Hi Guys,
Encouraged by Rakeim132 I'm opening a topic to show-off my A500 Plus, which I have expanded quite extensively.
Ofcourse the love for the Amiga started with an Amiga 500, rev. 3 chickenlips back in the days. But when the A500 Plus came out, I sold the A500 (not realizing the good Chickenlips keyboard was in there) and bought the A500 Plus. I spend a lot of time on that one, so it will not be a supprise that this is one Amiga that has a special place in my heart.
Unfortunately, when I got interested in Amiga's again, firering up my trusted A500 Plus, I soon bought an A1200. And the A500 became unused and I sold it here on Amibay.
That didn't last long as I wanted the A500 Plus back so soon there after bought again an A500 Plus and started expanding...
So how did I expand it...
Let's start that the first thing that was done is to remove the battery, no worries there...
- Indivision ECS
- 2x 512kB Indivision daisy chain expansion
- GVP A530 68030 at 40MHz (the best looking expansion for an A500!) with 8MB
- Changed the SCSI harddrive to a SCSI2SD rev. 5 fitted with an 8GB SD card
- Changed the fan of the GVP by a Noctua PVM as it was a bit noisy
- Fitted the A530 with a temperature controller to control the fan speed of the Nocua (heat sink on the 68030 with temperature sensor)
- Aquired an A314 and swapped with the 2x 512kB
- Fitted the A314 with a RaspberryPi 3b (WiFi access to Internet and NAS)
- KCS HD Drive Deluxe (dual HD external floppy drive)
- 4-way kickstart ROM (Kipper2k, hold down reset to change from 3.1.4 --> 3.1 --> 2.0 --> 1.3)
- Chickenlips / Hi-Tek / Space Invaders keyboard
- Chinon FB-357a
- GVP AT286 PC-board
- DF0/DF1 switch with softcontrol (hold down firebutten while startup)
- Recapped with nice red Würth capacitors
- New powersupply
- External SCSI CD Burner
To ease the boot sequence, I'm having the startup-sequence reading the current kickstart rom. Upon that result I'm letting it boot from the related partition:
- Kickstart 1.3 found --> Workbench 1.3 loading
- Kickstart 2.0 found --> Workbench 2.1 loading
- Kickstart 3.1 found --> Let the user choose between Workbench 3.1 or AOS 3.9
- Kickstart 3.1.4 found --> Workbench 3.1.4 loading
The workbenches itself are pretty clean with hardly any eye candy.
So the Amiga 500 Plus is actually fitted with 4 processors:
- 68000
- 68030
- Arm/Cortex of the RPi
- 80286 of the GVP PC-board
This is all connected to my BenQ BL912-B mounted on a swivel arm (to be able to use it also for my A1200)...
To give you an impression of my setup, I've ofcourse made some pictures for you to enjoy:
Encouraged by Rakeim132 I'm opening a topic to show-off my A500 Plus, which I have expanded quite extensively.
Ofcourse the love for the Amiga started with an Amiga 500, rev. 3 chickenlips back in the days. But when the A500 Plus came out, I sold the A500 (not realizing the good Chickenlips keyboard was in there) and bought the A500 Plus. I spend a lot of time on that one, so it will not be a supprise that this is one Amiga that has a special place in my heart.
Unfortunately, when I got interested in Amiga's again, firering up my trusted A500 Plus, I soon bought an A1200. And the A500 became unused and I sold it here on Amibay.
That didn't last long as I wanted the A500 Plus back so soon there after bought again an A500 Plus and started expanding...
So how did I expand it...
Let's start that the first thing that was done is to remove the battery, no worries there...
- Indivision ECS
- 2x 512kB Indivision daisy chain expansion
- GVP A530 68030 at 40MHz (the best looking expansion for an A500!) with 8MB
- Changed the SCSI harddrive to a SCSI2SD rev. 5 fitted with an 8GB SD card
- Changed the fan of the GVP by a Noctua PVM as it was a bit noisy
- Fitted the A530 with a temperature controller to control the fan speed of the Nocua (heat sink on the 68030 with temperature sensor)
- Aquired an A314 and swapped with the 2x 512kB
- Fitted the A314 with a RaspberryPi 3b (WiFi access to Internet and NAS)
- KCS HD Drive Deluxe (dual HD external floppy drive)
- 4-way kickstart ROM (Kipper2k, hold down reset to change from 3.1.4 --> 3.1 --> 2.0 --> 1.3)
- Chickenlips / Hi-Tek / Space Invaders keyboard
- Chinon FB-357a
- GVP AT286 PC-board
- DF0/DF1 switch with softcontrol (hold down firebutten while startup)
- Recapped with nice red Würth capacitors
- New powersupply
- External SCSI CD Burner
To ease the boot sequence, I'm having the startup-sequence reading the current kickstart rom. Upon that result I'm letting it boot from the related partition:
- Kickstart 1.3 found --> Workbench 1.3 loading
- Kickstart 2.0 found --> Workbench 2.1 loading
- Kickstart 3.1 found --> Let the user choose between Workbench 3.1 or AOS 3.9
- Kickstart 3.1.4 found --> Workbench 3.1.4 loading
The workbenches itself are pretty clean with hardly any eye candy.
So the Amiga 500 Plus is actually fitted with 4 processors:
- 68000
- 68030
- Arm/Cortex of the RPi
- 80286 of the GVP PC-board
This is all connected to my BenQ BL912-B mounted on a swivel arm (to be able to use it also for my A1200)...
To give you an impression of my setup, I've ofcourse made some pictures for you to enjoy:
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