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From the album: Major Tom's Collection
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From the album: Major Tom's Collection
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From the album: Major Tom's Collection
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Apologies for posting this in the Apple II forum but I figure there are lots of knowledgeable folks here familiar with all things Apple Macintosh. I picked up an iMac slot loading 500 mhz at a yard sale over the weekend. Works great and I think it has about 390 megs of ram. It's running 9.2.2 and I was wondering if upgrading to 10.4 would be worthwhile? Mostly I'll probably use it to play old games, but it would be nice if surfing the web could be a secondary use. It can technically get on the internet now, but there apparently aren't any modern browsers that will run on 9.2.2. Would 10.4 make classic OS games incompatible or make my IMac too frustratingly slow? Thanks much.
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The Color Computer 2 was the computer I had as a kid and I'm getting back into it now (mainly for the games of course). I was wondering if there is any advantage in having the 64K model instead of the 16K model if I'm mainly just playing the cartridge based games? I had the 16K as a kid and I don't remember ever not being able to run any coco2 games or software on it due to it not being the 64k model. The COCO2 I have now is also a 16k model. It seems like the only upgrade worth considering would be to get a COCO3 at some point. Thanks in advance for any advice.
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I was wondering if it is possible to replace the shell of a 4 Switch woody with the shell of a 4 switch Vader without modding or drilling? I have something like four 4-switch woodys lying around, but I don't own a Vader. I do however know where I can get a non-functional Vader pretty cheaply.
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Thanks for the information. I actually just ordered from Amigakit a Kickstart 3.1 1200 chipset to upgrade my Amiga from 3.0, and a CF HDD pre-installed with AmigaOS 3.1 as well as the necessary adapters and cables. I'm sure I could have gotten the HDD installed and working for less money, but the extra expense is worth it to me to avoid any hassles. I was going to buy a 3.1 floppy disk set anyway but I figured having it on the CF is more convenient.
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Update: I had a chance to put the old girl through her paces with super hang on and I was impressed. Great color out of the original Amiga monitor, Probably 40-50 FPS, Control with the mouse was great, and booting up an Amiga game was a lot easier than getting a PC DOS game of the era started. There's still a bunch more games as well as business and animation software yet.
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I indeed have a few hundred budgeted for upgrades.
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Err...is kickstart the boot disk for the system?
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I believe I have the workbench set. That said, when I make my first order at amigakit I'll get an extra set from them just to be safe. As old as the system is, even if the workbench set I have is fully functional they could be on their last legs. It's been a while since I've used a floppy but I clearly remember that they aren't always reliable.
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Oh, and would this be appropriate as a hard drive for my 1200? http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24_78&products_id=883
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Very cool. Is there any online store where I can get accelerator cards, video cards, etc or I am stuck with Ebay only? The only thing Amigakit had in stock were CF hard drives.
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Holy crap, I had assumed that my Amiga would have upgrade options but other than the CPU these specs would almost make it capable of being a useful modern desktop computer.
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Very cool, thank you very much. Once I get better oriented maybe I'll look into an upgrade card (mine doesn't have one). The Amiga seems like a fun and not too expensive machine to upgrade - there's only so much you can do with something older like an Apple II or Atari 800 but the Amiga is modern enough to make it interesting to me having VGA and multimedia possibilities. I'll probably skip getting it onto the internet unless it was a cheap upgrade and doing so would make it super easy to download Amiga software. An old school BBS would be kinda cool though, it's been a while since I've been on one.
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Thanks much for the info. AmigaKit has a 4gb internal hard drive I'll definitely pick up.
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The Yard Sale gods smiled upon me today, and I picked up a working Amiga 1200 with monitor, external floppy, power supply, mouse, and a shit ton of programs, games, magazines, and documentation for $100. I've booted it to workbench so far but that is about it. I don't think the owner really wanted to sell it but it was boxed in his garage and he probably got the vibe it was going to a good home. I've had other classic computers and know my way around a command prompt, but this is my first Amiga / Commodore product. I was wondering if there are any modern enhancements that can be made like expanding the memory, networking it, or getting it to read from flash memory? Also, if I get an external 3.5 for my PC is there any way to write files to a 3.5 floppy that the Amiga can read (plenty of blanks came with the Amiga)? I've attached pics that will hopefully show up. I've always been curious about Amiga, just not curious enough to pay the eBay price :-) .
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From the album: Collection of Major_Tom_Coming_Home
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From the album: Collection of Major_Tom_Coming_Home
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For Atari and Activision I collect boxes. -
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Sears text and Coleco -
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My Activision, Konami, and Telesys cartridge collection is complete. The only Apollo I don't have is Lochjaw but I don't plan to get it. -
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My Sears Picture Variant and Fox games. I recently got a great deal on Pong Sports which I had been looking for.
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