| Yet another sporadic entry in my vintage computing blog. I have an old big-box 2000 that I bought some 20 years ago. I finally decided to take it off of the shelf, watch a bunch of Amiga documentaries to get pumped up, and use probably the most interesting & capable machine I have in my hoard. |
As it came as a empty boring beige box, I’ve been slowly adding bits and pieces to make it more useful, as I find affordable upgrade parts. Amiga parts are obscenely expensive, especially for the big box units.
So far, I’ve added a GVP G-Force 25mhz 68030, 3 sticks of 4mb ram, SCSI2SD scsi drive, GBAPII++ RTG video card, 3.14 kickstart roms, workbench 3.14, and Plipbox ethernet.
The plan is to document how I set up the Amiga (for other people and myself in the future):
- Bare Metal Set Up
- AExplorer
- Utilities and Applications
- GVP Tools
- Plipbox ethernet using Miami DX
- Backing up your working configuration for when shit goes sideways.
- WHDLoad’ing Games