cosmicfrog
The 1 That Ribbits
Some of you may know that I brought an A1500 the weekend we went to Replay in Blackpool.
It was/is a nice machine with a GVP 68040 Combo scsi card and an EGS GFX card as well.
The Mobo was a Rev 6 but I don`t know if its a 6.1 or a 6.2 anyway it came with 3 x 4Mb GVP sims
giveing me 12Mb of 32Bit fast Ram, Need another 4Mb sim then I can use burst mode, With the
Mother board haveing 1Mb of chip Ram, I have since disoverd theres a Mod that can be done to
upgrade the 1Mb to 2Mb of chip, It invovles replaceing the ram chips and makeing a multiplexer curcit.
Thats a little bit beyond my abbilites and equipment at the moment but cerntaly something to think about
for the future
Luckily a few days after comeing back from blackpool I swapped a Dreamcast for an A2000. On opening the A2000
up I discovered it had no 68000 in it !! but it did have a nice 8Mb ram card, But no HDD but this was more
than made up by the battery not leaking its guts out all over the place, which was the main problem with the A1500.
The A1500 had Sever Battery leakage, but citric acid and the nylon bristle wheel on the dremel and some fun
splashing the Blue juice that zetro is so fond of plus more citric acid had the 68000, KS Rom and expansion slots
free of the horrid green oxide in a few hours. Took about 3 days in all with repeated cleaning and drying
then I could replace the chips and pray that when I flicked the switch she would spring into life, which I am glad to say
she did. Only after trying the battery mod with diode then useing a rechargable battrey did I find out that
the A1500 is unable to remember the time or date but am glad to say the A2000 is not aflicted with this problem
and it is also a Rev 6.2 Mobo, yay
So the next thing to do is add the extra bits to the 2 ISA ports to make em 16bit as at some point I intend to try out
my A2088 BridgeBoard. haha before I knew about the time disfunction I added them to the A1500 then went and did
the same again to the A2000 Mobo but I almost messed that up as one of them was at an angle and not flush with
the front bit of the ISA slot but I sorted that problem, Just hope they all work fine
and now the pictures
Ok I`m still learning how do da pictures but at least my camera has started working again. For time being I have created 2 Albums https://www.amibay.com/album.php?u=698
now I just need work out how to display them here then I can tell you what was or was`t happening
Ok so this the 2 Mobos side by side
This is after I cleaned up the A1500 Battery
Compared the the A2000 battery, Lovely but she has to come out
So lets extend those ISA slots
PSU anyone ?? !!
Right Thats enough faffing about lets get this built already
First some toys
Then its big box tetris, That green thing is my battery, Lots of fun with the glue gun, well we all like to play
then the GVP 040, now whos got a spare 4Mb or better yet 4 x 16Mb GVP sims I live in hope and I hop in a pond
GVP EGS Spectrum 240 GFX card, Someone somewhere must have some Docs for this
Look at the size of that thing !! All 300Mb of it
And I thought I would`t use a zip drive again
Yay She`s Alive
Humm seems to be a bit faster than my 040 A4000, So who needs AGA anyway
Now the problems realy begin apart from installing stuff what am I going do with all these drives ?? 1HDD-300Mb, 1HDD-200Mb, 1ZIPDrive-100Mb, 1SCSI-CD drive
Well thats my A1500/A2000 adventure so far, being wanting to post about this for weeks and preferable before the new year. Once I get this reasonable sorted out I can move on the the A4000 which I hope is going to live on top of the A2000 and then I can finaly get round to my A1200 PPC 060 tower with mediator pci slots, me thinks theres still lots of adventuring to be had in 2011. So Ribbits all have a good time and be happy
It was/is a nice machine with a GVP 68040 Combo scsi card and an EGS GFX card as well.
The Mobo was a Rev 6 but I don`t know if its a 6.1 or a 6.2 anyway it came with 3 x 4Mb GVP sims
giveing me 12Mb of 32Bit fast Ram, Need another 4Mb sim then I can use burst mode, With the
Mother board haveing 1Mb of chip Ram, I have since disoverd theres a Mod that can be done to
upgrade the 1Mb to 2Mb of chip, It invovles replaceing the ram chips and makeing a multiplexer curcit.
Thats a little bit beyond my abbilites and equipment at the moment but cerntaly something to think about
for the future
Luckily a few days after comeing back from blackpool I swapped a Dreamcast for an A2000. On opening the A2000
up I discovered it had no 68000 in it !! but it did have a nice 8Mb ram card, But no HDD but this was more
than made up by the battery not leaking its guts out all over the place, which was the main problem with the A1500.
The A1500 had Sever Battery leakage, but citric acid and the nylon bristle wheel on the dremel and some fun
splashing the Blue juice that zetro is so fond of plus more citric acid had the 68000, KS Rom and expansion slots
free of the horrid green oxide in a few hours. Took about 3 days in all with repeated cleaning and drying
then I could replace the chips and pray that when I flicked the switch she would spring into life, which I am glad to say
she did. Only after trying the battery mod with diode then useing a rechargable battrey did I find out that
the A1500 is unable to remember the time or date but am glad to say the A2000 is not aflicted with this problem
and it is also a Rev 6.2 Mobo, yay
So the next thing to do is add the extra bits to the 2 ISA ports to make em 16bit as at some point I intend to try out
my A2088 BridgeBoard. haha before I knew about the time disfunction I added them to the A1500 then went and did
the same again to the A2000 Mobo but I almost messed that up as one of them was at an angle and not flush with
the front bit of the ISA slot but I sorted that problem, Just hope they all work fine
and now the pictures
Ok I`m still learning how do da pictures but at least my camera has started working again. For time being I have created 2 Albums https://www.amibay.com/album.php?u=698
now I just need work out how to display them here then I can tell you what was or was`t happening
Ok so this the 2 Mobos side by side
This is after I cleaned up the A1500 Battery
Compared the the A2000 battery, Lovely but she has to come out
So lets extend those ISA slots
PSU anyone ?? !!
Right Thats enough faffing about lets get this built already
First some toys
Then its big box tetris, That green thing is my battery, Lots of fun with the glue gun, well we all like to play
then the GVP 040, now whos got a spare 4Mb or better yet 4 x 16Mb GVP sims I live in hope and I hop in a pond
GVP EGS Spectrum 240 GFX card, Someone somewhere must have some Docs for this
Look at the size of that thing !! All 300Mb of it
And I thought I would`t use a zip drive again
Yay She`s Alive
Humm seems to be a bit faster than my 040 A4000, So who needs AGA anyway
Now the problems realy begin apart from installing stuff what am I going do with all these drives ?? 1HDD-300Mb, 1HDD-200Mb, 1ZIPDrive-100Mb, 1SCSI-CD drive
Well thats my A1500/A2000 adventure so far, being wanting to post about this for weeks and preferable before the new year. Once I get this reasonable sorted out I can move on the the A4000 which I hope is going to live on top of the A2000 and then I can finaly get round to my A1200 PPC 060 tower with mediator pci slots, me thinks theres still lots of adventuring to be had in 2011. So Ribbits all have a good time and be happy