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View submission: How often do you use your Amiga(s) ?
Pretty impossible ignoring my Amigas here as they are in just about every room. They are a real hobby so a number of them get used each day. Mostly I use to create blogs for the website and or helping answering queries from people. The one I use in this room generally does disk management and creates ADF images from my vast library of Amiga disks. I have also an A4000/030, A3000 and A600 on the desk behind me and an A4000T to my left and an A3000T to my right. They are dormant.
Currently in service are in here A1200 with JAWSII on a 1942, Box room A500 with A590 on 1085 and EZ tower, Blizzard 1230IV, CD, ZIP, scandoubler running on an Iiyama. In the big room I have the A600 and A500 plus an A1000 using the same Commodore monitor, the 500 has the 590 running 3.1. Also have an A1200 in a 2000 case another 1200 with an external SCSI and the second A1000 with the 1060 sidecar. In the back room downstairs I have the original Checkmate with the MegaChip, A590 and second SCSI drive and the A500 with the ViperCD accelerator. In the Workshop I have two A4000/040 one with PicassoIV running on the Mitsubishi, the other on the 1085, an A500 with GVP sidecar running on the Philips, My beloved A1200 with Blizzard 1230IV and SCSI KIT and external ZIP, CD, two SCSI hard drives and Ethernet plus Microvitec., A second A1200 GVP JAWSII with Surf Squirrel using the Microvitec, And a third A1200 with Squirrel, ZIP, two SCSI hard drives, running on a Microvitec.
I actually own 125 Amigas so quite difficult to ignore. But who would. And any number get used daily. Depends what I'm doing. Theye are all on my website if anyone wants the link.
Comment by bio4m at 03/03/2025 at 07:28 UTC
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125 Amigas! And I thought I had a lot with just 4 🤣
Comment by fatteragnus8375 at 03/03/2025 at 07:02 UTC
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Wow! So glad you are giving life, and use, and love to these glorious machines.
Comment by Environmental-Ear391 at 03/03/2025 at 08:57 UTC
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And here I want to re-case a sam440flex and sam460LtdEd pair into custom cases...
Id like to imitate a CDTV style case with the 440 and work up a custom tower with PCIEx1 riser expander on the 460.
just kicking over playing with custom coding an m2ngff driver setup so I can use multiple PCIE expansion breakouts off that since I want to sort out at least one set of slots for driver development. separate from SATA and NVMe storage options...
the code is still a mess and needing me to work up something beyond a skeleton. not so easy when I am entirely self taught about drivers so far and *really* **need** a mentor to point out design screwups at this point.
Comment by servantes173 at 03/03/2025 at 17:00 UTC*
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Since you are likely the person with the most experience here, here is one :
A2000 with GVP030, system startup normally when gvp inserted, black screen on native 68000
68000 broke? *battery spilled some onto it when it finally gave out, 68000 cleaned battery was replaced, no traces left. *I have no other system, so I cant test the 68000, the board is one of the earliest B2000 CR rev 4.1.
I use the Amiga as I did 35 years ago, Lightwave and Cinema4D is how I spend my time with it