My net-surfing A600 with USB

[tokyoracer]

CRIPES! I got a RISC PC too! (and a BBC A3000) Nice to see Acorn users here. What spec is that machine?

As for the 600... I wish my 600 was this good, one of my favorite all time Amiga's IMO simply because of it cute size wins me over.

[Tension]

Acorn seemed to have a penchant for naming their computers after Amiga's.

Consider the A500, A3000 & A4000.

[Crumb]

very nice! now all you need is NedoPC 8MB ram expansion :-)

[tokyoracer]

Acorn seemed to have a penchant for naming their computers after Amiga's.

Consider the A500, A3000 & A4000.

Well Acorn's A4000 came out well before Amiga came out with their A4000. As for the A3000, well that would be pretty close but I would think again that Acorn would have nudged it as it was on sale back in '87 (I think).

[RMK305]

Neat setup. How did you get into Amigas Cammy?

[Tension]

Well Acorn's A4000 came out well before Amiga came out with their A4000. As for the A3000, well that would be pretty close but I would think again that Acorn would have nudged it as it was on sale back in '87 (I think).

That`s a very good point

[Cammy]

I figured it wouldn't hurt to update this old thread with some newer photos and information about my lovely A600 for anyone out there who is still interested in real Amiga computers. Although she is in need of a capacitor replacement and general once-over from an Amiga repairman, Workbench still boots up after a few minutes of power rerouting and shield stabilization. After that it reboots as quick as you would expect.

Thanks to my good friend tone007 my A600 is accelerated beyond all previous expectations. She now sports the bee's knees of expansion boards, the ACA630/30 with 64MB RAM from Individual Computers. I have replaced the old Compact Flash card with a brand new 4GB SanDisk Ultra II CF card, partitioned with two SFS partitions with Workbench 3.1 and several programs, games and utilities installed, and a 1GB HFS partition with MacOS 7.6.1, various programs and 16-colour-compatible games.

Now I can browse the web, including Amiga.org (through Karlos' awesome proxy and new 640-wide option) and play my favourite online multiplayer game, Dynamite, on my cute little A600, as well as playing DOOM and a few other FPSs and CPU-intensive games.

She is protected by a nice fitted dust cover given to me by my good friend fitzsteve, and is connected to my LCD TV via a RGB-S-Video adapter from AmigaManiac.com providing a flicker-free display in all Interlaced modes!

So, here are the pics!

First is an older photo from before I got the ACA630 but after I had put together a really killer 3.1 setup for low-end systems. The CF drive from this is now in my other A600 (whose motherboard was provided by tone007, thanks again!) where it sports the 2MB PCMCIA SRAM card as well for a total of 3MB System RAM. I'd love to get another A603 to bump it up to 4MB, and even one of those upcoming 2MB 020 accelerators.



Here is a newer photo of her running Photoshop 4.0.1 (the final version for 68k) under MacOS 7.6.1. It runs very well and is perfectly usable. I have adjusted it better since this photo so the display fits to the top and bottom of the screen.



And here is a screenshot from my A600's Workbench, browsing Amiga.org and playing a game of Dynamite. Unfortunately I'm only playing against bots these days because hardly anyone ever wants to log in anymore! How could you resist such a fun and customisable online multiplayer Amiga game?



More to come, as I don't really plan on sleeping for a few weeks while I play with my awesome new setup.

[save2600]

gotta be the nicest and most loved A600 on the planet  

btw: how did you get such a nice looking iBrowse screen without an Indivision module in there? Almost looks 24-bit. Nevermind... was viewing this thread in my iPad before. lol  Still, colors look great. Must be Karlos' handywork?  

[actung_bab]

Hey everyone, I just thought it was about time I posted some photos of my tightly packed Amiga 600, complete with A603, Real-Time Clock, Subway USB card, USB numeric keypad, USB mouse and USB control pad, 2MB ChipRAM, IDE-CF Adapter with Compact Flash HDD, Kickstart ROM Switcher with 1.3 (patched for IDE) and 3.1, and a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I have it dual-booting into either Workbench 3.1 or Workbench 1.3, both of which work fine with all the USB peripherals, I can surf the net, chat on IRC, MSN, play MUDs, download/transfer files, read email and news, play games, write, paint, draw, listen to music and use the calculator with my right hand.

All this yummy USB stuff wouldn't be possible without the excellent 68k USB stack Anaiis.







Hopefully some day I'd like to stick a lovely A608 in there, and maybe an Indivision ECS if it'll fit (ooh I want low-res 256 colour chunky mode in my A600). All in good time, of course.

Awsome and tidy as i expet from one your machines
Qwestion do you use the risc pc i have been given copy of Solaris 8
Sparc edtion got lots books cdroms etc been told by guy got it from
was worth something got it free with amiga 600 i brought its like brand new condtion
are you intrested in cammy pm if so u can have for free

[Retrofan]

It's impresive! I tried with MacOS but it was only running right in Black&White. I don't know how you always do to play internet and lot of things so fast.
 
A video would be great.

[Tenacious]

Very nice Cammy!  It's always good to see what you're up to.  You inspired me to fire up my old A600.

[magnetic]

Cammy very nice setup lots of hours of config there!

@ Tenacious

Would you want to sell one of your A600s? I'm trying to make an a600 octamed machine

[MelbourneBen]

Great stuff Cammy, good to see what can be done with the A600.

[runequester]

those miggies are in pristine condition Nice job

[mfilos]

Awesome work and brilliant setups your got there Cammy (/respect)
Rebel's palette and themes are just superb and in general the miggy with an ACA630@30 is really responsive and fast @ 16 colors even in OS3.9. I love it!

Keep up the excellent work Cammy!

[XDelusion]

Really nice photos!