Aysel,
Your next purchase should be some of that posh red rope to make a walkway around your room and start charging people to come see your amazing collection.
Looks fantastic! :thumbsup:
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Aysel,
Your next purchase should be some of that posh red rope to make a walkway around your room and start charging people to come see your amazing collection.
Looks fantastic! :thumbsup:
Just picked up an a500 to put in the man cave at the end of the garden (not willing to put my a1200 060 out there). I saw the pics so knew what the seller meant by 'signs of yellowing' but still makes me laugh. Never had a a500 before. Anything I should know?http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07...4418430da0.jpg
yeah,check the trapdoor for memory cards etc if it has a barrel battery remove it itll most likely leak...
erm,what else,oh yeah check the drive if it gets dirt in there which is common it may stop reading disks and may need cleaning if your lucky and the heads arnt worn out.
check all the ic's are seated etc they can work loose.
other than that i think there like tanks,you could check what motherboard is in there although if they work they work.
they are upgradable if your willing to through a small amount of cash at it,if you just want to play floppy games its fine as is.
Cheers Roy.
No memory cards in trapdoor - misplaced the relevant tool to remove the shield (as its a torx driver) but its all shiny and very neat inside.
Motherboard is Revision 6a (is that good?)
Do these have batteries fitted? the 500plus did I think, but when I googled a teadown of the a500 I couldn't see one
It boots up to the Kick 1.3 screen.
The WB1.3 disk that came with it has a read write error - am about to create a new one on my a1200
The a500 into disk that teaches you how to use a mouse etc is great though :)
The drive made a couple of weird noises with some disks but not others - but that could well be the disks.
I could spend a bit upgrading it here and there, but I wonder if I am not better off waiting till Jens releases the aca500plus, and then just either getting one of those or an original aca500.
For the moment, if it runs bubble bobble, dynablaster etc from disk then I am OK with that.
Just need a few hours sun to sort out its tan lines........
Gonna move it out to the man cave in a minute once I have written some adfs to disk.
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yes mate 6a is good:)(you can modify the boards for 1mb)
no batterys on the main board you should be good.as thers no clock on it they where on the ram cards normally.
EDIT: i suggest getting a disk head cleaner as well there not alot and worth getting ,you wont have to use it very often.
Wow. This basic a500 is proving to be more of a challenge than I expected. I think my a1200 has spoiled me!
My darling Wifey has bought me a PS4 1TB as a surprise pressy :D
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lucky bugger:D
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Heather
Only 3 things of note, A boxed bone stock A500 off dbloke. Girlfriend bought me a boxed Weird Wild and Wicked pack A600 and we got bungled whilst on holiday and they took the TV, my boxed psp and about 50 games and my ps3 superslim and maybe 30 games for that that where at hers, so last week bought another ps3 to replace it.