Recent content by Sardine

Tim, if you don’t fix it i think i have 2 of these dvd video recorder shaped boxes in the loft. Might even have the failed connect with it.

A500 is more likely to work out of the box , the only issues is if it only has 512k ram most games since the a500+ required 1mb ram and if the fdd works not to mention the actual game disks. Trapdoor upgrade to 1mb ( cheap ) , a gotek and i joystick and your set. The a1200 is a better...

A500 1mb with gotek runs 90% all games No need for a 100mhz monster to play hybris or new Zealand story or turrican. An A1200 with a simple 8mb ram expansion with ide cf card loaded with whdload will play 99.9% of all games. For the 0.1% that would benefit form 030 or higher is the likes of...

Also its obvious if an amiga is booting from the fdd in some degree of success even without a tv. No disk in the fdd will click every second or so. When you insert a disk you will clearly hear it booting the disk. A workbench boot disc is a good test as it loads plenty of small files. Its...

this is normal for a stock A500 1.2 - 1.3 they never came with a clock/battery until the A500+ 2.04 this usually was fitted on some addon trapdoor ram expansions to boost normally an A500 from 512k to 1mb with a battery backup clock.. the more cost reduced expansions just came with the ram and...

Declaring interest.Next in line.

why is everyone missing the point and going off on all kinds of tangents ?? items should arrive "As Described" , a seller cannot absolve themselves with unfair terms of sale, washing their hands of ANY issues at the POINT of delivery. It's not complicated. just NO, "Private sale: No...

I simple just think has no place here on Amibay to absolve the seller from ANYTHING..... Simple..

YES,, but in the condition it was sold in.. untested doesn't mean arrives in more than 1 piece or damaged or just not the same as advertised.. :D

reading this thread I see my point might have missed a member or 2.. I am NOT talking about warranty. I am NOT talking about "I'm an experienced repairer and will fix at my costs whatever arrives" I am NOT talking about any after sales tech support. I am NOT talking about "I don't care what...

I/we don't want to police the sales here at Amibay BUT!!!!!!! even worse Has no place here especially when item/s are upwards of €1000 My "opinion" is if you buy something described as working and in good condition it should arrive as such. a protected/Insured postal service should be...

€500 and your terms are:- No returns, no replacements, no warranties. Private sale. Nope not on amibay. Some guarantee or insured postage MUST be offered that what you’re selling arrives as described working not just physically.

Thats the question. Probably not much but in the past when a system was showing strange behaviours or failings on os 3.9 etc replacing the physical 3.0 for 3.1/3.2 cured some issues but did it also introduce new ones ?? Welcome to Amiga the reason i run stock 3.1

Its also illegally written programs that directly accesses the installed rom. No amount of soft booted roms would avoid that. Even for workbench loaded software As others have said the latest commodre rom was 3.1 and anything written since assumes a start base of 3.1 Yes will probably work...

Booting soft rom is fine for workbench and associated software but not for games or illegally written software that directly accesses the physical rom which no amount of skick or patches will prevent I used to code in devpac and always used the amiga libraries NEVER calling routines from rom...