Commodore Amiga 4000/030

Email : adamh@ftp.spots.ab.ca, 100010.1770@compuserve.com, houghrb@bix.com hough@flash.cuc.ab.ca

Currently it's got a Multiface 3 I/O card, a Cybervision 64, a Hydra ethernet card and a 4091 SCSI 2 controller. It used to have an Emplant Deluxe card (does Macintosh and PC emulations) but it conflicted with the Hydra and so I sold it.

User modifications including adding an 68881 maths coprocessor and adding some serious memory to the machine, as well as a grossly huge harddrive. I also have a six pack changer sitting around, but haven't got the BBS machine (below) using it yet.

Output is to an old Commodore 1950 monitor which is not bad but the screen DPI is unimpressive in these days of 28 or less.

Play the "What Is That" game on my work place!

I also have an older Amiga 2000 which ran my BBS, Flash in the Pan. The software used last was Excelsior! 1.21j but I'll probably be switching to Zeus when I restart it. Currently I have a Multiface 2, another Hydra Ethernet card and an old GVP Series 2 HD+8 SCSI/Hardrive/Memory board. For what it's worth, the 105 meg Quantum the BBS uses arrived with my original GVP A500+ controller back in 1990 and it still going strong. The processor is a Microbotics VXL-030 accelerator board with the 2 VXL-RAM board with 2 megabytes of 32 bit memory and the Kickstart 2.04 ROM. The monitor on the BBS machine is an old Commodore 1902A (intended for the C64!) which I picked up because it was cheap. It doesn't currently have an analogue input to I'm running it as an EGA digital monitor -- this does wierd things to colours, believe me. Modems on the system currently are a USR Sportster v34 28.8, a Supra 14.4LC and a Supra 14.4 (with that nifty LED panel.) The 2000 also inherited an internal drive from my A500 when it died.

I used IAM's Envoy peer to peer networking software to share files between the two computers and all their peripherals. It also helps me grab data off the 4000 when I'm not at home. Here's a listing of the software I use. You might find something that fits your needs!

My final machine is an old UK spec A500 with Kickstart 1.3 and so on. I've kept this specifically to play old games that hit the hardware and broke under the newer versions of the Amiga chipset and operating systems. With the advent of UAE (the Unix Amiga Emulator) how long it'll survive is anyone's guess as that (on a high end PC) gets close to the speed of a 500.

An earlier machine I used to have was an A500 rebundled into a Checkmate Digital A1500 case. Unlike the Commodore 1500 (which was basically a 2000 with two disk drives and not much else) this has was a new box with a separate keyboard. I also had a Microway Flicker Fixer hacked into the case. Checkmate was supposed to produce what they referred to as any "Overrider box" which extended the A500 bus to accept Zorro 2 cards, but it never appeared. For those curious as to why certain parts of the A1500 graphic look a bit wierd, here's the original.