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Nice collection! Genuine question. What do you do with all these Amigas? Do you use them for anything productive, are any of them your "daily driver"? Or do you

by welly 8y ago

Nice collection! Genuine question. What do you do with all these Amigas? Do you use them for anything productive, are any of them your "daily driver"? Or do you just fire them up from time to time for nostalgic reasons, or something else?

Jaruzel 8y ago
I just muck about with them when I feel like doing something different to my main 'PC' based computing. Right now, I'm trying to resurrect an old SCSI hard disk controller for the Amiga 500 using newer SCSI disks (which should be backwards compatible) but it's just not playing ball. :/
- fit2rule 8y ago
  I'm also into retrocomputing, although my collection is more focused around the 8-bit machines of the UK and Europe (Oric-1/Atmos, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, etc.) I was just wondering if you'd heard of the RaSCSI device, and/or one of its clones? https://github.com/fran-cap/RASCSI-68kmlaver https://github.com/fran-cap/RASCSI-68kmlaver Also, SCSI2SD? http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD As I have a number of other items in my collection, studio-gear, with SCSI this is my next foray into keeping the machines alive: replacing SCSI with something modern/servicable...
  - Jaruzel 8y ago
    I was hoping to keep the full retro experience complete with whirring disks and head clicking, but if I can't get these old controllers to talk to newer drives, then yeah, I may have to go down the SCSI-SDCard route. :( I'm also trying NOT to expand into Commodore 64/128 as well, as I'm rapidly running out of room... but I never owned a C128 back in the day, and I REALLY want one!
    - fit2rule 8y ago
      Yeah, I understand the authentic vibe, but there's something to be said about having every bit of software, ever written for the machine, on a single solid-state SD card. ;) Re: C128 - I know the feeling .. a pal of mine in the retro-computing group at a local hackrrspace recently set up his C128 for some great assembly hacking (he's building a new game engine for it in assembly) and it has totally inspired me to take another look at it as a machine. Retro-Computing really has such rewards!
    - basementcat 8y ago
      If you get a C128, I recommend a C-128DCR with 64k of VDC ram. Otherwise, you'll have an opportunity to do some soldering to get hires multicolor bitmaps from the VDC chip.
- basementcat 8y ago
  Is the problem that the drives are too big? I seem to remember that later OS’s had a ‘trackdisk64.device’ driver.
  - Jaruzel 8y ago
    Not even getting that far. The HDD SCSI controller just wont see two of my disks. It sees another disk but wont boot (to floppy) with it connected...
    - basementcat 8y ago
      Sorry if this is silly but is the bus terminated properly?

by welly 8y ago

Jaruzel 8y ago

I just muck about with them when I feel like doing something different to my main 'PC' based computing. Right now, I'm trying to resurrect an old SCSI hard disk controller for the Amiga 500 using newer SCSI disks (which should be backwards compatible) but it's just not playing ball. :/

fit2rule 8y ago
I'm also into retrocomputing, although my collection is more focused around the 8-bit machines of the UK and Europe (Oric-1/Atmos, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, etc.) I was just wondering if you'd heard of the RaSCSI device, and/or one of its clones? https://github.com/fran-cap/RASCSI-68kmlaver https://github.com/fran-cap/RASCSI-68kmlaver Also, SCSI2SD? http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD As I have a number of other items in my collection, studio-gear, with SCSI this is my next foray into keeping the machines alive: replacing SCSI with something modern/servicable...
- Jaruzel 8y ago
  I was hoping to keep the full retro experience complete with whirring disks and head clicking, but if I can't get these old controllers to talk to newer drives, then yeah, I may have to go down the SCSI-SDCard route. :( I'm also trying NOT to expand into Commodore 64/128 as well, as I'm rapidly running out of room... but I never owned a C128 back in the day, and I REALLY want one!
  - fit2rule 8y ago
    Yeah, I understand the authentic vibe, but there's something to be said about having every bit of software, ever written for the machine, on a single solid-state SD card. ;) Re: C128 - I know the feeling .. a pal of mine in the retro-computing group at a local hackrrspace recently set up his C128 for some great assembly hacking (he's building a new game engine for it in assembly) and it has totally inspired me to take another look at it as a machine. Retro-Computing really has such rewards!
  - basementcat 8y ago
    If you get a C128, I recommend a C-128DCR with 64k of VDC ram. Otherwise, you'll have an opportunity to do some soldering to get hires multicolor bitmaps from the VDC chip.
basementcat 8y ago
Is the problem that the drives are too big? I seem to remember that later OS’s had a ‘trackdisk64.device’ driver.
- Jaruzel 8y ago
  Not even getting that far. The HDD SCSI controller just wont see two of my disks. It sees another disk but wont boot (to floppy) with it connected...
  - basementcat 8y ago
    Sorry if this is silly but is the bus terminated properly?