Amiga A500 rev6 clean / mods

[mjnurney]

By request i have the following A500 Rev6 to modify and clean up.

A500 Rev6 OCS 512K KS 1.3

mods:

512K / 1024k chip ram selector
512K chip / 512k slow selector
HCX floppy emulator

test and clean

currently making a floppy bay bracket for the emulator which will screw down properly , after that a window will be cut for the LCD and three buttons fitted on top somewhere.

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Lovley

What material are you using for the floppy/hxc bracket?

Also I am very interested in the switch hacks for 1mb, 512k etc.

 

[dougal]

Is it absolutely necessary to mod the case in order to use the HxC emulator ? I ask because if I ever decide to buy one i'd like to have it hidden completely.

 

[ElectroBlaster]

From what I understand! No you do not need to use the lcd. Somebody will confirm that 100% soon enough.

I bought both the HxC board with Lcd and the HxC Slim.

I have been torn which Amiga's to put the HxC's into... mounting the screen is the hardest part and I am worried about messing things up

 

[mjnurney]

you don't have to cut the case , you can use the boot gui if you like but disk swapping becomes a problem

 

[mjnurney]

update :

HCX floppy em fitted now , 1024k chip / 512k chip ram selectors now working.

LCD to fit and buttons too.

mike.

 

[mjnurney]

Retro brighted a new (old) A500 case as the old one has a crack in it from shipping.

Keyboard de-dusted and whitened.

all most as new

 

[Tajmaster]

Chuffin awesome Mike

 

[mjnurney]

your too kind

and its not mine :-(

anyway further work today after the gardening in the sun !!!

youtube link http://youtu.be/9YfY6n4yKC0

still to do.

make the loom nice , glue the lcd in, bolt it down…. and clean - done

some keys refuse to work...

 

[armalyte]

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

 

[mjnurney]

i changed the keyboard to my one as its white already and works perfectly.. i'll change the membrane or just get another one for mine later

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Is the membrane truly faulty? I wonder if the little rubber contact pads under each keypost have gone bad. This seems to happen on C64 keyboards.

I have something that needs my attention but just have not as yet. I put together parts from an a1200 and A500 keyboard with a keyrah. Got quite frustrated over how a few keys refused to work but I know the ribbon is ok. Only other option is worn rubber contacts.