Archives: 2009   May

Bplan Pegasos 2 G4 1GHz motherboard

I got hold of a Pegasos 2 motherboard today. The Pegasos motherboard originally ran MorphOS (and some Un*x OS), for Amiga enthusiasts, MorphOS was off course the reason to get one.
MorphOS can run some Amiga applications that are system friendly, so it is going to be interesting to see just what can be run on [...]

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Posted in Amiga clone on May 17th, 2009, 10:02 pm by Retro Amiga User  2 comments   

How to fix broken SIMM sockets in the Amiga 4000

I guess broken SIMM sockets in the A4000 is no news for most Amiga enthusiasts these days. You rather expect a second hand Amiga 4000 to have broken SIMM sockets than not.
The kind of SIMM sockets used in the Amiga 4000 is all plastic, the little tabs holding the SIMM secure has a bad habit of [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000 on May 16th, 2009, 11:00 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Phase 5 CyberStormPPC 040 25MHz 604 180MHz turbo board

I messed around my Phase 5 CyberStormPPC card today. The card holds a 68040 clocked at 25 MHz and a 604+ PPC clocked at 180 MHz.
The CyberStormPPC card is really the pinnacle of classic Amiga performance technology. You get a card capable of running a 060 CPU and you get a powerful co-processor (the PPC [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000 on May 14th, 2009, 10:26 pm by Retro Amiga User  2 comments   

Complete Amiga 4000 system with CyberStormPPC

Today I picked up a used Amiga 4000 desktop packed with some goodies such as CyberStorm PPC 040, 180 MHz PPC, SunRize AD516 16-bit soundcard and a couple of other bits.

The A4000D is one of my favourite Amiga computers because of its relatively small size, expansion potential and good looks, they where also very popular, [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000, Project on May 13th, 2009, 10:55 pm by Retro Amiga User