Amiga programs weigh less than pc ones, but I want a large HD for AMIGAX.

I have two 500GB disks, but they are SATA.

I found a SCSI to SATA adapter for my Fastlane.

This one is very usefull too:

It’s an IDE 2 SATA adapter.
I’m going to try both.

IDE 2 SATA article here

As I said in another post, I’m rebuilding my old A4000 wich is in poor condition.

I have a new piece for the puzzle. This time I received the badge with the C= logo. My A4000 had no badge.

A nice guy send it to me for free.
Many people may think it is something insignificant, but for me all the pieces are valuable.

Thank you my friend!

I’m testing the Deneb USB card and the D-Link USB2Ethernet adapter DUB-E100.

The USB adapter works very well.
The Amiga’s multitasking does not suffer anything.
The test was performed using an A4000 040 with 16Mb Ram and Os3.9

It takes 5 minutes to download 100Mb (300 kb/s), slow, but I do not know the speed that reach other ethernet cards in Amiga.

The strangest thing is that the upload speed is much lower!

It takes 30 minutes to upload 100Mb ( 60 kb/s) !
The ftp server is a Macbook pro with a 7200 rpm disk.
I’ll investigate this X-File.

Today arrived my new A1200. It’s a Brand new model from Amiga Technologies.

Comes with:

– 68030 accelerator with 16Mb fast RAM.
– A Subway USB controller.
– Kickstart 3.1
– PCMCIA Network Card
– Compact Flash 4GB

I bought an A1200 because my A4000 (second hand) is very old and in bad condition. It had a lot of dirt and the case is dented and scratched.

Seemed that the previous owner used the A4000 for planting potatoes.

Luckily it fallen into my hands and slowly I’m fixing it with parts from Amibay.

With the A1200 also arrived a Deneb USB card for the A4000.

Now I have all things for set-up the BBS with real nodes.

Now I’m a registered user of Zeus.

Zeus costs UK£25.

I’m configuring the basic things and learning a little about Zeus.
I’m using v1.6 because v1.7 is very alpha.

Today I installed 64Mb in my old  FastLane Z3

I bought the new ram in MemoryTen. (16 x 4Mb 30-pin 70ns SIMM)

Of course, the A4000 now doesn’t boot.

After playing with the jumpers I fixed the problem, now  I have 81,836,848 Fast Ram (enough for a few BBS nodes)  😉

I found a big limitation in AmiExpress:

/X does not support partitions larger than 4gb.

You can create many 4gb conferences but … with a 200gb disk you will need 50 conferences!

But every cloud has a silver lining. I found a very nice software called Zeus. And the better thing is the author continues upgrading the software today in 2010!

Latest version is 1.7, from January 2010 but is still in beta.

You can buy it in their web (not very updated).

I’m testing it and I like it very much!

This is the network card for AMIGAX BBS.

I thought about buying an X-Surf, I think its the best option, but eventually I wanted to try before an USB card.

The card is a D-Link DUB-E-100.

I dont dismissed the X-Surf, but I think the USB ports will be very useful to have external storage drives in the BBS.

Now just need to wait until I get the DENEB USB card and test whether performance is good. If it is not good enough, I’ll buy the X-Surf.

I remember when I bought Amiga Format a decade ago …

Amiga Future is in black and white (except the covers) but it has quality and very interesting content.
Comes with a CD.

It’s extraordinary that you can buy an Amiga magazine today!
Congratulations! you are doing a great job.

I loved AmiExpress. It was very stable and was many doors.

I’ve been testing some versions that I downloaded from the net. Now its free and opensource. Download AmiExpress.

Is wonderful to see Amiexpress running again.

I configured a local node because I still have no network cards.
If you want to see /X live, you will need a telnet client. ex. terminal in MacOS X. If you love windows, you can use Hyperterminal.

In Amiga you can connect with NComm using telser.device and hayes commands like atdt (and the domain):

http://amiexpress.co.uk
telnet://bbs.amiexpress.co.uk