> On Jun 9, 2020, at 12:58 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 19:23, Zane Healy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> My main A3000 has a Picasso IV+, and a 10Mbit 10Base-2 card, this would be a
>> seriously tempting update. I never got around to adding USB, and would like
>> a better Network card.
>>
>> Do you have one of these? I’m afraid I haven’t been on the Amiga email
>> lists, or boards for a *VERY* long time.
>
> I'm on the other side of the fence with a TT030, but I understand the
> experience with them has been mixed from "everything that is supposed
> to work does", to "some bits work but others don't, but the dev
> releases updates which make more bits work".
>
> I do like that they open source the FPGA logic
> https://github.com/mntmn/zz9000-fw and that it just works in a
> standard Zorro slot…
Any advice specific to starting up a TT030 that’s been idle for ~20 years? The
only question with that system is, where is the monitor I used for it.
One thing that impressed me about the ZZ9000 is that it apparently even works
in an A500.
I dug out the spare A3000, and *FINALLY* found my main A3000, it turns out it
was hiding behind some stuff in my Darkroom. Both systems have batteries
starting to go. That’s my next project. I think I might be lucky. The damage
looks almost non-existant, definitely better than my Lisa 2 when I got it 20+
years ago. While looking for the main A3000, I dug out partial A500, it’s
missing a CIA, and a Keyboard, as well as the top of the case. I also dug out
the two A1200’s, one says it has bad video, the other a bad Alice (that’s the
one that overheats).
Thanks to my son’s laptop needing work recently, I know where my soldering iron
is. :-) That was actually harder to find than the A3000. :-)
Zane
