As the final step of these posts, and after recapping the motherboard and fitting a few more parts, I closed the A500's box.
This rev.6a now has:
- Gotek with keirf's awesome FlashFloppy firmware
- Vampire 500 V2+ on a CPU relocator (so that I could fit a...)
- Individual Computers ACE2b 2MB chip ram expansion
- ECS Hires Denise
- 512KB memory expansion w/ RTC
- SD-to-IDE as a hard drive
- New 50W power supply
- ENC28J60 ethernet module
I also got a Roadshow licence (it's a great TCP stack with DHCP, even though there are other free or abandonware alternatives) and an external floppy drive adapter to write ADFs back to floppy, for my other Amigas. A cheap HDMI/SCART-to-HDMI upscaler handles the video output of both Denise and Vampire for now, and I still use the tank mouse until a matching beige PS/2 mouse is found, to use with a DB9 adapter. The ACE2b has an NTSC Agnus, but TUDE in startup-sequence handles this. The rev. 5 mentioned in the first post was upgraded with the 1MB Agnus removed from the above setup, and fitted with an ACA500+. It's near-stock compatibility-wise, and the ACA is detachable at any time as it connects to the left-side expansion port, but has IDE, Action Replay and provides an easy way to boot any Kickstart and toggle between 512KB/1MB chip ram.
So this Amiga is now closed. Very excited to have a WHDLoad-capable A500 with not only IDE but also 2MB chip, LAN and RTG! The next steps are to repair the rev5's keyboard, finish recapping the A1200 and fit it with 3.1 ROMs, maybe maintain their original PSUs too and get a housing for the ACA500+. I plan to keep these two near-stock, if not for some quality-of-life improvements.
Photos of the expanded A500 follow:
Stojke wrote:Its not like components found in trash after 20 years in rain dont still work flawlessly.
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