Hi
I’m a former Amiga user getting back into the game with an Amiga 2000.
Busy surfing the internet figuring out what I should do to it.
Alex
It has workbench 1.3.
In all reality, this is plenty for nearly everything on your list except 1 thing. (more on that later)It has 5 megs of ram.
Those 5.25 floppy drives are quite rare, and more a sign of the times. I've never had a need for one, but I have friends who will get them simply from a collection standpoint, or if there's an IBM PC bridgeboard installed (also rather rare) - which you have! It's an interesting thing.It came with a 3 ¼ and 5 ½ floppy.
1042?It came with 2 1042 monitors.
I'd upgrade to 2MB, but it's not really a huge requirement. More a nice to have and something I'd put low on the list of to-dos. It's not easy to get to under normal circumstances. You have to remove the entire hard drive caddy.It has 1 meg chip ram.
You can do this with a buffered video cable and an LCD monitor that supports Amiga modes. I have ... a couple. I prefer the RGB/CRT look most of the time, but LCDs are easier to replace (far cheaper, more plentiful) and use less power. But to each his or her own. I would recommend some LCD options but I can't remember if you said if you were in the USA or elsewhere.Hook it up to a modern LCD.
Speed it up.
There are various adapters that allow for this. Depends on what flavor you want.Use a modern mouse.
For me, this is 100% the last thing I'd ever want to do with my Amigas. I will BBS with them nearly every night using a WiFi modem via the serial port, but the last thing I want to do is stick them on the 'net. Even a maxed out A4000 filled to the gills is going to offer a very shitty experience imo for the price. It will be slow, it will strip out nearly all of the interface, and a lot of sites simply won't work at all. And this is where you might actually benefit from gobs of RAM, a whacked out accelerator and more chip RAM. And will it make it amazing? Nope. You could hit this site with it, for example, but now that https is a requirement only 1 browser that I know of will work. You'll have to pay for it (even in 2020). And it'll still suck. To get a TCP/IP stack you would want to likely swap out your KS ROMs to 3.1 at a bare minimum. But just know you'll be sacrificing potential software compatibility to gain that glorious internet experience on your Amiga 2000.Get it on the internet.
Do you mean with MagicWB or icon packs? Or moving it from 1.3 to ... whatever? I could offer you some custom 1.3 icons to swap in. =)Update the GUI.
From what I understand, you have 2 SCSI cards right now. Assuming those drives are dead yet the cards work, if it were me I would attach a (modern) SCSI2SD card in there and use SD micro memory. You could easily add a few gigabytes of hard drive space and not have to barely lift a finger. The larger the drive, the longer your machine will take to boot, btw. A lot of people here will add 4GB drives, or beyond. My current A3000 machine I'm building I put a 512mb sd card in there. It boots in 7 seconds, and half a GB of space feels ENORMOUS on these machines, to be honest. And you can always add more drives if you really need to. That's the beauty of the A2k/A3k in that there's tons of space to hide crap. Your machine's noise would dramatically drop, as would its power needs.Modern storage: ide, flash, usb stick etc.
This has the potential to be a rats nest. There are a lot of variables involved since you have two SCSI cards and 2 drives. Problem is, we've no idea which drive was the boot drive. Did you try to remove one drive, then boot? Then, try the other? When you turn the machine on, if no drives are detected at all that's when you'd put in your Workbench 1.3 disk. This can be a pain, but if you have HDinstTools on a floppy disk you can see if the machine detects the drives at all. You might have to go floppy first just to diagnose the situation. If neither drive is detected, well then that sucks. And that'll probably be the first major project you'll need to solve before doing anything else.I hooked it up to the monitor and it will start with a 1.3 disk in the drive but I can’t get it to boot or recognize either hard drive.They had to be in the machine for a reason. Was there a trick to get it to boot from a hard drive?
You have to source an expansion board of some kind, like this one, and a different Agnus chip to fit into it.I could not find a source for more chip ram.
Not necessarily. You've got a built-in external SCSI port on the back of your machine. In fact I just picked up one of these scsi CD-Rom players last week myself. All I had to do was 1) get the proper SCSI cable and 2) ensure I've got some CD driver options. I also got a physical terminator for it. I'll be playing with it more in the coming weeks. Too many projects! I'm not complaining.If I wanted to hook up a CD-ROM am I looking for an IDE one?