![]() Eventually we will get to a stage (possibly a few decades away) with the capability to produce our own high precision tools locally, bypassing in large part the industrial age global market, which is is emerging distributively through many initiatives, including Open Source Ecology ( Global Village Construction Kit) and 3D printing in general. There are also other reasons I'm still engaged in the classic Amiga and minimalism. Please help me push off "it belongs in a museum" for as long as possible. If you operate in the Reduce, Reuse/Repair, Recycle mindset (the 3Rs), and the miggy doesn't have a use, it gets "reduced" or recycled (or goes to a museum - another reuse). Not much, but it is the cost of a Raspberry Pi every three years, which only uses around 3W of power and is much more capable of performing modern tasks by itself. If you use the A500 "workstation" for 10h a day, it could be around €1 more per month. An A500(+) with some expansion goes beyond 20W power usage. Ongoing Costs and Functional Design MindsetĪ downside (cost-wise) to all this in the (very) long run are the electricity costs. ![]() I might even one day try connecting the A500+ to the Fonera 2.0n router's serial connection, bypassing the Raspberry Pi, but that won't get me a full fledged text work environment, unless I SSH into a remote shell account. I also would like to ditch the Win32 netbook, if at all possible. I am aware I can bypass the A500+ and have the text mode work environment directly on the Pi, but I want to access a classic Amiga environment too, which the Pi is not well suited to emulate (at least for now). Besides, if I am stuck in a situation with very low energy, bandwidth, and CPU cycles, I should be able to make the most out of it, comfortably. A1200 users have more than enough reasons to keep using their miggy on a daily basis, not so for A500 users, unless they are very into just OCS/ECS gaming on the real thing. Maybe we can end up with a custom WB1.3/2.x floppy distribution that has the necessary tools to connect it to a Raspberry Pi (or similar), for those who don't have a hard drive connected to it. I would like this project to eventually give A500(+) users without many resources, reasons to keep the first low cost miggy going for as long as possible. Therefore, no A1200, KS3.1 or extra expansions, if possible. The main resource I have (besides the tangibles in my possession) is time, I'm not interested in spending money on upgrades at this moment. ![]() Has anyone attempted something like this before? What terminal emulator do you recommend for KS/WB2.x? It should connect via the Amiga's serial port and support the GNU screen terminal, preferably working at least at 78x24 supporting 16 colors. For sound mixing, if you are wondering, I have a 4 input source mixer. The Alpha Power has a CF hard drive and an extra 8MB of fast RAM. The A500+ side expansion port is occupied with an Alfa Power, so no ethernet, though the trapdoor expansion is unoccupied. I'd be connecting the A500+ to the Raspberry Pi via a serial cable (with a serial to USB adaptor). ![]() ![]() I use most daily apps in GNU+Linux 80x25 text mode (zsh/bash, elinks, vim, irssi, mutt, abook, newsbeuter, centerim, calcurse, ncmpcpp, etc.), so telneting via serial to a screen session seems like something the A500(+) can handle. Those are things I never did before, so they spark an interest in me. Artistic graphical endeavors with OCS/ECS graphics applications (pixel art), MOD composition and developing applications/games natively ensuring 2.x compatibility are some inroads I'm considering. I'm not very interested in playing games anymore, so I'd like to breath new life into the A500+, instead of having it "gather dust" as collectable junk. I was also wondering if there are any other productive/creative things to do with it. Is it possible to achieve this in good conditions (color, speed, compatibility)? Any pitfalls you can predict? I'm currently considering using my A500+ as a thin client for text applications. ![]()
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