I just got my A1000 working. Came from a mate who had it in his shed for 17 years..... yeah 17 years sitting in a damp shed, you can imagine how bad it was, full of bug crap and leaves and other stuff. A few bugs crapped on the motherboard and then died there hehe! So let that be a warning, don't crap on an A1000 motherboard unless you want to die ;-)
It's still in pieces so far as case etc needs to be peroxided. I say "peroxided" because I'm simply going to use common off-the-shelf peroxide creme rather than making up that retrobrite concoction. I won't show the case condition here as some people might get violently ill and die ;-)
The A1050 had bad RAM and would boot but Guru'd soon after loading workbench or any program.
Ordered new RAM and changed all the 64k x4-bit DRAMs, and now working fine (first pic, showing "The Pawn" running).
So then I wondered would it work with the new ACA500+ I just bought..... hmmmm.....
First time I plugged it in it didn't work. Went into the menu and changed a few things and it works fine (up to max 21MHz but not 28MHz or 42MHz). I think the main thing that makes it work in an A1000 is to force set the kickstart to 3.1. The other settings don't stop it working, but it won't do 28MHz or 42MHz, fastest it works at is 21MHz.
Here's a few pics booted from my CF card and showing the Sysinfo and Which Amiga specs. Which Amiga isn't so accurate. It thinks it's an old A500 at 8MHz even though it was clocked at 14Mhz when that was done. The Sysinfo specs are amazing for an A1000. Who would have ever thought an A1000 could ever run at 21MHz and have 8Megs of Fast RAM all for ~130 Euros :-D
It's still in pieces so far as case etc needs to be peroxided. I say "peroxided" because I'm simply going to use common off-the-shelf peroxide creme rather than making up that retrobrite concoction. I won't show the case condition here as some people might get violently ill and die ;-)
The A1050 had bad RAM and would boot but Guru'd soon after loading workbench or any program.
Ordered new RAM and changed all the 64k x4-bit DRAMs, and now working fine (first pic, showing "The Pawn" running).
So then I wondered would it work with the new ACA500+ I just bought..... hmmmm.....
First time I plugged it in it didn't work. Went into the menu and changed a few things and it works fine (up to max 21MHz but not 28MHz or 42MHz). I think the main thing that makes it work in an A1000 is to force set the kickstart to 3.1. The other settings don't stop it working, but it won't do 28MHz or 42MHz, fastest it works at is 21MHz.
Here's a few pics booted from my CF card and showing the Sysinfo and Which Amiga specs. Which Amiga isn't so accurate. It thinks it's an old A500 at 8MHz even though it was clocked at 14Mhz when that was done. The Sysinfo specs are amazing for an A1000. Who would have ever thought an A1000 could ever run at 21MHz and have 8Megs of Fast RAM all for ~130 Euros :-D
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