4 Mar
2003
4 Mar
'03
6:19 a.m.
--- "Marlin Bates, IV" <mcb242(a)psu.edu> wrote:
Hello,
I am currently resurrecting an Amiga 2000, but I have neither an
Ethernet card or Terminal software. There are tons of programs on the
net, but getting them from the net to the Amiga is proving difficult.
If anyone can help me in this chicken/egg scenario, I would REALLY
appreciate it.
If you have AmigaDOS 2.0 or newer, it should come with a handler to
mount DOS floppies. You will be limited to 720K format, but that's
enough to get a variety of Amiga stuff in there including some
entry-level term programs. You'll probably need an unarchiver, too,
like Lha.
If you are looking for Ethernet, I still have some GG2 Bus+ boards
that will let you use an NE-2000 card, but you'll have to get the
TCP/IP stack onto your machine somehow ("Miami" is a great choice).
I have driver disks and cards New-in-Bag on the shelf right now.
What version of the OS do you have? Hard disk? One floppy? Two?
If you have 1.3, it should still come with BASIC; worst case, you
could write something to pass UUEncoded files over and convert them.
-ethan