Adrian Chadd's Ramblings
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
On "repairing this commodore 1551 drive" and "don't plug in the head cable backwards"
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I bought a "dead" 1551 drive a few months ago. It's a european model, only 220v, and they said "it smoked when it was on&...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Reinstalling AmigaOS 3.1.4 on my Amiga 2000 or "oh crap it didn't boot"
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This post is about AmigaOS 3.1.4 on my Amiga 2000. AmigaOS 3.1 from Amiga works fine. However, there are a few interestingly subtle differen...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
resistance is not futile, or "why does my amiga 1000 keyboard not work?"
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I gave my amiga 1000 keyboard cable to a friend so she could complete her Amiga 1000 setup. I then ordered some replacement RJ12 cables (4 w...
Monday, January 16, 2023
I got lucky with an Acorn Electron
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Ah, the Acorn Electron . Wait, no. I never had one as a kid, I had access to a couple of BBC micros in my primary school for playing a pira...
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Who's the /BOSS on the Amiga 2000 ?
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I slipped and bought a TF536 to put into my Amiga 2000. TL;DR is it's now running, but it took a bit of fiddling to get there. When I w...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
damnit i slipped and (mostly) built an amiga 500
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EDIT - the original article has an image of the PCB with the floppy power connector mounted the WRONG WAY. This is the INCORRECT WAY. Do NO...
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Sunday, September 25, 2022
Installing a kickstart ROM adapter in my Amiga 1000, or "Nothing works, and nothing makes sense"
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The Amiga 1000 is a slick looking machine. It however loads its ROM from floppy disk. The Wikipedia Article on the Amiga 1000 explains why....
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