Amiga 2000

[@brucetungsten5714]

"Fire Power" - that's one serious blast from the past. I remember one of the kids we were playing this with, back in the (very) late 80ies, destroying the jostick in a fit of rage because his tank got stuck. Good times!

[@AncientElectronics]

I used to play the game a lot back when I was younger on my dads A500. Getting stuck on the edge of walls and structures was super annoying. I always thought maybe that was the purpose of the helicopters since if you got stuck they would eventually show up and kill you but sometimes I would get stuck and still be outside of their pattern so I would just be screwed. plowing into a landmine right outside your home base was also super annoying. Had hours and hours of fun with the game though.

[@brucetungsten5714]

A, somewhat dorky, classic all the way.

[@mark12358]

This "Firepower" game remember me a Windows game that came out after Windows 95, its name is "Return Fire" and it's a great game. Only now I understand where its roots was. Cheers, M

[@templar2b1ask]

Add a subwoofer to your external stereo sound system & it will add so much more realism!

[@fastdruid]

The ISA card slots aren't connected to the "Amiga". It's an entirely separate bus. They're designed for use with a bridge-board which links the two (hence why you have the two inline with the Zorro II slots) and allows you to run the Amiga as "PC" as well as an Amiga. You can then use the ISA cards with the "PC" (maybe the Amiga too, I'm unsure there).

[@Brukner841]

I've seen it all before but I can't get enough! Gimme your take on it and keep'em comin!

[@DonmenDragon]

Iam so jelly. I had one growing up but your video is awesome and its good to see one in good condition.

[@vwestlife]

The Kroger ads were probably designed to work with some kind of specialized video output/genlock card, like a Video Toaster, which has since been removed from the machine.

[@AmstradExin]

There was something called the ATeo-bus. A bridge card allowing specially prepared ISA cards to work in the Amiga. But as far as I know, there was only a modified Tseng ET4000 card and a multi-io card made for it.

[@brostenen]

That small slot. Is the CPU upgrade slot. You might want to look into T-534 accelerator. There are also scandoublers, if the monitor dies.

[@alanhaynes4576]

I think the floppy switcher you have was designed for the Amiga 500 and to be used with DF1 which on the Amiga 500 is of course an external drive. You can do the same with the 2000 as it has the external drive port. You just need to ensure that a jumper inside the case is set to disable a second internal drive. I can't be certain but it could be J301 or J300. Your drive switcher plugs into the external drive port and then it should work as for the a500 with the Gotek which can then be switched to be the boot drive or can be changed back to boot from DF0 On the amiga all the drives use 0 as the first drive. DF0, DF1, DF2, DH0, DH1, DH2 and so on. The ads were almost certainly being run by a software program such as Amiga Vision or Scala or any one of a number of other programs that had this functionality. Probably as one of the other comments mentioned through a genlock or video toaster but I would be inclined to think a genlock. You should be able to find out what it is as if it kicks off each time you boot from the hard drive then it is almost certainly included in the startup sequence. You may need to google some info on amiga dos commands and startup-sequence. Once you find it you can just comment the line out in the startup-sequence and your amiga will boot as normal to the Workbench. All the best.

[@RETROCENGO]

First time i stumble across your channel, i fully enjoyed this A2000 video, keep up the good work - Retrocengo

[@marioserrano5087]

Awesome video. I love my Amigas.

[@TexRider]

my old amiga 500 I have a supra 28mhz side card but they made them way back for the 2000 as well it gave me a nice boost back in 1990 or so . I am now fixing it up with a terrible fire 536 card and 030 cpu.

[@AncientElectronics]

The spectra works on the A2000 as well, I've been looking at those since I believe they have a switch to deactivate the accelerator. I was told the TF accelerators are always on.

[@TexRider]

@@AncientElectronics yes it is .. the old supra turbo from the 90's had a switch or software on off etc

[@williamwilliam9993]

This computer was used to powering the prevue channel tv channel in the 90s

[@steffenjachnow8176]

Regarding your floppy problem: With Kickstart 3.0 and later you simply can press both mouse keys simultaneously while switching the computer on and you get a little option screen where you can tell the computer to boot from DF1 instead and so on. In my setup, I have the drive emulator installed in an old external floppy case. It looks way more elegant and works just fine. You would have to cut out a hole for your display though (mine has none)...

[@AncientElectronics]

I tried this and it works, sort of. my external drive gets detected as DF2. If I use this menu and select it as the boot drive it will boot up to the external floppy emulator but apparently it doesn't save this setting so every time I want to change games and power cycle I need to do this process over. Its not the best solution but its something.

[@mark12358]

Hi, nice video. I found you by watching a Retrospector78 video. Probably I would go cleaning the battery area, although the bad spots are far from vital components.

[@AncientElectronics]

Glad you found the video. I do greatly enjoy watching Retrospector78 myself. I wish I had his skills for electronic repair.

[@AmstradExin]

My A2000 wasn't so ancient when I had It last... 2630 card @28mhz, 7mb ram, Picasso 2+ and a SCSI card and so on, played doom on it. Cheers!

[@RobinFowler1982]

I found one of these a few months ago with no accessories, im going to get a keyboard and mouse adapter, and a gotec floppy emulator. Any other thoughts on what i should add to it? It will post and i get the kickstart screen, but i dont have any disks lol or a proper monitor

[@AncientElectronics]

a kickstart switcher is always a fairly cheap and easy upgrade so you can switch between the older and more compatible with games kickstart and a newer one that allows newer OSes and drives. I think they make some pretty cheap ZORRO hard drive controller cards for the Amiga these days.I use a SCSI controller myself with a SCSI2SD device and an SD card as my hard drive. not many Amiga games install to the hard drive though unless you use WHDload.

[@SuperVstech]

You can download workbench disk adf from pc to amiga with a nul modem cable and the free amiga explorer from amiga forever site.

[@sideburn]

No matter what I tried there was no way to get df2 to be seen by the Amiga as df0. The floppy boot switches just disable df0 forcing the Amiga to switch to df2 but the games still aren’t happy with that. Had to end up putting the gotek inside as df0. Plus a lot of games just seem to not be compatible with the A2000.

[@AncientElectronics]

I'm not sure why games would be incompatible. the A2000 is basically an A500 in a bigger case with expansion slots. It uses the same CPU and I believe in most cases the same graphics chipset (I think some revisions use ECS). I've never encountered a game that would run on my A500 but not A2000 but I haven't played every Amiga game. Can you let us know what games wouldn't run for you? I plan to do a follow-up to this video eventually with a few upgrades. I acquired two different selectors and one is the newest switchless floppy drive selector so we will see if I have better luck with those. I don't think can bring myself to install a Gottek in this case....it's just looks so ugly and out of place in my opinion.

[@sideburn]

** BTW the boot selectors DO WORK... as they intend.. by disabling DF0... forcing the amiga to find DF2 and boot from here.. But this is pretty much pointless since you can just hold the mouse buttons down and select DF2 yourself to boot from. Unfortunately I figured all this out after completely installing and drilling a hole in one of my expansion slot cover plates and installing the switch only to ultimately remove them. As far as the gotek being ugly, well, mine is the one with the OLED display and I made a 3d printed Bezel to fill in the floppy bay gap thats the same color so it all blends well and at least looks like its "supposed" to be there. But yeah I am a big fan of all original stock and hide any modern emulators behind the scenes... oh we'll...

[@mephustowest1876]

Are you going to do anymore videos on this A2000?

[@AncientElectronics]

I do plan to but I have no idea when. I plan for it to be about any planned upgrades I want to do such as replace the HDD with an SSD. add a CD-ROM drive, get that floppy selector switch working so I can set that external drive as DF0 or DF1, and hopefully add an accelerator. I'd like to add a more old-school accelerator with a switch so I can toggle between the original CPU and a faster one. seems like all the accelerators they put out now just completely replace the original CPU.

[@mephustowest1876]

@@AncientElectronics Okay, thank you for responding! I look forward to seeing more about your Amiga. I just recently got into Amiga stuff and trying to learn about them. I also have an A2000 that I recently got and have been restoring. And yes I agree on the accelerators and the new ones just taking fully over. Seems like the old ones have a way to fall back to standard 68000

[@ralfzottmann7831]

Hi nice Video …….i got an TF 530 whit CPU soket adapter as Acelerator in my A 2000 ist working nicely. greatings from Germany ;)

[@AncientElectronics]

Nice, Id really like to get an accelerator for this guy that I can toggle on/off as needed. Mostly just for running things like WHDload more smoothly or a few other demanding applications.

[@brostenen]

@@AncientElectronics The 530 can not work with mem upgrades. The 534 can be used with other mem upgrades. With the 530, you are locked into 2mb FastRam. And not many makes them anymore.

[@ralfzottmann7831]

@@brostenen hmm i dont have Problems with my 530 and my Memory expansions ...but the 534 is mutch more flexible i agree

[@brostenen]

@@ralfzottmann7831 Ahh. Then you might have non-Z2 adressed memory. What I was talking about, is that the one that are making them on Amibay, have written that it takes up all Z2 memory space or something like that.

[@UncleAwesomeRetro]

Nice video :) I just got an A2000, but I still need to get a keyboard and a monitor. I have two floppy drives with mine but I cant get the second floppy drive to work. If you add the jumper 301 on your motherboard but you only have one floppy drive attached, does your amiga say df1:bad? Mine does not. Btw: I am pretty sure cont. on your monitor is contrast :P

[@AncientElectronics]

I'm pretty sure you are correct about contrast. I havn't tried a dual floppy setup just switching DF0 from the front to rear external drive.

[@tcam333]

Those odd looking kroger pics make me wonder if it wasn't originally hooked up to a DCTV.

[@Tokyodriving]

Hey its Dave. Get a chance to mess with the pc98 yet?

[@AncientElectronics]

Hey, been super busy with work the past several months. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to mess with it though I've really been wanting to. Space is currently a big issue unfortunately but I've been thinking of swapping out the Apple IIe setup for the PC-98. You make you big move yet?

[@AmstradExin]

@@AncientElectronics By the way, I have a PC9801vx, with tons of cards and add-ons. (One of them is an accelerator board) If you need any help with research, you can ask me.

[@AncientElectronics]

@@AmstradExin Thanks, I appreciate the offer and i'll keep it in mind.

[@Tokyodriving]

@@AmstradExin he bought my PC9821 cx2. I set it up with a cf to ide and have everything on it. Also network card and 366(i forget) cpu accelerator.

[@henson2k]

Amiga 2020 anyone?

[@aleben6009]

Woooowww if you use adobe photoshop, illustrator, 3dstudio (delux paint, digital paint, lightwave, vector ecc) and all advanced program....you need to thankyou all programmer of Amiga. Multiuser and multitasking. Serio audio.

[@infinitecanadian]

Whatever you do, please don't wipe the Kroger's programming from the system; it adds character. Even upload it, perhaps.

[@a4000t]

No offense,but the joystick is wico(say why-co),no L.... the cpu is sixty eight thousand(68000) not hundred.. nice video overall though! the good thing about the 68010 is it allows you to use the quit feature in whdload even tho speed upgrade is not much if any. Please save a copy of that hard drive,the Kroger stuff looks cool. Likely used an Amiga A2300 genlock or some such to display as a overlay.

[@AncientElectronics]

no offence taken, I always make the thousand/hundred mistake in my everyday life, don't know what it is but I'm not great with numbers in general. I think I was thinking of Rodger Wilco when I was talking about the controller, lol. I read the latest versions of WHDload do not require a 68010 anymore to quit but I could be wrong.

[@a4000t]

@@AncientElectronics It happens :) I haven't kept up with latest whdload news,i need to look into that. thanks.

[@trr94001]

These days, even more than when they were new, a big box Amiga is a down payment on a much more expensive system.

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

I've got almost the exact same setup. Two 3.5 original amiga floppies a Commodore 5.25 floppy and an xt card but only one of my little dogs licks his balls the other is a female.

[@retroguy4616]

Gimme.

[@PCRetroTech]

Almost a face reveal. And so soon after the beard reveal!

[@phreapersoonlijk]

There's a pregnant lady at the beginning of the video, with very hairy and muscular arms !

[@AncientElectronics]

I never thought of my arms as being very muscular but thank you. In editing I very nearly redid the video because of the CRT reflection. The mystery is gone now, you all my secret identity now of being a early term pregnant woman that looks nothing like a women with apparently muscular arms.

[@phreapersoonlijk]

@@AncientElectronics Haha, it was all just for a joke, don't take any of it seriously. :) I love your content !

[@AncientElectronics]

@@phreapersoonlijk I know, though I honestly did consider redoing all the parts that had my reflection though. I was wondering if anyone would say anything since I don't think I've ever appeared in any of my videos before in any form.

[@phreapersoonlijk]

@@AncientElectronics you do know that your belly features not only in relflection, but also just in plain sight, right? :D Haha. Never be ashamed of yourself, especially not if you put out such great content just for our entertainment !

[@AncientElectronics]

@@phreapersoonlijk good point, Age will do that to you sometimes. Thanks!

[@JackMaverik]

Amiga 2000? I have an Amiga 2001 so mine's one better.

[@AncientElectronics]

I somehow feel like this is a lie.

[@JackMaverik]

@@AncientElectronics I do not lie.

[@primus711]

Definitely lying no such thing

[@miked4377]

it is a sin.....i dont like the look either

[@1joe4432]

Like your video's song has to go

[@AncientElectronics]

if by go you mean go gold and then platinum i agree!

[@1joe4432]

@@AncientElectronics no the dog balls part needs to go

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

Disagree here. You need an extended remix version as well.