My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

[djos]

Are you using classicWB or plain wb3.1?

[Azryl]

924k of chip ram after workbench loading is very good!

1meg fast ram is fine for most applications under WB3.1

[djos]

924k of chip ram after workbench loading is very good!

1meg fast ram is fine for most applications under WB3.1

I've got 951kb of free chip-ram now - got my a500 extension board and 8mb fast-ram board today from Kipper and they work great!

Having auto-config fast ram makes a huge difference!!!

[Azryl]

How much was the board made by kipper?

if it true autoconfigs then he has made a great a500 expansion!

Az

[djos]

How much was the board made by kipper?

if it true autoconfigs then he has made a great a500 expansion!

Az

Yeah it's brilliant and the adapter board is awesome for relocating my CPU, Ram-board & IDE68k to where there is more room:

The Auto-config 8mb board is $49CAD + $9.95CAD and the adapter board was $9.50CAD

http://kipper2k.com/amigaforsale/

[djos]

Sysinfo gives me totally nonsense results for SCSI speed... someone suggested I use this:

http://aminet.net/package/util/moni/RSCP

Which gives considerably more realistic results.

Here are my results, a bit slower and not surprisingly I have no spare CPU (one of the reasons SCSI is so much better than IDE)!

[AmmoJammo]

Here are my results, a bit slower and not surprisingly I have no spare CPU (one of the reasons SCSI is so much better than IDE)!

Thats gotta be unbearably slow!?!

I did overclock my SCSI controller as mentioned in another thread
edit: dont forget, I have a 36Mhz CPU.. :p

[djos]

Slow, no not really but I will get a Zeus68k when they are released.

[AmmoJammo]

Found these photos while looking through boxes of "stuff" I have stored in the basement...

Its my brother in both pics, few years apart

[nadoom]

Star LC-100 printer, Max Respect!

[TjLaZer]

Love the retro pics!  A true Amigan sir!

[djos]

AJ, is that a 2000 in the corner on the right hand side?

[haywirepc]

Where can you buy the addide board for amiga 500 and how much is it?

[AmmoJammo]

Star LC-100 printer, Max Respect!

Ah, really? lol

These pics aren't really from the Amiga Era, my parents could never afford anything brand new...

The A1200 pic was taken in 1999, while the A500 pic might be 3 years earlier?

And  yes, that is an A2000... had a memory expansion card (maybe 2 megs?) as  well as a 240meg HDD, and of course the CD Rom drive

[Lurch]

First photo is so the setup I had, although we couldn't afford the monitor at the time so had the A500 connected to small 14" NEC CRT TV :-)

Same TV I used with my Commodore 64C, never liked the dark brown 64. Wish I had a camera back then.

Would love to be able to look back.

@djos, the A500 adapter, would that cause problems if one had an accelerator?

[djos]

First photo is so the setup I had, although we couldn't afford the monitor at the time so had the A500 connected to small 14" NEC CRT TV :-)

Same TV I used with my Commodore 64C, never liked the dark brown 64. Wish I had a camera back then.

Would love to be able to look back.

I was pretty lucky, my folks teamed up with my Nan to buy our family our 1st computer for Xmas '88 - it was a Tandy 1000ex (with CM5 monitor & Tandy DotMatrix printer) which was much better than most PC's of the time as it had PCjr 3-voice sound and PCjr 16 colour CGA GFX (instead of 4 colour) if you had the RAM/DMA upgrade board with at least 384kb in total - which dad bought about a year later.

I think he traded it in for a PC clone in about '91 which was much faster and had a 40MB HDD but no sound and normal CGA GFX (which sucked!). I had to save up for an Adlib Sound Card to get music again!

@djos, the A500 adapter, would that cause problems if one had an accelerator?

not sure mate, although as long as there are no tall caps it should be able to sit on top of the accelerator board. It comes with removable riser-pins too so you can make it lower profile if need be.