This is the first time since the early 90s that A. I wanted an Amiga more than anything I could think about and B. I'd thought about taking a soldering iron out to realise what you could achieve by modifying the Amiga. Things have seriously moved on in massive strides since the standard mods. Thank you for making this series of videos, they're a breath of fresh air 👍
I'm a retro PC gal. I've never owned nor even used an Amiga, but I can tell this creation is truly a thing of beauty! Slotting modern daughter boards into CPU, RAM, and keyboard controller sockets - how cool is that!! The eclectic mix of old and new tech is right up my alley, and I'm really impressed with how many mods are available for these machines - using modern technology. Amigas must have really been something special to have this kind of community following today!
Amazing what you are doing here! Looking back to the old Amiga years, no one could ever imagine that this was possible and that ever a group of people would reach such a high level of customization. Especially in terms of the quality of everything. From my point of view, this is not only a typical diy thing. This is like real development here. Furthermore, this Amiga deserves the same kind of care regarding the operating system. That would be the next logical step. You would be the person who should take care of the project. If not you, who else?
I would made some mounting/holder for SD-Adapter, instead of velcro. For your problem with CD/DVD check if your adapter has slave/master/cable select jumper at IDE side. You can try to use SATA to USB adapter and connect it to Vampire.
I don't know much about Amigas but I love seeing people like you expanding on the original hardware. I'd probably grab my breadbin C64 that's equipped with a keyrah V2H and a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to use it as USB keyboard. OH AND VERY IMPORTANT - trying to get a gray screen.
17:10 I believe that all of those games (Doom, Quake, Alone in the Dark) were originally designed as software-rendered only products, without support for any 3D hardware acceleration.
Quake was right at the cusp of the GPU era, and quickly got support for OpenGL and 3DFX's Glide API. Hell, even Half-Life can be run in software mode. The Quake series didn't require a GPU until Quake3 i think.
For the cd issue it boils down to these areas: 1. CD Drive is faulty. 2. SATA Slim to SATA is faulty. 3. SATA to IDE is faulty. Test each stage to see what is wrong.
I had similar issues when I upgraded my a1200 years a go with a £3 parallel cd rom drive I took out the parallel socket and just run a IDE cable thro the whole in the CD caddy . the amiga would see the drive but couldn't use it. think I mounted the cdfs in DEVS startup folder but it was years ago I done it. hope you get the CD issue sorted
Love it man! I have a Vampire 1200 pre ordered which I'm really looking forward to getting at some point. Re the optical drive... I went through no less than 9 cd ROM drives when I built my Checkmate build, before I found a compatible drive. Though mine were IDE drives, the point is the same, they can be really fussy about make and model of drive... so it's possible another drive may do the job. I look forward to part 4!
Not sure if it's already been mentioned, but I'd suggest wiring the HDD LED between 5V(+) and 39(-) of the IDE connector via a 220 ohm resistor. Assuming the SD adapter drives the LED pin this should work.
i had Amigas when Amigas were a thing, still gutted about my dad throwing them away. If they release a standalone version of that board it's damn near SBC like the PI type deals, and i'd be WELL up for getting one of those, so many things i miss
Aren't quite a few of the interesting effects you can do with the copper and blitter and all that stuff tied in with following the scanlines of the output? How does that work with the hdmi output of the vampire?
This is something we can explore in the final part. With the V2 core classic Amiga software still comes out of the RGB so that remains unchanged. Quite how it works in V3 when its merged I don't know. There's a lot to explore, and I hope we will see a lot more also now V4 has been released
Look for a slot loading IDE CD-RW or DVD drive from a late 90's early 2000's laptop. There's always trouble when you try and adapt SATA. The manufacturers don't always follow the guidelines when developing the firmware.
Wow, that machine is worth more then my car..haha. Nice work man..i'm interested in part 2. I LOVE that you used that SD extender...I used one on a C64 Raspberry PI build and I'm a big fan...I do wish the actual card slot was more mount-ready. BTW, on that DVD, I assume you messed with the master/slave jumper. I'd also wonder if you tried any other dvd or cd roms out with any success.
Great video !! I am happy user of working DVD in my A500 original case with Vampire500 :) Vampire IDE PROVIDES power to the DVD-Rom. Use IDE ribbon cable for 2 drives. Set IDE to SATA converter into slave mode, put jumper on. In CD0 device add tooltypes: ACTIVATE=1 Unit=1 DEVICE=scsi.device Use L:CacheCDFS and original CD0 device from WB3.9. Use IDEfix software for eg. Ejecting CDs. Set FastIDE to 1. Enjoy DVD in Amiga :) !
You've built a thing of beauty Neil. Amazing build. Mentioned you in my latest video by the way. Interested to know if you've ever found "creatures" in a machine you've been restoring lol.
Great video Neil, I have Amiga 500 ++ motherboard just got to build it now. Looking forward for the next video, has for the cd rom drive could be a master slave problem
Can you have 2meg chip ram and would an ide cdrw with out the need for an sata connector say an old cdrw from a laptop work as a slave on the ide port or on the zorro card as master or cable select using idefix 99 software?
nice link to skillshare.. have you tried a different cdrom drive with the controllers? to rule out the drive itself as the issue how much have you spent on it so far Neil? i'm guessing somewhere near £800? it looks amazing I have to say.. but how do you play the AGA games? does Vampyre let you do that with the model you have?
With my Checkmate case in the post and my LG GS40N ready to be used I'm really looking forward to seeing your solution to the CDROM problem! I'm still a bit stuck on whether to use my modern Samsung monitor or if I should hunt down a nice CRT monitor; what are the connection options on the Vampire V2 (which I'm still considering) and does it do pass-through of the Amiga's video-signal? In short, what would you recommend?
I think putting an actual Floppy drive will be necessary to make it fit in among the other Amiga's especially when 99% of games came out on Diskettes, and since you're already going out of your way to put an Optical drive in then it wouldn't hurt to add a 'B:' drive to the mix.
I do like the idea of having a floppy drive in there for the purpose of capturing and archiving floppy disks before they die into ADF files, so I might just do that
Getting the DVD-rom drive to work: I've had similar problems in the past where it turned out that my then-current computer simply didn't have the means to support the SATA revision the hard-drive I had just bought used and the only SATA expansion cards available that supported the then-new revision were soft controllers that merely provided the sockets but not the signaling logic (leaving that to the on-board controller)
"really is quite odd that a 30 year old machine can be made to perform in this way" I know I'm being a pedant here but well, when you pull out the CPU and replace it with a chip that basically doesn't even exist, then it's not exactly 30 years old anymore is it. Kinda like strapping a Saturn V rocket to the Ship of Theseus if you catch my drift.
I get your point but there's plenty of classic software and games that can make use of the performance and Neil did select the older firmware without the FPGA AGA chipset etc - so it's pretty much just a fast CPU. Any modern 060 accelerator card will be custom built recently too and I wouldn't consider them 'un-amiga'
@@JohnnyWednesday Not saying it's "un-amiga", just that it's like a weird hybrid between a machine from the 80's and something entirely new, emulating Neo Geo Games and all that.
It's not odd because all the tech is based on the same principles. You can do this kind of thing with just about any computer from the microcomputer revolution and after.
The only thing "odd" about it is using a [simulated] Motorola 680x0 anything since had Commodore and Atari Corp both survived, both of their platforms would've transitioned onto the PowerPC chips just like Apple did with the Macs.
@RetroManCave I've had little luck over the years in regards to IDE to SATA/SATA to IDE converters. I highly suggest you use an IDE to usb approach (or sata to IDE). That vampire has a usb port on it? Can you load some driver thing on the vampire to read the cdrom from the usb port instead of IDE? It also should be much faster if it's USB 2 or 3. The trick with the ide to USB adapter is to find an adapter that uses 5v or what ever your PSU uses so you can power it from your PC. Otherwise you'll need to have a power brick going. I've been using IDE to USB for a 15 years in most of my PCs. I haven't had a dedicated CD/DVD rom in about 15 years.
Welldone! You mention that the Vampire implements a 68080 Cpu. I never heard of a presumably 5th gen 68k iteration. Motorola/Freescale produced a pentuim like superscalar pipelined 68060 and Philips a 68070, but that's it. Is yout reference to 68080 just an error, or did the Vampire team implement an upgrade to the CPU Architekture?
wich production run is your buddha? Early 2018? You should go for the iComp web page and look for the Buddha controller. There are firmwareupdates for it. I got two of them and they go with every cd or dvd Drive i can throw at them. After the Firmware update you have to use a different Device driver for your cd drive the old one on the DOM would not work anymore... but the upside of it is that you can use all of the amiga CDs.... The first 2018 Buddhas had this rediculous old MS Dos 8.3 filename limit...
Great project but to much power with the Vampire. Like the A1200NET A500/A1200 cases such as the black A500 and A1200 case with the black keycaps. Want to upgrade to a ACA1260 and a Blizzard 1260. Have the ACA1233n-55 and the Blizzard 1230 IV but a 68060 is a must for AMIGA CD Games and Demos. There come so many new AMIGA stuff out this year such as the Indivision AGA MK3. Would be a nice to upgrade from my Indivision AGA MK2CR. And want to do with the FastATA A1200MK-V to have the same CF speed as on my ACA500Plus. Which have 7.5MB/s and that with WB 3.1.4.1 on a A500.
Your MicroSD card mounting solution seems a bit wild. You can get SD to IDE slots that sit on a backplate, I would've just gone for that, but If you want the card slot in the front I guess?
Regarding your CD drive issue, a couple of things: - Those adapters adapt to IDE, but do they adapt to PATA? Or is the Amiga even PATA compliant? - Instead of using an adapter, have you considered a used native 2.5" IDE/PATA DVD drive? They do exist, and aren't that expensive!
no aga though kind of a waste limiting new hardware , on the sata front you will need different firmware on the drive or find a earlier drive with ide/sata jumper
How do you not see the CD-ROM? Not showing up in hdtoolbox etc, or not mounting when you try to use the filesystem? My experience is that not all cd filesystems are as tolerant (like the one supplied with 3.9) and I use an older one from AmiNet IIRC (can't remember the name of it here I sit).
@@RMCRetro I expect you are as good at problem solving as you are at slinging a soldering iron, so it wont be news to you when suggesting to find a working state and then iterate backwards until you get back to where you want to be. Like wholesale lifting all units and cabling and verify they work together when used in a pc. I have plugged my cables in backwards at times and I've had SCSI(I know) drives both be invisible and locking up the bus. There are specific SATA adapters for optical units (or rather, they probably take out the write bits so you have to pay extra if you want that), but I have never tried if HDD adapters get cranky over optical units. I guess you have tried powering up with a CD in the drive already? Early startup menu probably isn't of much help either. And I must admit I glazed over if it was 44 or 40 pin cabling - which I believe is another source of potential problems. Keep us updated on your progress and sorry for not being of more help.
I got a Laptop DVD drive working on A1200 IDE by flashing it to slave mode (no physical jumpers). Sorry if I am repeating someone elses comment. A1200 then found it next to my dual CF drive adapter. Unfortunately, only one CF and DVD, or two CF...
13:29 I have that one lol, i use it for connecting laptop ide hdds to internal sata hdd ports (i say internal bc i also have a sata to usb adapter and it doesnt work for some reason)
my crazy brother brought a amiga 4000T in very good condition for 1000euro.... from an old man in a newspaper! but what u can do with this nice piece of history?
You can connect the activity LED via a 470Ω resistor to pins 39 (+) and 40(-) of the IDE connector. So you just spent nearly 400€ on a card to enable your Amiga to play old PC games? Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper the other way round? It doesn't really seem to make any sense. On the other hand: Does everything always have to make sense? Nice build, but I'm pretty confident my A1200 is fully sufficient for all Amiga related stuff, even with WHDLoad. For anything newer, I'll stick to my PCs ;)
I personally dislike SD to IDE adapters, CF seems to be much faster and less troublesome (CF natively supports IDE "protocol"). As far as I remember Buddha (or whatever you spell it) may require a firmware upgrade in order to support IDE CD-ROM. I found it difficult to run a CD drive over a SATA to IDE converter even on PC, so better first test it on an old PC. Converter with yellow PCB is bidirectional, but the SATA ports on it are not - one is SATA to IDE, and another is IDE to SATA. Last but not least - MC68080 is not fully software compatible with MC68000, actually even MC68020 isn't. There are some opcodes which execute differently. I also prefer boosters with real CPUs, there is a TerribleFire series of booster for Amiga/Atari ST which all have real CPUs.
Hi Niel Have a tip for you about that Sata card, I used it in xbox classic conversion, and had little luck. Because Xbox are very sensitive and do not wait long when booting, which is crucial. But this type works very well and quickly becomes a bit more expensive but they are the best in my opinion. Sold by Conrad Netherlands or somewhere else. If you want a url (link) I will hear it! Suc6 Item name: Renkforce RF-4886682 Interface converter Article number: 1628894
This is the first time since the early 90s that A. I wanted an Amiga more than anything I could think about and B. I'd thought about taking a soldering iron out to realise what you could achieve by modifying the Amiga. Things have seriously moved on in massive strides since the standard mods. Thank you for making this series of videos, they're a breath of fresh air 👍
WOW, my old Sysinfo program from a very long time ago is still being used. Seeing this put a huge smile on my face :)
I'm a retro PC gal. I've never owned nor even used an Amiga, but I can tell this creation is truly a thing of beauty! Slotting modern daughter boards into CPU, RAM, and keyboard controller sockets - how cool is that!! The eclectic mix of old and new tech is right up my alley, and I'm really impressed with how many mods are available for these machines - using modern technology. Amigas must have really been something special to have this kind of community following today!
I'm glad RMC is here to make these projects. If I tried anything like this I'd end up with a bin full of expensive components!
Hahaha hahaha ha me too 😂😂😂
Amazing what you are doing here!
Looking back to the old Amiga years, no one could ever imagine that this was possible and that ever a group of people would reach such a high level of customization. Especially in terms of the quality of everything.
From my point of view, this is not only a typical diy thing. This is like real development here.
Furthermore, this Amiga deserves the same kind of care regarding the operating system.
That would be the next logical step.
You would be the person who should take care of the project. If not you, who else?
You may have started with a Vampire card, but you ended up building quite the monster--congratulations Dr Frankenstein!
Epic work Neil... I especially liked the double sided Velcro to reduce vibrations from the SD card platen when it spins up! :)
That's my top tip Howard. Gotta dampen those SD spins!
Great stuff! The Vampire is amazing! I've used the exact same wireless keyboard adapter in the A2000 upgrades I've done.
Never owned an Amiga yet can't wait for pt 4
This is why I love the Amiga. Watching these videos is just mesmerizing. Love them
I would made some mounting/holder for SD-Adapter, instead of velcro.
For your problem with CD/DVD check if your adapter has slave/master/cable select jumper at IDE side.
You can try to use SATA to USB adapter and connect it to Vampire.
I don't know much about Amigas but I love seeing people like you expanding on the original hardware.
I'd probably grab my breadbin C64 that's equipped with a keyrah V2H and a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to use it as USB keyboard.
OH AND VERY IMPORTANT - trying to get a gray screen.
17:10 I believe that all of those games (Doom, Quake, Alone in the Dark) were originally designed as software-rendered only products, without support for any 3D hardware acceleration.
Quake was right at the cusp of the GPU era, and quickly got support for OpenGL and 3DFX's Glide API. Hell, even Half-Life can be run in software mode. The Quake series didn't require a GPU until Quake3 i think.
Very very cool man. Had a 500 as a kid, loved it so much, yellowed and knackered but so so awesome, none of my friends had one though which sucked.
For the cd issue it boils down to these areas:
1. CD Drive is faulty.
2. SATA Slim to SATA is faulty.
3. SATA to IDE is faulty.
Test each stage to see what is wrong.
I love it when a plan comes together.
I hate to fly... 😁
This is incredible! Thank you very much!
I had similar issues when I upgraded my a1200 years a go with a £3 parallel cd rom drive I took out the parallel socket and just run a IDE cable thro the whole in the CD caddy . the amiga would see the drive but couldn't use it. think I mounted the cdfs in DEVS startup folder but it was years ago I done it. hope you get the CD issue sorted
Love it man! I have a Vampire 1200 pre ordered which I'm really looking forward to getting at some point. Re the optical drive... I went through no less than 9 cd ROM drives when I built my Checkmate build, before I found a compatible drive. Though mine were IDE drives, the point is the same, they can be really fussy about make and model of drive... so it's possible another drive may do the job. I look forward to part 4!
i think with those adapter cards you need to set the board to slave i believe the startek ones have that option
Not sure if it's already been mentioned, but I'd suggest wiring the HDD LED between 5V(+) and 39(-) of the IDE connector via a 220 ohm resistor. Assuming the SD adapter drives the LED pin this should work.
Pure computational magic on this project!
i had Amigas when Amigas were a thing, still gutted about my dad throwing them away. If they release a standalone version of that board it's damn near SBC like the PI type deals, and i'd be WELL up for getting one of those, so many things i miss
This series has made me wish I still had my Amiga 1000. Great work.
Wow I am in Awe, what an amazing build sir .... I need to clean up my drool.
Aren't quite a few of the interesting effects you can do with the copper and blitter and all that stuff tied in with following the scanlines of the output? How does that work with the hdmi output of the vampire?
This is something we can explore in the final part. With the V2 core classic Amiga software still comes out of the RGB so that remains unchanged. Quite how it works in V3 when its merged I don't know. There's a lot to explore, and I hope we will see a lot more also now V4 has been released
it's emulation (ducks dramatically...).
Excellent video! Very good job!
It might be the fact it's a dvd drive as opposed to an actual CD drive. Might need to use a custom driver inorder to get it working.
Is a combo CD/DVD drive he's trying to use... no bueno as far as compatibility with older hardware is concerned.
I use a 22 speed DVD rewriter on my A1200. Works fine with standard drivers (needs some mount file tweaking).
Have the same Drive, realy Looking forward as i will have the same Problems ahead
Look for a slot loading IDE CD-RW or DVD drive from a late 90's early 2000's laptop. There's always trouble when you try and adapt SATA. The manufacturers don't always follow the guidelines when developing the firmware.
Wow, that machine is worth more then my car..haha. Nice work man..i'm interested in part 2. I LOVE that you used that SD extender...I used one on a C64 Raspberry PI build and I'm a big fan...I do wish the actual card slot was more mount-ready. BTW, on that DVD, I assume you messed with the master/slave jumper. I'd also wonder if you tried any other dvd or cd roms out with any success.
8:08 The mismatched screws don't bother me as much as using a small flat-bladed screwdriver to drive Phillips head screws does!
Really who doesn't have a handful of Philips #1 drivers?
😬I may have done that on purpose to identify those with level 2 OCD
@@RMCRetro Here I am!! ✋
This is a dream machine.
Way to go!
Great video, nice build 😀!
Great video !!
I am happy user of working DVD in my A500 original case with Vampire500 :)
Vampire IDE PROVIDES power to the DVD-Rom.
Use IDE ribbon cable for 2 drives.
Set IDE to SATA converter into slave mode, put jumper on.
In CD0 device add tooltypes:
ACTIVATE=1
Unit=1
DEVICE=scsi.device
Use L:CacheCDFS and original CD0 device from WB3.9.
Use IDEfix software for eg. Ejecting CDs.
Set FastIDE to 1.
Enjoy DVD in Amiga :) !
You've built a thing of beauty Neil. Amazing build. Mentioned you in my latest video by the way. Interested to know if you've ever found "creatures" in a machine you've been restoring lol.
Thanks I'll check it out! And yes.... there was a spiders exoskeleton in a CPC I was working on just this week!
Wish you put the sd card extension in the second expansion bay with the floppy faceplate 🧐
Great video Neil, I have Amiga 500 ++ motherboard just got to build it now. Looking forward for the next video, has for the cd rom drive could be a master slave problem
Can you have 2meg chip ram and would an ide cdrw with out the need for an sata connector say an old cdrw from a laptop work as a slave on the ide port or on the zorro card as master or cable select using idefix 99 software?
Very nice indeed, would love to see real3d do a render on that baby.
Fantastic video, love the new Amiga build
could you use a Amiga 600 Keyboard in a custom case to fit in that garage?
Great work. What I wouldn't give to look at the VHDL of that FPGA lol.
Wish this could somehow be tweaked to work on a 68040 Mac!
Tell all of the Low End Mac fans to jump aboard the project.
Andy, I'm glad I'm not the only one to make that reference. I miss my Mac II ci :(
nice link to skillshare..
have you tried a different cdrom drive with the controllers? to rule out the drive itself as the issue
how much have you spent on it so far Neil? i'm guessing somewhere near £800? it looks amazing I have to say.. but how do you play the AGA games? does Vampyre let you do that with the model you have?
With my Checkmate case in the post and my LG GS40N ready to be used I'm really looking forward to seeing your solution to the CDROM problem! I'm still a bit stuck on whether to use my modern Samsung monitor or if I should hunt down a nice CRT monitor; what are the connection options on the Vampire V2 (which I'm still considering) and does it do pass-through of the Amiga's video-signal? In short, what would you recommend?
3:06
Did he just say a slight variation on
_the likes of which we've never seen the likes of which_ ?
I for one got that reference
I used to hate on Amigas back in the 90s. Now I think they are pretty cool. This one especially.
btw where did you get the sticker? did not find one in my box.
You're not putting a floppy drive in there somehow?
I think putting an actual Floppy drive will be necessary to make it fit in among the other Amiga's especially when 99% of games came out on Diskettes, and since you're already going out of your way to put an Optical drive in then it wouldn't hurt to add a 'B:' drive to the mix.
I do like the idea of having a floppy drive in there for the purpose of capturing and archiving floppy disks before they die into ADF files, so I might just do that
Getting the DVD-rom drive to work: I've had similar problems in the past where it turned out that my then-current computer simply didn't have the means to support the SATA revision the hard-drive I had just bought used and the only SATA expansion cards available that supported the then-new revision were soft controllers that merely provided the sockets but not the signaling logic (leaving that to the on-board controller)
I had a similar problem using those adapters. I got it working by using a 80 pin cable instead of the standard 40 pin cable.
What a nice Amiga you have built :)
@RetroManCave You mentioned CD drivers, but are working with a DVD drive. Maybe the drive is just too modern for what you're trying to do?
"really is quite odd that a 30 year old machine can be made to perform in this way"
I know I'm being a pedant here but well, when you pull out the CPU and replace it with a chip that basically doesn't even exist, then it's not exactly 30 years old anymore is it. Kinda like strapping a Saturn V rocket to the Ship of Theseus if you catch my drift.
I get your point but there's plenty of classic software and games that can make use of the performance and Neil did select the older firmware without the FPGA AGA chipset etc - so it's pretty much just a fast CPU. Any modern 060 accelerator card will be custom built recently too and I wouldn't consider them 'un-amiga'
@@JohnnyWednesday Not saying it's "un-amiga", just that it's like a weird hybrid between a machine from the 80's and something entirely new, emulating Neo Geo Games and all that.
It's not odd because all the tech is based on the same principles. You can do this kind of thing with just about any computer from the microcomputer revolution and after.
The only thing "odd" about it is using a [simulated] Motorola 680x0 anything since had Commodore and Atari Corp both survived, both of their platforms would've transitioned onto the PowerPC chips just like Apple did with the Macs.
@@TheJeremyHolloway pst, modern day Amiga does use PowerPC.
@RetroManCave I've had little luck over the years in regards to IDE to SATA/SATA to IDE converters. I highly suggest you use an IDE to usb approach (or sata to IDE). That vampire has a usb port on it? Can you load some driver thing on the vampire to read the cdrom from the usb port instead of IDE? It also should be much faster if it's USB 2 or 3.
The trick with the ide to USB adapter is to find an adapter that uses 5v or what ever your PSU uses so you can power it from your PC. Otherwise you'll need to have a power brick going. I've been using IDE to USB for a 15 years in most of my PCs. I haven't had a dedicated CD/DVD rom in about 15 years.
Do you also know a similar version with everything in 1 for an ordinary A4000/030? As this is just for Vampire cards...
Welldone!
You mention that the Vampire implements a 68080 Cpu. I never heard of a presumably 5th gen 68k iteration. Motorola/Freescale produced a pentuim like superscalar pipelined 68060 and Philips a 68070, but that's it. Is yout reference to 68080 just an error, or did the Vampire team implement an upgrade to the CPU Architekture?
It never physically existed, 68080 is an FPGA implementation only
You need a nibbler. Much nicer for expanding sheet metal holes than a hacksaw.
Awesome but one thing missing xcopy! 😂
Was excited by the standalone V4 but... damn they are expensive. :(
I love this series!
Will Test Drive run at more than 5 FPS :P
Vampire Standalone?
Broomin amaizing 👍
I think that the adapter that goes into the cdrom could be faulty.
I find myself wondering about the master/slave setup for the IDE cable.
Though i guess if he got that wrong he would not see the drive at all...
wich production run is your buddha?
Early 2018?
You should go for the iComp web page and look for the Buddha controller.
There are firmwareupdates for it.
I got two of them and they go with every cd or dvd Drive i can throw at them.
After the Firmware update you have to use a different Device driver for your cd drive the old one on the DOM would not work anymore... but the upside of it is that you can use all of the amiga CDs....
The first 2018 Buddhas had this rediculous old MS Dos 8.3 filename limit...
Nice, great one Neil. Did you say two months concerning Skillshare of two weeks?
So... When will the Amiga architecture attain Gigabytes of RAM and Gigahertz processing speed?
Great project but to much power with the Vampire. Like the A1200NET A500/A1200 cases such as the black A500 and A1200 case with the black keycaps. Want to upgrade to a ACA1260 and a Blizzard 1260. Have the ACA1233n-55 and the Blizzard 1230 IV but a 68060 is a must for AMIGA CD Games and Demos. There come so many new AMIGA stuff out this year such as the Indivision AGA MK3. Would be a nice to upgrade from my Indivision AGA MK2CR. And want to do with the FastATA A1200MK-V to have the same CF speed as on my ACA500Plus. Which have 7.5MB/s and that with WB 3.1.4.1 on a A500.
You go through Amigas like prime ministers
Are you chuntering from a sedentary position? Order order!
@@RMCRetro HEARHEAAAAUUHAHAUURRABLERABLERABLE
Commodexit?
Stupid question... is the cd Drive working in another machine 🙂?
Your MicroSD card mounting solution seems a bit wild. You can get SD to IDE slots that sit on a backplate, I would've just gone for that, but If you want the card slot in the front I guess?
Why not both? System CF on the back, storage micro SD on the front?
@@RMCRetro I guess that'd work, if you really need that much storage :D
I know this is an old video. Does anyone know the tread size of the lg dvd drive screws the checkmate adaper needs?
This needs a nice CRT.
Eyestrain ftw!
And a real floppy drive and real vintage HDD too, that would be really nice.
The problem is that TFTs look stupid on any pizza box design. Maybe a retrofitted 17‘‘ CRT with a TFT panel?
Does Stephen have the stl files available to modify?
I believe he does and has made them available for people to make their own faceplates etc
Regarding your CD drive issue, a couple of things:
- Those adapters adapt to IDE, but do they adapt to PATA? Or is the Amiga even PATA compliant?
- Instead of using an adapter, have you considered a used native 2.5" IDE/PATA DVD drive? They do exist, and aren't that expensive!
You mean the Apollo 68080, right? Motorola never made a 68080. That series maxed out with the 68060.
no aga though kind of a waste limiting new hardware , on the sata front you will need different firmware on the drive or find a earlier drive with ide/sata jumper
Simply AWESOME!!!!
What about Picasso96 and retargetable graphics?
Alien Breed 3D II can actually run properly now 😏
How do you not see the CD-ROM? Not showing up in hdtoolbox etc, or not mounting when you try to use the filesystem? My experience is that not all cd filesystems are as tolerant (like the one supplied with 3.9) and I use an older one from AmiNet IIRC (can't remember the name of it here I sit).
Not showing anywhere... HDToolbox... Buddha detection tool....nowhere 😣
@@RMCRetro I expect you are as good at problem solving as you are at slinging a soldering iron, so it wont be news to you when suggesting to find a working state and then iterate backwards until you get back to where you want to be. Like wholesale lifting all units and cabling and verify they work together when used in a pc. I have plugged my cables in backwards at times and I've had SCSI(I know) drives both be invisible and locking up the bus. There are specific SATA adapters for optical units (or rather, they probably take out the write bits so you have to pay extra if you want that), but I have never tried if HDD adapters get cranky over optical units. I guess you have tried powering up with a CD in the drive already? Early startup menu probably isn't of much help either. And I must admit I glazed over if it was 44 or 40 pin cabling - which I believe is another source of potential problems. Keep us updated on your progress and sorry for not being of more help.
Try a original IDE CDRom Drive Great video
You still need your Kickstart ROMs installed.
hey neil, your best bet is a CD-ROM, IDE based drive. ie something out of a G3 iBook.
I got a Laptop DVD drive working on A1200 IDE by flashing it to slave mode (no physical jumpers). Sorry if I am repeating someone elses comment.
A1200 then found it next to my dual CF drive adapter. Unfortunately, only one CF and DVD, or two CF...
Cool cool cool. And Coffin OS? Hm, might be nice on my recently recapped A4000/030 with broken IDE harddrive...
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13:29 I have that one lol, i use it for connecting laptop ide hdds to internal sata hdd ports (i say internal bc i also have a sata to usb adapter and it doesnt work for some reason)
Does anyone know the tune from 15:00 - 18:30 please??
So quick question here, basically a Vampire will let you run AGA game and software on non AGA systems?
yes, if you update it to the V3 cores. I haven't tried this yet so I can't personally vouch for how well it performs
@@RMCRetro this is getting more and more interesting. I might get around to actually fixing that A500 I found in the attic
my crazy brother brought a amiga 4000T in very good condition for 1000euro.... from an old man in a newspaper! but what u can do with this nice piece of history?
HAVE THE DRIVES BEEN MASTER AND SLAVED
At 8:10 OCD trigger WARNING! LOL!
My amiga did not have that stupid battery on it. So no need for the purple board :D But I would like the case and vampire board for my amiga.
You can connect the activity LED via a 470Ω resistor to pins 39 (+) and 40(-) of the IDE connector.
So you just spent nearly 400€ on a card to enable your Amiga to play old PC games? Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper the other way round? It doesn't really seem to make any sense.
On the other hand: Does everything always have to make sense?
Nice build, but I'm pretty confident my A1200 is fully sufficient for all Amiga related stuff, even with WHDLoad. For anything newer, I'll stick to my PCs ;)
I personally dislike SD to IDE adapters, CF seems to be much faster and less troublesome (CF natively supports IDE "protocol"). As far as I remember Buddha (or whatever you spell it) may require a firmware upgrade in order to support IDE CD-ROM. I found it difficult to run a CD drive over a SATA to IDE converter even on PC, so better first test it on an old PC. Converter with yellow PCB is bidirectional, but the SATA ports on it are not - one is SATA to IDE, and another is IDE to SATA. Last but not least - MC68080 is not fully software compatible with MC68000, actually even MC68020 isn't. There are some opcodes which execute differently. I also prefer boosters with real CPUs, there is a TerribleFire series of booster for Amiga/Atari ST which all have real CPUs.
Hi Niel
Have a tip for you about that Sata card, I used it in xbox classic conversion, and had little luck.
Because Xbox are very sensitive and do not wait long when booting, which is crucial.
But this type works very well and quickly becomes a bit more expensive but they are the best in my opinion.
Sold by Conrad Netherlands or somewhere else.
If you want a url (link) I will hear it! Suc6
Item name: Renkforce RF-4886682 Interface converter
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