The toaster looks interesting but i have a stockpile of sgi gear that keeps me busy in the whole CG department. the video toaster, interesting hardware, but not something practical i would end up using much...Thanks for the info. if i can just cram any old vga card in there then that is what i will do. i will admit it looks horrible on a tv screen, but im thankful i did not have to buy a commodore monitor just to see if the machine worked.
--devin On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A buddy located this just in time, it was out at a scrapyard and we are >> about to get hit with a hurricane over here in florida. Picked up a >> commodore amiga 2000 with the keyboard, no mouse or monitor. I hooked it >> up >> to a tv via composite and get to the boot screen. It appears to have a >> scsi >> hard drive controller in it. >> I figured this would be the place to ask... It looks as if PC >> compatibility >> boards can be added to the machine, boards with a 286, 386, or 486 and >> some memory on a board, capable of running MS DOS. IF i were to install >> such a board, what kind of graphics capability would the dos side of >> things >> have? >> > > I think the generic bridgecard might give you something like CGA, but the > way the bizzare Amiga 2000 was created the bridge card (that is a PC on a > board) sits in like the middle where there is a Zorro Slot and an ISA slot. > So that bridge card then enables/drives all of the ISA slots, so you then > add your VGA card into an ISA slot. Then connect a good monitor (Anything > VGA is good compared to staring at a 15khz TV :-) and then you've got this > crazy contraption on your desk with one keyboard, one computer that > technically has a 2nd computer in it hooked to two monitors :-) > > This is just me, but the spirit of having an Amiga 2000 (which don't get > me wrong, is cool, I gave mine away and slightly regret it!) is running > Amiga software. I'd go for a NewTek Toaster before going for the > bridgecard. There is also software (I don't think hardware is involved) to > run Mac software on Amigas as well. > > SCSI card is a great start, none of mine ever had those. > > > -- > Ethan O'Toole > >
