Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog

I took a short break from the A500 project today, because I thought it would be a nice idea not to mess it up so that I have something I can test the Multivison 500 scandoubler on when it arrives during the coming week.

During fall last year I put together a nice Amiga 1200 with an Apollo 1260 @ 50 MHz (but capable of 80 MHz) turbo board, DCE internal flicker fixer and scandoubler and a 1 GB Compact Flash card. The configuration was by no means finalized but it worked so good I decided to keep it that way. Maybe that is why I do not have a flicker fixer/scandoubler in my big box A4000D/PPC running OS4?

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I have added a quick article on my main site about the GVP HD8+ hard drive with some nice images of it. Well maybe Big Book of Amiga Hardware goes down some day in the future and someone needs an image of it, -GVP HD8+ SCSI hard drive- there you go

Anyways, I am feeling very positive. This weekend I am going to finish off the kickstart switch on my Amiga 500 and next week I am going to get my Multivision 500 scandoubler shipped to me. It was actually the first auction I have bought off eBay now that I have set up an account for myself on that page. And I think I payed a reasonable price for the item.

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Wow… Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog is quickly turning into my Amiga 500 project diary, I hope my readers do not disapprove of this (do I have any?), once I get my hands on other Amiga hardware you can be sure I will blog about them.

So what happened today?

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I bought one of those ”Kill a watt” watt meters a couple of years ago and I find myself constantly measuring what different electric devices consume. Did you know for example that a first generation XBOX consumes 11 watt in suspend mode?

Or that a fully loaded Amiga 4000 with PPC and PPC graphics board idles at 100 watt?

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Today I began working on my Amiga 500 again. Yesterday I gave the motherboard a proper wash with hot water and soap because I suspect the previous owner was a smoker and the motherboard was very dirty. I let the motherboard rest next to a heater during the night and it was completely dry in the morning, and in a very good looking condition (like new). The A500 shell was also dirty but in overall good condition. It was only yellowed on its side so after a hot bath for the case it looked great, I also swapped out the keyboard for an old one I had cleaned before, see for yourself:

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My Amiga 4000 project got finished late last year even though it had a tight deadline. There are still some minor parts to be done to it but I am already looking for new projects to focus on for the first half of 2008.

Last summer I won an auction containing a much expanded Amiga 500 and a 1084 monitor. I sold the monitor during Christmas because IMHO they are a ticking time bomb -you will never know when they are going to end working- and by common sense an almost 20 year old monitor could break down by just looking at it. I actually got more money for selling the old Commodore 1084 monitor than I paid for the whole auction, which is kind of weird considering I got a GVP HD-8 with 4 MB memory, an Amiga 500 with 2 MB expansion and 020 turbo board together with a Kickstart switch and 1.3/3.1 roms.

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