[XCSSA] FREE BOX-O AMIGA STUFF

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 09:37, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> On 8/12/08, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure about OS 3.0 or 3.1, but getting CDROM to
> >> work either requires 3rd party drivers or some fiddling with the OS
> >> 3.x drivers.
> >
> > The 3.1 desktop added native CD-ROM support (~1993).
> >
> > Wow.. that's a trip down memory lane..
>
> Tom, is there a way to upgrade this A3000 to 3.1? I think its got 2.1
> on the hard drive. 

Well IIRC, they actually have 4.x now, but without PPC procs.. you can only 
use 3.x (up to 3.9 IIRC).   

Kickstart ROMS are architecture specific.. so if you're going to buy some, you 
need the ones for your Amiga (A3000).  

Also.. what many A3000 owners do is "soft kick"... or load the ROM versions 
you want into RAM.  You do this on the A3000 by holding down both mouse 
buttons as you power up.. You can then select an alternate kick file (pre 
boot) before the system attempts to boot the OS. (note: this only works on 
some A3000s that have the special kick ROMs to handle it).. However... even 
without the special softkick ROMS, there was also a software wedge that you 
could inset in your startup-sequence that would allow you to load and 
re-vector your hardware kick ROMs to point them to software loaded ROM images 
for your machine.  I think most of this is included in the Amiga Forever 
distro  http://www.amigaforever.com/.

> I need to upgrade it anyway because I'd like to get 
> an ethernet card for it and put it on my network. Then I can just
> transfer the 'demos' to it.

Until you get that worked out.. You can also interconnect your PC and Amiga 
via a parallel cable via "ParNet" cable to drag-n-drop between your PC and 
Amiga:
	
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=247&lcsid=6c5c1a55e7466cce03f9097c7863bcf2

Looks like the "new" version of ParNet is now called PC2AMIGA (works kind of 
like LapLink from the 90's if you remember that):
	http://aminet.net/package.php?package=comm/misc/PC2Am308.lha

If it's already installed on your Amiga.. you may be lucky.. If it's not.. 
copy it to a PC 720k or 1.44M floppy and get it installed on the Amiga like 
that.. Then that will at least link your PC and Amiga (a good start).

Tweeks