hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
it meraculously works!
and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

it has an old accelerator card in it and a multi i/o card for pc serial and parallel oh snap!

it's quite fast! :D

i spent alot on getting adapters and peripherial stuff for it! :D

i got a keybopard for it too

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Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
By: mary4 to All on Mon Jun 16 2025 01:22 pm

hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
it meraculously works!
and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

it has an old accelerator card in it and a multi i/o card for pc serial and parallel oh snap!

That's cool. :) If I had room, I might think about buying a used Amiga.. But then, I worry I'd only play with it for a little while and then get bored with it and won't be able to think of what to use it for..

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hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
it meraculously works!
and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

Awesome news - is this your first Amiga???

I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repair, and other, info videos...



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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:22:40 -0700
"mary4" (21:2/150) <mary4@f150.n2.z21.fidonet> wrote:

hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
it meraculously works!
and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

it has an old accelerator card in it and a multi i/o card for pc
serial and parallel oh snap!

it's quite fast! :D

i spent alot on getting adapters and peripherial stuff for it! :D

i got a keybopard for it too

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Sure. Isn't that what FSX_RETRO is for?
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Hello mary4!

16 Jun 25 13:22, you wrote to all:

hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
it meraculously works!

[...]

i got a keybopard for it too

Open her up and remove the battery if it's not already been done.

They leak acid all over the mb and destroy them.
Do a youtube search for cleaning the board up.


Vorlon


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Awesome news - is this your first Amiga???

HELL YES!

I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repair, and other, info videos...

sick!
i already heard about him! :D



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Open her up and remove the battery if it's not already been done.

done by seller

They leak acid all over the mb and destroy them.
Do a youtube search for cleaning the board up.

the amimi4 is all good! :D

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e able to think of what to use it
for..

Demos.


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hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd

Congratulations!

Reach out in FSX_RETRO if you ever want help!

Enjoy this magical time, where you get your first Amiga, and you think you'll be happy with just one Amiga. :P

I still need to get my CD32 going again, get a new case for my A500, make new KS ROMs for my A1200...... The fun never ends!

Cheers,
RetroSwim

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I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repair, and other, info videos...

Adrian Black (Adrian's Digital Basement) and Jan Beta are good too!

Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

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I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repa and other, info videos...

Adrian Black (Adrian's Digital Basement) and Jan Beta are good too!

Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 videos. :P I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

Lucky lucky.



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Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

Kind of weird, they were kinda not popular here, although they had their one eyed fanboys. A little like AppleIIs they had their own religion :P I could probably count on one hand the number I actually saw out in the wild...

ST

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Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 videos. :P I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

Clearly a man of culture ;)

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Adrian Black (Adrian's Digital Basement) and Jan Beta are good too!

Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

YO I SEE ADRIAN AT VCF-SW!~!!! :DD amiga gang!~

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Congratulations!

Reach out in FSX_RETRO if you ever want help!

Enjoy this magical time, where you get your first Amiga, and you think you'll be happy with just one Amiga. :P

I still need to get my CD32 going again, get a new case for my A500,
make new KS ROMs for my A1200...... The fun never ends!

Cheers,
RetroSwim

thanks m8! <3

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StormTrooper wrote to RetroSwim <=-

Kind of weird, they were kinda not popular here, although they had
their one eyed fanboys. A little like AppleIIs they had their own religion :P I could probably count on one hand the number I actually
saw out in the wild...

In college, most everyone who wasn't in CS got a Mac Plus on one of
those horrendous, Apple Credit cards with the 24% APR.

CS geeks had cobbled together ATs and the odd 386, using Procomm to
connect to big iron and Turbo C or MS C to compile locally.

I had an XT case with an AT motherboard bought at a swap meet. Soldered
in fsaster clock crystal. Most of the stand-offs didn't line up, so the motherboard was secured to the case with one screw and pieces of
styrofoam. An RLL drive that sounded like a bathroom fan, keyboard port
didn't quite line up, and once in a while you had to jiggle the power
switch to get it to come on.

I only knew one Amiga user, come to think of it didn't even know they
had a simple compiler for student use!



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Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 videos I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

Lucky lucky.

wow Paulie that's really cool! Link to video please?! I haven't seen that video and I watch a lot of his vids.


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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In college, most everyone who wasn't in CS got a Mac Plus on one of
those horrendous, Apple Credit cards with the 24% APR.

CS geeks had cobbled together ATs and the odd 386, using Procomm to connect to big iron and Turbo C or MS C to compile locally.

I had an XT case with an AT motherboard bought at a swap meet. Soldered
in fsaster clock crystal. Most of the stand-offs didn't line up, so the motherboard was secured to the case with one screw and pieces of styrofoam. An RLL drive that sounded like a bathroom fan, keyboard port didn't quite line up, and once in a while you had to jiggle the power switch to get it to come on.

I only knew one Amiga user, come to think of it didn't even know they
had a simple compiler for sudent use!

yooooooo sick pc compatibles!! <3

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Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 v I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

Lucky lucky.

you know whats insane?

I GOT ADRIAN TO SEE THAT POST!!! <3

wow Paulie that's really cool! Link to video please?! I haven't seen
that video and I watch a lot of his vids.

I WANA SEE TOO!!!@!

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Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

Yet continually disappoints for the same old fashioned reasons..

-h1

... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 v I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

wow Paulie that's really cool! Link to video please?! I haven't seen
that video and I watch a lot of his vids.

I just uploaded it - https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s - might take 20 mins or so, but I bet its up by the time you see this...

:P



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I just uploaded it -
https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s -
might take 20 mins or so, but I bet
its up by the time you see this...

Awesome! Congrats on the shout out! That's really cool.


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I just uploaded it - https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s - might take 20 mins or but I bet its up by the time you see this...

:P

nice1 Paulie!

Having watched him 'complain' about the fact that it 204beers doesn't look quite right on his XT / procomm terminal is yet another reason why I keep my bbs fairly compatible. I always try to make sure that my board doesn't look crappy, but it does at least work 100% on a retro PC. I can't say I've tried it using a real terminal like Procomm but I dare say it should work there too. It definetly works on Michael Brutman's mTelnet.

If you can, I'd recommend you have a 'compatible' version of 204beers, and I appreciate you for enabling UTF8 so that mTelnet works, there are a few other enhancements you can make to your board to make it have a compatible mode. BBSes are retro things, therefore I always think that they should stay retro, for example, big screen 120xwhatever doesn't work with a DOS computer, therefore I don't consider those a true BBS. 20forbeers does rock, and I'm glad that Adrian showed off a really good example of a BBS. Shame it couldn't work 100% for him, but still, it is a great BBS!


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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204beers, and I appreciate you for
enabling UTF8 so that mTelnet
works, there are a few other

I always referred to mTelnet as the one that comes with mTCP:

https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_Telnet.html

That one always worked fine for me on my DOS computer with regular old CP437..

I'm now thinking maybe I've been referring to it by the wrong name this whole time as I don't believe the Brutman one does UTF8 at all... oops! :)


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I just uploaded it - https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s - might take 20 min but I bet its up by the time you see this...

Having watched him 'complain' about the fact that it 204beers doesn't
look quite right on his XT / procomm terminal is yet another reason why
I keep my bbs fairly compatible. I always try to make sure that my board doesn't look crappy, but it does at least work 100% on a retro PC. I
can't say I've tried it using a real terminal like Procomm but I dare
say it should work there too. It definetly works on Michael Brutman's mTelnet.

If I had 2oFB to do all over again, I'd still lean on the cool 'modern' font-switching, animation and SIXEL stuff - but I'd of added in a lot more legacy compatibility...

If you can, I'd recommend you have a 'compatible' version of 204beers,
and I appreciate you for enabling UTF8 so that mTelnet works, there are
a few other enhancements you can make to your board to make it have a compatible mode. BBSes are retro things, therefore I always think that they should stay retro, for example, big screen 120xwhatever doesn't
work with a DOS computer, therefore I don't consider those a true BBS. 20forbeers does rock, and I'm glad that Adrian showed off a really good example of a BBS. Shame it couldn't work 100% for him, but still, it is
a great BBS!

Its just simply not an option at this point - I've spent days, months and years modifying 2o... I always laugh b/c 2oFB isn't the best designed bbS at ALL - but it is what it is; and I'm lucky that the ppl love it. :P

I've thought about two options for legacy hardware; one is just having an ASCII/light ANSi version of 2oFB - but it wouldn't be all of what the main board is. Another idea was to have STOCK BBS softwares all under one 2oFB legacy-friendly matrix login; Telegard, Searchlight, CBBS, Obv/2, etc etc etc - with a local FTN so all the message areas were all 'networked' (locally).

I kinda wanna work on that latter idea sometime soon... of course, they'd be accessible on the main 2oFB - but I could have some other TELNET addy for legacy hardware... 2oFB is already cooked for what it is. :P



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paulie420 wrote to hyjinx <=-

I've thought about two options for legacy hardware; one is just having
an ASCII/light ANSi version of 2oFB - but it wouldn't be all of what
the main board is. Another idea was to have STOCK BBS softwares all
under one 2oFB legacy-friendly matrix login; Telegard, Searchlight,
CBBS, Obv/2, etc etc etc - with a local FTN so all the message areas
were all 'networked' (locally).

I like the ASCII mode idea - I had a caller call with a dumb terminal
and started playing with it in Synchronet. Memory fades, but I think
there's a tool to convert ANSI to ASCII, so I made ASCII version of my
menus. If you call with an ASCII terminal, it automatically displays an
.ASC menu file.

You miss out on the ANSI art, but it's relatively easy to set up.


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Yet continually disappoints for the same old fashioned reasons..

The only truly disappointing thing about Amiga is how CBM ran the platform into the ground!

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I've thought about two options for legacy hardware; one is just having an ASCII/light ANSi version of 2oFB - but it wouldn't be all of what the main board is. Another idea was to have STOCK BBS softwares all under one 2oFB legacy-friendly matrix login; Telegard, Searchlight, CBBS, Obv/2, etc etc etc - with a local FTN so all the message areas were all 'networked' (locally).

I love this idea.

I'm kind of doing the inside-out flippidy-doo version of this, my board is Ezycom, very legacy-friendly, but I hook on to Mystic to add modern functionality like MRC.

What can we do with BBSes? Sonny Jim, what CAN'T we do?? :D

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Yet continually disappoints for the same old fashioned reasons..

The only truly disappointing thing about Amiga is how CBM ran the
platform into the ground!

CBM tried its best but lost like many with their ideas that never reasonated with the mainstream and whatever Amiga was proposing.. never was a mainstream and that's the first old fashione reason to think Amiga/CBM disappointed all together... creating a myth of the best platform in the world while it maybe was but only in about 1986 for a moment and then (and definitively in the 90s) world moved on and they missed to catch up... so it was nice and cheap (and dying) platform for the kids up until 1994 when basically a proper PC rig and Platystaion being like Eons ahead of it already, shown the market a competitive price for something that out powered the damn retarded custom chip driven platform CBM tried to continually develop. For the same reason APple almost died too, but were luckier.

The rest is sentiment but still if I compare software proposition, SNES being so much worse technically was superior platform to Amiga and its legendary coders...

-h1

... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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