Archives: 2008   October

Amiga IDE terminator for A4000

You have probably heard about SCSI-terminators, well this is an IDE-terminator for an Amiga 4000.

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Posted in Amiga 4000 on Oct 27th, 2008, 10:54 pm by Retro Amiga User  4 comments   

Perfect Compact Flash card to IDE adapter for the Amiga 1200 and 600

I just found the perfect Compact Flash card to IDE adapter for the Amiga 1200 and the Amiga 600. It is attached straight on the 2.5” hard drive pin row on the motherboard and is relatively securely attached to the pin row by the 44-pins. Since the Compact Flash adapter connects directly to the 2.5” [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2008, 10:51 pm by Retro Amiga User  7 comments   

Amiga 1200 tower

Yes, this is what my teaser from the previous post is going to become. Yesterday I picked up a very nice Gift Tower System for the Amiga from Amigaz.
It is an excellent Amiga 1200 tower and must be quite rare since not much information about the tower is available on the net.
IMHO nothing beats the [...]

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Posted in Amiga 1200, Project on Oct 19th, 2008, 6:19 pm by Retro Amiga User  2 comments   

Just a teaser for the weekend

Missing: Ariadne 1, Melody 1200 Pro, Sound Enhancer, 2 x floppy drives, 1 x DVD-r

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Posted in Project on Oct 17th, 2008, 9:01 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Bare A1200 motherboard with BlizzardPPC and BlizzardVision

Tower, rack, desktop or bare?
Liquid cooling, multiple anodized heatsinks or stock cooling?
WB 3.1, WB 3.9, OS4.0?
MVB, GIcons, PNG icons?
developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS
decisions, Decisions, DECISIONS

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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2008, 3:20 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Amiga 4000 power supply modification and overhaul

There is an easy solution to increase the volume of air that can pass through the Amiga 4000 by removing the closely spaced fins at the back of the PSU and replacing them with some perforated steel of aluminium. If one want to it is also possible to replace one of the connectors and increase [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000 on Oct 11th, 2008, 11:38 pm by Retro Amiga User