Re: Modern power supply with a retro pc.

Posted on 2018-12-27, 23:58

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by treeman

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I cut one of the sata power plugs on a modern psu and soldered on a molex connector from a old burner out psu I had. Its straight forward match up the 4 colours, they are in different order on the sata but as long as colours match its all the same. A 5th plug on sata is a 3.3V which molex doesn't …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-27, 11:22

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by treeman

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wow thats alot of amigas, yes it seems the markets in our 2 countries cannot be fairly compared

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-27, 10:35

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by treeman

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I am in Australia so most the amigas I see are in Europe or usa so add $100usd+ for shipping. The local ones here seem to be more expensive by 100 or 200 which is that shipping cost. When I said $700 it was aud so probably about 500usd, yeah a bit expensive for amiga but it was a good condition one. …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-27, 09:39

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by treeman

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I think the only thing with the 486 parts you mentioned, there is alot more chance of getting lucky at recyclers classifieds or even finding dumped old hardware. with amiga they are alot more rare, much more special too. Also amigas are really picking up value thesedays too, i saw a few for around $ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-23, 04:05

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by treeman

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there is still 1 left from the 5 or 6 on ebay, but it only comes with cache, and a soldered on barrel battery! hopefully not leaking. I have lots of ram and processors so thats not a problem for me. A fair deal I guess when working vlb motherboards are going for ~100 usd + postage

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-23, 03:17

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by treeman

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bought a gmb 486 unp 2.2 vlb board on eBay, for only 40usd shipped however its described as untested and been in storage so fingers crossed

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-21, 00:05

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by treeman

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some good info there, thanks for taking the time to write it up, especially its aimed where reading websites and other forums there is alot of piecing the information together. the 4 in 1 link is the one I was looking at, probably really only need 2 1.3 and 3.1 but its always cool to also have 2.04 …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-20, 21:09

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by treeman

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I was thinking a serious memory upgrade like the 8mb you said and rom selector would be a really cool mod, its just a wish list for now. Back when I was a kid the 512kb upgrade to make the ram 1mb was the dream so I already achieved that 😀

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-20, 02:47

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by treeman

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thanx for the tip, managed to track down a adf version basic stock a500, if anything I think getting a ecs upgrade would be the next step for me

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-19, 10:22

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by treeman

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currently I have a gotek inside my case plugged straight to the motherboard, using HxC which is good enough for me using a usb stick with adf files I can select which adf to boot into. Was wondering if there is a program I could download in adf format and boot it off my gotek like I boot the games …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-19, 06:00

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by treeman

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wow what a pain, guess the cost of all that extra power. This reminds me I might desolder the barrel battery from my 512 extension card alto it was supposedly refurbished when I bought it. Kind of been eyeing off the 2mb expansion card + the adaptor since this thread started after saying im happy …

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Re: Where do you guys find your parts?

Posted on 2018-12-17, 23:31

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by treeman

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wow 400 systems you must have literally a room full of stuff. I have 3 main pc and 1 amiga 500 systems plugged in usable condition, 1 or 2 more cases stored in a container and maybye ~20 assorted motherboards cables ram sticks isa pci cards in 2 or 3 boxes, this already takes a bit of room in my …

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Re: The perfect computer

Posted on 2018-12-17, 11:38

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by treeman

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ill give Apple 1 thing, their software on the iPhones and ipads is optimised very well on exactly what you said underpowered and obsolete hardware, and yes it is a evil company going from the design to what happens in the foxconn factories in china, there is some good documentaries on youtube. Nets …

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Re: The perfect computer

Posted on 2018-12-17, 04:45

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by treeman

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Yes, Ever since the first computers IBM and Apple have been looking for the “perfect” computer. Since the Macintosh Apple has been looking for the Perfect computer, Since the Osborne and laptop and note books people have been looking for the perfect All-in-one computer. People are still looking for …

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Re: Weird eastern bloc soundcard

Posted on 2018-12-17, 00:27

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by treeman

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It looks like a engineering model / test model like tiido said. Before and if mass production is done usually its assembled by hand to test and make future revisions

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-17, 00:21

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by treeman

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it looks like this might just became the amiga thread of vogos hehe All this amiga talk got me really excited and got a breath of some energy to start polishing out my yellowed case. I am doing it slowly and enjoying it a little bit over the last 2 days and plan to take it slow, but so far have …

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Re: Help me to repair this video card

Posted on 2018-12-16, 10:34

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by treeman

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this is why you need alot of flux, the tip doesn't have to be tiny only hold a blob of solder which will stick to the tracks as you run it past thanx to the flux. If you have flux, solder and iron give it a shot. Also you can't test resistors etc that are attached to a circut with a multimeter this …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-16, 04:25

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by treeman

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this is the joypad im waiting for to arrive, I wanted something to match the amiga, when I was growing up and used to go to my rich friends house he had master system joypads on his amiga so its nostalgia for me https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn% …

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Re: Where do you guys find your parts?

Posted on 2018-12-16, 01:34

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by treeman

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ebay is probably one of the biggest but I have been very lucky in the past to find a few systems on the street when people throw out rubbish, I always have my eyes open. Alot of the time when im driving ill spot some rubbish and instantly anything rectangular in size rings alarm as a pc case. Got …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-15, 23:38

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by treeman

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yes the ghost effect is exact what I see too and was trying to explain as a blur, you put it much better. Can see it around the mouse pointer or something moving in a game. That last joystick looks like one I had on my c64 25~ years ago I will need to look into those! Being a fan of amiga 500 in the …

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