What do you guys think of my Amiga?

[darkage]

@darkage
Well, let's say that I skipped one typical PC upgrade cycle in order to get this up&running. From cost perspective, it's a well planned tradeoff between money and hobbies. In order to sustain this one, the others went down the drain.
 
It's not over yet.
There's a empty space for NIC inside that GVP A530....
Just few pics....
http://www.amiga.org/forums/album.php?albumid=58

Serious can fit NIC??  :-/

Man I have waaaaay too many hobbies chewing through money

[amigadave]

@darkage
Well, let's say that I skipped one typical PC upgrade cycle in order to get this up&running. From cost perspective, it's a well planned tradeoff between money and hobbies. In order to sustain this one, the others went down the drain.
 
It's not over yet.
There's a empty space for NIC inside that GVP A530....
Just few pics....
http://www.amiga.org/forums/album.php?albumid=58

Tell us more about this A500/A530 NIC you are talking about.  Inquiring minds want to know!

[Eric_Fresh]

Oh battery has long since been removed with no leakage at all.

[scuzzb494]

Personally I would work both machines because they both can be fun for so many different reasons. Your A500 as a project probably deserves a hard drive just for the hell of it. A1200's are relatively cheap and you could also start building on that. Each are fun... More is better.

Just don`t get an A1200 and give up on your rather splendid kit. You obviously enjoy the Amiga so just get an A1200 also...

Couple of links for you from the collection

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz86.htm

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz382.htm

The first shows the Checkmate and the second shows various cards for the 500. Of interest maybe the Viper 520 CD which came from a machine sold as an A1200 in an A500. Hardly the case but certainly a great find. The 500 is a classic machine and kinda is now for the real enthusiast when it comes to expanding. The 1200 is easy-peasy in comparison, so i would try to up the 500.

I am sure you have checked but if you have the plus I am assuming the battery is OK.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[ZeBeeDee]

@ Eric

I've got a spare Apollo 1240 68060 @ 66Htz with 32mb onboard if you ever get an A1200 and have a few spare $$$'s lol

[Lockon_15]

Well, that was Metalguy66's idea in 1st place, I'm just following the paradigm. Some year ago, he used hard facts to disect eventual A500 - NIC integration. In short, with functional SANA2 driver for one older Realtek chip (IIRC, the same one used in X-Surf) a one could use make simple RTL8029 interfacing with a small buffer, simple glue logic and few passive elements to adapt it to Zorro. There's no Zorro port inside A530 or HD+, but all signals are set in place in GVP's proprietary connector used with GVP286 PC bridge.

[marcfrick2112]

I miss my Amiga 500 system... The sensible side of me says go the 1200 route. The very un-sensible part of me says max out that 500 as much as possible. Beg, borrow, or steal to get a hard drive, accelerator, Mini Mega-Chip, etc....

I saved the Supra HD and Mega-Chip from my 500,  just in case....

Specs. of my 500 were:

A500, Rev 6, OS3.1, Derringer '030/'881 @ 50MHz, 2MB chip, 34 MB fast (2MB in the Supra), 640MB HDD, 100MB Zip, DCTV

sigh.....

Edit: Ooops, I think it was an '882 math co-pro...

[AmigaHeretic]

Did any of these PPC + AGA boards for the A500 work, or was it just a concept board that never got finished?

From what I've hard DCE actually protyped the "AGA-Go Kit" and it actually functioned, so it's not just a mock up.  (you can see in the picture it has an A1200 style slot as well and hence the PPC plugged in)

How many were made or where they ended up I don't know.  But the word was that it wasn't released as it would have cost more than an actual A1200.

AGA and PPC A500, that would be something to behold.  The only thing cooler would be that thing plugged into an A1000.  ;-)