Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog

If you are interested in purchasing the mouse pictured above go to the thread on Amigaworld.net forums and read the instructions here. (more…)

How to add IDE to your Amiga 500

Judging by searchwords that people use to find my blog it seems many Amiga users are interested in adding IDE interface to their Amiga 500 so they can use cheap harddrives and Compact Flash cards. (more…)

A well worn but still functional Commodore 1084 monitor

It seems a bit poor of me to write a post about the Commodore 1084 monitor, I mean, here I am surrounded by PPC boards, A4000 boxes, A1200 towers and Amiga desktops all around me. Instead of even more focus on those high end super hardware of yesterday I decide to write about a silly CRT in these days of 52″+ entertainment screens. (more…)

ZorRAM 128/256 MB memory expansion for Amiga systems with Zorro3 bus

Typically I do not promote products I do not own and having not made up my mind yet if I should add one of these memory expansions to my Amiga 4000 it would be dangerous for me to write about it without be tempted to purchase a card in the future even though my A4000 is already packing 128MB fast mem. (more…)

You may remember my home made Amiga 500 86 pin to 100 pin Zorro slot adapter that I built a couple of years ago.

It did  work with some Zorro 2 cards but it failed to work with the Buddha Phoenix IDE-card (which was the reason I built it).

I always wanted more professional solution if I ever want to mess around with Zorro cards on the Amiga 500 again so when I noticed these cheap A500 Zorro card adapters where on sale on Amibay I ordered one without hesitation. (more…)

This tutorial shows you how you can access a FAT16 (Windows compatible) formatted Compact Flash card on your Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 in order to transfer files from your PC to your Amiga.

An old 16 MB CF-card will be fine for transfering files to your Amiga from your PC.

The first thing you need to do and have is to get yourself a PCMCIA adapter for Compact Flash cards. Every Amiga 600 and 1200 comes with a PCMCIA-port on the side, this port can be used with network cards and modems also. (more…)