This Is Dumb. Why So Much? A3000 RAM-O-GANZA!!

[@mattperson7293]

27 years ago I had 96mb in my 060 A1200. It was a ridiculous amount. I thought I'd never need any more RAM ever again.

[@PHSPictures]

"I thought I'd never need any more ram ever again". Yeah. However, as impressive as your setup was, that thought did not age well. 😉

[@CantankerousDave]

I remember feeling like a boss when I added another 8mb to my A2000 on my shiny new GVP 030 combo card. Like night and day.

[@TemalCageman]

Hehe... I had the Blizzard 1260 + SCSI-IV controller that came with an extra ram slot... so... one ram slot on the accelerator board and one on the SCSI-IV extension board... I maxed those two out with 128MB each, so a total of 256MB ram... I never used ALL of it, but... some of my Octamed Soundstudio stuff could easily reach over 100MB of fast ram usage because of all the 16-bit samples I used... :)

[@dave24-73]

I still love the 3000 look

[@SledgeFox]

it's a beautiful computer!

[@stephenbruce8320]

Need it or not you can never have enough RAM. Nothing worse than running out of RAM especially on a stock Amiga.

[@proteque]

I love all the cool hardware that is available these days! My inner kid is enjoying this era a LOT!

[@HoldandModify]

Same here!

[@SledgeFox]

What a joy, watching an A-3000 going to RAM-heaven! Thank you very much!

[@HoldandModify]

My pleasure!

[@Wiscotac]

Yes YES! Mr. H&M did I not mention the absolute greatness of the new & improved greatly produced Hold and Modify channel show invocation intro sequence shown on this video? Oh my! These kind of production improvements are what should bring viewership and computer graphics geeks swarming to this channel. Kudos and great work! *c'est magnifique!*

[@HoldandModify]

You are too kind. Thank you!

[@10MARC]

I have one of those lovely cards and installed it in the wrong way one fine day while my Amiga 4000 was causing me issues. The smoke that poured from the Xylinx chip was quite lovely and fragrant!

[@HoldandModify]

!!!

[@dave24-73]

Perfect for animation

[@CantankerousDave]

PAR = Personal Animation Recorder, made by the awesome company DPS. It mimicked the way we used to lay CGI off to tape with a frame accurate video deck and controller back in the Stone Ages. When a frame was done rendering, it would fire up the tape deck, tell it to move the tape to the exact frame after the last one you recorded, “stamp” the new frame onto the tape, and go back to sleep. The PAR did the same thing, but with a hard drive. This was back in the days when you measured rendering speed in minutes or hours per frame. VTRs that could do that were so freaking expensive. (This is also why you would render animations interlaced.)

[@HoldandModify]

You just spoiled my next Amiga video. :)

[@CantankerousDave]

@@HoldandModifyD’oh. Never had one, always wanted one. As a video guy, DPS made all the cool stuff I wanted.

[@TemalCageman]

In Europe we had V-Lab Motion from Macrosystem (German company) that also came with an NLE software called MovieShop. Combined with the 16-bit Toccata Soundboard it was pretty much a fully fledged NLE with pro sound. Oh and they also built an adapter board to directly talk to a VideoToaster as well.

[@HoldandModify]

@@TemalCageman I refurbed an A4000 system that had exactly that setup. Was really neat. Struggled getting the VLab motion to do anything.

[@BerndFelsche]

PageStream... 40+pages of magazine in full colour. Absolutely chuffed to get my '060 with 128MB of RAM

[@TemalCageman]

Oh yeah... PageStream... it is still being sold as far as I know.... I think they even made a MorphOS version... :)

[@cullmaster7361]

Nice vid “Q”. When did you change the open sequence? Very nice 👍🏻 You call that RAM? I’ve got a Towered A4000D with 956MB RAM! 😉🤣 Don’t forget Z3 RAM isn’t the fastest in terms of read/write speeds. Best to have an accelerator card with the extra RAM 😉👍🏻

[@HoldandModify]

This video is the first showing. :)

[@cp256]

I have always left case tops and sides loose. I still do, even on peecees. I was amazed when I dug my 3000 out after it had been shoved in a corner on its side for 20 some years. I expected it to be a basket case, but it looks absolutely pristine! I need to test the power supply and hopefully it still works or is fixable without too much trouble. I dumped its original Quantum LPS105 SCSI drive to a CF card via a WarpEngine on one of my 4000s and it still has no errors! I love the 3000s, it was my first powerful Amiga when it was new and a joy to use.

[@HoldandModify]

Glad you held on to yours!

[@scottreiter4369]

A-3000 is my favorite Amiga. Enjoy your upgraded machine!

[@claudiobudal3543]

A3000 is the best amiga builded!!!

[@brettjns]

Great video!

[@HoldandModify]

Hey thanks! I know I don’t do all the flash and flair but love it when folks dig it.

[@brettjns]

@@HoldandModify And new intro!!! Maybe I will warm up to it

[@HoldandModify]

@@brettjns yessssss

[@MotownBatman]

Wikid Awesome Sir. I Love People Figuring out how to Shove Upgrades into Machine that People Smarter than I, have figure out tricks due to a better understanding of Old chips

[@HoldandModify]

HEARD!

[@mikedefoy]

I thought 128MB was big, but thats insane Q! Now just hook 'em all up & make a PI render farm. Get a PAR until a Flyer.

[@HoldandModify]

Hmmmmmmmmm

[@boydpukalo8980]

That GGFR can come in handy when you are using your RAM disk to decompress LHA files too. You can never have enough RAM.

[@HoldandModify]

Oh yeah good point!

[@CrassSpektakel]

My Amiga3000 has 16 Megs of 32Bit RAM, I also use my hard disk for swapping (I straight forward forgot the name of the program...) and while working with some graphics software I actually once hit the 1GByte limit creeping in some parts of AmigaOS. Just to put that into perspective, a €10 Pi Zero comes with 512MByte of memory, or in other news, a 4GByte memory stick is around €10 nowadays - I once paid €800 (in nowadays money) for a single 16MByte Stick. Also interesting, my 17 years (!!!) old Xeon workstation recently got upgraded to 128GByte of memory as I got 8x16GByte FB-DIMMs for free. Boy, the RAM alone consumes 160 Watt of power... but we needed it actually as we were preparing a picture with 300MPixels for printing. And even with 128GByte the system often swapped badly...

[@HoldandModify]

Only Amiga Makes It Possible. :)

[@JKC40]

i still have a fastlane sitting in a box

[@HoldandModify]

Whoa! Well install it! :)

[@eijentwun5509]

It is NOT a ridiculous amount of RAM. infact its NOT enough if you are using something like SCALA. I had 128mb RAM in my CD32 (YES my CD32) using the SX32 Pro 68030 @ 50 Mhz as a VJ at a night club.. how I desired to have more RAM because I Preloaded Animations in SCALA and Filled up 128mb. But boy was it awesome.

[@HoldandModify]

Whoa, that’s awesome!

[@Oli1974]

0:10 An Amiga 3k with one drive mounted on the right instead in the middle always makes me feel very uncomfortable. It hurts the eye!

[@HoldandModify]

I agree and I really need to address this.

[@AmigaMuadib3D]

Must...have...moooore... RAM! 'Cause LW and textures! Etc...

[@HoldandModify]

YESSSSSSS. :)

[@Oli1974]

In 2001 I had 128+16+2 MB of RAM in my A3k 060.

[@HoldandModify]

HOT.

[@stevenbrentson8]

Couple things. I hate to be this guy. But. Uhm. Well. You still have an empty z3 slot. I think you don’t have enough RAM yet? Also, most importantly, your uh…oh boy. How do I say this? This is so embarrassing. Your floppy drive is in the wrong hole. 😅

[@HoldandModify]

lol! I know I know!

[@a4000t]

The floppy is in the best hole,it looks proportional on the right.

[@stevenbrentson8]

@@a4000t There are two types of people in the Amiga world. There are those people who place their single floppy drive in the center of the Amiga 3000 case the way God intended, and there are those people who are wrong. Sorry. 🤷

[@GhettofingerGaming]

Can you link me to the table? You have all that on thanks. I need asap for my amiga setups

[@HoldandModify]

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[@1billthekid]

I wonder if all this ram is recognized through AMIX...

[@HoldandModify]

Showing my ignorance. I don’t know what that is. AMIX?

[@1billthekid]

@@HoldandModify Amiga Unix!

[@SJSsesco]

No better feeling seeing Workbench popup after fixing/modifying/messing around with your Amiga hardware👍💾 Heck one picture today could be over 20MB so ya the more memory the better in our miggies