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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 30, 2008, 02:59:28 AM »
Too much Guiness (Tension!) and quite a few Chicagoans here. I am often in Toronto (not very often, but often). Very nice to see the span of users from Spain, Greece, Ireland and all the way to the USA and Canada - all in one day.

I feel like I have outnumbered all of my other machines with Amigas. Now I am thinking about networking them. So far, I have a clear picture (=working setup) with A1200 which has a cool PCMCIA card. Not a wireless card, but I have a bridge which came in very handy in making the leap to wireless with Amiga. Connection is there but I have not had a lot of time to move a lot of data around to see if I am going to run into some issues. Hopefully not. Part of the problem is that other Amigas are not networked .

Logical next step now is to figure out how to network the rest: A2000, A2500 and maybe even A500. Moving files around seems like essential feature of any system worth playing with.

Also, I have a crazy idea to download Firefox source code and (try) to port it for release slated in, say, 2010 (2011?) :). Maybe this has been done already, maybe not. Let me know. :)

With the A500 I got on ebay a while back (with a bunch of disks), I also got a Processor Accelerator from Creative Microsystems. I guess dude I got it from did not know what to do with it: I have two crystals (16MHz) and two MC68881 sticking in the antistatic foam (yeah!) and a little board with an almighty MC68000 and two empty sockets, one for MC68881 and one for the crystal. Now, last time I fired up the soldering iron was a while ago but I do remember that the notch (dot) on the socket/component designates Pin #1. Thankfully, no soldering will be required here.

We will see how that goes. Steady hands and good light should get this done. The biggest question is actually where to plug in this thing ("CMI REV 3" on the board) on the A500 but maybe I will figure it out when I open it. Should be easy, right?

Anyone has this mighty accelerator working? Why do I have two crystals/MC68881?

I have read that thread where Georg (from A1K) described how he rolled his own A1K motherboard. That was way, way too cool. I am going to start with easy stuff until I get going.

It would be the coolest thing if we could figure out how to roll our own PPC boards but that seems a bit far-fetched, given that *somebody* owns that non-existing product. Maybe I should ask Georg or Matthias Muench (he maintains the phase5 site which is FYI only, from what I understand).

UPDATE: I found a web site which explains how to network amigas via parallel port (which then acts as Ethernet). I will post links here shortly.

Here are the links related to networking Amigas:

http://mylinuxisp.com/~jdbaker/oldsite/SmallSys/JDBAmiga.html
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/networkfaq.html
http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/~gunnbr/enetAmiga.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/amiga/networking-faq/part1/
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/amiga/networking-faq/part2/
http://www.jeacle.ie/pub/articles/netbsd/


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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2008, 03:50:13 AM »
@ Wain: Are you saying you don't need that monitor and the PSU?

What happened to the Amiga? We can do two things here: find you an Amiga or find an Amiga for these two items to go to

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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2008, 06:12:26 PM »
Hi Sam,

Not too far west of you, in Edgerton Wisconsin. Welcome to Amiga.org.

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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2008, 06:45:55 PM »
Hello from Robbers Park, err, Rogers Park, Chicago!
 

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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2008, 02:23:17 PM »
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Hello everyone,

I have a designated Amiga gmail address and if anyone wants to get in touch, feel free to contact me: amigafx.at.gmail dott.kom. - in either English or German.


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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2008, 04:41:35 PM »
Willkommen zur eine fantastische Amiga Gruppe: Amiga.org!
Greets from an Amiga user in Lake Station, In.,..I am 90% pure Amiga user since 1990...Tony....Kurzwellenfunkamateur: WA9YOZ..
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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2008, 06:35:47 PM »
I do not want the monitor or PSU, the amiga is long gone and I don't have the space/time to invest in another one.  I just couldn't bring myself to throw the items away.

My biggest issue is that I don't want to bother shipping them anywhere otherwise I imagine unloading them would be a snap.



EDIT--

Just did some digging in my closet, looks like the PSU may be gone now too (bf might have thrown it out  :roll: ) but the monitor's still there.
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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2008, 12:41:39 AM »
I think we have a "critical mass" of Amigans in Chicagoland (and vicinity). Most of my "Amiga" time is spent configuring the machines and figuring out how to move files around, write little programs (with DevPac) and wonder what I could *do* with the Video Toaster. Anyone out there *using* the Toaster?

Of course, I play some games (on WinUAE and *real* Amiga). Some games suck because they are asking me to enter words from the manual which I do not have anymore.

For A500, I think I am going to get the ParNet cable to move files around. I have an external hard drive (GVP) and copy stuff from disks but that's extremely slow. Over time, I want to get away from disks entirely and figure out a way to keep a repository of programs for Amiga on an USB drive which would be connected to a PC, which in turn would be connected to Amiga over ParNet. I suspect that I will need some software for it. I know that Cloanto offers an Amiga Explorer which works with a null-modem cable?

Ah, the null modem cable... Anyone ever used RS232 for Guru Meditating, debugging over serial? LOL That was fun.

Did anyone use either of those two networking solutions?

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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2008, 12:42:41 AM »
@bloodline:

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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2008, 04:29:57 AM »
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.. Of course, I play some games (on WinUAE and *real* Amiga). Some games suck because they are asking me to enter words from the manual which I do not have anymore.

Sam


hello from Toronto :-D
..you should look into trying WHDLoad for solving any gaming issues you may have...it allows you to run most games from the HD without floppies & also without a kick swicther i.e play older games that run on 1.2kick with your 1200
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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2008, 07:08:48 AM »
@klx300r

Thank you for reminding me of WHDLOAD tool. That tool is a must for managing an ever-growing archive of ADFs.
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Re: Hello from Chicago, IL (USA) / Hallo aus Chicago, IL (USA)
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2008, 11:47:31 AM »
Hello from the UK!

I use the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA network card with my A1200D - It works great! I use AmiTCP and SMBFS for the software, and often pull files down from the XP box in the house to the A1200 in the garage :crazy:
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For A500, I think I am going to get the ParNet cable to move files around. I have an external hard drive (GVP) and copy stuff from disks but that's extremely slow. Over time, I want to get away from disks entirely and figure out a way to keep a repository of programs for Amiga on an USB drive which would be connected to a PC, which in turn would be connected to Amiga over ParNet. I suspect that I will need some software for it. I know that Cloanto offers an Amiga Explorer which works with a null-modem cable?

PS. Have you heard about the Subway and Highway hardware addons? They allow you to use USB devices on your Amiga (Though im not sure how you would get one to run on an A500, even with the accelerator...)

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