The Amiga Thread.....

[NeoSneth]

what adapter do you use to hook it up to your tv?

i do miss my amiga. and emu scene for it blows.


super skidmarks=the hawtness.

 

[RGP]

Just plain video out, straight out the back of the 1200, its good enough just for a muck around.

 

[Tacitus]

I'm picking up a *free* amiga 500! w00t! Ok, now what do I need to know about this thing? Anyone wanna help fill me in? Is it a good machine?

 

[stuffmonger]

I'm picking up a *free* amiga 500! w00t! Ok, now what do I need to know about this thing? Anyone wanna help fill me in? Is it a good machine?

that is the same model as mine ... it's great for games... you MUST get gunfighters... or I will hunt you down, and so help me, I'll slap you.

 

[Tacitus]

Will this hook into a VGA monitor without an adapter or does it support another video output?

 

[Baseley09]

Dunno about video output for USA machine, but yeah basically A500 machines play all the good games, it probably has a 1mb in it, most seemed too.

 

[Tacitus]

Dunno about video output for USA machine, but yeah basically A500 machines play all the good games, it probably has a 1mb in it, most seemed too.

Suuuhhh-weeeet!

Any place I can pick up abandoned software?

BTW, there was a sweet boat game that was a shooter... sort of in the spy hunter spirit.. anyone know what it was?

 

[Yodd]

Will this hook into a VGA monitor without an adapter or does it support another video output?

You can forget a VGA monitor unless you use a scan doubler.

The Amiga is, generally speaking, a 15Khz RGB machine.

They did make a RGB to composite adaptor to use on a TV, it was called the A520.

You might able to find one on eBay if the machine doesn't have one with it.

 

[Baseley09]

You can forget a VGA monitor unless you use a scan doubler.

The Amiga is, generally speaking, a 15Khz RGB machine.

They did make a RGB to composite adaptor to use on a TV, it was called the A520.

You might able to find one on eBay if the machine doesn't have one with it.

Yarr, there's one on now

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-520-A520-...oryZ4598QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Like broken says tho, best Amiga experience is RGB, pick up a cheap monitor if you can, well worth it.

As for that game VT, no idea. The search for game info heaven is here http://hol.abime.net/3288

 

[Tacitus]

http://hol.abime.net/3285

Aquablast!!

 

[Baseley09]

Bah nice one, i knew it was gonna be the James Bond speed boat game, looks good.

 

[soundnvision]

Aquablast? Weird, i remember that being called "Live And Let Die"... indeed a James Bond game.

Btw if you want SpyHunter-esque action, there's a great ripoff version called Major Motion.

Here's a link: http://hol.abime.net/2393/boxscan

Seriously, Amiga rules.

 

[Tacitus]

Is there a good a500 FAQ out there so I can learn what I can and can't run, do on this machine?

I'm fucking stoked.

 

[Yodd]

Is there a good a500 FAQ out there so I can learn what I can and can't run, do on this machine?

I'm fucking stoked.

Probably a good place to start is the Usenet FAQs for the Amiga.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/amiga/

or the Wikipedia entry for Amiga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

Lots of info there. Should help you sort out the differences between the machines, the kickstart and Workbench versions. Also help you understand the difference between the 3 Amiga(Excluding ICS) chipsets: OCS, ECS and AGA.


Those sites should keep you busy for atleast a couple hours or more.

 

[Gamefan]

Anyone know where to get a good setup? I want one with the 1084/1084S monitor too! I really would like one to be at least an A500.

GAMEFAN

 

[Tacitus]

Ok, weird question...

What the fuck is AGA, OCS... etc?

I'm getting an a500, which one is that?

 

[kernow]

OCS, the 1200 / 600 are AGA I believe

bah its a long time ago I was 14 when I had my 500

get the A570 cdrom addon or even better a GVP side hard drive addon \\o

 

[Yodd]

Ok, weird question...

What the fuck is AGA, OCS... etc?

I'm getting an a500, which one is that?

OCS - Original Chip set - A500, A2000, CDTV

ECS - Enhanced Chip set - A3000, A600, A500+
Allows up to 2meg of chip ram to be used


AGA - Advanced Graphics Architecture - A1200 and A4000
Allowed for more colours and higher resolutions.



If you are getting a regular A500, it will be an OCS chipset machine. If its an A500+ then it will be an ECS machines.


edit: the A1000 falls under ICS (Initial chipset) with only 256kilobytes of ram. There of course were hacks for this to upgrade this.

 

[Gamefan]

So in the end, is it better to get say an A600/A1200? Can those play all A500 games too?

GAMEFAN

 

[Tacitus]

Ok, I'm picking the thing up tonight.... All it is:

Power Supply
Unit
Mouse.

How the fuck do I get a copy of workbench?

 

[stuffmonger]

Ok, I'm picking the thing up tonight.... All it is:

Power Supply
Unit
Mouse.

How the fuck do I get a copy of workbench?

if someone would tell me how to copy it from my amiga, I'd copy one for you... I have some amiga formatted disks (blanks), but I think I tossed the original workbench disks a few years ago before I knew shit about anything.

 

[Tacitus]

Well, I got this unit home finally.


I hooked it up via the mono vid jack to my tv and I've got the Kickstart/Workbench screen asking for v1.2.

Does anyone have a download site or copy of workbench 1.2 they could give me?

Anyways, It works, which is half the battle. Just a matter of picking up software. Got those collector chills/giddiness when I saw it boot up. Haven't been this excited by a collection piece in a long time.

 

[DevilRedeemed]

I absolutely oved Lost Patrol back in the day - and there's some cool platform games and shooters there too. damn..