A1000 Project machine.

here is my project A1000, many changes have taken place but i won't reveal what just yet..

I'm still waiting for parts to finish her and some may take some time but here is a sneak preview of my A1000x

Spec

CPU 68040 (33 mhz)
AGA
Ram 32mb
Rom 3.0
Hdd 4gb IDE
Os 3.1
External PSU

I've decided to start a new thread simply because this has moved on a lot from my original A1000.

I've been working on this slowly for a few months , since after retro really when I decided the lowly spec of the ocs a1000 was a little limiting.

Plans for the future ..

More CPU power / ram / possibly a network

Classic workbench may appear on this machine when I sort some ram
Out too.

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UPDATE:

CPU changed.
Ram added.
cooling fan fitted.

result-

various demos loaded and tested, all good.
Doom running and playing now - testing heat and stability.
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Further reading..

My original A1000 was a poor old thing, damaged plastics, missing clips and rusty sockets but it worked. however after the novelty wore off with the pretty looks the realisation came that the old girl can't do a lot. I had initially planned a 68030 upgrade and IDE , kickstart rom and a HDD. but this fell by the way side as the kickstart roms would not work and the ram was very limited in the cpu add on. So after much thinking and planning a major upgrade was chosen and no going back now.

Am i happy?

yes pretty much i can return the machine to original spec if really needed but i don't want to and have little desire to do so , i will in the future buy a better condition A1000 and leave it as standard.

Why do it?

The A1000 while a pretty machine and the first version of the Amiga line, it is also the most limited in every way. CPU upgrades just to run whdload become tricky but there are solutions. Now personally I like nice icons, a desktop
Picture and ram to play with and anything less than an 030 runs along at a snails pace. In reality I want 040/060 performance and IDE options and a tidy solution is not available on the 1000 platform. I could of course hack a zorro card on the bus and fit an IDE on the 68000 but all this is fairly pointless. In real terms , the a1000 is maxed out at ecs , 030 and Scsi hdd from an a500.

Most of which I have done in the past.

So as I wanted 060 performance from all my Amigas , a 1200 retro fit was used. I know people will moan and complain that you should not alter an a1000 but I
Want it to be use full and I can return it standard trim - no earth shattering changes where made apart from 3 posts being cut off the plastic chassis. But the could be refitted with industrial glue if needed.

mike :-)

where is the sneak peek?

and for a moment there i thought you were making your own X1000:lol:

Bah, no pics :thumbsdown:

your too damn quick you lot! pics on :-)

oooOOOoooo spanky:thumbsup:

Lookin' good mate :thumbsup:

Very nice mike

Work in progress boys :-)

Cool, what does each of the red buttons do?

The red buttons operate the floppy emulator ..

I'll change those

Darn, I need a cover for my 1000's ram expansion! :D

Doest taj have one?

Taj does have one......attached to my super refurbed A1000!! :D:lol:

Well done m8! :thumbsup:
I want that floppy emulator :D

UPDATE

CPU changed, RAM add (32mb - 64mb soon)
cooling fan added.
PSU changed and made external.

- no more info for you yet

:-)

Quick & dirty Vid

http://youtu.be/AmTTEtYiPVQ

Jobs to do..

change those damn buttons!!!
increase ram
add an 68060

It a blasphemy i tell ya! The one and only Amiga model that has the right to simply be called: "THE Amiga" has been abused!:p
060 plans? what gives?

Seems you have hacked a A1200 into the A1000 case.

Well done, anyway.

Rumbled bah

hi mike was it a real 1000 a replay

Yes it was the 1000 at replay , same case as now but the mobo has been replaced .

I have made a copy of the rear blanking plate in aluminum and kept the original plastic one. So I can put the 1000 back to standard trim if needed.

The only thing I cannot refit is the floppy drive but I have retro fitted an A500 drive in the 1000 housing - and it works.

But it's unlikely I will return the machine to standard trim as it was in poor condition anyway. It had been stored in a shed for years.

:-)

oh ok mate :thumbsup:

I find the A1000 to be the sexiest model of all, and it was my first contact.
Thus, i dare not mod any of the ones i got, and will always keep them that way. Nevertheless, you should post some internal pics so we can see the mobo swap you did! :)

i only have a few at the min but here they are.

its still work in progress and i hope to have it done (more or less) for the amimeet

mike.

Love the hidden Atari logo in the second pic on first post! :lol: :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by AmiNeo

Love the hidden Atari logo in the second pic on first post! :lol: :thumbsup:

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Thats so funny:lol::lol::lol::lol:Really:lol::lol::lol::lol: could catch AmiNeo:thumbsup:


:coffee:

Grrrr Atari logo indeed!

I'll have to put some A1000 wallpaper on the old girl ...

:-)

To do.

IDE DVD rom to fit
A1200 buffered IDE interface
3.5 inch 8.1 fb IDE hard drive
Convert 040 to 060 Apollo
Add 32mb more ram
Fit SIMM socket to Apollo
New mini fan on Apollo
Replace 1200 mobo to one without damaged PCMCIA



Clean the case - done :-)

Thinking of selling that damaged 1200 mobo? I'm interested because it already has a keyboard mod.

I have to say those buttons look a bit naff, I'd have hid them in the keyboard garage or even better used a real floppy drive.

Other than that it's a pretty good idea.

Nice work, looks good, however I can no longer call that thing an A1000 ;)

Hi I will be selling this damaged mobo at some point as I will want to use the PCMCIA for modem / fat32 use.

And yep the buttons are naff but when I was an A1000 they were used for floppy images and kickstart files. Not needed now but useful for adf transfer

What's broke on the PCMCIA? Pins?

If it is just the connector it's okay, actual mobo problems would make me weary!

No the socket has been changed at somepoint and they have made a mess of the tracks on to and around the socket base.

Today's project stats.

Add another 32mb & second socket on the 1240
Add pins for the voltage reg
Upgrade CPU boot rom to support 1260 CPU
New fan fitted.

To do.
Remove 68040 & fit 68060 socket
Fit 68060 75mhz CPU.
Fit new buttons on A1000 case & reset button

Mike :-)

some mild update.

new motherboard fitted.
new buttons , but they are being changed again.
68060 Apollo fitted - although still having teething trouble.
new atx psu
reset button

to do
white buttons.
wireless wifi
cd-rom (possibly, maybe not)

mike.

Nice work mate. I was thinking before about doing this with my A600/ACA630/IndiECS/SubwayUSB setup.

You've done a great job :thumbsup:

How about slot loading slim DVD under the HxC? Just cut out a slot like Phipp's did on the back of his A1200 :)

Wondering if a 4000D mobo would fit there, if so one with an ultra souped CSPCC + CVPPC and an UW_SCSI hard drive gear would make of it an one very LULZ custom A1000.

No zorro though as the daguter board profile is "a bit" high for that case I think :lol:

but whats the point of that ? the 4000s only benefit when compared to the 1200 is the zorro 3 slots. remove them and you have a poor 1200. The 1200 has pcmcia after all.

mike.

how big is the 4000 mobo i'll tell you if it will fit.

Erm actually Zorro III is kind of a big deal, I mean the A1200's trapdoor is only Zorro II which is a bottleneck. It's why you see 1200Ts with PPC and Ati Radon struggle to play FMV for example. A4000 is always going to be faster.

true zorro 3 is much better

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Originally Posted by mjnurney

but whats the point of that ? the 4000s only benefit when compared to the 1200 is the zorro 3 slots. remove them and you have a poor 1200. The 1200 has pcmcia after all.

mike.

how big is the 4000 mobo i'll tell you if it will fit.

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I was thinking more on the CSPPC's UW-SCSI and the 604 ppc cpu rather than the 603, otherwishe the 4000 also lacks the clockport.

For mobo sizes it's a lot less narrow for sure but dunno its exact sizes.

More fun with the A1000 (1200)

I have decided not to add a cd ..at least for the moment - SD pcmcia is much more useful than write once CDs. I'm fed up with burning the damn things.

My games testing continues on the 68060 and fun it is too :-)

MAME - too slow really.
Ami mastergear - mastersys emulator - brilliant
Aspv089 - spectrum emulator tzx&sna - excellent !
magic c64 - c64 emu - brilliant too
shapeshifter..working on this
Scummvm 060 - supereb!

PC,
Adoom - super fast on 060
Quake - playable and reasonably quick.
Duke 3d - dead slow on aga
quake2 - pointless.

Amiga RTG/AGA
Foundation - good.
Napalm - excellent C&C copy
myst - good fun
OneEescapee - very good another world copy
Trapped / Gloom - okay nothing special.
Fly'in high aga 3d racing game - ok

http://youtu.be/SWdFPx41FWg
http://youtu.be/Kn7qOQ-rn30
http://youtu.be/504i3g78M8o

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Originally Posted by mjnurney

how big is the 4000 mobo i'll tell you if it will fit.

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As it's normally mounted (general connectors like parallel, video etc... facing to the back) :


24.5 cm in wide by 34.5 cm in deep, aprox.

BTW, very nice work there, perhaps some purists will regret it but I found it an excellent mod (much better than dropping there a mini atx PC or PPC or whatever) :)

ill have a measure later (internal sizes)

I love the A1000 but...

its of little use in the real world. It is after all an A500 basically but even more difficult to upgrade. The A500 had lots of upgrades, the A1000 did not and what is out there is big money.

http://youtu.be/ecwtojrKUHw

Amiga RIVA demo running on the old girl at 75mhz. it looks like the cpu is being hit hard with this, as you would expect. having said that it plays well and i'll have to see about registering it to see the full colour mode.

68060@75mhz.
RIVA - from Aminet 68K mpeg1 video player.

and a colour version

http://youtu.be/KU5O8xsfFy4

not finished yet thooooo

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and a colour version

http://youtu.be/KU5O8xsfFy4

not finished yet thooooo

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Yay! I was ther first to view it :)

BTW, whos the fox in the first two pics?

Dunno about the first ones, but the last is a real fox, lol.

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Originally Posted by rkauer

Dunno about the first ones, but the last is a real fox, lol.

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LOL, weve got matching tops too ;)

thats not you in pic 3 is it Taj ?

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Originally Posted by mjnurney

thats not you in pic 3 is it Taj ?

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:slap

Whos the fox in the first two pics??