Amiga 600 - I love to hate you (A photo story)

Amiga 600 - I love to hate you

Hey everybody.

I always hated the 600 since day 1 when it was introduced back in the day. At the time I had an Amiga 500 and when I saw the 600 It seemed like an abomination..."What?? No numeric keypad???" Let's not start talking about the CPU ....

Whan I returned back to the amiga after all those years I was really trying to avoid to get one.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I bought a few months ago a boxed 600 from an amibay member, and decided to boost her a little and turn this into a gaming machine for my 5 year old daughter.

Let's get started...


The amiga 600
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030076.jpg

Α604 Memory expansion - clockport
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030036.jpg

Indivision ECS SD/FF
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030038.jpg

Subway
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030039.jpg

Indivision adapter (By Kipper2k)
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030040.jpg

CF to IDE extender (By kipper2k)
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030037.jpg

PSX Adapter cable
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030094.jpg

PSX Joypad
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030096.jpg

The first thing to do was to remove the useless RF modulator.
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030047.jpg

After a few minutes....
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030048.jpg

Time for the indivision adapter
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030050.jpg

http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030056.jpg

That looks really nice....Imagine having an amiga 600 back in the day with a VGA socket
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030051.jpg

Time to install the Α604 and the scandoubler.
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030052.jpg

Lets test what we have done so far...
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030059.jpg

Now for the good stuff...

Indivision ACA 630
Kickstart 3.1
Ide to CF Extender

http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030087.jpg

The extender needs a small modification to the amiga case so that we can use the CF card and remove it without opening the case all the time.

The amiga completed.
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030082.jpg

Time to install classicWB ADVSP just for fun...
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030088.jpg

In order to use at the 600's ports both a mouse and the PSX cable, some cable extensions were needed.
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P1030095.jpg

That's all folks!

At this point I would like to thank two Greek amiga users, Dony and mfilos...

Nikos

very nice setup!

Very nice clean system there. Looking forward to the rest of your setup.

very nice indeed, thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

The aca630 really has made these desirable little systems indeed. May need to invest in one at some point.

Sweet setup :)

Fantastic project. The A600 really has had a recent injection of life!

Delicious indeed nikos!

What really tickles me is the Indy ECS has chunky pixel write mode - very cool indeed!

/Zetr0 coverts r0jaw's A600

Thanks everybody for the kind words.

The ACA 630 and the A604 is trully a killer combination. There is no need to remove the floppy to use the Indi ECS like the A603 and that makes it awesome.

I'll have to see where I will make the USB ports...that's the only thing left

Nice setup indeed. Well done Niko!! Btw, looking at your photos I see we have the same IKEA glass workbench for all the amiga hackery jobs, haven't we; :D

Damn... I was expecting something to go wrong... :o