Been a little while since I got a "new" computer. One of the neighbors was getting rid of some stuff from their basement, which included two computers. Luckily they now I'm a computer freak and told me I could have whatever I wanted. So, now I have an Amiga 500 with p/s, A520 video adaptor and what looks like a printer cable. No disks :-(, but it did have the original box(wow! a 7MHz 68000 and 512K RAM!!!). Also got a C64 with 1541 drive, two joysticks and probably 50-70 disks(haven't gotten around to counting. But hey, Pac-Man is in there!). The C64 seems to be working just fine(not sure about the drive yet), but the Amiga isn't. When I finally figured out how the A520 worked, all I could get on my Apple composite monitor was a green screen with a blank area at the top(looked kinfa like the video is off a bit inside the monitor, which is partially true but it's not THAT bad... just some hidden text on the edge usually) which blinks maybe every 10-15 seconds or so. No sounds, no text, not really any video at all. The power light is kinda flashing, maybe once every second or two(haven't timed it yet). Any ideas on what's wrong? I'll hold off on the how do I use it questions until after I finish raiding the local library of the computer books, but feel free to send me any tips and tricks for these systems... -------------------------------------------------------------- | http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html | | orham(a)qth.net list admin KD7BCY | | ham-mac(a)qth.net Portland, OR | --------------------------------------------------------------