Modding my first Amiga 500 and fixing its keyboard

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  • @Leofwine
    @Leofwine 29 днів тому +2

    I upgraded my Amiga 500 with an ACA-500plus a year after I got it in 2019.
    I don't play many games on mine, it's more of a glorified typewriter and it runs Deluxe Paint IV at double speed.
    I'm still figuring out how I can use the creativity software and the resulting files with my modern computer in a modern context.
    It can be a fun experiment to try out what (from all the advertised possibilities promised in those 80s ads) one still can do with an Amiga.

  • @cp256
    @cp256 Місяць тому +3

    Yes, get an accelerator that will let you use a CF or SD card as a hard drive. You can load that up with WHDLoad and have almost all the Amiga games ever put out at your fingertips. You don't need a 68060 accelerator to play games, a 68030 with 8 MB of fast ram will play nearly anything adequately.
    I went from an Atari 800 to a used Amiga 500. From there I got a 2000HD, 3000 desktop, two A4000 desktops with accelerators and finally an A4000T with an 060/PPC and Cybervision with a big monitor. It all started with the lowly 500 with 512k to play some games, but the bug had bitten hard. Started a BBS, did desktop publishing on the 3000, added more phone lines to the BBS and after having 20 phone lines and modems hanging off of an Amiga 4000/060 I ended up starting an ISP business. The Amiga 500 totally changed my life. I still have it. I need to see if I can get it running again.

    • @Kman_aus
      @Kman_aus  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks for the advice, good to know. It'd be nice to have the games easy to load and running smoother.
      That's cool where owning an Amiga 500 lead you. How many of the Amigas do you still have and use?

    • @cp256
      @cp256 Місяць тому +3

      I still have them all except for the 2000, but I also have another 500 and a 1200 that were given to me by a friend. The 1200 and a 4000 desktop work and have been outfitted with Compact Flash drives and the 4000 has a Gotek drive and a quad ROM switcher I built. The 3000 and 4000T are both in good condition and may work without doing much to them I think the two 500s are in decent shape, but need work and the other 4000's motherboard is in rough shape, but I have another original 4000 motherboard from 1993 kicking around here somewhere so that might have a new life at some point as well.

  • @c0smiq
    @c0smiq 21 день тому +1

    A few of my favorites : Turrican II, Marble Madness, International Karate, Lotus III, Ghouls n ghosts, Indy 500, Pang, Silworm, Swiv, Stunt Car Racer. On a 500 I wouldn't consider an accellerator. On a 1200 where you run everything in WHDLoad, yes.

    • @Kman_aus
      @Kman_aus  14 днів тому

      Cool, thanks for the game suggestions. Ah yeah a 1200 would be nice to have.

  • @Ecidemon
    @Ecidemon Місяць тому +2

    for convenience an accelerator with ide connector is a good upgrade. An 030 with some extra memory is all you need and they are very compatible.
    I don't think you can hdd boot from stock 1.3 roms howerver so the rom chip needs upgrading unless the accelerator has a map rom feature. It's a good idea to map rom anyways since ram is faster than rom.
    Then you need an ide to CF adapter and a CF card, or a CF to SD adapter instead of CF card.
    The point of this is to run Workbench of the CF card, and use WHDload games launching them using a launcher such as igame or any of the other available.
    WHDload requires extra fast ram that you would get from the accelerator so it won't run on a stock a500.
    It's also a lot of fun tinkering and personalise Workbench to have the perfect gaming setup :)

    • @Kman_aus
      @Kman_aus  Місяць тому +2

      Yeah would be fun having a tinker with Workbench. I've only ever seen it on others' computers. And the convenience of having the games on a CF/SD card. Thanks for the advice and the tip about the map ROM feature.

  • @rrhalo
    @rrhalo 21 день тому +2

    Hi, why not to try North & South?

  • @Kirk-7
    @Kirk-7 Місяць тому +2

    For compatibility I ended up ditching all my accelerators and keeping my Amiga 500 with 1mb chip ram 1.5mb slow ram and a Gotek drive, near to stock keeping the 1.3 rom, if I want anything more I use emulation with coffin or caffeine os.

    • @Kman_aus
      @Kman_aus  Місяць тому +1

      Interesting, a bit of different upgrade route that would keep the machine closer to stock. How much of an improvement does that RAM configuration make? Sounds like being able to switch an accelerator on/off might be handy? (if possible)

    • @Kirk-7
      @Kirk-7 Місяць тому +2

      @ Some games or demos need 1mb chip others need slow ram expansion, hence I use a 2mb boobip expansion to cover each scenario giving the extra .5 mb chip and 1.5mb other, I remember fitting a switch on my original Amiga 500 to swap the expansion memory between chip and slow which is an easier option.

  • @ValentinesEve1996
    @ValentinesEve1996 Місяць тому +2

    First