Fitzsteve's A1000 project!

[fitzsteve]

Hi peeps,

Well today was a very long and agonizing day at work knowing I had my very first ever A1000 in the boot of my Car only 10 ft from my Desk I might add!

There it sat all day whilst I was waiting for the time to tick away on an otherwise boring Saturday (our slowest time of the year is August more so due to the Olympics and School Holidays!)

Anyway, I finally had the opportunity to open my parcel

I've given the plastics a quick clean but there will be a full strip down and clean inside/out before I make any more progress on this one, so here are some pics of the basic bits to start the project.

The A1000 comes with the 256k upgrade so we have a 512k miggy here complete with clean Keyboard & original mouse with L shape adapter

The original Kickstart/Workbench Disks & Manuals are all present, but it's un-boxed.

Only last week I bought this Kickstart adapter from these very boards, the sale was great timing so I had to snap it up, was obviously fated!

So there it is, before final cleaning I'll be testing everything out to make sure it works, then It'll be time to consider any other upgrades. I'm hoping Kippers 8mb Ram upgrade will fit inside - We'll have to wait and see when that turns up.

I guess I'll be on the lookout for some kind of HDD upgrade, hopefully a purpose built one for the A1000 as I know the socket is back to front for the A1000 and A500 ad-ons wont be ideal...

That's it for now

 

[johnim]

nice again mate just need the 3000/t

 

[AndyLandy]

Ahh, the venerable A1000. Is she a UK PAL model? They're not so common these days.

Lovely pics, thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing how this project progresses. You've got strong competition from mjnurney's rather awesome A1000 rig!

 

[LTAC]

Beautiful not yellowed machine (except the mouse!)

 

[fitzsteve]

Hi guys, Thanks for the kind words

She came from the USA actually is a 120v NTSC unit. I have a step down here but that's 110v (It's a big 200w fella BTW)

So I'm unsure if that'll power it, perhaps I should grab a UK PSU if I can find one?

I was wondering if I should install a PAL Motherboard or if NTSC would be fine for my needs, my TV's support NTSC so I should be ok, I was also considering installing my Indivision ECS inside

Too many idea's in my head right now!

 

[TjLaZer]

Nice! Funny how you worded it like the parcel was a carton of smokes or something! lol Nice condition. Did she arrive from the States?

Retrobrite that mouse asap!

 

[fitzsteve]

Nice! Funny how you worded it like the parcel was a carton of smokes or something! lol Nice condition. Did she arrive from the States?

Retrobrite that mouse asap!

Yep she's from the US of A

I don't have the right sort of Kettle lead though to match my Step Down, that's of curse assuming it's ok to use a 110v AC Step down with 120v US Amiga :help:

Worst case, I have a travel adapter I can use in addition to the Step Down

 

[BLTCON0]

Nice Amiga Steve
I think 110V will be just fine, in the US the voltage is spread between 110 - 120 V if I'm not wrong. It's expectable they took that into account for tolerances when designing the power supply

EDIT: Can you take a photo of the underside of the mouse? I think it's the same "Made in Hong Kong" model found in early A500s (or better, early A500s borrowed the A1000 mouse minus the L-plug, with metal leaves instead of micro-switches inside), but haven't verified that 100% yet.

 

[rkauer]

The 110V step transformer will do, Steven. This is exactly what I do with 110/115/120/127V units I have.

Now don't waste our time waiting for pictures of the unit working! Hardware pr0n FTW!

 

[AndyLandy]

Yeah, as has been said above, your step-down transformer will be fine. There's enough tolerance in equipment to work on the basis that the world is divided into 115v and 230v regions and nothing else matters.

 

[fitzsteve]

Hey guys!

Well since I dn't have the correct Kettle lead I found a travel adapter with USA adapter and used a UK one

As expected it works perfect and the A1000 is alive

And the KS adapter working a treat

I can't get it to read any Floppy's though, it was working as the seller had pics with Workbench loaded up - I can't tell if the Disks are fully inserted so I'm goingto need to open her up for a look

The drive is ticking away so there is some life there! No boot either from my external drive but I don't even know if that works anymore!

 

[TjLaZer]

use a disk cleaning kit on it. Should fix it up.

 

[BLTCON0]

No boot either from my external drive but I don't even know if that works anymore!

KS 1.3 won't boot off an external drive If you feel adventurous enough already you can of course disconnect the internal one, short the select 0 and select 1 lines and have the external behave as df0:

BTW, was the installed drive protected during shipping? (e.g. with an inserted floppy disk).
Floppy drive head bouncing around while in transit isn't a good thing...

 

[fitzsteve]

Good news guys, it seems that the Disks just were not inserting properly, if I pull out the eject button whilst inserting the disk they drop down into the drive, I guess shipping without a Disk inside done a little damage, but at least I have a workaround

And to be safe I also ran a cleaning Disk through

So here she is, fully up and running!

And workbench has loaded

Hmmm, could do with some more Ram... I know let's steal something from my A500+

Ha ha! It works

And the external drive is working too

Time to play a Game

Absolute Classic

Bye for now whilst I take over the World - Muhahahahaha

 

[johnim]

now theres a nice blue and orange screen glad you sorted it mate

 

[fitzsteve]

now theres a nice blue and orange screen glad you sorted it mate

Thanks

 

[Buzzfuzz]

This makes me want to get going on my A1000 as well, but the DKB Kwikstart requiers desoldring U6A, which is a bit to much for my skills.
The thing is with the Insider II also in it, I won't have anything on the outside.

 

[fitzsteve]

This makes me want to get going on my A1000 as well, but the DKB Kwikstart requiers desoldring U6A, which is a bit to much for my skills.
The thing is with the Insider II also in it, I won't have anything on the outside.

Yeah that would be a better solution. I don't know what my long term plans are for this yet though, maybe a Zeus 68k if it will fit? I could make a small enclosure for the Kickstart adapter to make it look a little tidier

 

[jvdbossc]

No color bugs, have they been corrected?

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Curiosity thing here:

That monitor you have it connected to, whats the make/model please ?