Pegasos

I bought my first Amiga A500, in 1990. I went on to own an A1500 then an A1200. I wanted to get an Amiga One but it was not possible to buy one so I got a Pegasos. I no longer own a classic Amiga; I had to sell my A1200 when I moved to Japan.

The Pegasos 2 is a CHRP micro ATX motherboard with a PowerPC G4 processor running at 1 GHz. My set up includes 512 MB RAM, DVD writer and >600 GB hard disk space. I use a Dell 22.1" HD monitor, via DVI of course.

MorphOS

In MorphOS I can run almost all of my old Amiga software but these days I barely need to touch a 68k binary. Ambient, the desktop and window manager in MorphOS, has more features than the old Workbench.

My email client is YAM, I run Origyn Web Browser (KHTML based) and amrss for feeds. A few other essential applications are ShowGirls - a very good image browser, Tubexx - a YouTube browser and ATC - a very good FTP client.

Ambient Ambient Ambient

Travelling Tips

When I shipped my Pegasos to Japan it got dropped. The box looked fine but it was clear that something was wrong. The power supply broke and had to be replaced and the CPU fan clips broke. I bought a SNE MWF-404ALCU VGA cooler which works very well and is very quiet.

If you ship your Peg,
  1. Make sure you unplug the CPU card and package it separately. Check the cooling fan on arrival.
  2. Take the power supply out of the case and pack it separately because if your case gets dropped the PSU is big and dense and the case will get bent.