Fitzsteve's Amiga Journey - Part 6

[fitzsteve]

After a short break here with an update to my Amiga Journey! As before if you missed any of the other chapters you can find them at the links below:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Fitzsteve’s Amiga Journey - Part 6​

With my return to the scene very much established it was time to put some names to faces.

Zetr0 & r0jaws kindly invited me along to show off my Amiga setups at the 25year Amiga event at Bletchley Park in June 2010.

It was awesome to finally meet these guys and show off my projects. I only managed to attend the Sunday but it was a great event with lots to see and do.

You can see the other pics in my event thread:

https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=7159

Seeing all these awesome setup only spurred me on to further upgrade my machines but my next project was an unexpected one. I started to get the urge to get a big box Amiga, an A4000 was the aim but they seemed pretty rare to get hold of.

Chance would have it though that a kind soul who was emigrating would list their A4000 free to collect on Amibay. I was shocked when I first saw the thread and then noticed that it was also in the South East. I registered my interest right away!

This was what I ended up with:

It was a standard A4000 with EC030 and 4mb Fast Ram. There had been some battery leakage so I removed this right away and cleaned the affected area but as you can see everything seemed to be working fine.

First thing to do was upgrade the Motherboard Fast Ram to 16mb, thankfully my Amibay request was filled almost immediately!

Next on my list was a faster processor board, this gorgeous Apollo 4040 caught my eye and after much negotiation a deal was closed.

I went straight to work fitting this beast in my A4000

Along with a Buddha IDE I picked up to drive my DVDRW drive

Lookin’ good on the old SysInfo:

I also snapped up a nice new TV/Monitor for it and also a DCE Flicker Fixer/Scan Doubler:

My A4000 project was definitely starting to take shape! I’m delighted that I got the opportunity to own this great machine and really enjoyed turning it into something special.

I was very pleased with my first A4000 and it was very clear there was plenty of scope to upgrade further.

But you’ll have to wait till the next chapter!

Click here for Part 7

 

[Tajmaster]

Steve, these threads are just plain frikken awesome!

Do you take the pics for these threads or are they pics you took at the time?

 

[fitzsteve]

Steve, these threads are just plain frikken awesome!

Do you take the pics for these threads or are they pics you took at the time?

Hey dude, thanks for the kind words!

I'm working from the pics I took at the time

As some of this stuff like the DCE Flicker Fixer are long gone so no way I could take these pics again!

All the pics are in order so its actually quite easy to piece them together

Oh and really glad you are enjoying these threads, I was wondering if people were starting to get bored of them

Steve.

 

[StrontiumDog]

 

[Tajmaster]

What he said

 

[fitzsteve]

Cheers guys!

These threads are definately better received here at Amibay than EAB or it could be that the mods merged them into one thread and its killed the format?

In any case, humbled you guys are still enjoying them. Expect Part 7 in the next week

Steve.

 

[Tajmaster]

I occasionally browse EAB but Ive never seen your threads there, probably cos its rare I have a glance over there. Im only a member of Amibay and Amiga.org, although I wont log into nor visit that troll site again after the Amibay bashing thread a couple of months ago

Im certainly a fan of your threads Steve, I hope other members with an Amiga story to tell do similar threads Keep the pr0n comming!

 

[fitzsteve]

Yep I find myself spend 90% of browsing time here at Amibay these days.

:grouphug: :bounceBoingBall:

ps. Don't worry, plenty more pr0n to come...

 

[Hell_Labs]

Nice and clean.

I'd have one of those microvitec monitors though - just doesn't look right with an LCD.

 

[fitzsteve]

Nice and clean.

I'd have one of those microvitec monitors though - just doesn't look right with an LCD.

Must admit, when I had the DCE Flicker/Scan Magic I was reall tempted to get a microvitec but now I have the...

***Spoiler alert run curser over below to read**

PicassoIV

***Its safe now***

I'm glad I went for the LCD TV

 

[DonAmiga]

Great Stuff Steve, I have enjoyed reading through all 6 parts. And you have a good way with your explanation, which is always helpful. I seen in one of your quotes over at EAB where you said you where planing, at some point to do a report on the installation and set-up of classic workbench, I'm sure this will be great as well.

 

[fitzsteve]

Great Stuff Steve, I have enjoyed reading through all 6 parts. And you have a good way with your explanation, which is always helpful. I seen in one of your quotes over at EAB where you said you where planing, at some point to do a report on the installation and set-up of classic workbench, I'm sure this will be great as well.

Thanks!

And wow, you read through all 6 back to back?

After all the pr0n you might need to see a Doctor

Yeah I should get back onto that guide asap, I wrote the basics out I need to take screen shots in WinUAE and double check the notes.

Stay tuned though

Steve.

 

[merlinkv]

@Steve


I'm very..... :bounceBoingBall: :bounceBoingBall: :woot: :bounceBoingBall: :bounceBoingBall: for you my friend.

Very nice A4KD.

I take a look at battery and I think is better to change for a new one. Seems to be the original one, and maybe go... .

My congratulations again

Best wishes

 

[fitzsteve]

Thanks Pablo!

Battery is long gone and damage repaired by our Guru Zetr0!

 

[DonAmiga]

@Fitzsteve,, "you read through all 6 back to back?

After all the pr0n you might need to see a Doctor "




Lol, its ok I read them in stages, but my wife thinks I need to see a Doctor to stop me going on about wanting a A4000

 

[thgill]

Still jealous of Steve and his awesome JVC LCD.

 

[fitzsteve]

Still jealous of Steve and his awesome JVC LCD.

He he, I was real lucky with that TV, if I ever want to get rid of it I have a queue of people who want it LOL

(I think CosmicFrog called first Dibs though)

 

[Phipscube]

That A4000D is the most spawnsome catch evaaar mate! And it looks gorge! I'd like one just as clean one day

I'm deffo still enjoying reading your Amiga story Steve, keep it up and don't get phazed by the EAB staff. I'm certainly looking forward to reading the WB guide too! I need all the help I can get with teh softwareezz hakz

 

[cosmicfrog]

yep me and that jvc have a sorta love affair going on

Thinking of talking one or two of the gunnie pigs to wrapping it up for me while steve is a sleep and send it out to me

nice to see the budda ide board again, was typical a month after letting steve have it I wanted it back heheheh but I got other ide boards now not to mention my next board the DENEB oh I just did hehehehhehe

 

[fitzsteve]

That A4000D is the most spawnsome catch evaaar mate! And it looks gorge! I'd like one just as clean one day

I'm deffo still enjoying reading your Amiga story Steve, keep it up and don't get phazed by the EAB staff. I'm certainly looking forward to reading the WB guide too! I need all the help I can get with teh softwareezz hakz

Cheers Les!

Was just looking thought the pics for Chapter 7 - Things are going to get a bit messy as this is where I kind of went off the rails with this whole addiction

yep me and that jvc have a sorta love affair going on

Thinking of talking one or two of the gunnie pigs to wrapping it up for me while steve is a sleep and send it out to me

nice to see the budda ide board again, was typical a month after letting steve have it I wanted it back heheheh but I got other ide boards now not to mention my next board the DENEB oh I just did hehehehhehe

I wondered why the TV kept appearing in different places in the house, I just thought we had a poltergeist :wooha: