Okay I just got an $800 offer on my MEdiator/CSPPC equiped A3000 system and I am taking it and getting a G4 Peg II board. I hear I wont know the dif between my A3000 and this and will love it even more. I'll need to get a case, a video card since my voodoo will go with the Amiga, and some RAM. Can you all PLEASE tell me what I need to get and the best of them for the Peg II.

Video card?
RAM type/specs?

How about sound? Is the onboard sound working in AHI or do I need a SB128 or something too? I have some so its okaay if I do. Also what do I need to do so I can install my registered versions of Ibrowse, MiamiDX, AmIRC and use YAM ect? Will I put them on as if I was restoring my A3000 with 3.9 installed?

You could buy my spare Voodoo3 16MB AGP :D

FWIW I used a Radeon 7500 w/64MB DDR in the PegI...very nice card.

Steve

Since there's no easy way of moving files directly from an A3000 to the Pegasos, I plan on getting Miami and Yam running on MorphOS and then emailing the keyfiles from my A3000 to the Pegasos. I would think this would be the least likely to change any of the file attributes or anything, especially since I'll be using Yam on both ends. I've been a registered user of Yam, AmIRC, Miami, MUI, plus others for years.

FWIW, my Peg1 has a Radeon 9000 64MB installed and it works fine. Walmart here in the U.S. has them for $50. It's also a fanless version, so the only fan in the system is in the PSU.

What do you said? Install the A3000 HDD on your pegasos and start copying! ;)

It's SCSI? No problem, get some scsi pci controller compatible with MorphOS, you can see some of these on a thread of the forum... Magnetic sells some Symbios 895s... If you will don't need SCSI and you are only interested on copying the files of your 3000's HD, copy to a thing as CD-R and copy to your MorphOS HD with it...

Pegasos not has gfx hw, only sound hw, has the advantages that you will can use cheap pc hw, as gfx cards and others...

Yam and Simplemail are now OpenSource and there are MorphOS ports too!
You will can use your keyfiles on MorphOS for can run your apps that need it, too

MorphOS 1.5 will have native TCP/IP stack integrated on it, so you will not need an external TCP/IP stack when MorphOS 1.5 comes out, but now you will need use some upto occour this ;)

MUI is integrated on MorphOS, and is a native MorphOS version, PPC too..

I'm waiting for an improved AmIRC version for MorphOS (new features, fixes...) but this seems not appear

MorphOS 1.5 seems that will be a more serious OS, that's nice!

I have all my keyfiles and apps backed up on CD-ROM. Cant I just use them to re install the apps from my A300 over to the Peg II when I have Morph installed?

Read the another post, so yes, you will can make it... One lat thing... MorphOS can't run software that uses custom chips actually not has custom chip emulation... So you will can't run games and demos with it unless you use UAE... But another alternative is get an A1200 or CD32 for these classic stuff!

I think you should do what I did and what Poundsmack suggested. I just plugged my old Amiga HD to Pegasos as a slave, and copied everything from it to my new 40gb HD.
Now, I am using the old harddrive as a backup of a working MOS 1.4.2 installation, unplugged it in case this new HD (knocks on wood!) stops working at some point.

It really saved time and trouble.

Well my IDE drive on the A3000 I can do that, but my system drive is SCSI so I cant do it. As long as I can read a CD and move the files all off I am safe. I can just do that since I have everything burned.

Heh, I have my entire OS3.9 partition backed up as a directory on my SYS: partition here on this peg. The reason that I did this was so that I could copy any missing keys/fonts/libs or whatever isn't in a standard install. (I've had to do simular things when moving from my 3000 to the 1200T before, so it's almost second nature.)

It's always a good idea to do this, when upgrading hardware, so you can more easily get the backgrounds, keys, etc without having to always reach for a cd.

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Hey Acill,

The Radeon 7000/7500 should have 3D drivers soon, so I'd say that's
a solid choice. Other Radeons on the supported list are fine too
(my 9000 works beautiful) but you'll have to wait longer for 3D.

The 7000 is slower (and cheaper) in comparison to the 7500, but 7000's
are fanless while most 7500's have fans. Try to get one with DDR mem as
opposed to slower SDR.

Onboard sound is OK, but I prefer a SB live (I bought this one).

For system memory...theoretically, any DDR266 works, but check the compatibility
list to avoid the few that might not. 256 megs should be more than plenty.

Burners/DVD players...any CD burner should work. As far as DVD, get
one of those LG players...anything else, and you're rolling dice until mplayer
supports more drives.

You should be able to rock pretty much any ATX case...I bought one of these,
and would recommend it to anyone; Cooler Master cases rule.
(the new "cavalier" is pretty sick looking as well.)

Since you're in the US, I would wholeheartedly recommend ordering from
www.newegg.com... they flat out kick ass. Their prices are some of the
lowest, they stock everything, shipping is usually free, and fast if
you're on the West Coast. Just check their Radeon selection for
example...there's like a million 7000/7500's to pick from.

Memory, slick case, video card, SB "Live", drives/cables/etc can all
be had for WELL under $400, and that's "doing it nice".

Good luck and have fun!!!

Radeon9000 is IMHO the best card. If you don't care for 2-3 lame 3D game and 1-2 demos then better go for a Radeon9000. IMHO.

regards,
tokai

It's stupid buy a SB128 sound card, but another could be a good idea depending of your audio needs...

Why recoment LG for CD/DVD? LG for CD/DVD sucks a lot, cd/dvd units (readers and writers) has problems reading some cds, are slower reading, crash before than others... A LG writer was some problems reading and was crashed my Pegasos I, and my Plextor writer read too faster, less access time, no crashes...
Not get LG CD/DVD units!

Radeon 9200SE also works. I am using that, as well as two Radeon7000 cards in my machines. Somehow I like the 7000 cards better. I guess they will be worse off when it comes to 3D performance (not everyone cares about that), but they are perfectly OK for 2D, and they have lower price.

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I meant SB "Live" card...I bought it becasue the sound quality is
better than onboard, and it cured some of the sound "issues" as well.
(which was the main reason, as basically all PC sound cards suck)

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Becasue neither of the better drives I bought play DVD's with
mplayer, so they're kinda useless atm. "LG"s doooo at least
actually play DVD's....

So I'll rephrase that...if you HAVE to watch DVD's, get something
"known" to work with mplayer....like an "LG"...else buy whatever you
think is good, and hopefully DVD support broadens to include the drive
you purchased.