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  • Re: What are you using?

    From Rug Rat@80:774/40 to All on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 22:10:28
    I am running The Rat's Den - Amiga in emulation.

    I have an Amiga 2000 that is probbably dead from never removing the RTC battery in my parents garage, that at the very least I would like to pull the hard drive out of the next time I visit so I can see if I can image it and get some old PFILES that I have not been able to find again..

    It would just be way to expensive to get the thing running again, everything that would need to be replaced costs a kidney by themselves.

    1) Keyboard
    2) Mouse
    3) PSU
    4) Floppy
    5) I think the CPU is dead..

    I would not consider running a BBS in anything BUT emulation. Hardware is just too expensive to be sitting on all the time so other people can use it.

    That being said, I am running it on an M1 MacMini using Amiberry. It runs pretty well, except for the occasional CTD.. One of my upcoming projects is to see if I can replace the PRAM battery on a 2016 spec bumped trashcan Mac Pro and install Windows 11 on it and move it back to WinUAE ( So I can use JIT). There is a CPU permissions limmitation on the Apple Silicone that does not allow for JIT to be used.

    Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
    Blog and Forums - www.catracing.org
    IMAGE BBS! 3.0 - bbs.catracing.org 6400
    C-Net Amiga BBS - bbs.catracing.org 6840
    --- CNet/5
    * Origin: The Rat's Den BBS (80:774/40)
  • From Odysseus@80:774/59 to Rug Rat on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 16:50:08
    On 27 Jan 2026, Rug Rat said the following...

    I am running The Rat's Den - Amiga in emulation.

    I have an Amiga 2000 that is probbably dead from never removing the RTC battery in my parents garage, that at the very least I would like to
    pull the hard drive out of the next time I visit so I can see if I can image it and get some old PFILES that I have not been able to find
    again..

    It would just be way to expensive to get the thing running again, everything that would need to be replaced costs a kidney by themselves.

    1) Keyboard
    2) Mouse
    3) PSU
    4) Floppy
    5) I think the CPU is dead..

    I would not consider running a BBS in anything BUT emulation. Hardware
    is just too expensive to be sitting on all the time so other people can use it.

    I have an Amiga 1200 sitting in storage, I should try to get it running with bbs software as an alternative options for users to telnet to..

    ... I wish life had a scroll-back buffer.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: chfbbs.net - chaotic factor bbs (80:774/59)