WHiZZi
Member
Hi there fellow retro computer lovers 
,
Already a few years active here, but I've been a long time collector with a large gap in between where I just didn't have any old computer whatsoever.
In my top years, back in 1998 when I was around 16, I had around 38 homecomputers from MSX to Macintosh, from Tandy to Amiga. That's when I fell in love with Amiga as a system and owned a 500, CDTV (complete), A1200, A600HD and 3000. My hobby changed slightly so I got rid of everything
icard . Even my rare Tandy TRS80 Colour Computer II 'white model' :double ..
We skip a few years without any old computers near me. Somewhere around 2012 I went to a friend who collected old game consoles. I missed the Amiga CDTV and Amiga CD32 and I decided I wanted an Amiga back.
So, a few days later I owned a boxed Amiga 4000T (yes, you read that correctly), 2 boxed Amiga 500s and a GVP A530 and a ****load of software.
Due money issues I had to sell the A4000T, the GVP A530 (which I actually sold here) and one of the A500s. I did buy a microA1-C to at least get the original Amiga feeling.
When I found out Petro was selling new Amiga 1200s, I went to get one which immediately died because of the broken capacitors
. Lucky I got a A1200 main board from a friend and I build up my beloved A1200. Oddly enough, again money issues and again, I sold the A1200..
Money issues were over again (changing job helped a lot) and I got myself a beautiful CDTV with keyboard and mouse and with help of Amibay I got a working remote and FDD!
Then, and this happened 2 weeks ago, I found a collection online which I couldn't resist to buy. This is the reason:
:wooha:
Yes, that's what I picked up..everything working. In random order:
- 3x A1200
- 1x Toshiba MSX
- 1x Toshiba T-1100 Personal Computer
- 2x Commodore 64
- Philips CDI 210 (inc 10 CDi's)
- 6 Boxed Amiga games
- Atari Mega-ST4 incl keyboard and mouse.
- 100s of games for C64 and Amiga (also originals)
One of the A1200 actually had a HDD in it and a GVP Jaws II (68030) clocked at 50Mhz and 4Mb RAM. this is the video of the 2nd time I turned it on.
Roughly a week later I traded my Toshiba MSX to a yellow Amiga 600 and that's when I got the idea of retr0bright
This is the Amiga 600 how I got it:
And here's after 20hours with a shampoo (12% hydrogen peroxide) to make your hair blonde and 4 bars of UV-light used to get a tan.
Yes, that's the same machine.. It's currently under UV-light again to get the bottom part of the top-case also in the correct colour. Also the bottom and all the keys are there right now, so it's probably clean by tomorrow.
If you like, I'm making a video blog about my retr0bright projects and you can also follow it on my website
,Already a few years active here, but I've been a long time collector with a large gap in between where I just didn't have any old computer whatsoever.
In my top years, back in 1998 when I was around 16, I had around 38 homecomputers from MSX to Macintosh, from Tandy to Amiga. That's when I fell in love with Amiga as a system and owned a 500, CDTV (complete), A1200, A600HD and 3000. My hobby changed slightly so I got rid of everything
icard . Even my rare Tandy TRS80 Colour Computer II 'white model' :double ..We skip a few years without any old computers near me. Somewhere around 2012 I went to a friend who collected old game consoles. I missed the Amiga CDTV and Amiga CD32 and I decided I wanted an Amiga back.
So, a few days later I owned a boxed Amiga 4000T (yes, you read that correctly), 2 boxed Amiga 500s and a GVP A530 and a ****load of software.
Due money issues I had to sell the A4000T, the GVP A530 (which I actually sold here) and one of the A500s. I did buy a microA1-C to at least get the original Amiga feeling.
When I found out Petro was selling new Amiga 1200s, I went to get one which immediately died because of the broken capacitors
. Lucky I got a A1200 main board from a friend and I build up my beloved A1200. Oddly enough, again money issues and again, I sold the A1200..Money issues were over again (changing job helped a lot) and I got myself a beautiful CDTV with keyboard and mouse and with help of Amibay I got a working remote and FDD!
Then, and this happened 2 weeks ago, I found a collection online which I couldn't resist to buy. This is the reason:
:wooha:
Yes, that's what I picked up..everything working. In random order:
- 3x A1200
- 1x Toshiba MSX
- 1x Toshiba T-1100 Personal Computer
- 2x Commodore 64
- Philips CDI 210 (inc 10 CDi's)
- 6 Boxed Amiga games
- Atari Mega-ST4 incl keyboard and mouse.
- 100s of games for C64 and Amiga (also originals)
One of the A1200 actually had a HDD in it and a GVP Jaws II (68030) clocked at 50Mhz and 4Mb RAM. this is the video of the 2nd time I turned it on.
Roughly a week later I traded my Toshiba MSX to a yellow Amiga 600 and that's when I got the idea of retr0bright
This is the Amiga 600 how I got it:
And here's after 20hours with a shampoo (12% hydrogen peroxide) to make your hair blonde and 4 bars of UV-light used to get a tan.
Yes, that's the same machine.. It's currently under UV-light again to get the bottom part of the top-case also in the correct colour. Also the bottom and all the keys are there right now, so it's probably clean by tomorrow.
If you like, I'm making a video blog about my retr0bright projects and you can also follow it on my website
