" TFT very nicely. Places like Eyetech (www.eyetech.co.uk) have a lot of stuff, don`t know about in NZ.

Hope that helps!

[Red_Eye]

spirantho wrote:
Hi Red,

Places like Eyetech (www.eyetech.co.uk) have a lot of stuff, don`t know about in NZ.

Hope that helps!

Thanks...
Another question... What would I need to plug my amiga into my LAN at home?  Just a network card? or a Stack as well?

Ta,
Red/

[Steady]

You'll need a stack as well, unless you get AmigaOS 3.9 (not sure about 3.5, but it is probably in that too).

You will need Kickstart 3.1 for AmigaOS 3.9 which is on CD, so you will obviously need these to upgrade to this OS.

But don't worry, there is another cheaper way...

It's been a while, but if you want to use older AmigaOS 3.0/3.1, Miami should do the trick. It is on www.aminet.net/comm/tcp. You will need to get all the Miami32b archives appropriate to your setup, probably just main and 020. There are also some other tools there.

[Framiga]

Yes, OK but . . .have you checked the battery? :-D

Ciao

[Red_Eye]

Framiga wrote:
Yes, OK but . . .have you checked the battery? :-D

Ciao

Um... not exactly.  The "expert" I took it to didn't know anything about Amigas... Will find someone local (I hope)  It does boot up tho.  We got it working thru a TV.

Someone asked for specs and here goes :  
Specs:
Amiga 4000/40
CPU: 68040 @ 30Mhz
RAM: 48Mb Fast and 2Mb Chip Ram
HDD:
1x SCSI 2Gb Seagate (speed 4.5MBps)
1x IDE 1.3Gb drive (speed 1.5MBps)
CDROM: 10x IDE (quoting speed from memory)
FLOPPY: High Density Floppy Drive.
KICKSTART: 3.0
Installed, a Warpdrive CPU Board with SCSI (& ram).

Comes with clean Amiga Keyboard, and nice Black Amiga Mouse.

SysInfo Speed Tests...This runs like...
35x A600's
15x A1200's
10x A2500's

Workbench 3.1 installed, along with heaps of games, Scala, etc.

Cheers,
Red.

[Karlos]

@Red_eye

Sounds nice :-)

The one piece of software advice I would give is to get OS3.9 and the required Kickstart 3.1 ROMs to go with it. Aside from a few cosmetic enhancements, the OS has come a way since 3.0 / 3.1 including (but not limited to)

Bugfixes

Support for large drives (also available for 3.1 with the appropriate patches)

Better support for graphic cards

Asynchronous copy / delete operations from Workbench (quite how it took until 3.9 to implement this I've no idea)

Tons of functionality previously only available trhough 3rd party hacks/patches, such as NewIcon / DefIcons etc. etc.

Anyway, assuming the battery is OK you should have a lot of fun :-)

[QuikSanz]

Ah,
Yuall forgot to mention MP3 support, AMP, Aminetradio, Graphics That rival even MAC, etc...
You have much fun ahead. Lots of help here at AORG.

Chris