A3000 project

[stevee617]

I wanted to share some progress pics of my A3000 project. I have been neglecting it since I got the 4000 all tricked out. Time to give her some love again.

This was an "online auction" buy back in Dec 2010. I had wanted another 3000 after having to sell the one I had back in 1997.

When I received it, the seller didn't pack it very well and I was pretty upset to find the ROM tower dismounted and stuff sliding around in the box. (BTW, those two floppies in the pic were DEAD)

I took it all apart, inspected it, put it back together and there were no problems. It was stock with a Rev 7.3 motherboard, even a Rev. 6 Buster.

I upgraded the Buster to a Rev. 9, upgraded the SCSI controller chip, added a Picasso II RTG card. I am in the process of adding RAM to it. Eventually, I'd like to put a fast 040 or possibly an 060 in it one day.

Here is where she's at today. OS 3.9, 10MB RAM, SCSI card reader with 2GB. I need to put a battery in her to remember LUNS for the SCSI card reader.

Enjoy

 

[orb85750]

Nice. I still think the A3000 is the best Amiga machine made.

 

[stevee617]

Nice. I still think the A3000 is the best Amiga machine made.

I agree, too bad the A3000+ never saw the light of day commercially.

 

[jvdbossc]

My A3000D is in a box somewhere, because lack of space..

It has 16 megs, upgraded buster and scsi chip, rtg card.. It was a surprise for me how fast this is.

Scsi..030...32BIT ... wow Amiga 1200 go home lol! Nah Aga is missing, but it is not that important for me..

 

[Peter]

Great looking A3000 - the coolest of all Amiga's!

 

[stevee617]

My A3000D is in a box somewhere, because lack of space..

It has 16 megs, upgraded buster and scsi chip, rtg card.. It was a surprise for me how fast this is.

Scsi..030...32BIT ... wow Amiga 1200 go home lol! Nah Aga is missing, but it is not that important for me..

AGA isn't that important to me either, especially if you have the right RTG card that will pass through or do mode promotion.

 

[jvdbossc]

ps: not selling the machine!!

My A3000D is in a box somewhere, because lack of space..

It has 16 megs, upgraded buster and scsi chip, rtg card.. It was a surprise for me how fast this is.

Scsi..030...32BIT ... wow Amiga 1200 go home lol! Nah Aga is missing, but it is not that important for me..

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AGA isn't that important to me either, especially if you have the right RTG card that will pass through or do mode promotion.

I still have some unaswerd questions about the a3000D. I am quite interested in what you are going to do with it. When I had it setup quite some time ago, I tried to kick the 1.3 by using floppy but it is a real bad A500 then. It does not run much of the software.

Once it had rom 3.1 a downgrader disk for A1200 proved better work.

My unit had some workbench 2.0 before and once it got there it got kicked 3.1 rom and booted in to that.

However compare it with an A4000D is maches up quite good. I ordered roms at softhut back then... I would recommend the A3000 for sure looking at local market for every "new" Amiga user.

If you forget aga and look how you need to upgrade the A1200 to get to the much faster scsi, o30, system bus.. It is a real steal... Zorro is great to have and I am not to speak about the so called clockport on A1200, it could been called slow port instead..

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And then the vga output... Indivision aga not available etc..

 

[AndyLandy]

Ahh, the A3000, I have lots of love for that machine! I've been spending a bit of time with mine today. (Project thread is linked in my sig) Mine's back and alive once more, although the graphics card is dead.

Thanks for sharing with us. I do love a good project thread with lots of nice piccies!

Oh, and regarding those external disk drives, they look like Roctec Roclites (although it's hard to tell) If they are, you might be able to resuscitate them by replacing the drive belt inside.