A college at which I attended had 2 Amiga’s for use in their film and computer arts studios. Too late I found that they had been thrown into a dumpster & destroyed forever, sadly I never got a chance to retrieve them or purchase them.
Hey Adam, great video... lots of good information. Thank you for asking to use, and using my music as well. Always happy to help out if you need. -Daedalus/Brian
@@centralscrutinizer3961 Hahah, yes :D Anyway, thank you again for agreeing to use your music. I may want to ask you again when I make another movie (in a year from now??? :) - because I found a few more pieces of yours which are just amazing to listen to.
@@ForgottenComputer Really? which pieces did you like? I want to start writing again but all of my stuff is up in my old how, where the soon to be ex-wife is living...and I don't want to go back til she is OUT...which will hopefully be soon. Thanks again!
@@centralscrutinizer3961 In addition to the 2 ones I used for this video, I particularly liked Escape from Reality, and o-79242; but many more from your list have a great vibe to them, so I just built a personal playlist from all listed here modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&query=69079 and enjoy listening to them!
Świetny materiał! Uwielbiam historie, gdy niechciany, przeznaczony na śmietnik stary sprzęt trafia w ręce pasjonata :-) Dobra robota Adamie!
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Congratulations on this amazing find and on excellent video! I can see we have similar taste in computers and music, you just gained a new subscriber. Also - good idea to record in English, such interesting machine and such well made video deserves to be shared among wider audience.
I am so glad you saved this computer :) The Amiga 2000 is such a great nice computer. It's a beast from the 80's with so much expandebility. My Amiga 2000 is on the way back from repairs and I am so much looking forward to enjoy it again and install some expansion cards. The machine is from 1988 and all the upgrades will also be from 88 or earlier.
Great to hear you're restoring the machine with original expansions. It is so easy these days to just install a modern "power up"; much harder to build a fast machine with components from that epoch. Also, cool channel - I subscribed!
Great video! Today I drove several hours up to a storage facility where my father had put my Amiga 500 and 2500 into storage and FINALLY pulled them out. I found your video while looking up tips, tricks and advice on getting the machine up and running again. In a week or two I'll start the process of bringing them both back to life and, like you, hope to keep them in original condition! Thank you for this inspiring video!
@@ForgottenComputer And thank you for inspiring me! As I start on the 2500 next month, I hope you don't mind if I contact you for advice or suggestions. My father was the one that knew what he was doing with these machines and now I need all the help I can get! Either way, though, thank you for the inspiring video!
Looking jealous at this beautiful machine, in the 90s it was to expensive and i only got a PC. My dream was an A2500UX, because i wanted a unix machine. I have worked before on Unix machines with MUNIX (from the german company PCS) at internships. And now my electronical skills (soldering, measuring) make it a bad i idea to get one. Great explanations of the machine and the components.
I didn't have one back in the 90s either, and when I had enough money to buy my first computer, it was more practical to get a PC. I could satisfy my interest in Unix (similar to yours) that way too - Linux had already become mature enough to use as your main system, so I installed it on that PC in late 90s. "UX" Amigas remain a rare, odd, collectible thing these days.
Wszystkie Amigi były świetne. To komputer, który na zawsze zmienił podejście do komputera, nie jako maszyny, a jak do najlepszej przyjaciółki. Amiga jest zawsze w moim sercu, Dziękuję za film
Congratulations on the find and restore. On all my beloved A2000's I moved them to SCSI2SD's, not listening to hard drive wyne is a welcome upgrade. Okay on one I also kept a 250MB rotating media for backup. BTW I first had an A2090 controller, no-autoboot so getting onto A2091 was a good move too.
Great! Good to hear there are more A2000 users out there... I use SCSI2SD on my other Amigas too. But for this one specifically, I wanted to preserve all the original components, including the noisy HD!
My younger brother had one of these that he bought in 1991 but it only had the accelerator and the HD Controller. He also had in it the Commodore Amiga A2286 Bridge card. Sadly the A2500 had a battery leak from the battery connected to the Bridge Card which destroyed most of the rear of the Motherboard. I stripped as many of the chips out including all the Custom chips and threw the board in the bin. I kept the case with the sticker on the front.
Pity about the motherboard, but if you still have the case and custom chips, and soldering skills, there's a re-make of the A2000 motherboard (amigastore.eu/821-amiga-2000-remake-motherboard-rev-185.html). You can make a project for yourself out of this, and return to the (very lively currently) world of Amiga community :)
@@ForgottenComputer Sadly I have an "Essential Tremor" real thing, so soldering is very limited. However, I have a rev 5 motherboard in excellent condition so will put it to good use someday soon. I even have the upgraded Boot Roms so the 68020 can boot into newer versions of workbench.
It may be worth to trying to find the zip ram to max out the ram on the CPU card, and removing the zorro ram board altogether. Its over all performance would probably increase quite a lot with that change. Though zip ram is really rare these days sadly.
@@ForgottenComputer Anytime! I have an A500 accelerator that i dont have the accompanying ram board for in my A2000, (28mhz 030) and if it were not for the accelerator having 32k of cache on it, the performance would be pretty dismal. As it stands its barely faster than the 14mhz 020 card. The other bonus is the ram on the CPU card wont count to the zorro addressable space, so it would free up for an RTG card or something.
I have one of those Supra cards, bought back in the late 90's for £2 minus the memory that the seller removed. need to get it out of my stash and populate it. Although my A2000 has a Vampire in it so not sure it will be of use......
Świetne filmy, tak się zastanawiam czy jest to możliwe, że zakupiłem od ciebie książkę Amiga Hardware Reference Manual ? Nazwisko jakoś kojarzę z tym faktem.
No, I never tried fixing it, because it continued working after the crack. Yes, I'm aware of the role of safety capacitors - and indeed, I need to replace it one day. It is a simple fix. Thanks!
Towerów oryginalnych zostało niewiele, co najwyżej A3000 (rzadka) A4000 w wersji Escom (rzadka) i A4000 w wersji Commodore (praktycznie nie do zdobycia)...
A2500 praktycznie zem nieznal. Commodore zawalili do polowy lat 90-tych i dlatego console i PC pszegonili ich a mieli wszystko aby najlepsze komputery robic, wielka szkoda. Na początku zes dal muzik od Escape from New York :)
The 68k architecture was vastly inferior to x86. Very low performance, too late coprocessor support, need for external MMU board which slowed down performance even further,and many others. A 16->32 bit version of 6809 or 6502 would have been much better,
Vastly inferior? I would have said they were competitive . Both cpus having strengths and weaknesses . The 68k was an extremely successful chip. I can’t imagine that was because it was vastly inferior.
@@scality4309 I agree . I would put the Atari ST above x86 based machines from that era too. E.g Xt and 286’s. I guess it depends what you want to use it for. The x86 were good for spreadsheet etc. X86 didn’t get a considerable lead until the 486 , I would say. 386 was around the same or slightly better than an Amiga 500 but not by that much and they cost $3000.
Dosłownie w pierwszych dwóch minutach jest wytłumaczone dlaczego pan Podstawczynski zaczął nagrywać po angielsku.....są dodane napisy po polsku, więc chyba nie ma problemu ze zrozumieniem treści filmiku:3
Another Amiga saved. Congratulations!
A college at which I attended had 2 Amiga’s for use in their film and computer arts studios. Too late I found that they had been thrown into a dumpster & destroyed forever, sadly I never got a chance to retrieve them or purchase them.
Hey Adam, great video... lots of good information. Thank you for asking to use, and using my music as well. Always happy to help out if you need. -Daedalus/Brian
Wow I've used a lot of names over the years :)
@@centralscrutinizer3961 Hahah, yes :D Anyway, thank you again for agreeing to use your music. I may want to ask you again when I make another movie (in a year from now??? :) - because I found a few more pieces of yours which are just amazing to listen to.
@@ForgottenComputer Really? which pieces did you like? I want to start writing again but all of my stuff is up in my old how, where the soon to be ex-wife is living...and I don't want to go back til she is OUT...which will hopefully be soon. Thanks again!
@@centralscrutinizer3961 In addition to the 2 ones I used for this video, I particularly liked Escape from Reality, and o-79242; but many more from your list have a great vibe to them, so I just built a personal playlist from all listed here modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&query=69079 and enjoy listening to them!
Świetny materiał! Uwielbiam historie, gdy niechciany, przeznaczony na śmietnik stary sprzęt trafia w ręce pasjonata :-)
Dobra robota Adamie!
Congratulations on this amazing find and on excellent video! I can see we have similar taste in computers and music, you just gained a new subscriber. Also - good idea to record in English, such interesting machine and such well made video deserves to be shared among wider audience.
Dzięki :) Fajowy kanał prowadzisz, też zasubskrybowałem, i też muszę zrobić sobie takie "intro video".
@@ForgottenComputer Miło mi :) W razie czego mogę pomóc z intro.
Świetna prezentacja, oczywiście łapka w górę idzie, życzę dużych zasięgów! I dzięki za napisy ;)
I am so glad you saved this computer :) The Amiga 2000 is such a great nice computer. It's a beast from the 80's with so much expandebility. My Amiga 2000 is on the way back from repairs and I am so much looking forward to enjoy it again and install some expansion cards. The machine is from 1988 and all the upgrades will also be from 88 or earlier.
Great to hear you're restoring the machine with original expansions. It is so easy these days to just install a modern "power up"; much harder to build a fast machine with components from that epoch. Also, cool channel - I subscribed!
@@ForgottenComputer Thanks :)
Great video! Today I drove several hours up to a storage facility where my father had put my Amiga 500 and 2500 into storage and FINALLY pulled them out. I found your video while looking up tips, tricks and advice on getting the machine up and running again. In a week or two I'll start the process of bringing them both back to life and, like you, hope to keep them in original condition! Thank you for this inspiring video!
Thank you for sharing your story, and I hope you have a lot of fun with your recovered Amigas!
@@ForgottenComputer And thank you for inspiring me! As I start on the 2500 next month, I hope you don't mind if I contact you for advice or suggestions. My father was the one that knew what he was doing with these machines and now I need all the help I can get! Either way, though, thank you for the inspiring video!
@@ManufacturedMythLegerdemain Sure, no problem, I'll be happy to help.
Fajny materiał. Szkoda, że tak rzadko coś wypuszczasz.
Najlepszego w Nowym Roku!
Postaram się częściej Kuba :)
Just picked of these machines up for my collection. Love it!
Great! They’re quite rare these days. Please share the config, condition, etc. if you can!
Looking jealous at this beautiful machine, in the 90s it was to expensive and i only got a PC. My dream was an A2500UX, because i wanted a unix machine. I have worked before on Unix machines with MUNIX (from the german company PCS) at internships. And now my electronical skills (soldering, measuring) make it a bad i idea to get one.
Great explanations of the machine and the components.
I didn't have one back in the 90s either, and when I had enough money to buy my first computer, it was more practical to get a PC. I could satisfy my interest in Unix (similar to yours) that way too - Linux had already become mature enough to use as your main system, so I installed it on that PC in late 90s. "UX" Amigas remain a rare, odd, collectible thing these days.
I always enjoy your Amiga videos. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for visiting and for the kind words :)
Great video Adam lots of expert knowledge about Commodore hardware thanks for sharing C=
Great video, and superb hardware there. Hope you'll find a bridgeboard card to add on that A2000. An A2088XT would be perfect, I guess. Cheers, M
Wszystkie Amigi były świetne. To komputer, który na zawsze zmienił podejście do komputera, nie jako maszyny, a jak do najlepszej przyjaciółki. Amiga jest zawsze w moim sercu, Dziękuję za film
Dzięki za odwiedziny i miłe słowa :) Tak, Amiga jest specjalna...
Congratulations on the find and restore. On all my beloved A2000's I moved them to SCSI2SD's, not listening to hard drive wyne is a welcome upgrade. Okay on one I also kept a 250MB rotating media for backup. BTW I first had an A2090 controller, no-autoboot so getting onto A2091 was a good move too.
Great! Good to hear there are more A2000 users out there... I use SCSI2SD on my other Amigas too. But for this one specifically, I wanted to preserve all the original components, including the noisy HD!
Thanks for the english version. Now I can follow the video too :)
My younger brother had one of these that he bought in 1991 but it only had the accelerator and the HD Controller. He also had in it the Commodore Amiga A2286 Bridge card. Sadly the A2500 had a battery leak from the battery connected to the Bridge Card which destroyed most of the rear of the Motherboard. I stripped as many of the chips out including all the Custom chips and threw the board in the bin. I kept the case with the sticker on the front.
Pity about the motherboard, but if you still have the case and custom chips, and soldering skills, there's a re-make of the A2000 motherboard (amigastore.eu/821-amiga-2000-remake-motherboard-rev-185.html). You can make a project for yourself out of this, and return to the (very lively currently) world of Amiga community :)
@@ForgottenComputer Sadly I have an "Essential Tremor" real thing, so soldering is very limited. However, I have a rev 5 motherboard in excellent condition so will put it to good use someday soon. I even have the upgraded Boot Roms so the 68020 can boot into newer versions of workbench.
@@alanhaynes4576 Nice! Good luck with restoring then :)
Music is nostalgia for 90s pc games
Super materiał! Poszedł Sub i nadrabiam zaległości!
Danke :) Ja też zasubskrybowałem Pixel Nation. Ciekawe materiały...
Great video, I had that exact same type noisy Rodime hard drive in the mid 80's, have you considered a quieter alternative?
It may be worth to trying to find the zip ram to max out the ram on the CPU card, and removing the zorro ram board altogether. Its over all performance would probably increase quite a lot with that change. Though zip ram is really rare these days sadly.
Good idea. I ordered ZIP rams for another project and will have a few extra so may try this. Thanks!
@@ForgottenComputer Anytime! I have an A500 accelerator that i dont have the accompanying ram board for in my A2000, (28mhz 030) and if it were not for the accelerator having 32k of cache on it, the performance would be pretty dismal. As it stands its barely faster than the 14mhz 020 card.
The other bonus is the ram on the CPU card wont count to the zorro addressable space, so it would free up for an RTG card or something.
My life is complete. I can die happy now.
Don't die just yet please, many more videos coming to make that even happier! :D
I have one of those Supra cards, bought back in the late 90's for £2 minus the memory that the seller removed. need to get it out of my stash and populate it. Although my A2000 has a Vampire in it so not sure it will be of use......
Well if there's a Vampire in it with 128M memory or so, you will see no difference by adding 6 or 8 meg more...
Świetne filmy, tak się zastanawiam czy jest to możliwe, że zakupiłem od ciebie książkę Amiga Hardware Reference Manual ? Nazwisko jakoś kojarzę z tym faktem.
Tak, sprzedawałem tę książkę nie tak dawno (kilka miesięcy temu?, rok może?) na Allegro, bo mam drugi komplet. Więc całkiem możliwe :)
@@ForgottenComputer No będzie koło roku.
did you fix the power supply after the loud crack? it is likely the line capacitor... it would be a square capacitor directly across the line in.
No, I never tried fixing it, because it continued working after the crack. Yes, I'm aware of the role of safety capacitors - and indeed, I need to replace it one day. It is a simple fix. Thanks!
To ja się cieszę z każdej uratowanej 1200ki 😆 A tu 2500. Świetna maszyna. Marzy mi się coś w towerze... Ale nie 1200ka 🙂
Towerów oryginalnych zostało niewiele, co najwyżej A3000 (rzadka) A4000 w wersji Escom (rzadka) i A4000 w wersji Commodore (praktycznie nie do zdobycia)...
Subbed! Will give you a shoutout on an upcoming video related =D
Subbed.
The sound is too low
A2500 praktycznie zem nieznal. Commodore zawalili do polowy lat 90-tych i dlatego console i PC pszegonili ich a mieli wszystko aby najlepsze komputery robic, wielka szkoda.
Na początku zes dal muzik od Escape from New York :)
The 68k architecture was vastly inferior to x86. Very low performance, too late coprocessor support, need for external MMU board which slowed down performance even further,and many others. A 16->32 bit version of 6809 or 6502 would have been much better,
Vastly inferior?
I would have said they were competitive . Both cpus having strengths and weaknesses .
The 68k was an extremely successful chip. I can’t imagine that was because it was vastly inferior.
The whole Amiga line was superiour to the IBM from that era.
@@scality4309 I agree . I would put the Atari ST above x86 based machines from that era too. E.g Xt and 286’s.
I guess it depends what you want to use it for. The x86 were good for spreadsheet etc.
X86 didn’t get a considerable lead until the 486 , I would say.
386 was around the same or slightly better than an Amiga 500 but not by that much and they cost $3000.
polskiego zapomniales ?
Dosłownie w pierwszych dwóch minutach jest wytłumaczone dlaczego pan Podstawczynski zaczął nagrywać po angielsku.....są dodane napisy po polsku, więc chyba nie ma problemu ze zrozumieniem treści filmiku:3
@@purelilbabe1328 ale to trzeba umieć czytac ;)
lepsze byłyby napisy angielskie
Może wolałbyś po rosyjsku?
ani po rosyjsku żydowsku a po polsku a napisy po angielsku ale nie właściciel kanału robi jak chce
Fantastic video. I still can’t believe those prices.