Another Amiga question

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 17 20:58:00 2001

> 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
Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 20:58:00 BST