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....
Monday, July 11, 2022

Fixing a third commodore plus/4, or "god damnit adrian stop it"

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Here's a fun and easy one to fix. One commodore plus/4. Here's what it displayed. Looks like the TED chip is outputting something, b...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Getting new simgen backdrops on my amiga 500

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This'll be nice and short. I wanted to add some new backgrounds to simgen, which is a hack on Amiga Workbench 1.3 setups which allows fo...