On revision 6A motherboards (or newer), which you show here, there is a much simpler way to switch kickstarts. Use a 1 MB ROM and put two kickstart images on there. The ROM I use is a 27c800. It has two address pins which, when installed on the motherboard, will be outside of the ROM socket - one of these pins is the most significant bit address line, which you can pull high or low to select the desired kickstart image.
You done a great job with this! I am working on my dead a500 except I have shaky hands so it's quite difficult getting all the solderin done but it's a great machine
Bee Jay Thanks! Next will be some PC related stuff. Trying to figure out if the Voodoo2 in SLI is too a bad choice for a Pentium MMX, as some claim. Hope it'll be interesting, too.
Pity you can't search the 3DMark99 database to see what was most popular with V2SLI. Perhaps if you email them and explain what you're after they will assist.
I have a bunch of faster CPUs I will try the cards with. I'll try to find the spot where a faster CPU won't improve overall performance anymore. My assumption is that that CPU will be quite a bit newer than the Voodoo 2. My benchmarks so far show that indeed, there is no performance difference between single or dual Voodoo 2s ony my MMX. Except for the higher resolution that is possible with SLI.
I remember the first time I saw an 500... I was mesmorised for the good part of an hour. First 30 minutes or something, was spend on looking at the design. It looked like something from the future. Never seen anything like it. Then someone ran a demo and some tracker action was demonstrated. Then x-copy. I was blown away, and I had not even seen any games at that time. Then came the games and I was in love with the amiga. I think it was in late 1988. Possible in early 1989. The 500 are still my favorite computer. Though a few games are actually better on the C64. Those are bubble bobble, giana sisters, 1942 and all those "olympic" games from epyx. Especially winther games. Aniway.... Nothing have ever mesmorised me deep for two hours straight, than the a500. I was in a sort of trance. C64's.... Well... They were fun. 500's blew ones mind.
Yeah, I am too young for that (born in '85) but I would have loved to witness that time. I think it's stories like yours that make the Amiga legendary. It was just so far ahead of its time, especially when considering the price.
flash /me back And I just got my first 500 a week or so ago. Untill now, I only owned 600's and 1200's. And it still mesmorises me to death. There is something about the 500 that I can not put my finger on. Still love it. Anyway. My lcd tv that I use for vintage computers. The external psu died, and it took the a500 psu to the grave. The tv is dead as well, yet the amiga is 100 percent ok. Now I need to mod an atx, in order for not having any psu die and take a vintage computer to the grave. At least I have an original psu plug at hand. Hehe.
@@flashmeback Now, nearly a year later. I have these two 500's. to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-amiga500-refurbish-project.html?m=1 And to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/12/amiga-500-turbo.html?m=1
My first computer T.T. It had so many awesome games. Miss some of them still today. Anyway though, such love and care is almost wasted on a A500. Especially the Kick 3.1, it's gonna be veeery slow. Now if you looked at an A4000, Kick 3.1 Buster 11. You know there is even a brand new Amiga OS, that has come out in 2018. ... okay I get it you are not Krösus. So how about an A1200? Technically you can beef it up so It's able to browse the web and whatnot. You are probably capable of picking up a broken Turbocard for cheap and fix it... My old A4000 had a network card and a 60/50 processor and I could do online banking on it :) Had to sell it at some point though, tough times. :( Keep up the good work!
I have seen some adapters for putting a ps2 adapter in the Amiga, not sure if it can be done for the 500 though. I have TONS of serial, buss, ps2 and usb mice... I even have a ton of adb Mac mice... any chance you could do a video on building adapters for those mice to the Amiga? I have a few adb joysticks also...
The project itself is the smallest part, actually :-) Filming makes everything take about 3x as long for me, and then another 5-6x or so for editing. So all in all maybe 10x as long as it would take to just do the project, but comments like yours make all the work worthwhile! :-D
hello theres a 1.2 Amiga emulator out there for msdos (a 1.3 emulator too) the 1.3 one boots slowly very slowly the workbench and other programs too thanks
I just installed the RGBtoHDMI mod. That too leaves no space for the RF shield! I fixed that by simply choosing to not reinstall the shield. The Amiga works fine without it=)
Of course it does. Might cause issues with nearby analog stuff and I kinda like to keep everything together. I try to keep my mods reversible and losing the RF shield somewhere in the mess that is my retro room is not reversible 😂
@@flashmeback Hehe yeah, I can see that. I have all my amiga stuff in one box, so I'll hopefully never lose anything. I like that most people are so reluctant to do permanent mods! For the HDMI mod, I'm thinking about using the accelerator/HDD port cover as a place to fasten a female HDMI plug, as well as a few switches. Therefore I 3D printed a cover I can drill through, while I'm keeping the old cover intact!=) I'll eventually make the same mods as you for floppy and ROM select (though I have heard that you can safely forgo of Kickstart 1.3 - 99% software will run on 3.1). Do you have any extensive RAM upgrades? I have 512+512 FastRAM - will 3.1 run fine with that?
@@ojkolsrud1 I'm currently running it on the stock 512K and haven't seen any issues (except most demos needing 1M). I've mostly made the switch for fun. I usually just switch to 1.3 for fooling around with the older OS.
Have you figured out the acceleration part of the code? I’ve made the adapter but the movement on screen looks like pressing keys. Once the cursor starts moving, it continues at the same speed
Loved the series, great work with the mouse adapter, gave me lots of ideas! Please tell us when you have posted the arduino code for th adapter, i would love to take a look at it. A500 forever!!!
I just pushed the code to GitHub: github.com/rnlf/amigaps2 It's not documented yet and I'd like to do some more cleanup, but it should work. I'll add the pinout for PS/2 and the mouse interface soon, but for now you'll have to look it up in the code (which is not that big, really). Hope it's interesting to you.
Nice work there. I have an A1200, and a very late A500 (which has the large badge, like the A500+, and an A500+ motherboard, but only 512K of RAM is populated). I got an Atari ST mouse with the 1200, so I converted it to an Amiga one, but your Arduino based mouse converter really got my attention. Is there any way I could get the source code? You should look into building a TerribleFire TF530 accelerator card for the A500, it will give you 2MB of RAM, an IDE controller, and a 030 CPU. It's a DIY kit, and the author sells bare PCBs on eBay for 5£ + shipping. The rest is available at Mouser, except for the CPU.
I'm planning to put the source on GitHub, I just wanted to add a few extra features like making it switchable to Atari mode and clean up the code a bit first. I might skip those steps and upload it tomorrow evening. I'll report back when I've done it!
You should check out the youtuber Modern Vintage Gamer - specifically "Pimpin' the Amiga 500 in 2018" Video. I think you will find some interesting and potential upgrade options for your Amiga. I also have a question. Do you like Star Trek TNG ? Cuz i have a parallel port ball mouse ... its a phaser :D
I know Modern VIntage Gamer of course :-) I think I should subscribe to all the channels my private account is subscribed to with this one as well. Then it'll be more obvious.
It was a little off putting but if you turn the video speed down to .75, although it looks really slow with the video, you can understand what you are saying a little better. Great videos and some useful ideas. Will have to look at my Original KS switcher I have in my A500 I bought back around KS2.04 came out. Definitely no problems in my case and just drilled a hole in the back for the switch so I could access it easily. I liked the idea of the Gotek and DF0 swapping. ;)
Yeah, I mean, none of my machines are in mint condition, but it still feels wrong to modify the case. But if it was done back in the day, then it's legit and cool.
you are crazy boy huh... amazing works and... pls spend your time new automation systems. because you have tech know... and wanna share home/work control systems..... my first computer is apple apricot F1 (8086) baby case.... very very old days.... thx for melancholy
@@flashmeback True, it should boot up without the battery... I could've sworn I've seen the case of that exact expansion card not working because of lack of battery.. Anyway, Jan Beta says here ua-cam.com/video/ghi-JO4NaAk/v-deo.html that he has schematics for that card. That could help.
bamdadkhan Well, sure I know I don't technically need them. But that's how the comouter was first created. It also gives an extra bit of physical stability and weight. The machine feels cheaper and incomplete without the RF shielding. And if I keep them in, they have to be derusted or else the rust will spread and damage more stuff with time.
aww.. you should have thrown away the top RF shield instead of ruining your excellent kickstart switcher project. Top RF shield is not needed at all and actually just traps heat. Most of them are rusty and ugly anyway these days. I never install the top RF shield in my Amiga 500s or other Amigas.
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Lovely work with that mouse mod. May you have many happy times discovering Amiga titles
That's the idea! Maybe I'll even find a cheap original mouse. I learned a lot making this converter though.
On revision 6A motherboards (or newer), which you show here, there is a much simpler way to switch kickstarts. Use a 1 MB ROM and put two kickstart images on there. The ROM I use is a 27c800. It has two address pins which, when installed on the motherboard, will be outside of the ROM socket - one of these pins is the most significant bit address line, which you can pull high or low to select the desired kickstart image.
6:45 It was common for people to either cut holes in the RF shield, or remove it entirely.
so happy i found your videos.....you do a great build/teardown video. if people like you did not upload i would be lost........
Bought mine in 1988 aged 16. What a machine. Great video.
Came here for the Amiga 500.... Stayed for the funky music!
You done a great job with this! I am working on my dead a500 except I have shaky hands so it's quite difficult getting all the solderin done but it's a great machine
Lovely. You have spend significant time in the restauration and into making this video. Impressive!
Nice work and congratulations! I look forward to seeing what comes next
Bee Jay Thanks! Next will be some PC related stuff. Trying to figure out if the Voodoo2 in SLI is too a bad choice for a Pentium MMX, as some claim.
Hope it'll be interesting, too.
Pity you can't search the 3DMark99 database to see what was most popular with V2SLI. Perhaps if you email them and explain what you're after they will assist.
I have a bunch of faster CPUs I will try the cards with. I'll try to find the spot where a faster CPU won't improve overall performance anymore. My assumption is that that CPU will be quite a bit newer than the Voodoo 2. My benchmarks so far show that indeed, there is no performance difference between single or dual Voodoo 2s ony my MMX.
Except for the higher resolution that is possible with SLI.
I remember the first time I saw an 500... I was mesmorised for the good part of an hour. First 30 minutes or something, was spend on looking at the design. It looked like something from the future. Never seen anything like it. Then someone ran a demo and some tracker action was demonstrated. Then x-copy. I was blown away, and I had not even seen any games at that time. Then came the games and I was in love with the amiga. I think it was in late 1988. Possible in early 1989. The 500 are still my favorite computer. Though a few games are actually better on the C64. Those are bubble bobble, giana sisters, 1942 and all those "olympic" games from epyx. Especially winther games. Aniway.... Nothing have ever mesmorised me deep for two hours straight, than the a500. I was in a sort of trance. C64's.... Well... They were fun. 500's blew ones mind.
Yeah, I am too young for that (born in '85) but I would have loved to witness that time. I think it's stories like yours that make the Amiga legendary. It was just so far ahead of its time, especially when considering the price.
flash /me back And I just got my first 500 a week or so ago. Untill now, I only owned 600's and 1200's. And it still mesmorises me to death. There is something about the 500 that I can not put my finger on. Still love it. Anyway. My lcd tv that I use for vintage computers. The external psu died, and it took the a500 psu to the grave. The tv is dead as well, yet the amiga is 100 percent ok. Now I need to mod an atx, in order for not having any psu die and take a vintage computer to the grave. At least I have an original psu plug at hand. Hehe.
@@flashmeback Now, nearly a year later. I have these two 500's.
to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-amiga500-refurbish-project.html?m=1
And
to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/12/amiga-500-turbo.html?m=1
You’re just a beast! 😍😍😍 So much knowledge!
Awesome video ! I'm happy to see that Amiga live again.
Just a quick question, how did you build your eeprom programmer with an arduino ?
My first computer T.T. It had so many awesome games. Miss some of them still today.
Anyway though, such love and care is almost wasted on a A500. Especially the Kick 3.1, it's gonna be veeery slow.
Now if you looked at an A4000, Kick 3.1 Buster 11. You know there is even a brand new Amiga OS, that has come out in 2018. ... okay I get it you are not Krösus.
So how about an A1200? Technically you can beef it up so It's able to browse the web and whatnot. You are probably capable of picking up a broken Turbocard for cheap and fix it...
My old A4000 had a network card and a 60/50 processor and I could do online banking on it :)
Had to sell it at some point though, tough times. :(
Keep up the good work!
Nice work bud. Like your videos. Memories
You've come this far, you might as well build your own joystick out of really nice arcade parts! The wiring doesn't seem hard.
Yeah, the wiring is actually pretty simple for these Atari (sorry, I think that's the best description) style joystick interfaces.
I have seen some adapters for putting a ps2 adapter in the Amiga, not sure if it can be done for the 500 though.
I have TONS of serial, buss, ps2 and usb mice... I even have a ton of adb Mac mice... any chance you could do a video on building adapters for those mice to the Amiga?
I have a few adb joysticks also...
If I could give multiple likes, I would :) I can't imagine the amount of work behind this (the project, the filming and the editing). :)
The project itself is the smallest part, actually :-) Filming makes everything take about 3x as long for me, and then another 5-6x or so for editing. So all in all maybe 10x as long as it would take to just do the project, but comments like yours make all the work worthwhile! :-D
hello theres a 1.2 Amiga emulator out there for msdos (a 1.3 emulator too) the 1.3 one boots slowly very slowly the workbench and other programs too thanks
i still have my amiga 500 not opend and i bought a second amiga 500 that i moded and nice done that mouse mod
Still unopened, nice! Though I would be a bit scared to use that nowadays without at least checking the capacitors.
well i guess im not going to get an amiga. lol i have no idea what you did but it was awesome.
I just installed the RGBtoHDMI mod. That too leaves no space for the RF shield! I fixed that by simply choosing to not reinstall the shield. The Amiga works fine without it=)
Of course it does. Might cause issues with nearby analog stuff and I kinda like to keep everything together. I try to keep my mods reversible and losing the RF shield somewhere in the mess that is my retro room is not reversible 😂
@@flashmeback Hehe yeah, I can see that. I have all my amiga stuff in one box, so I'll hopefully never lose anything. I like that most people are so reluctant to do permanent mods! For the HDMI mod, I'm thinking about using the accelerator/HDD port cover as a place to fasten a female HDMI plug, as well as a few switches. Therefore I 3D printed a cover I can drill through, while I'm keeping the old cover intact!=) I'll eventually make the same mods as you for floppy and ROM select (though I have heard that you can safely forgo of Kickstart 1.3 - 99% software will run on 3.1). Do you have any extensive RAM upgrades? I have 512+512 FastRAM - will 3.1 run fine with that?
@@ojkolsrud1 I'm currently running it on the stock 512K and haven't seen any issues (except most demos needing 1M).
I've mostly made the switch for fun. I usually just switch to 1.3 for fooling around with the older OS.
Have you figured out the acceleration part of the code? I’ve made the adapter but the movement on screen looks like pressing keys. Once the cursor starts moving, it continues at the same speed
Loved the series, great work with the mouse adapter, gave me lots of ideas! Please tell us when you have posted the arduino code for th adapter, i would love to take a look at it. A500 forever!!!
I just pushed the code to GitHub: github.com/rnlf/amigaps2
It's not documented yet and I'd like to do some more cleanup, but it should work.
I'll add the pinout for PS/2 and the mouse interface soon, but for now you'll have to look it up in the code (which is not that big, really).
Hope it's interesting to you.
Nice work there. I have an A1200, and a very late A500 (which has the large badge, like the A500+, and an A500+ motherboard, but only 512K of RAM is populated). I got an Atari ST mouse with the 1200, so I converted it to an Amiga one, but your Arduino based mouse converter really got my attention. Is there any way I could get the source code?
You should look into building a TerribleFire TF530 accelerator card for the A500, it will give you 2MB of RAM, an IDE controller, and a 030 CPU. It's a DIY kit, and the author sells bare PCBs on eBay for 5£ + shipping. The rest is available at Mouser, except for the CPU.
I'm planning to put the source on GitHub, I just wanted to add a few extra features like making it switchable to Atari mode and clean up the code a bit first. I might skip those steps and upload it tomorrow evening. I'll report back when I've done it!
great video.... i'm working on getting files from PC to Amiga 500.
I like to see a video on that. :-)
I'm not sure what else I'd put into that video, but as soon as I get a few Amiga topics together to fill up a video, I'll definitely do it!
You should check out the youtuber Modern Vintage Gamer - specifically "Pimpin' the Amiga 500 in 2018" Video. I think you will find some interesting and potential upgrade options for your Amiga. I also have a question. Do you like Star Trek TNG ? Cuz i have a parallel port ball mouse ... its a phaser :D
I know Modern VIntage Gamer of course :-) I think I should subscribe to all the channels my private account is subscribed to with this one as well. Then it'll be more obvious.
Great series. Noticed on this part though you spoke even faster than usual. I'm English and I found it off putting!!!!
I promise to speak slower next time! Not sure how well I'll manage, but I'll try.
It was a little off putting but if you turn the video speed down to .75, although it looks really slow with the video, you can understand what you are saying a little better. Great videos and some useful ideas. Will have to look at my Original KS switcher I have in my A500 I bought back around KS2.04 came out. Definitely no problems in my case and just drilled a hole in the back for the switch so I could access it easily.
I liked the idea of the Gotek and DF0 swapping. ;)
Yeah, I mean, none of my machines are in mint condition, but it still feels wrong to modify the case. But if it was done back in the day, then it's legit and cool.
On speed perhaps?
Great background music where did you find it?
A friend composed it! I'll let him know you like it.
Can't you just gut the controller & wire in a new harness?
you are crazy boy
huh... amazing works
and... pls spend your time new automation systems. because you have tech know... and wanna share home/work control systems.....
my first computer is apple apricot F1 (8086) baby case.... very very old days....
thx for melancholy
awesome
Thanks :D
I think the reason the A501 card isn't working is because it is missing the RTC battery.
I didn't expect it to need the RTC battery to actually work (I expect just the RTC to not work then). But it should still allow the machine to boot.
@@flashmeback True, it should boot up without the battery... I could've sworn I've seen the case of that exact expansion card not working because of lack of battery.. Anyway, Jan Beta says here ua-cam.com/video/ghi-JO4NaAk/v-deo.html that he has schematics for that card. That could help.
Great Work! ;)
Thanks!
franchement cetais hyper su la video
cool!!
This is foking awesome
Jesus youth, you sound like you're on speed.
why do you care so much about the RF shield? it's just there for regulations and to make your life harder..
bamdadkhan Well, sure I know I don't technically need them. But that's how the comouter was first created. It also gives an extra bit of physical stability and weight.
The machine feels cheaper and incomplete without the RF shielding. And if I keep them in, they have to be derusted or else the rust will spread and damage more stuff with time.
hmm yes, if authenticity is your primary goal, i completely see your point. i can respect that. : )
aww.. you should have thrown away the top RF shield instead of ruining your excellent kickstart switcher project. Top RF shield is not needed at all and actually just traps heat. Most of them are rusty and ugly anyway these days. I never install the top RF shield in my Amiga 500s or other Amigas.
This music is so anoying! XD
You know, there are people who love it and people who hate it. Can't make everybody happy.
Music too loud.