Amigas are OK here, eh? ;-)

Yea, the subject line is "baited," but technically, the machine's offtopic... I have an Amiga 4000T now (built in January 1998!) with a "standard" VGA card (It's got an S3 Virge chipset), 2G SCSI HD, CD-ROM reader & not much else. I'm thinking of setting this machine up for the kids as a 'game' machine but as it doesn't have ethernet, I'm not sure how easy that may be. I also don't have any install disks or anything, so I don't want to do too much to it, have it b0rk, and have no way of restoring/reformatting. [[ I also don't know much at all about Amigas, other than the fact I really drooled over them & the Atari ST's when I couldn't afford 'em... ;-) ]] Here's the stats on the box: Version 3.1 ROM, Kickstart Version 40.70 Workbench version 45.1 (I think this is AmigaOS 3.5...) 1,969,472 bytes Graphics Mem 11,534,728 bytes 'other' Mem Multiview, 44.15 (6-6-2000) It's got a 68040 in it, but IIRC, it's a 25Mhz. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I don't have the coin for one of those Zorro <-> PCI thingamabobs on ePay, and the last few searches I did didn't bring about much for an ethernet adapter[1], so I'm guessing the best way to get info on the machine would be via the CD-ROM drive and CD-R's. I think I could also compile a custom Linux kernel that allow read/write access to an Amiga-formatted HD, but I've never done it, so I don't really know for sure. I have a few questions: 1) Was there ever a version of OS-9/68K that ran on Amiga hardware? I know there was one that ran on the Atari ST series... 2) Would I be best off to just buy the latest available version of AmigaOS (for dox, media, etc.) or should I search/wait/etc. for it? It easily meets the 'minimum' install requirements for AmigaOS3.9, and is still better than the "for improved usability" specs... 3) I have access to a SCSI CD-R/RW burner - Is this machine capable of burning CDs (even at 1x - I'm not in a hurry... ;-) at all? That could help me making backups in case of a disaster... 4) Anything else I forgot to ask about??? ;-) Thanks, Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] Admittedly, I haven't searched my brains out for one... -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | A new truth in advertising slogan SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy... zmerch at 30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"