17 Jul
2001
17 Jul
'01
8:58 p.m.
I don't have a network card, but if all goes well
a GVP
Spectrum graphics card is going into it. BTW, 3.9 includes a bunch
of AVI's and a few MP3's on the CD to test the various media players
with, as well as an audio track. I'm not planning on upgrading any
of the other custom chips unless I find I have to, such as the Buster.
There are MP3 players for 68k Amiga's?!?! That's either rather gutsy, or
pathetic, I'm not sure which. What do they do, decode them to another
format and then play them?
Mine's going underneathe my NEC monitor and
sharing it with
the G3. This little Multisync C400 has certainly seen it's share of
various computers since I bought it in '96!
The monitors I've got would probably crush a A3000! I might be able to put
it in the wooden rack next to the desk, but the PDP-8/m sits where it would
need to go, and I'm going to need to find more room in the rack for a
PDP-8/e and Papertape reader/punch.
OTOH, I might be able to stuff it under the A2002 Monitor I've got hooked up
to a dead VCR (I use the combo for a TV in the computer room.
I'm going to use mine as a backup system as well
as one to
handle those times when I just feel the urge ot use an Amiga. The
fact that it doesn't depend on anything MS is nice too. You could
also use it as a Linux box too. It'd be cool to fix the kernel panic
on mine when booting into Linux, but that's a low priority. I think
I saw some of the distro files still on the hard disk when I was
moving stuff around on the Amiga partition.
Don't need a backup system, and I've no desire to run Linux on anything but
a fast x86 box. So I'm still trying to come up with a use for it. That was
one of the reasons I bought it a Catweasel, however, the board didn't
function as advertised thanks to the lack of software for it. Of course the
Catweasel board is also why it's sitting in a monster ALR Server Tower at
the moment!
Zane