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My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« on: June 11, 2012, 02:10:29 AM »
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 :p









 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2012, 02:14:51 AM »
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!



 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2012, 02:19:31 AM »
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 :whack:

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

 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2012, 02:29:08 AM »
Nice catch there AJ, I'll have to start a thread for my 500+ project soon. :)
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Amiga 1200 w/ ACA1220 16Mhz 128MB w/ RTC, 4GB CF-HDD, Roland MT-32 MIDI Synthesiser
Amiga 500 w/ KS2.05, 1Mb Chip-Ram, CF-IDE w/4MB Fast-Ram, FDD Boot Selector, HxC RevC Floppy emulator
Commodore 64 w/ 1541 Ultimate-II inc Tape Adapter, JiffyDOS, 1541 Disk Drive, 1531 Datasette, Flyer Net Modem
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2012, 04:53:01 AM »
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!
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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2012, 05:21:39 AM »
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 ;)
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2012, 08:10:46 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..:>
A500 3.1/8meg/2gigscsi ...wants a 040
CD32/SX1/FMV/FLASHDRIVE/  wants sx32pro
A1200  os3.5 030/50/fpu/mmu/2flashdrives/cd/   indivision coming ..............wants a ppc/060  ACCEL :laughing:
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2012, 09:47:17 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 :p



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!
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2012, 02:15:49 AM »
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I have no megadrive games :( bought a console, was borrowing my cousins games... she wanted them back!

problem solvered!

 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2012, 03:03:58 AM »
$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.
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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2012, 03:23:00 AM »
Yeah gumtree. I would have loved to get a 1200!
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2012, 03:59:54 AM »
Nothing quite like an old A500 doing it's thing :)
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2012, 03:15:44 PM »
mmm, sandwich!



and Walker, that wouldn't load through WHDLoad with the original 2 megs of ram I had :p



might be nearly time to put the lid back on!
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2012, 03:53:09 PM »
Under the cpu is that one of Tom Thul's fastram addons?
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2012, 03:56:34 PM »
yup, 8meg, and the 512k trapdoor is now set up as chip ram :)
so, 1 meg chip, 8 meg fast.