Bussboard may need its own power?

Save time, money and white hair = get an A2000

If you are in Sweden you can have my A2000 cheap.

I already have 4 Amiga 2000 computers and an Amiga 3000.  They are to big to take out into the field.  The Amiga 500 tower that I am building will have everthing built in.  2 straps will go around the tower case connected to a carrying handle on top.

I would like to use an amiga for some video titling and stuff like that too. I thought I could use the video outs from the amiga into a pc video digitizer.
 
What software do you plan to use to make the titles and stuff? Can you suggest some for me to try?

Thanks,
 
Steven

There were plenty titling software for Amiga.  IMO the best was Scala.  Simple to use, loads of fonts and fades and effects, very smooth playback.  It really shines once you start creating animations in Dpaint and then playing them back from Scala.  My favourite hardware to run this is an A1200, even with just 4 meg fast ram, beacsue you have the composite out built in and can digitize straight into the PC.  If you have a genlock like the GVP you can output to S-vhs and some PC cards have svhs-inputs.  Save as mpeg2 and mp3.  You can then use the PC to burn the ouput to DVD and play it back on home dvd player.  

There's also mediapoint, TV graphics, commodore even had one (name?)

Not smaller, but surely lighter (both in weight and in processing powah).

Ohhhh, I wish I could help you better, but have you checked aminet, etc. about A500 Zorro adapters, info, etc.? OK, a big box Amiga setup might be easier,etc.... but my first miggy was a 500, so I really would like to see you max that baby out.... no matter what the trouble.....

Hmmm, cv64d's post made me think.... The busboard may or may not need its' own power... but do you have enough power for the beast generally? A High-power PSU should be a priority for a 500*, especially as you expand it.....

About hooking up the 3000 keyboard... have you tried googling 'amiga keyboard pinouts' or tried http://www.pinouts.ru   ?

And, a reset switch........... hmmmmm, I seem to recall that it is possible to add this..... my A1200T Power Tower has a reset button, it doesn't work tho' .... :angry:

Also, here's something....
http://theweeks.org/toms-stuff/top.txt



*Some ppl. like A500 PSU's, I know.... I had 2 crap out on me

Actually.. I just hooked ub an A2000 keyboard to one of my A600 boards.
with a little help from these links.

Won't do much good for an A500, but luckily it's even easier to get an A2000 board going on the A500.

Compare the pinouts:

A2000:
Pin   Function
1    KCLK
2    KDAT
3    n/c
4    GND
5    +5 Volts

A500:
Pin   Function
1   CLOCK
2   DATA
3   RESET
4   +5V
5   N/C
6   GND