Amiga 2000 & OS Version Recommendation

[thebajaguy]

The GVP accelerator boards never had any further RAM expansion options when they came out.  Back then, 16MB was a lot.  The 64MB on the 68040 was enormous.  These boards came out in 1991-1992 and were very popular.

Cards that came out after the 'fall' of the market in 1993 have since taken RAM amounts further, with cheaper memory packages.

I've got a 256MB RAM expansion on my A4000T - made in the last 15 years.  Unheard of in 1994.  And the A2630 big RAM expansion was rarely seen back then, if you could find one.

[QuikSanz]

Well, I booted the Amiga and installed OS3.9 and boingbags 1-4 with 13 MB in the GVP, 4 MB in the Supra and the VA2000 taking up 4MB of address space (which apparently can be changed to 2 MB if needed per the developer).  I had no problems with it running all night, but I'm not sure I really taxed the memory.. All I had time to do was bring up aminet.net on AWeb after I got the plipbox working.  I'll see if I can max it out tonight to see what happens.  At the worst, I can set the VA2000 to 2 MB and pull the Supra leaving 13 MB on the GVP.

Let me know how this goes. Maybe I need the newer ROM in my card or something else is wrong...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@OP - you should drop down to the command line and do an avail, or at least verify in SysInfo or some other tool that all memory is being recognized and configured correctly. But from your previous post, it sounds like everything is good. Kudos!

[madgrizzle]

@OP - you should drop down to the command line and do an avail, or at least verify in SysInfo or some other tool that all memory is being recognized and configured correctly. But from your previous post, it sounds like everything is good. Kudos!

from running avail (commas added)
chip:  892,728 avail, 139,464 in use, 1,032,192 max, 889,664 largest
fast: 13,134,000 avail, 4,691,792 in use, 17,825,792 max, 6,272,312 largest
total: 14,026,728 avail, 4,831,256 in use, 18,857,984 max, 6,272,3212 largest

Looks like its all there.

[QuikSanz]

Hmm, Looks like there is a problem with my card or setup!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

...

Looks like its all there.

Nice! Great setup!

[pyrre]

But by no means is 3.9 required for TCP/IP. Miami, AmiTCP, and Roadshow will all work under 3.1.

A tid bit off topic. but, here goes:
Is there an easy or usable tcp/ip stack for os1.3 or os2.1?

[QuikSanz]

A tid bit off topic. but, here goes:
Is there an easy or usable tcp/ip stack for os1.3 or os2.1?

RasberryPi?

[pyrre]

No.

Amiga 2000 with network card.
and A500 when i get the plipbox completed.....

[Matt_H]

A tid bit off topic. but, here goes:
Is there an easy or usable tcp/ip stack for os1.3 or os2.1?

Looks like Miami works under 2.1, but I don't think much other internet software does.

For 1.3, I doubt there's anything. It predates the SANA-II and bsdsocket.library standards. *Maybe* Commodore's AS225 v1 works under 1.3 (hardcoded for the A2065), but as far as compatible software goes, you're probably going to be limited to the included command line tools.