A500T/060

Hi there. After months of collecting hardware, trying many configurations out of which almost none really worked with Micronik's busboard, I've ended up with this:

http://gallery.me.com/falba/100129/A...12941361960001

* Commodore A500 rev 6a OCS without CPU (Micronik turns A500 into early A2000 made in Germany that need CPU removed to work with Blizzard 2060)
* A501 - gives RTC and 1 MB Chip RAM
* Indivision ECS
* Kickstart 3.1
* Blizzard 2060 - 68060/50 MHz, 128 MB Fast RAM
* Cybervision 64/3D, 4 MB
* Ariadne Ethernet
* HDD SCSI IBM 4.3 GB
* CD-ROM NEC 40x
* Black Amiga Technologies mouse
* Mechanical keyboard from the early A2000s, it uses NMI key switches, has left Commodore key and red Caps-Lock LED, I rehoused it into CDTV keyboard case.
* Dell 20" Display
* Cheap Creative speakers

As you can see this Amiga works nicely under AmigaOS 3.9 with BB2.

If you're interested how it looks inside here is a shot:
http://gallery.me.com/falba/100129/D...12941362260001
You can see it's quite tidy inside, only 3 cards visible (Turbo, RTG and Ethernet), you can see the new PSU and my ATX power adapter.

Here's closeup at the power adapter:
http://gallery.me.com/falba/100129/D...12941370520001

Indivision ECS partially covered by SCSI ribbon and HDD LED wire:
http://gallery.me.com/falba/100129/D...12941362330001

And closeup at cards:
http://gallery.me.com/falba/100129/D...12941362410001

Plans for future? Get Daneb USB 2.0 and probably replace Ariadne with faster USB NIC, maybe also some AHI Sound Card - we will see what can I find :)

WOW! It's been a while since I saw your tower (it was white, well butterscotch last time I saw it). One question though, how come you havnt added extra chip ram on the motherboard?

Wow! An A500T, there's something quite remarkable there! Not something you see very often, but still an awesome system. (Even if it does feel a little bit sick and twisted!)

Thanks for sharing, that's pretty awesome! :)

Hey thats really awesome stuff :thumbsup: :bowdown:

Congratulation Czarek!

Finally you did it! :)
One of the most powerful A500 on this planet.

And it is clean mods without hot glue/duct tape everywhere - this is perfect example how mod should looks like!
+1 from me! :thumbsup:

Awesome work! I always loved A500T clean mods since you find them very rarely!
Thanks for sharing mate!

:wooha: WOW! That is Effing awesome! Very tidy mods inside there! Great work fella! :thumbsup:

Looks beautiful!!! Nice tower case, too.

HOT Hardware :) Have fun with it.

gehtjanx

It's not everyday you see a pimped up A500 with an 060.

Most impressive. :thumbsup:

Kin

nice A500 Tower :)

Its easier to add the extra 512k chipram via the trapdoor and cut a few traces
than solder in some new chips on the mobo, especial if the ram expasion dos`t have the right sized chips :)

Now that really puts my A2000 040 to shame hehehehhehe but I like it