ScuzzBlog: Diaries March 2017
Entry 25th March 2017: Post: 2
And if you look to your right
Hi
Not content with setting up my new super doooooper A1200 with all
the bells and whistles behind me I decided to clear out an XP
machine and monitor on the right of the desk and set up yet another
A1200. The machine would primarily be used for games and more
frivolous sturff.
First up I had to choose a 1200 and I went for a larger hd machine
but with a MagicWB, which I don’t like. I plugged in a dodgy 1084
with the odd flicker now and then and decided to try and hook up
the GVP SCSI Kit to the SCSI II on the Typhoon 1230. Failed. The
small card runs in under the floppy through the small removable
flap in the back of the 1200 and should connect into the receiving
small black slot box in the side of the Typhoon. Thing was, as I
pushed the SCSI into the Typhoon it simply dislodged the Typhoon.
The two cards physical architecture was not in sync with the 1200
case. Had I been minded I would have hacked the plastic but unlike
me I gave up.
I really do not like MW and the desktop so I junked the 1200... er
placed it in store and swung in the A1200 I mended a month ago with
a busted mouse port. This machine has a massive 150mb hard drive
which threw up the first problem. The Workbench had only 56K free
and that was going to cause real issue. So I set up a Parnet and
started to copy the SYS and Work to the newly set-up 1200.
Sadly the drive file transfer kept bombing out and at first I thought
it was a dodgy hard drive. Turned out to be an old Power Computing
RAM card. So I removed and continued copying. To the library and
recovered my OS3 disks in their little Dynamite booklet folder and
set out with HDTools on the Install 3.0 disk to repartition the drive.
25mb should do for Workbench. Having done this I did a fresh install.
I have CED and Parnet on a single DD so having done that I simply
copied the necessary back onto the drives, fired up Parnet and then
set about copying Work and Workbench back.
All worked fine. By now I was thinking about a card and so I banged
in the GVP Jaws II with just 4mb of memory on a single GVP SIMM.
There was space for another. Instead I went back to my trusty Amitek
RAM card that slots into the PCMCIA . 4mb and slower but perfectly
OK for gaming. And so with 8mb memory and an 030 SysInfo gave me the
old ‘ Smell the rubber !!! ‘ and I was away.
And so Banshee, Valhalla, Hired Guns, Ishar, Settlers, Sensi, SimCity,
Timekeepers, Chess and Arcade Snooker on your standard grey Workbench
and I still have 57mb to play with. I’m in Amiga heaven. So whilst the
little footy players do their stuff playing as I do as coach, hands
free, I am left to continue with Flight of the Amazon Queen and man
is that crazy complicated. Just got kidnapped by these Amazon chicks
and they locked me in a cell. ... Joe King ... great name.
Going. Gotta date with a ghost.
scuzz
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