tastemakerChuck
New member
Hey all!
I am new here and new to Amigas. I had a C64 in the 80s that I remember with fondness, and I recently caught the retro bug and I'm looking at getting a barebone Amiga 2000 with a rev 6.2 motherboard. It seems like there has been a great deal of activity in the accelerator and FPGA space in the last year, so I am hoping to get some up to the minute advice on the best set of current (or soon in the future upgrades) for this lovely classic Amiga. I don't want to buy older accelerators that conflict or are superseded by newer (and maybe less expensive options). So I am throwing my extreme noobness at your generous feet and hoping to get some good advice before I start shopping (here of course!).
Besides exploring, playing and learning AmigaOS and Amiga hardware, I would be using this A2000 for general computing: web, email, IRC, retro-gaming, office suite type things... My upgrade goals would be:
1. faster CPU
2. more ram
3. networking to get on the internet: ethernet or wifi
4. better graphics that allow higher resolution output, VGA or HDMI... while a clean old beautiful CRT would be cool a more modern LCD panel is probably more practical for me... should it be 4:3 ratio?
5. interface that allows addition of CF/SD cards or small SSD
6. with the above in mind should I upgrade the kickstart to 3.1, 3.5, 3.9? (currently on 2.04)
7. other...?
Thank you in advance for all of your help. If I have overlooked something please suggest that too!
I am new here and new to Amigas. I had a C64 in the 80s that I remember with fondness, and I recently caught the retro bug and I'm looking at getting a barebone Amiga 2000 with a rev 6.2 motherboard. It seems like there has been a great deal of activity in the accelerator and FPGA space in the last year, so I am hoping to get some up to the minute advice on the best set of current (or soon in the future upgrades) for this lovely classic Amiga. I don't want to buy older accelerators that conflict or are superseded by newer (and maybe less expensive options). So I am throwing my extreme noobness at your generous feet and hoping to get some good advice before I start shopping (here of course!).
Besides exploring, playing and learning AmigaOS and Amiga hardware, I would be using this A2000 for general computing: web, email, IRC, retro-gaming, office suite type things... My upgrade goals would be:
1. faster CPU
2. more ram
3. networking to get on the internet: ethernet or wifi
4. better graphics that allow higher resolution output, VGA or HDMI... while a clean old beautiful CRT would be cool a more modern LCD panel is probably more practical for me... should it be 4:3 ratio?
5. interface that allows addition of CF/SD cards or small SSD
6. with the above in mind should I upgrade the kickstart to 3.1, 3.5, 3.9? (currently on 2.04)
7. other...?
Thank you in advance for all of your help. If I have overlooked something please suggest that too!
