28 August 2015, 23:15 | #61 |
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It was very useful for me without internet. I got a lots of cool tools from Amiga mag CD's back in the 90's. |
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29 August 2015, 00:28 | #63 |
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29 August 2015, 01:12 | #64 |
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When the A600 came out, I was not a fan of it. It seems to watered-down and over-priced.
I wouldn't mind picking up one now though. It's no A1200 but I've got one of those. The compact size and various upgrade options are interesting. Individual Computers has a couple neat expansion pieces that can supercharge the old A600. https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/a604n.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/aca620.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/...tc-module.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/...droad-usb.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/...i_type=OCS_ECS They have a bunch of other cool expansions too for various Amiga models from the low-end to the high-end. |
29 August 2015, 11:41 | #65 |
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Is it possible to add numeric keys to the 600 with rapidroad-usb?
And if so, they would only work from the OS, right? |
31 August 2015, 12:28 | #66 |
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Back then, I couldn't be bothered as I already had an A500 with flickerfixer, SCSI harddrive and fastram.
Now, it's one of my favourite models, the one I use the most, thanks to several nice expansions such as a 4 GB flashdrive, ACA 630/25, Indivision ECS, KS31 and the A604. Compact, fast, reliable. Only a few things to do: get a new PSU (the old one still works, but it's, well, old) and get the caps replaced to ensure it keeps working for the foreseeable future. |
03 September 2015, 14:45 | #67 |
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The A600 is a great little computer and will soon be the fastest and also have external PC PS/2 and USB keyboard support, whats not to love!
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03 September 2015, 15:48 | #68 |
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03 September 2015, 16:46 | #69 |
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you won't need rapidroad for full keyboard/keypad and external PS/2 and HID compliant external keyboards
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03 September 2015, 17:45 | #70 |
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The A600 might have, by a bunch of lucky coincidences, become a nice little machine to have.. ( I got mine not that long ago) but back when it was released, it sucked. :-)
@kipper do you have an official release date for your adapter? ;-) |
04 September 2015, 14:42 | #71 |
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I have a lot of love for the A600 as it's what my best friend at the time had before I got my own A1200. So I have very fond memories of playing on it. I was actually a little jealous when I did eventually get my A1200 as he was my main source of games (ahem) and many wouldn't run on my A1200. I remember Striker was great on his A600, but stupidly fast on my A1200
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05 September 2015, 05:03 | #72 |
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I love my A600. She has a USB Numeric Keypad/Hub, and is fast enough to run Photoshop in MacOS.
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05 September 2015, 05:30 | #73 |
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05 September 2015, 06:03 | #74 |
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Yeah, it's a black keypad and it has a couple of USB ports on it. I only hooked up one USB port from my Subway to a hole cut in the case above the PCMCIA port, so I plug my other devices into the keypad/hub.
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05 September 2015, 07:05 | #75 |
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Nice computer (and photo)! By the way, whats the processor on it, its expanded, no?? Totally off-topic, but when you and RebelCD32 will release DreamScape, I love all your artwork.
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05 September 2015, 08:36 | #76 | |
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My A600 has the ACA630 with a 30Mhz 68030 and 64MB RAM! Plus an A602 with an extra Meg of ChipRAM with the Subway attached to the Clockport. It's hooked up the the LCD TV through an RGB-S-Video adapter. Attached to the USB Hub I have a Rocket Launcher which I can control from Workbench or by picking up the control pad at any time. |
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05 September 2015, 09:04 | #77 |
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Cool!
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05 September 2015, 09:22 | #78 |
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Ha!
(Seems like my old Account was pruned, so i start again from scratch.) I started with an A600, I loved the size, but I hated the Kick 2.x, at this point I wanted it only for games, so I up(down)graded it with Kick 1.3 and 1MB more RAM. After a few Years my A600 brokes, so I bought an A1200 (Magic-Package) and upgraded it with: Phase 5 - Blizzard 1230 IV Turbo-Card with 68882 FPU and 8 MB FastRAM Harddisk - Yay 170 MB CD-ROM (PCMCIA) Software used: Cinema 4D Classic V1.5 Cinema 4D V2.1 Pro Cinema 4D V4.2 Reflections 3 Reflections 4 DeluxePaint Xi-Paint 4 and a few others... Now, I'm on WinUAE with 2 Main Setups: Amiga OS 3.5 (45.3) Amiga OS 4.1 FE for Classic After 30 years, the AMIGA is still awesome and was one of the best part in my life. cheers |
07 September 2015, 14:39 | #79 |
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01 October 2015, 17:40 | #80 |
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I thought the Amiga 600 was a shitty small verson Amiga 500 when it came out, being very incompatible with many games because of Kickstart 2.0
2.5" harddisks were still quite expensive at that time, so even the IDE port was not a big advantage in my eyes back then. So, I was very glad that I had an Amiga 500, and not an Amiga 500+ or 600 But, nowadays, I love the Amiga 600! I found a kickswitcher on Ebay one day, and installed Kick 2.05 and 1.3, which solved many of the incompatibility issues. Also, noisy harddisks can now be substutited with cheap and silent CF cards via adapter, and because of WHDLoad, it is possible to play many games from harddisk, not only the few adventures games, that had a native install option. Also, since I have my A-600 placed in the livingroom, I like it's small size. So, I think we can say that the A-600 kind of 'improved' with the years |
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