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Got a new mystery Amiga 4000 and 1084 monitor in the bunker

Got a tip from a friend on the net of someone selling an Amiga 4000 and 1084 monitor near me, pick up only. So I sent a mail and told him I could come and buy the package, no problemos.
Earlier this week I got the go ahead and Monday this week I got on a [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000, Hardware on Feb 24th, 2010, 11:42 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Indivision AGA A4000/CD32 review

This is supposed to be an Indivision AGA A4000/CD32 review but since the scandoubler is the same design as the A1200 version what could be said about that version can be said about the A4000 version, get one, it is without doubt the best scandoubler/flickerfixer for the AGA Amiga computers.
This version only works in the [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000, Hardware on Feb 24th, 2010, 10:59 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Indivision AGA Amiga 4000 scandoubler incoming and status update

I have been so busy with my work since the beginning of December I had to leave all my web projects to rest, hence no updates here on the Amiga blog or there in my bunker built of vintage Amiga Zorro cards, bombproof A2000 cases and prototype Amiga 3500 systems.
I am slowly crawling back up [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2010, 12:44 am by Retro Amiga User     

Building an Amiga 1200 tower, part 2: mounting motherboard and BlizzardPPC

Part 1: Building an Amiga 1200 tower, part 1: mounting motherboard and BlizzardPPC
So during my X-mas vacation I finally got some time to put in to my A1200T power Amiga build that I oh so optimistically wrote about back in September.

Now, this is not a system I am going to keep since I have not [...]

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Posted in Amiga 1200, Project on Dec 31st, 2009, 2:54 am by Retro Amiga User     

My Amiga 1200 desktop

I have been quite busy last couple of months so there has been no time for any activity such as messing around with Amiga gear.
So it was with great anticipation I awaited the days between x-mas and New Years Eve because there would be a 99% chance no work would turn up, and I was [...]

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Posted in Amiga 1200 on Dec 31st, 2009, 2:10 am by Retro Amiga User     

Find one error on this Phase5 CyberStormPPC card

Can you spot the fault on this CyberStormPPC Amiga 3000/4000 accelerator?

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Posted in Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000, Hardware on Nov 25th, 2009, 9:20 pm by Retro Amiga User  2 comments   

Goodbye Mr Amiga 4000 desktop, it was nice knowing you

My spare Amiga 4000 have now found a new owner somewhere else in Europe. I wish the new owner good luck with the machine and many years of happy usage.

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Posted in Amiga 4000, Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2009, 11:30 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Building an Amiga 1200 tower, part 1: mounting motherboard and BlizzardPPC

I have been trying to sell this Amiga 1200 tower case for over a year without luck so in a desperate final attempt I am going to stuff it with a MicroniK Z2 busboard, a Phase 5 BlizzardPPC and some other goodies to try and sell as a complete A1200T system.
For this to succeed I [...]

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Posted in Amiga 1200, Project on Oct 25th, 2009, 12:09 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Cooling off from the Amiga

Wow, this weekend have been one of the most intense Amiga weekends in a long time from a personal view.
Amiga Friday
Last Friday I went to pick up my Deneb USB2 card for my Amiga 4000. I was actually expecting to have it fully installed and running in my trusty A4000 in one hour, top two [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000, Hardware, Project on Oct 13th, 2009, 7:42 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Deneb USB card for the Amiga brings back the fun in computing again

I received a Deneb USB 2.0 card for my Amiga 4000 today. I thought I would write a short review today after an hour of playing with it or so, however I have forgotten that back when “computers used to be fun”, plug and play did not exist
Please, do not tell anyone I [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000, Hardware on Oct 9th, 2009, 12:02 am by Retro Amiga User     

Converting a PC-keyboard to an external Amiga-keyboard

I went through my harddrive looking for old Webprojects and I found some pictures I snapped when I tried to convert an Amiga 500 keyboard into an external keyboard.
I never finished the job because I got an A4000 quite soon after beginning the project which came with an original external Amiga keyboard.
Once upon a time [...]

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Posted in Amiga 500, Hardware, Project on Oct 2nd, 2009, 1:18 pm by Retro Amiga User     

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