On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:01 Europe/London, Darren wrote: Darren - something tells me you might have an Amiga, for those who don't know/remember them or are just curious check out <http://www.amiga-hardware.com>. Again, no affiliation, just a cool mindfield of information on Amigas.
> There was a Catweazel drive for the Amiga that ran of the parallel port > to do 1.44 mac floppies, 800k could be done by software using the > standard floppy drive. Seems a shame to waste a slot for something a > printer port can do. The Catweasel v3 is an extremely complex board. It has an attachment for both PCI AND the Amiga Zorro bus, as well as an option to attach it to the 'clock port' of an Amiga 1200. I allows you to read virtually any we;; known floppy format and it has the option of attaching a SID chip for authentic playback of Atari SID tunes, something obviously inspired by Jens' involvement with CommadoreONE :) > No, amiga's had neither a isa or pci slots and are NOT pc's. Not but the A1000(?), 2000 and 4000 had ZorroII or ZorroIII slots which performed the same function, and the A1200 had an expansion slot that was as good as a ZorroII slot but slightly more compact. You can also buy a 'bus board' for the newer old Amigas (1200, 2000, 4000) that allows PCI cards to be used. You can buy both Zorro and clockport versions of the Catweasel also to fit the Amiga. It's amazing what sort of stuff has ben produced for them, people just refused to let them die! There is so much weight in the Amiga community they have actually managed to restart the Amiga line. A company called Eyetech is. as we speak, selling the new boards for a computer called AmigaONE, a G3/G4 powered machine that uses a standard ATX form factor, a standard architecture, including PCI and AGP, and has a socket at one end to attach the board from an Amiga 1200 for backwards compatibility. More info at <http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone>. To go with all that Amiga Inc. (built from the acquired remains that Gateway bought) <http://www.amiga.com> are developing a new OS, AmigaOS 4.0 to run on it, in cooperation wit ha company called Hyperion. This means that the AmigaONE will have PCI slots, hence the decision to include PCI as an option :) > Do you have a ide bridge board in your 1200 Mark (I've run IDE97 to > access the cd-rom but am unfamiliar with the hardware side). Wonderful > things, 4 ide ports off 1 controller, did someone make anything similar > for the very crippled ide mac's? I do indeed have one of Jens's wonderful 4-way bridge boards. I slightly adjusted the case of my A1200 to allow a cable to pass out of the back and now have an internal 5GB Travelstar hard disk (for those who don't, the Amiga 600 and 1200 have an internal HD bay, but it uses 2.5" IDE hard disks!) and a CD-ROM drive (externally attached and powered) all on my Amiga :). Shame it's only a 68020 w/ 2MB RAM. I need an upgrade card!!!! Another thing that will interest other Mac users (I know it did me!) further is that The A1200 has a full-blown expansion bay under the keyboard, suitable for RAM, graphics and CPU upgrades (sometimes all 3!!) that is basically the equivalent of a Mac PDS slot. The most insane thing is you can buy mounting kits and adapter boards that allow you to mount an A1200 in a PC case. Lord know why anyone would want to mess up such a tidy little machine though, it'd be like mounting an SE/30 in a PC case! OK, enough OT, but at least y'all know where I've been for the last two weeks :). -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Visit my Homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson> "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -The Matrix -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
