Got an Amiga 1000 Advice Wanted!

[magnetic]

Hi gents

Got an A1000 from a friend. Its really yellowed but its the good german one with kickstart 1.2 and 512mb ram! It works too..

the one amiga i dont know about is the a1k can u guys please help me with expansion and how the kickstart works ( i have a kickstart 1.2 disk are there newer or better ones?)  It says its pal with sysinfo but looks like ntsc on my 1084... ??

Also looking for a1000 ram expansions and peripherals..

[runequester]

Its probably 512 kb of RAM

You'll want to hunt down some extra RAM for sure.

To my knowledge, the last kickstart on disk was 1.3, but its possible to add ROMs to the 1000. Whether this is trivial or complicated, I dont know

[desiv]

Getting a 1.3 Kickstart is pretty easy.  Because of kickram size, going beyond 1.3 isn't feasible from floppy kick (unless you're ratte.. ;-).

One kual thing I like with my A1000 is the Kickwork disk.
It's a utility Piru wrote (I think he wrote it??) that will let you create a kickstart floppy with a regular format smaller Amiga partition that you can install most of Workbench on (If you powerpack all the executables, you might be able to store it all).  So 1 floppy will take your A1000 all the way to Workbench.

As for expansions, I'd head over to amibay and check on tomthul.  He had (has?) an internal RAM expansion IDE board he made.
I didn't get it tho, as my A1000 already has an Insider, so I can't talk from experience, but the people who got them seemed to like them..

Also, you can go higher than 1.3, if you buy an adapter, some ROMs and are willing to do a little bit of soldering to your A1000.

Congrats..  I think between my A1000 and my A1200, I have most of what I want covered Amiga-wise..

desiv

[amigadave]

Hi gents

Got an A1000 from a friend. Its really yellowed but its the good german one with kickstart 1.2 and 512mb ram! It works too..

the one amiga i dont know about is the a1k can u guys please help me with expansion and how the kickstart works ( i have a kickstart 1.2 disk are there newer or better ones?)  It says its pal with sysinfo but looks like ntsc on my 1084... ??

Also looking for a1000 ram expansions and peripherals..

Congrats on getting your first A1000.  It is one of my favorite Amiga models and the first one I owned back in 1987.  I bought it used and struggled with the decision, as I could have gotten a brand new A500 for about the same money, but the used A1000 came with a 1080 monitor and an extra external 1010 floppy drive, plus it already had the extra 256kb RAM expansion to give it a total of 512kb of RAM.

Over the next year I spent a small fortune expanding it with a Spirit Insider 1.5mb RAM board, a DKB KwikStart Kickstart ROM switcher board, an AdIDE & Shuffle Board & a 105mb 3.5 inch hard drive.

Add-on's for the A1000 are very hard to find and cost more than their A500 equivalents, but you can use most A500 sidecar expansions on the A1000 if you raise them up and reverse them as the side slot expansion port of the A1000 is almost identical as the A500's side expansion port.

I might be willing to part with one of my A1000 expansion boxes from Supra, if you can talk me into parting with it.  Did you get my invitation to come up to Big Bear for an Amiga visit in a week and a half from now?  I sent you an email a few days ago.

Anyone else who lives close to the Southern Calif. area that wants to come visit the mountains over the April 2nd & 3rd weekend is welcome to join us.  I think 2 or 3 other Amiga users are coming up that weekend.

[magnetic]

As for expansions, I'd head over to amibay and check on tomthul.  He had (has?) an internal RAM expansion IDE board he made.
I didn't get it tho, as my A1000 already has an Insider, so I can't talk from experience, but the people who got them seemed to like them..

Also, you can go higher than 1.3, if you buy an adapter, some ROMs and are willing to do a little bit of soldering to your A1000.

Congrats..  I think between my A1000 and my A1200, I have most of what I want covered Amiga-wise..

desiv

desiv

I would love to get the board from that guy. But i'm banned from Amibay by the fascist jerks who run it for one transaction! I wouldnt go on amibay if you paid me. There are the ANTI Amiga commmunity. Its like nazis and they spy on you too! unreal..

does that guy ever come on aorg?


@ amigadave

Thanks man. Didnt get an email from u but that sounds fun we'll see how it goes. Does tha supra have a pass through?

[desiv]

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does that guy ever come on aorg?

Not sure.  I've only ever seen (noticed) him on Amibay...

desiv

[magnetic]

desiv

I saw his thread on amibay. I would def want one of those boards. Do you think you could contact him for me or something? (i cant go on amibaY) I dont want to miss out on these boards..

[desiv]

PM sent

[magnetic]

desiv

thank you! Does anyone else have any a1000 stuff?

[Franko]

desiv

thank you! Does anyone else have any a1000 stuff?

I do... but it's not for sale...