My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

AmmoJammo · 06-10-2012, 07:10 PM

Picked up this lot for the grand total of $Au50!

Two A500 consoles, both revision 6 motherboards, one faulty.

A590, with 40meg HDD and 1meg fast ram!
A501 ram in the trapdoor
External floppy
1084s monitor
Two tank mice
Four joysticks
Plus a fair bit of original software! and some less than original

AmmoJammo · 06-10-2012, 07:14 PM

after spending half a day crawling around under the house, looking through boxes, cupboards, spare room, and everywhere I could think of, I finally found an old SCSI drive...

its a 2.1gig, Seagate ST32430N.

So, I ordered some version 7.0 roms for the A590, and while I was at it, I also ordered a KS3.1 rom, and 68010 CPU, cos thats just how I roll!

AmmoJammo · 06-10-2012, 07:19 PM

Deciding that a SCSI CD rom was the best idea ever, I trawled the interwebs to see what I could find, and ended up with a Yamaha CD burner, at the same time I decided to order a newer chip for the A590 (can't they get anything right? :P) just incase there was any compatibility issues.

I'm pretty sure this is how all A500's were intended to be setup!
everything lying on the bench, with random cables going everywhere... afterall, everything is external anyway

The plan is to tower it, seeing as its a "sometimes" setup, I can't possibly plug and unplug everything all the time!

Also, while cleaning up, I Found some old Amiga discs in the basement

djos · 06-10-2012, 07:29 PM

Nice catch there AJ, I'll have to start a thread for my 500+ project soon.

cameng · 06-10-2012, 09:53 PM

wow!, you have been busy. I was glad I never gave all my disks to who I sold my Amiga500. Great going through old disks and magazines over 20 years old!

AmmoJammo · 06-10-2012, 10:21 PM

Our discs were either sold, or thrown out. The random discs I've found were just leftovers that must have been misplaced at the time.

I sent you a private message btw

AAACHIPSET · 06-11-2012, 01:10 AM

i still have my original a500 ..with the 2meg agnus upgrade ..wire from the gary chip to somewhere did have 2.04 roms ...now 3.1 ..external harddrive cord runs to a old apple scsi harddrive i got for 10.00 ..2 meg chip 4 meg fast ..had a scsi dvd running on it at one stage ..and a 030 which had a broken chip now ..all my best high scores for pinball fantasy are on it ..only thing that ever wore out on the original was the keyboard died ..replaced it an all good....prob still be running in 20 yrs ..i hope.
i blame it for starting me off on this whole amiga madness ..the things i expected it to do ..run windows 3.1 on pctask ..why ?? cause it could..just..:>

AmmoJammo · 06-11-2012, 02:47 AM

I went looking for a suitable megadrive controller to use on the A500, got distracted, went and bought another plastic tub to store them in

Top row are wireless PS2
Next row are all USB, pretending to be PS2
3rd row down are usb again, the "sega" ones are good for emulators!
4th row, genuine PS2, and more USB "sega"
next, USB arcade joystick, genuine N64, most likely broken.
6th row, non genuine N64, horrible to use, but it makes it fair!
final row, two old, original, totally stuffed megadrive controllers, some cheapos which work ok, and finally some claimed to be genuine with terribly inflexible cords!

Although.... I have no megadrive games

bought a console, was borrowing my cousins games... she wanted them back!

AmmoJammo · 06-13-2012, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AmmoJammo

I have no megadrive games

bought a console, was borrowing my cousins games... she wanted them back!

problem solvered!

MelbourneBen · 06-13-2012, 08:03 PM

$50 is a bargain, did you get it off Gumtree by any chance?

I got my current A1200 from a guy in Royal Park (SA) for $80 with whole heap of other Amiga related stuff, that was advertised on Gumtree. Was an awesome find as its mint and replaced my old aging A1200.