Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is the last piece in a full restauration, as I bought the machine last year. In pieces and as a rust pile. So far I have done and upgraded the following on the machine....

- Recapping of the motherboard.
- New membrane.
- Changed floppy drive.
- New a1200.net case. Should have been grey, but is blu'ish-grey instead. (I like the colour)
- New a1200.net keycaps for Mitsumi Hybrid keybards.
- IndivisionAGA-MK3 scandoubler.
- Tsunami-1230 64mb Ram Accelerator.
- Buffered CF-IDE adaptor with extra 40-PIN IDE port.
- Kickstart 3.1 from Cloanto.
- Replica case badge with black chickenlips logo.

I am extremely happy with the result, and sorry for bad light when taking pictures.... It was a long process and not cheap.

brostenen wrote on 2023-01-05, 23:05:

Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is t […]
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Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is the last piece in a full restauration, as I bought the machine last year. In pieces and as a rust pile. So far I have done and upgraded the following on the machine....

- Recapping of the motherboard.
- New membrane.
- Changed floppy drive.
- New a1200.net case. Should have been grey, but is blu'ish-grey instead. (I like the colour)
- New a1200.net keycaps for Mitsumi Hybrid keybards.
- IndivisionAGA-MK3 scandoubler.
- Tsunami-1230 64mb Ram Accelerator.
- Buffered CF-IDE adaptor with extra 40-PIN IDE port.
- Kickstart 3.1 from Cloanto.
- Replica case badge with black chickenlips logo.

I am extremely happy with the result, and sorry for bad light when taking pictures.... It was a long process and not cheap.

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Looks absolutely sharp... looks amazing. Have the before pictures still?

brostenen wrote on 2023-01-05, 23:05:

Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is t […]
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Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is the last piece in a full restauration, as I bought the machine last year. In pieces and as a rust pile. So far I have done and upgraded the following on the machine....

- Recapping of the motherboard.
- New membrane.
- Changed floppy drive.
- New a1200.net case. Should have been grey, but is blu'ish-grey instead. (I like the colour)
- New a1200.net keycaps for Mitsumi Hybrid keybards.
- IndivisionAGA-MK3 scandoubler.
- Tsunami-1230 64mb Ram Accelerator.
- Buffered CF-IDE adaptor with extra 40-PIN IDE port.
- Kickstart 3.1 from Cloanto.
- Replica case badge with black chickenlips logo.

I am extremely happy with the result, and sorry for bad light when taking pictures.... It was a long process and not cheap.

1200-Finish-Restoration-01.jpg
1200-Finish-Restoration-02.jpg
1200-Finish-Restoration-03.jpg

Man that system has come a long way. It looks beautiful seriously amazing job on the restoration.

Antieon wrote on 2023-01-06, 03:18:

brostenen wrote on 2023-01-05, 23:05:

Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is t […]
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Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is the last piece in a full restauration, as I bought the machine last year. In pieces and as a rust pile. So far I have done and upgraded the following on the machine....

- Recapping of the motherboard.
- New membrane.
- Changed floppy drive.
- New a1200.net case. Should have been grey, but is blu'ish-grey instead. (I like the colour)
- New a1200.net keycaps for Mitsumi Hybrid keybards.
- IndivisionAGA-MK3 scandoubler.
- Tsunami-1230 64mb Ram Accelerator.
- Buffered CF-IDE adaptor with extra 40-PIN IDE port.
- Kickstart 3.1 from Cloanto.
- Replica case badge with black chickenlips logo.

I am extremely happy with the result, and sorry for bad light when taking pictures.... It was a long process and not cheap.

1200-Finish-Restoration-01.jpg
1200-Finish-Restoration-02.jpg
1200-Finish-Restoration-03.jpg

Looks absolutely sharp... looks amazing. Have the before pictures still?

There might be more somewere, but this is how it looked, when it still had original keycaps and original case.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2023-01-06, 03:55:

brostenen wrote on 2023-01-05, 23:05:

Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is t […]
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Today I recieved a set of brand new Amiga keycaps from a1200.net and I love them. So I installed them on my Amiga1200. This is the last piece in a full restauration, as I bought the machine last year. In pieces and as a rust pile. So far I have done and upgraded the following on the machine....

- Recapping of the motherboard.
- New membrane.
- Changed floppy drive.
- New a1200.net case. Should have been grey, but is blu'ish-grey instead. (I like the colour)
- New a1200.net keycaps for Mitsumi Hybrid keybards.
- IndivisionAGA-MK3 scandoubler.
- Tsunami-1230 64mb Ram Accelerator.
- Buffered CF-IDE adaptor with extra 40-PIN IDE port.
- Kickstart 3.1 from Cloanto.
- Replica case badge with black chickenlips logo.

I am extremely happy with the result, and sorry for bad light when taking pictures.... It was a long process and not cheap.

1200-Finish-Restoration-01.jpg
1200-Finish-Restoration-02.jpg
1200-Finish-Restoration-03.jpg

Man that system has come a long way. It looks beautiful seriously amazing job on the restoration.

Thanks... True that. It took many months, and one of the only vintage computer projects that I have finished to date. Most projects stop at around 95% finished state. Be that missing retrobright in most cases (no, no pun this time), or somthing as simple as forgetting to buy a COM-Card or something. But this one is finished. There might be some before pictures on Vogons, but to be honest. Then it is so long time ago that I bought the machine, that I can not remember when exactly, and I do not have the energy to look through this site. 😀

Picked up this little unit from B&Q to better house my Little Beast Win98 Machine and my Midi Modules. Looks a lot neater like this I think.

Bancho wrote on 2023-01-06, 11:30:

Picked up this little unit from B&Q to better house my Little Beast Win98 Machine and my Midi Modules. Loots a lot neater like this I think.

perfect fit it's like they new all about your PC and midi and designed it just for you! 😀

I can't do much of a better cable management. I'm happy with it.

Both Teac drives work, no bad sectors on the Conner drive, re-soldered the Lithium battery (still 3.61V in it), added cooling paste between the heatsink and the AMD DX2-66, checked jumper settings for the I/O addresses on the sound cards, overall cleaning... Think I'm done with it for today.

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-06, 14:12:

I can't do much of a better cable management. I'm happy with it.

Both Teac drives work, no bad sectors on the Conner drive, re-soldered the Lithium battery (still 3.61V in it), added cooling paste between the heatsink and the AMD DX2-66, checked jumper settings for the I/O addresses on the sound cards, overall cleaning... Think I'm done with it for today.

That is a nice looking machine. Clean and tight. But why cooling paste? DX2-66 are just on the limit of fan or not, so the paste have no useage.

It had/has a HSF installed, so I might as well add some paste for better contact. Once, I saw a heatsink 'hoovering' over the CPU. Not much use for a HSF at all in such a case. 😁

Bancho wrote on 2023-01-06, 11:30:

Picked up this little unit from B&Q to better house my Little Beast Win98 Machine and my Midi Modules. Looks a lot neater like t […]
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Picked up this little unit from B&Q to better house my Little Beast Win98 Machine and my Midi Modules. Looks a lot neater like this I think.

That's a nice looking setup!

So with my success of flashing Gigabyte GA-5SMM (Compaq SS7 boards) to retail Gigabyte GA-5SMM BIOS, I decided to try flashing an MSI MS-6156 BX7 (SLOT 1 v2.1) from an NEC BIOS to the official MS-6156 BX BIOS. The part I was most concerned about is that the original BIOS was an AMI BIOS, but the latest BIOS was an Award BIOS. The website had a few revisions with AMI, and the others were with Award, and even though it was "the official BIOS" I still had concerns that it wouldn't POST looking for an AMI specific BIOS or something dumb like that. Well, it worked just fine - and again I unlocked a ton of features that the NEC BIOS hid.

Tried swapping the stock fan on an Epson Equity III+ power supply with a 92mm Noctua fan.

While I was able to get everything swapped and hooked up, unfortunately the Noctua fan doesn't want to spin most of the time. It started up a few times, but mostly will not.

I'm assuming the current draw on the new fan (0.11A) is just too low compared to the prior one (0.22A), resulting the PSU not supplying the current consistently.

I'm now debating running the Noctua fan wires outside of the PSU and connecting it via a molex connector. Or alternatively, swapping it for another fan I have on hand (Nexus 92mm rated @ 0.25A).

Bancho wrote on 2023-01-06, 11:30:

Picked up this little unit from B&Q to better house my Little Beast Win98 Machine and my Midi Modules. Looks a lot neater like t […]
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Picked up this little unit from B&Q to better house my Little Beast Win98 Machine and my Midi Modules. Looks a lot neater like this I think.

That looks great!
However, you could get rid of the CDs, put the mt32 on its side next to the PC and thus (probably) enough room to put the korg on the other midi modules 😂

I did a bunch of benchmarks with various ISA cards with a 286/386

https://youtu.be/oJgQJaqmPx4

Round 2 of attempted fan replacement on my Epson Equity III+ power supply.

Opted to try the Nexus fan since I preferred to keep everything internal to the PSU. Fortunately, this fan worked fine and spins properly with everything connected. Sound seems comparable to the Noctua fan; this fan might even be a bit quieter.

Lesson learned, always make sure to pay attention to current draw required for these fans in PSUs.

Got my gotek finally installed on my Amiga 500 , managed to get some stuff to load , my tank mouse is faulty tho so ill need to get it repaired.

AppleSauce wrote on 2023-01-08, 02:00:

Got my gotek finally installed on my Amiga 500 , managed to get some stuff to load , my tank mouse is faulty tho so ill need to get it repaired.

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Is that a switch for using memory expansion as chip mentoring
Memory?

H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-01-08, 06:35:

AppleSauce wrote on 2023-01-08, 02:00:

Got my gotek finally installed on my Amiga 500 , managed to get some stuff to load , my tank mouse is faulty tho so ill need to get it repaired.

20230107_103419.jpg

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Is that a switch for using memory expansion as chip mentoring
Memory?

It gives me the option to either use 1mb chip ram or 512k onboard + 512 slow trapdoor ram. I read that some early programs don't like the extra chip ram and only want the trapdoor ram. So I did it for compatibilites sake.

First vintage market of the year. Right after Christmas and new years, it's disappointing as expected. 20 minutes in I already knew this won't be the market where I find myself a Voodoo5 PCI for $5. It was pretty low on vintage electronics and especially computer equipment this time. Found a 4 port 3.5" USB HUB front panel, a crappy modem card, a crappy networking card, a Sound Blaster AudioPCI, a P4 era Fujitsu laptop, a 3.5" floppy drive, and that's about it. I didn't buy any of them.

So at the end all I got was a month's worth of home made cheese, a copy of LA Noire for X360 and another pinup art piece into my collection.

Dog merchant was present however wrapped into a blanket. The weather was a little chilly. No pics of her, sorry.