PTherapist wrote on 2021-02-15, 18:29:
Have you tried powering the Amiga on yet? Will be interesting to see if it's working or not. Definitely replace the HDD with a larger CF card, then you can use WHDLoad to load all your games and not have to rely on Floppy Disks or Gotek. I went with a 16GB CF card for mine.
Regarding Kickstart, I still have 3.0 in my Amiga 1200 and I've not had any issues with it. So far it does everything I need it to.
Yup, it has been powered on. The floppy drive is completely dead, spinning violently and making strange noises. I will have to take a closer look on it.
Though I am in luck as I have a couple of loose drives ready. So far I have cleaned it up and are in the process of soaking the keycaps in soap water.
Once it is all ready to be tested in dept, then I will do it. As of now it is back in a cleaned bottom shell with the shield.
Speaking of. Then I have cleaned rust stains off the shield, using vinagre and finally sealing the spots off.
Also, a small pecentage of the yellow were actually orange. And yes, it is bromide yellow as well as it had a layer of nicotine on top.
The nicotine cleaned off in no time, yet the bromide yellow need retrobright if I want to. Personally I will go for a new case.
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Regarding the kickstart and all that. Then I have plans with this machine. In time it will get some serious upgrades.
I am thinking about scandoubler, accelerator and all that. I have had better experiences with microdrives, than I have had with CF or SD
cards in my Amiga600. Those microdrives transfer faster than CF cards.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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