Welcome, Leigh! What a kick ass rig you've put together there. I LOVE the 2000 and all of the tinkering options it provided by default. My main machine is also a 2000. I'm at work, so I can't give you as detailed a breakdown as you have above, but I can give you some of the highlights from memory. (If only I could add a few GVP RAM boards to my brain. Hah!)
- 2MB Chip
- ECS Agnus
- GeForce 030 clocked at 40Mhz, with 8 MB RAM. Easily one of my most prized cards. It's awesome.
- Another RAM board (I forget which) with another 8 MB RAM
- SCSI Controller hooked to a 40MB HDD (mechanical, gasp!). This is my boot drive and is mostly Workbench and system utilities and tools.
- KS/WB 1.3 (my preferred environment)
- SCSI2SD controller with 4GB SD card, partitioned into 2 drives. I put most of my games and software on this. It took me days to figure out how to get it working but once I did I really love it.
- Dual Floppies
- 44MB Syquest Drive
- Tank laser mouse
So many good times had and yet to come.
I have so many machines... I am going to thin the herd later this month. Add a machine? Got to let one go. I am in the process of putting together a Phoenix 1000 which has been a lot of fun. It's the only PAL machine I own. All my others (500, 1000, , 2000, 1200) are NTSC. I have learned that, if you don't have a KS switcher, having a stock machine is great for testing just to see what's going on. Software not working? In NTSC-land, it usually means 1) you should be running 1.3 or, 2) you've got a PAL game there that never considered the NTSC market, and it hangs.
Case in point: I've owned a boxed copy of Speedball 2 for over a year. I've never once gotten it to work on any of my machines. I assumed it was trash and was considering selling it this month for pocket change (I can't throw this stuff away). Now that the Phoenix is finally working, I put the disk in last night. I figured, "Why not?"
Holy crap. It works just fine! But only if you have a PAL machine. And I'm sorry, the whole hold-mouse-buttons-down on the 1200 to change from PAL/NTSC just never really seems to do jack for me, personally. Not really.
In any case, welcome to AmigaLove.com! So glad to have you here. You'll have to post a pic of your setup.