Recent content by Sato

I have a PAL Amiga 500, but also a few NTSC/60Hz retro consoles I wouldn't mind having on one screen. I was considering getting an original Amiga monitor for this purpose. Are there any models that work with both PAL and NTSC signals, or did they strictly only work with one? Thank you!

Declined Pghulme's offer, so still looking!

Nothing else to really say, looking for a working internal floppy drive for the A500. Sadly mine turned out to be broken :/ Postage to UK and can pay with PayPal.

Hi, would just like to give an update as I think I've found the problem. Seems an incredibly tiny part of a small ribbon cable in the floppy itself has torn, so the disk can't be read properly. If you look in the centre of the small part I'm lifting up, there's a small orange cable. The...

Tried with another few disks, definitely seems to be a drive problem. Even tried a few pirated/copied disks and had the same issue. The drive light turns on, there's a light whirring and clicking sound and the screen goes white, then that all stops and it returns to the workbench disk screen.

God I really hope it's not a drive problem, but that's what I was thinking. Can I just insert a game/other software or do I have to boot into workbench first?

Hi, I'm new both with retro computers and on here so sorry if I sound ill-informed. I'll just try and summarise what's going on. Tried booting the system. Both with and without a disk inserted, the screen just flickers between grey/green/yellow every few seconds. Opened the expansion bay and...