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glad to be of help jimmy. good luck on your quest. david
hi jimmy, a standalone full blown 486 with svga, 420M drive, dual floppies, 4M ram, etc. runs about a grand from places like top data and dee one systems. it will come with its own case and power supply and expansion slots. the amiga has but a few AT slots…
jimmy, it all depends what amiga you have and what you want to use it for. (nevermind the preposition at the end) if you just want to run simple dos programs on your amiga 2000 for example, several companies are dumping their bridgeboards at absurdly low prices. if you want…
#BB386 and Windows II
Message #125383
First, i would like to thank all the wonderful people who responded to my problem. I received many practical and otherwise unknown options. After careful consideration, i have decided to try adding the AT strip to the motherboard to create another 16 bit slot. This will be quite a task…
Thanx for the input Ron, am having trouble finding a multi function i/o card though.
Thanx for the input, Clarence. Can't find a multi function board anywhere. will look into finding a soundvision card.
Like a vic-20.
#Amiga 386 BB and Windows
Message #124966
Please Help: I bought a 386 bridgeboard based on magazine articles marvelling at the wonderous ways the 386 BB ran Windows apps such as Word for Windows. Of course I had the usual problems just getting the thing to boot up. I finally got it working and tried to install…
Brandon, Me again; I just looked around the mounds of manuals that surround me and could not find the GVP manual. The jumper to switch mem allotment is located on the near-right-top side of the card when the front of the Amiga faces you. You move the jumper one notch…
Brandon, Brandon, Brandon, WELCOME to the frustrating world of A2386!!! I spent a week trying to figure this same problem out on my own. I even had a couple of 357 rounds loaded to solve the problem. But I reconfigured my RAM to SIX meg WITHOUT removing the other two…
#NEC 25 CDROM Drive
Message #63244
I have an Amiga 2000 with a GVP Series II controller loaded with 8M RAM, of which, only six is active due to that lovely restriction of commodore bridgeboards. The controller houses a Quantum 240 ProDrive. I used FastPrep to prep, format, and partition the drive (a real pain because…