Some updates to my Amiga
I added a few other minor tweaks to help with general stability.
Here i've added direct +5V power to the IDEFix Express. This helps with some random cold boot issues i've had and also the odd reboot crash: -
I've added a ferrite Core around the Indi cable to eliminate a little bit of noise I had on the screen: -
I've managed to get my Flash Kicks working and dual booting between 3.1 and 3.9
Here are the Epsilon FlashKicks I got from Poland (cheers for the help Stachu100): -
I replaced my aging (And worn out) Kickstart Sockets and added some handy labels: -
Programming them up in my cheap as chips Willem
The settings needed to program these: -
Added a switch to the side of my Amiga to allow dual kick (0v and 5v to select the different banks): -
And a label
Here is the switch wire needed on pin 1 of each Flash Kick to switch the banks: -
The switch selects 3.9 with HDD powered or 3.1 with HDD turned off (so my A1200 can go into vanilla mode) If I hold key "2" on bootup I can disable my PPC also. This is so I can play Floppy games or Demos that only like 020 2MB chip.
The new HDD power cable controlled by the switch: -
Plugged straight onto the HDD IDE cable: -
Here it is switched into 3.1
And 3.9 (I unplugged the HDD cable to show the kick screen)
Here's a video of it in action: -
[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56JePGopDS4[/m]
And playing Wipeout 2097 (with one hand): -
[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUlRWhb1Tk[/m]
Enjoy!