Hi,
I thought I would introduce myself, my name is Gavin and I've been an Amiga fan for years, but I haven't owned one for a while, until a few weeks ago!
So I purchased an Amiga 500+ and Amiga 600 bundle on eBay, condition unknown, it arrived and one PSU was DOA and the 500+ was in a state with missing covers and a leaky battery, I also received lots of floppies.
The Amiga 500+ was beyond my repair skills so I sold it on eBay with full disclosure of the issues. The 600 was then going to be my project (although I always dreamed of getting a 1200 so kept looking on eBay) I tested it and the keyboard only partially worked, I cleaned out the connector on on the motherboard and got it all working. I then pulled out the motherboard and have sent it away to Retro Passion for capping as I noticed 1 cap had a dull pad and it looked like a resistor may have fallen off the board. While waiting I ordered a few bits for it, I ordered a Furia which has 9.5mb ram, I also ordered 3.1 ROM and IDE to SD adapter and a new connector for PSU as I'm thinking I'll do a Meanwell PSU.
Whilst waiting I spotted an Amiga 1200 with CF card and Gotek for a decent price so I've purchased that! I can only keep 1 Amiga so I'm thinking I'll use be 1200 until my 600 board comes back, I will then get the 1200 recapped and use the 600 until it returns, I then need to work out an upgrade path for the 1200.
Anyway I'm looking forward to finding out the best options for the 1200 from the site.
Speak soon,
Gavin
I thought I would introduce myself, my name is Gavin and I've been an Amiga fan for years, but I haven't owned one for a while, until a few weeks ago!
So I purchased an Amiga 500+ and Amiga 600 bundle on eBay, condition unknown, it arrived and one PSU was DOA and the 500+ was in a state with missing covers and a leaky battery, I also received lots of floppies.
The Amiga 500+ was beyond my repair skills so I sold it on eBay with full disclosure of the issues. The 600 was then going to be my project (although I always dreamed of getting a 1200 so kept looking on eBay) I tested it and the keyboard only partially worked, I cleaned out the connector on on the motherboard and got it all working. I then pulled out the motherboard and have sent it away to Retro Passion for capping as I noticed 1 cap had a dull pad and it looked like a resistor may have fallen off the board. While waiting I ordered a few bits for it, I ordered a Furia which has 9.5mb ram, I also ordered 3.1 ROM and IDE to SD adapter and a new connector for PSU as I'm thinking I'll do a Meanwell PSU.
Whilst waiting I spotted an Amiga 1200 with CF card and Gotek for a decent price so I've purchased that! I can only keep 1 Amiga so I'm thinking I'll use be 1200 until my 600 board comes back, I will then get the 1200 recapped and use the 600 until it returns, I then need to work out an upgrade path for the 1200.
Anyway I'm looking forward to finding out the best options for the 1200 from the site.
Speak soon,
Gavin
