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Home News What is this all about? What is an Amiga 600? The A600's capabilities How to upgrade an Amiga 600... Software suggestions Hardware suggestions Thanks to... Links and downloads Forum	News The following items / chapters have been recently changed. Have fun! For suggestions and comments please feel free to contact the author of this page. This site is owned and maintained by Christian Krenner (ICQ #26589882). My ICQ online status: 26 December 2003: Better late than never: Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all visitors of www.amiga600.de! 12 December 2003: More than 13,000 visitors! Thanks to all surfing by! 11 December 2003: Finally found time to try and save the data on my dying hard disk. Plugged the hard disk into my Pegasos (which by the way is a GREAT fully Amiga compatible PPC computer). It recognized the partitions right away and I managed to backup most data. The hard disk however does have defective sectors and I cannot boot the system anymore. Therefore the A600 will be offline for the time being... :-( Hard disk donations are always welcome! ;-) 21 November 2003: Major problem!! The 2,5" hard drive in my Amiga 600 seems to be in the process of dying! It makes strange, loud clicking noises whereupon the system crashes. What to do now? Should I rely on IDE hard drives' self healing capability and try again and again or do a quick backup? But how? All you www.amiga600.de users out there, please HELP! Thanks for any emails with tips in advance!! 19 October 2003: After a long, hot summer in Germany and a beautiful holiday trip to the U.S. it is finally time for another update of the Amiga 600 page. Changed the A600 picture on the title page to a nicer one, as you've probably already seen and added a forum for discussions around the A600 topic. The forum is hosted by the German computer club "Amiga Freunde Ries" so thanks to them for their support! You will need to create an account and log in to write articles in their forum. Hope to see you all there soon! 1 August 2003: More than 10,000 visitors! Amazing! Thanks to all surfing by! 27 July 2003: Fixed the broken links to the Subway and Highway pages in the USB section. Thanks to Chris Frankl for the hint. 11 July 2003: Updated the downloadable picture archives in the Links section. Now they really contain all pictures from this site (including the USB pictures). 10 July 2003: Added a banner link to the "Amizilla" project on the main page. Amizilla is trying to bring the Mozilla internet browser to the Amiga. A project well worth supporting! 28 June 2003: Sorry for delays in page updates. Had a bad hard disk crash the other week. Not the Amiga 600 but my main computer. Had to get it running again which took some time... 18 June 2003: The OS 4 on Tour roadshow is over. It was fun to see my upgraded Amiga 600 next to all those high end PPC Amigas running OS 4. I'll will post pictures once I've created the new "Picture gallery" section. Meanwhile you can take a look at pictures of the show here. 31 May 2003: I will display my upgraded Amiga 600 on the "OS 4 on Tour Roadshow" on 14 June 2003 in Augsburg, Germany. The show will be hosted by the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik and will be the first public display of the new PPC native Amiga OS 4 in Germany. And you will be able to see that the Amiga 600 on this page is not a fake ;-) So, hope to see you all there! 30 May 2003: The USB ports have now been nicely integrated with the case and the disk drive has been put back in. Further pictures showing this added to the USB page. 24 May 2003: www.amiga600.de has now got its own web space! Please change your links in case they refer to the old www.ck-infosysteme.de/a600 webspace which is no longer valid. Thanks! 24 May 2003: More than 8000 visitors! Thanks to all surfing by! 10 May 2003: Updated the USB page with more pictures and benchmark information. 19 Apr 2003: Happy Easter holidays to all surfing by! 13 Apr 2003: USB is working! The upgrade of the Amiga 600 with the USB card "Subway" was successful. My Amiga 600 therefore should be the only Amiga 600 world wide that has got fully working USB ports! See the new USB page for details. 4 Apr 2003: Some minor updates. The special clockport adapter has arrived. This will hopefully allow me to upgrade the A600 with USB. Stay tuned! 22 Mar 2003: More than 5000 visitors! Thanks to all for surfing by! Stay tuned for the USB upgrade which is currently in progress. I hope that I will be able to report a success during the next couple of weeks. 17 Mar 2003: Future plans: I am currently investigating possibilities to equip the Amiga 600 with USB ports and an internal flickerfixer. So stay tuned... 9 Mar 2003: MAJOR UPDATE!! Most sections now have more and better pictures and are now complete. 1 Mar 2003: SysSpeed 2.6 module added (for those who want to compare...). To be found in the "Links and Downloads" section. 21 Feb 2003: 68882 wanted! As explained in the "Cooling" section I managed to kill my FPU by operating the Apollo uncooled for too long. Now I am looking for a new, working 68882 (33 or 40 MHz, PLCC). Have you got one that you can spare? Please let me know because these chips are hard to get, even on ebay! Yes, I'll pay for it. Thanks! 13 Feb 2003: Most pictures can now be clicked on to get larger and more detailed versions! Also, you can now download a zip archive containing all pictures from this site. You'll find the archive in the "Links" section. 13 Feb 2003: The small web server on the Amiga 600 (see news item below) now displays the current system information when you access it... if you catch me online, that is :-) 6 Feb 2003: I have installed a small web server on the upgraded Amiga 600. You can access the Amiga 600 through this address: http://amiga600.dyndns.org This will only work when the Amiga 600 is up and running which will not be the case very often. Check my ICQ online status above and if I'm online let me know that you want to access it. I'll then boot the machine. At the moment the A600 is only hosting its own (this) site. 31 Jan 2003: 2175 visitors now! Never thought this would that interesting! Thanks to all surfing by! 31 Jan 2003: Minor updates to a couple of pages. 26 Jan 2003: More than 1200 visitors already! Thanks for surfing by!! 26 Jan 2003: Link to new MacOS picture (FastECS colour driver) added to the "A600's capabilities" page. 25 Jan 2003: SysInfo speed comparison picture added in "How to upgrade" section. 25 Jan 2003: The first 600 visitors have been counted! Thanks for surfing by! 25 Jan 2003: Minor updates to the "What do you need?" and "Links" pages. Screen snapshots added to the "A600's capabilities" page. 24 Jan 2003: Additional information added to the "Modifying the Apollo" section. 19 Jan 2003: The "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading page" has gone online on its own domain www.amiga600.de! The page is far from being completed. The chapters "PSU" and "modifying the Apollo" still lack some information and pictures. Later on, all pictures on this page will be clickable, displaying larger versions. Also, the picture archive is not yet available for download. So please check back often!

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For suggestions and comments please feel free to contact the author of this page. This site is owned and maintained by Christian Krenner (ICQ #26589882).
My ICQ online status:

26 December 2003: Better late than never: Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all visitors of www.amiga600.de!

12 December 2003: More than 13,000 visitors! Thanks to all surfing by!

11 December 2003: Finally found time to try and save the data on my dying hard disk. Plugged the hard disk into my Pegasos (which by the way is a GREAT fully Amiga compatible PPC computer). It recognized the partitions right away and I managed to backup most data. The hard disk however does have defective sectors and I cannot boot the system anymore. Therefore the A600 will be offline for the time being... :-( Hard disk donations are always welcome! ;-)

21 November 2003: Major problem!! The 2,5" hard drive in my Amiga 600 seems to be in the process of dying! It makes strange, loud clicking noises whereupon the system crashes. What to do now? Should I rely on IDE hard drives' self healing capability and try again and again or do a quick backup? But how? All you www.amiga600.de users out there, please HELP! Thanks for any emails with tips in advance!!

19 October 2003: After a long, hot summer in Germany and a beautiful holiday trip to the U.S. it is finally time for another update of the Amiga 600 page. Changed the A600 picture on the title page to a nicer one, as you've probably already seen and added a forum for discussions around the A600 topic. The forum is hosted by the German computer club "Amiga Freunde Ries" so thanks to them for their support! You will need to create an account and log in to write articles in their forum. Hope to see you all there soon!

1 August 2003: More than 10,000 visitors! Amazing! Thanks to all surfing by!

27 July 2003: Fixed the broken links to the Subway and Highway pages in the USB section. Thanks to Chris Frankl for the hint.

11 July 2003: Updated the downloadable picture archives in the Links section. Now they really contain all pictures from this site (including the USB pictures).

10 July 2003: Added a banner link to the "Amizilla" project on the main page. Amizilla is trying to bring the Mozilla internet browser to the Amiga. A project well worth supporting!

28 June 2003: Sorry for delays in page updates. Had a bad hard disk crash the other week. Not the Amiga 600 but my main computer. Had to get it running again which took some time...

18 June 2003: The OS 4 on Tour roadshow is over. It was fun to see my upgraded Amiga 600 next to all those high end PPC Amigas running OS 4. I'll will post pictures once I've created the new "Picture gallery" section. Meanwhile you can take a look at pictures of the show here.

31 May 2003: I will display my upgraded Amiga 600 on the "OS 4 on Tour Roadshow" on 14 June 2003 in Augsburg, Germany. The show will be hosted by the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik and will be the first public display of the new PPC native Amiga OS 4 in Germany. And you will be able to see that the Amiga 600 on this page is not a fake ;-) So, hope to see you all there!

30 May 2003: The USB ports have now been nicely integrated with the case and the disk drive has been put back in. Further pictures showing this added to the USB page.

24 May 2003: www.amiga600.de has now got its own web space! Please change your links in case they refer to the old www.ck-infosysteme.de/a600 webspace which is no longer valid. Thanks!

24 May 2003: More than 8000 visitors! Thanks to all surfing by!

10 May 2003: Updated the USB page with more pictures and benchmark information.

19 Apr 2003: Happy Easter holidays to all surfing by!

13 Apr 2003: USB is working! The upgrade of the Amiga 600 with the USB card "Subway" was successful. My Amiga 600 therefore should be the only Amiga 600 world wide that has got fully working USB ports! See the new USB page for details.

4 Apr 2003: Some minor updates. The special clockport adapter has arrived. This will hopefully allow me to upgrade the A600 with USB. Stay tuned!

22 Mar 2003: More than 5000 visitors! Thanks to all for surfing by! Stay tuned for the USB upgrade which is currently in progress. I hope that I will be able to report a success during the next couple of weeks.

17 Mar 2003: Future plans: I am currently investigating possibilities to equip the Amiga 600 with USB ports and an internal flickerfixer. So stay tuned...

9 Mar 2003: MAJOR UPDATE!! Most sections now have more and better pictures and are now complete.

1 Mar 2003: SysSpeed 2.6 module added (for those who want to compare...). To be found in the "Links and Downloads" section.

21 Feb 2003: 68882 wanted! As explained in the "Cooling" section I managed to kill my FPU by operating the Apollo uncooled for too long. Now I am looking for a new, working 68882 (33 or 40 MHz, PLCC). Have you got one that you can spare? Please let me know because these chips are hard to get, even on ebay! Yes, I'll pay for it. Thanks!

13 Feb 2003: Most pictures can now be clicked on to get larger and more detailed versions! Also, you can now download a zip archive containing all pictures from this site. You'll find the archive in the "Links" section.

13 Feb 2003: The small web server on the Amiga 600 (see news item below) now displays the current system information when you access it... if you catch me online, that is :-)

6 Feb 2003: I have installed a small web server on the upgraded Amiga 600. You can access the Amiga 600 through this address: http://amiga600.dyndns.org This will only work when the Amiga 600 is up and running which will not be the case very often. Check my ICQ online status above and if I'm online let me know that you want to access it. I'll then boot the machine. At the moment the A600 is only hosting its own (this) site.

31 Jan 2003: 2175 visitors now! Never thought this would that interesting! Thanks to all surfing by!

31 Jan 2003: Minor updates to a couple of pages.

26 Jan 2003: More than 1200 visitors already! Thanks for surfing by!!

26 Jan 2003: Link to new MacOS picture (FastECS colour driver) added to the "A600's capabilities" page.

25 Jan 2003: SysInfo speed comparison picture added in "How to upgrade" section.

25 Jan 2003: The first 600 visitors have been counted! Thanks for surfing by!

25 Jan 2003: Minor updates to the "What do you need?" and "Links" pages. Screen snapshots added to the "A600's capabilities" page.

24 Jan 2003: Additional information added to the "Modifying the Apollo" section.

19 Jan 2003: The "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading page" has gone online on its own domain www.amiga600.de! The page is far from being completed. The chapters "PSU" and "modifying the Apollo" still lack some information and pictures. Later on, all pictures on this page will be clickable, displaying larger versions. Also, the picture archive is not yet available for download. So please check back often!