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Thargon

Thargon
Geraldine said:
Yes an A1200 PSU will work in an A500, but you would be better off going for a proper refrub A500 one. Do make sure it is the PSU first though as they are quite tough and don't fail that often running a standard machine. If your getting a power light and nothing else or a green screen, it might just be loose ROM chips and that's easy to fix, take them out, clean them with Isopropyl Alcohol, let em dry off then reseat them back in their sockets. Finally do you have a standard A500 Thargon and not the plus model?
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AFAIK it was the original one, I dunno what the plus model was about. All I've seen is that advice that you could blow up the main board with a wrong PSU, so I don't want to go tinkering too much with it if it's faulty. I'll give it a go when I get some time.
 

DWorth

D
"I dunno what the plus model was about"

It was an upgraded A500. It came with 1mb of RAM (as opposed to 512k) as standard, had v2.04 of the OS and a 68010 CPU rather than a 68000. I had one. There were compatibility problems with some games, though you could often get around it by using emulation disks. I think it was the shortest lived model, as the A600 and A1200 came out not long after.
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
Miggy Music!

Now for something different, but not that much different :D
Found this a while back, a nice Amiga music compilation on You Tube, it's 3 hours long! :eek: However, it has the option to skip to the tracks you want to hear, just click on the "show more" below the vid's description. See how many you can remember! No Elite games included though. :(
An admission, I often listen to this while browsing the forums. :eek:
 

Hudson

H
I've read this whole thread and there doesn't appear to be a single mention of the A1000!

Still got mine in the backyard shed...time to dig it out and see if she fires up....


Cheers,
H.
 

synchromesh

synchromesh
Geraldine said:
Now for something different, but not that much different :D
Found this a while back, a nice Amiga music compilation on You Tube, it's 3 hours long! :eek: However, it has the option to skip to the tracks you want to hear, just click on the "show more" below the vid's description. See how many you can remember! No Elite games included though. :(
An admission, I often listen to this while browsing the forums. :eek:
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Brilliant !!! worth downloading and burning to CD :)
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
Also (sticking with the Miggy music theme) here is a link to a great site called ExoticA. Yes I know, it sounds dodgy, but there is few finer places to find great Amiga (and C64) sound mods. A tip, look out for the name Allister Brimble. :cool: I would be very surprised indeed if folks didn't know his music from someplace during the Amiga's heyday. ;)
 
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DWorth

D
Aye, he did a lot of the music for Team 17's games. I also love Chris Huelsbeck's stuff, which crops up on a lot of Rainbow Arts titles (Turrican and so on).
 

Sir.Tj

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Someone I knew a long time ago claimed he was one of the engineers who helped design the rock lobster board.

Doubt it was true but you never know. :D
 

synchromesh

synchromesh
I fancy creating a standalone workbench full of all your favourite games and all you would have to do is drop your kickstart roms in the directory to make it work....Is that something worth considering ?
 

FS3DPete

F
DWorth said:
"I dunno what the plus model was about"

It was an upgraded A500. It came with 1mb of RAM (as opposed to 512k) as standard, had v2.04 of the OS and a 68010 CPU rather than a 68000. I had one. There were compatibility problems with some games, though you could often get around it by using emulation disks. I think it was the shortest lived model, as the A600 and A1200 came out not long after.
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I owned a 500+. I don't recall it having an 010. Mine had a vanilla 68k in it, although it did have the 1MB Chip RAM, full ECS and 2.04 ROM.

I wish I had been able to keep my two Amiga 1200's (one was in a tower case while the other remained in her original desktop form factor). Unfortunately, I had been robbed back in 2001 and lost them both.

On a slightly different note, I'd have liked to see a 68k compatible Amiga model with modern technology such as a 64-bit multi-core 68k-based CPU, a fast desktop-based graphics chipset, 8 or more gigs high-speed RAM that could also be used to provide fast graphic operations for a dedicated 3D chipset, as well as a modern-day equivalent of Copper, Blitter, CIA and sound. Of course, that will never happen, but had Commodore done a better job with the technology than IBM and their clones, we could be seeing high-speed 68k-compatible CPU's now, instead of x86-compatibles.
 

FS3DPete

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synchromesh said:
I fancy creating a standalone workbench full of all your favourite games and all you would have to do is drop your kickstart roms in the directory to make it work....Is that something worth considering ?
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Sounds like a great idea. As long as they all worked upon downloading the pack (obviously excepting the need to drop in your own KS ROMs), it would be of interest to a lot of people.
 
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