Category: Amiga 500

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 [...]

Sometimes simple is good. There is just something really cool about a kickstart switch for the Amiga.
Add it to an A500 and you have a reason to have a cool shiny stainless steel switch through a hole in the A500 cover.

I just came back from my vacation in Turkey and found out that my internal A500 IDE hard drive interface that I ordered had finally came. I was eager to try it out in my Amiga 500 project I have been tinkering with during the past six months.

The Multivision 500 is a scandoubler/flicker fixer for the Amiga 500 (that can also function with an Amiga 1000) and is internally mounted. The small circuit board is pressed into the Denise socket, and the Denise chip is removed and mounted onto the Multivision.

The Amiga 500 has been hailed for its all in one package but I always felt that it was unnecessary large design for what it was. You would need quite a large desk to be able to carry a full size Amiga 500 setup.

I got an idea today to try out if the Buddha Flash Phoenix edition Zorro2 IDE controller works in an A500 through an 86-pin to 100-Pin adapter.

It did not work.

Allright, it is time for me to set this blog back on the right track after last post about vintage PC hardware.
Today I got a package of IC-sockets, pin-headers and other nice electronic stuff to have around from Conrad. Conrad is a very complete mail order warehouse, originally from Germany. Now they are in Sweden [...]

I have a spring project that I work on in my free time –mostly during weekends. The project is based around an Amiga 500 and the aim for the project is to muscle it up with various hardware accessories in a professional way.

I have not touched my A500 for the past three weeks since I [...]

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]