Hi guys,

After 16 years, I've finally got myself an A2000 (well, A2500 actually, but
the processor card had already been sold seperately).

It has a Kickstart 2 rom installed, but I have already ordered a 3.1 rom for
it & also has an A2090 SCSI controller. Apart from that, it's a bog standard revision 4.4 mobo.

Some questions :

What's the best option for a graphics card ? I want to connect directly to
an (s)vga monitor, rather than use my ageing 1081 (which is developing
problems with the red pot).

What's the maximum capacity hard drive I can add ?

What options are available for network cards - I'd like to bring the machine into the windows workgroup here (3 XP Prp machines) ?

Also, for the time being at least, I can t/fer stuff direct from one of the PC's via null modem cable, however, one small problem - no terminal proggy
on the Amiga :-( Does anyone have a floppy containing such a beastie that they'd be willing to send ? (I'm in Oz, but would obviously be happy to pay postage & costs).

cheers,

Lance




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Hello "Lance.

Replying to a msg dated 23 Dec 03 08:04, from you to All.

Not at all an expert on it, I could be wrong, but I read an advert on eBay for someone selling one of these only a couple of days ago, and they said max harddisk capacity was 4GB.. Not sure if it's still there, but do a search on Amiga on ebay.com.au


John

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On the subject of Amiga 2000 questions, Lance Lyon" llyon had
this to say...

Some questions :

What's the best option for a graphics card ? I want to connect
directly to an (s)vga monitor, rather than use my ageing 1081
(which is developing problems with the red pot).

Not sure if they are still available (and most certainly not new), but
I have been very happy with my Picasso IV.

What options are available for network cards - I'd like to bring
the machine into the windows workgroup here (3 XP Prp machines) ?

again, not sure about availability, but the Ariadne II is working fine
here.

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Hello John!

23 Dec 03 14:28, John Kelly wrote to "Lance Lyon" <llyon@intas.net.au>:

Not at all an expert on it, I could be wrong, but I read an advert on eBay for someone selling one of these only a couple of days ago, and
they said max harddisk capacity was 4GB.. Not sure if it's still
there, but do a search on Amiga on ebay.com.au

its true as long we don't use sfs or nsd, remember 2 in the potence of 32 ?

if sfs or nsd is used we go to 2 in potence of 64 :-)

yes its true 2 in 64, still loving amiga, wow :-)

nsd is standard from os 3.5, before it was a addon to make "bigger" harddisk usable on os 3.1 and below, ffs is btw updated to nsd style, no problemo :)

Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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