[XCSSA] FREE BOX-O AMIGA STUFF

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 04:00:14 pm X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio 
wrote:
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> Tweeks, have you ever set up the Amiga ethernet cards?

NICs have always been problematic.  At one point.. Myself and others in the 
Amiga community were trying to get SCSI to Ethernet transceiver companies to 
support the Amgia (which would have been great since most Amigas had SCSI):

but no luck.  

There were a couple of $50-200 10Bmit Ethernet cards (mostly thinnet/10b5), 
but no one would pay that now...  Even on ebay you still see them:
	http://tinyurl.com/5du4pp

Some times you can find an Amiga 4066 10Mbit CAT5 card:
	http://tinyurl.com/5cqatk
	(just $36!)

or
	http://tinyurl.com/6bwxun
	(10b5/thinnet for $10)




> I recall there were some limitations with soft-kick.  Certain Roms,
> maybe 2.0 didn't softkick, but 2.1 and later did.  If you had the
> earliest A3000 with 1.3 Roms, it HAD to softkick because the the
> machine wouldn't run with 1.3.  So the earliest A3000 started with
> 1.3 in ROM but then immediately softkicked itself into 2.0.

Actually.. the early a3000s didn't have a hardwired kickstart.  Just a 
pre-boot environment  (from a ROM tower) that allowed you to softkick into 
special factory ROM image files for KS 1.3, 2.0, 2.1 or whatever.



> I've started trying to get my amiga-centric GFFT running under Amiga
> Forever, but first stumbled on not getting GNUPLOT to run under Amiga
> Forever.

What's the problem?

Tweeks