I grew up on the A500. My dad was a big amiga/Commodore fan so my first computers were an Amiga 500 and a C64c. I like the A2000 because its basically an Amiga 500 that you can expand if you want. Most things ment for the A500 work with the A2000. A stock A500 or A2000 with 1MB will run the vast majority of games but if you want to use WHDLoad I bit more power helps.
Something about sitting down to an Amiga with a flat LCD monitor that just completely destroys the illusion for me. I get it though, old RGB monitors are getting hard to find even if you wanted to.
To each their own, dude I share a first name with. :D The only reason I have a PiStorm in the 2000 a friend's repairing, isn't really so much games. With the more creative-focused apps I want to use (that isn't ProTracker, AHX, or HivelyTracker), I want to have as much CPU oomph as I can for stuff like DPaint and 3D modeling programs.
I dont mind seeing some mid-rage accelerator (like 68030) inside Amiga 500/2000, with as much RAM as it can take. You should at least consider 68k10 CPU upgrade (some 10-15% performance gain). As for SD-HDD solutions, i wouldnt hesitate at all about it.
Cool content! I have two very broken Amiga 2000s I'm currently working on. One I managed to fix after a boatload of work, but these tasteful machines are always worth the effort 😄👍 I agree about finding it a bit of a shame to see these old beauties being upgraded to the moon and back which is why I always prefer period correct upgrades like the high end 040 accelerator from 1990 I have in my 2000. It's has one of the very first 040 CPUs ever produced on it🤤 but I also have an A500+ board with a Vampire on it in a nice Checkmate case just because I love all that new tech as well. One who wants it all doesn't have to choose 😉 Oh and you need to rejumper that Gotek to be DF1: instead of DF2: for the floppy switcher to work. If you can get the Gotek to be seen as DF1: by the Amiga. It will probably work as it's supposed to. A lot of Amiga games are really weird that way as they actually require the diskdrive they run from to be DF0: and if they're not they just won't boot! The floppy switcher takes care of that (makes the system see the external drive as DF0: but only if it's jumpered as DF1:!)
Thanks for the tip, I'll check the jumpers on the external Gotek today, hopefully, that is the issue and it gets corrected, thanks for the tip! I have a PAL Amiga 600 here that I've been thinking of going crazy with upgrades just for the fun of it, I just wanted one Amiga that I could have as kind of a "base level" unit that more or less retains all of its "Amiganess"
Just tried playing with the jumpers, but no luck, unfortunately. If it's set to anything other than what it currently is it doesn't even get detected. My theory is it's the A2000, on an A500 the switcher works because the A500 only expects 2 drives, DF0 as the internal drive and DF1 as the external. Since the A2000 has 2 internal floppy bays the external drive is hard-coded to be detected as DF2 and I'm not sure if there's any way around that.
@@AncientElectronics Somehow my last post got completely deleted (youtube policy I guess). I looked up what I did with A2000 in the past to make them boot from DF2: The A2000 does indeed see the external drive as DF2: but there are boot selectors/floppy switchers that support both the A500 as well as the A2000. Most of them use a jumper to let you choose wether you swap DF0: with DF1: or with DF2:
@@pipschannel1222 unfortunately the switchless selector I have has no jumpers. The manual claims its Amiga 2000 compatible which I guess it kind of is.
This might be an oddly technical question Justin, but can you confirm if the horizontal frequency of the amiga/denise chip is precisely 15734Hz when outputted to an NTSC TV set? . The reason why i might be asking such a strange question is because i was asked this myself, though i do not have any amigas, nevermind an NTSC model. It's to do with a mysterious audio clip of an unknown pop song and we are trying to work out where it was captured from. Thank you
I'm not sure how I'd go about checking that, to be honest. Sysinfo gives a "horizontal frequency" but I'm not sure if what it's referring to is what you're looking for. hooked up to my Amiga monitor it says it's 15.72Hz but it doesn't give any more of a precise reading.
@AncientElectronics Thank you for your reply Justin. You mentioned monitor - do you mind me asking if any of your amigas can be hooked to a TV set via RF? Unless I'm mistaken, the A600 had a built-in RF modulator? At the least, work out if the output frequency is any different between TV and Monitor. Thanks again
@@Viczarratt I have a PAL A600 somewhere in this mess. I don't remember it having RF, I thought that was only via an attachment for the A500 but looking it up it appears it does. If I can find it (and if it boots) I'll hook it up and see if it works though I don't have any PAL-compatible TVs that have RF inputs.
@AncientElectronics Thank you even more so for your efforts in this, and I wish you enjoy your A600 once you find it amongst the turbulence. . In regards to the PAL TV issue, you might already know about a trick about holding down both buttons on the mouse during boot and this takes you to a settings screen. If a later version of the kick-start rom is in the system, you may be able to get the PAL A600 to output NTSC via this screen. At least do some research and use your own judgement before actually trying this out, because I have zero experience with the Amiga platform.
For the Amiga I would want to go simple. A500 with 1MB RAM and GOTEK floppy and Philips CM8833 RGB monitor 🙂
I grew up on the A500. My dad was a big amiga/Commodore fan so my first computers were an Amiga 500 and a C64c. I like the A2000 because its basically an Amiga 500 that you can expand if you want. Most things ment for the A500 work with the A2000. A stock A500 or A2000 with 1MB will run the vast majority of games but if you want to use WHDLoad I bit more power helps.
Big box amigas are always so enticing.
Hey that's what I am doing with the upgrades, lol! I've kept my 500 stock for the last 6 years though. Something new for me.
I must say I'm very happy with my Warp1260 with a 060. WiFi, HDMI output and scandoubler. My dream come true and sticking to the 68K architecture.
Something about sitting down to an Amiga with a flat LCD monitor that just completely destroys the illusion for me. I get it though, old RGB monitors are getting hard to find even if you wanted to.
To each their own, dude I share a first name with. :D The only reason I have a PiStorm in the 2000 a friend's repairing, isn't really so much games. With the more creative-focused apps I want to use (that isn't ProTracker, AHX, or HivelyTracker), I want to have as much CPU oomph as I can for stuff like DPaint and 3D modeling programs.
I dont mind seeing some mid-rage accelerator (like 68030) inside Amiga 500/2000, with as much RAM as it can take. You should at least consider 68k10 CPU upgrade (some 10-15% performance gain). As for SD-HDD solutions, i wouldnt hesitate at all about it.
Wow, collector !!
Cool content! I have two very broken Amiga 2000s I'm currently working on. One I managed to fix after a boatload of work, but these tasteful machines are always worth the effort 😄👍
I agree about finding it a bit of a shame to see these old beauties being upgraded to the moon and back which is why I always prefer period correct upgrades like the high end 040 accelerator from 1990 I have in my 2000. It's has one of the very first 040 CPUs ever produced on it🤤 but I also have an A500+ board with a Vampire on it in a nice Checkmate case just because I love all that new tech as well. One who wants it all doesn't have to choose 😉
Oh and you need to rejumper that Gotek to be DF1: instead of DF2: for the floppy switcher to work. If you can get the Gotek to be seen as DF1: by the Amiga. It will probably work as it's supposed to. A lot of Amiga games are really weird that way as they actually require the diskdrive they run from to be DF0: and if they're not they just won't boot! The floppy switcher takes care of that (makes the system see the external drive as DF0: but only if it's jumpered as DF1:!)
Thanks for the tip, I'll check the jumpers on the external Gotek today, hopefully, that is the issue and it gets corrected, thanks for the tip!
I have a PAL Amiga 600 here that I've been thinking of going crazy with upgrades just for the fun of it, I just wanted one Amiga that I could have as kind of a "base level" unit that more or less retains all of its "Amiganess"
Just tried playing with the jumpers, but no luck, unfortunately. If it's set to anything other than what it currently is it doesn't even get detected.
My theory is it's the A2000, on an A500 the switcher works because the A500 only expects 2 drives, DF0 as the internal drive and DF1 as the external. Since the A2000 has 2 internal floppy bays the external drive is hard-coded to be detected as DF2 and I'm not sure if there's any way around that.
@@AncientElectronics Somehow my last post got completely deleted (youtube policy I guess). I looked up what I did with A2000 in the past to make them boot from DF2:
The A2000 does indeed see the external drive as DF2: but there are boot selectors/floppy switchers that support both the A500 as well as the A2000. Most of them use a jumper to let you choose wether you swap DF0: with DF1: or with DF2:
@@pipschannel1222 unfortunately the switchless selector I have has no jumpers. The manual claims its Amiga 2000 compatible which I guess it kind of is.
@@AncientElectronics Unacceptable if you ask me. I would go for a refund as it's hardly usable this way. But it's up to you of course..
This might be an oddly technical question Justin, but can you confirm if the horizontal frequency of the amiga/denise chip is precisely 15734Hz when outputted to an NTSC TV set?
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The reason why i might be asking such a strange question is because i was asked this myself, though i do not have any amigas, nevermind an NTSC model.
It's to do with a mysterious audio clip of an unknown pop song and we are trying to work out where it was captured from.
Thank you
I'm not sure how I'd go about checking that, to be honest. Sysinfo gives a "horizontal frequency" but I'm not sure if what it's referring to is what you're looking for. hooked up to my Amiga monitor it says it's 15.72Hz but it doesn't give any more of a precise reading.
@AncientElectronics Thank you for your reply Justin.
You mentioned monitor - do you mind me asking if any of your amigas can be hooked to a TV set via RF?
Unless I'm mistaken, the A600 had a built-in RF modulator?
At the least, work out if the output frequency is any different between TV and Monitor.
Thanks again
@@Viczarratt I have a PAL A600 somewhere in this mess. I don't remember it having RF, I thought that was only via an attachment for the A500 but looking it up it appears it does. If I can find it (and if it boots) I'll hook it up and see if it works though I don't have any PAL-compatible TVs that have RF inputs.
@AncientElectronics Thank you even more so for your efforts in this, and I wish you enjoy your A600 once you find it amongst the turbulence.
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In regards to the PAL TV issue, you might already know about a trick about holding down both buttons on the mouse during boot and this takes you to a settings screen. If a later version of the kick-start rom is in the system, you may be able to get the PAL A600 to output NTSC via this screen. At least do some research and use your own judgement before actually trying this out, because I have zero experience with the Amiga platform.
You have an Amiga 4000?
@@RanHam yes, but the sound doesn't work.
@@AncientElectronics would you be interested in selling it. I would restore it, not interested in flipping.
@@RanHam I've been trying to have it repaired for years. Everyone that looks at it fails. Im pretty sure the sound chip needs desoldered and replaced
I did a video on it th-cam.com/video/ZOP5A6bs3_Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=B6KiiatZfWAy93Tn
Do I see a cd-rom caddy at 10:45?
Yea, I have a few caddy drives in the collection.
@@AncientElectronics Just waiting to sit in a commodore A570 I bet
@@Viczarratt id love to come across one some day.