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I should have posted this about a week ago, but when I was fitting the solas to my wedge amiga I ended up with an escape of magic smoke and a burning smell....
Not sure whether I stuffed up or it was related to an incident with that motherboard in the past (see an earlier post). Anyway..... at...
Well, i have now moved on to my wedge a1200, which runs with a B1230 Mk4 and 32MB of Ram. In the past I tried and failed to get a wifi pcmcia card to work in my checkmate case, I just got crashes on boot up. However i watched another you tube video on setting it up and have worked out what i...
Well, with the addition of the Solas I have now taken the Checkmate a1200 as far as I am intending to for a while. Maybe fitting WiFi is the only thing left, but its not a priority right now. Therefore, before putting it 'away' (well, into a less used room) I made a very poor little video of...
And I finally got time to install the Solas that I got before Christmas. (And I brought in the Amiga from summerhouse into the house)
There were the usual dramas as I managed to bend a rom pin when fitting the Rom riser to get the clock signals, and the solas, the rom riser and the indy mk2 all...
Well my checkmate a1200 has video out via an Indy MK2 and a DVI to HDMI cable, and the sound running to a separate set of speakers, I saw a thread over on EAB linking to a relatively cheap adapter to inject the sound into the HDMI. And I thought this would be useful so I ordered it.
I have...
Its been ages since I have had time to even switch on any of my amigas due to work and family stuff, which is quite dissapointing, especially as now I have a SOLAS board waiting to be fitted. Hopefully soon I shall have a chance as I have been waiting for years to be able to get one of those. It...
Well, further to my previous entry I also finally got one of these :
which i fitted into my checkmate case and then connected the HD pin to pin 39 on the IDE adapter in my previous post. and as if by magic, the HD LED on the front of the checkmate case now lights up when the there is CF card...
Well, I had a number of things I still wanted to sort on my checkmate a1200, most importantly was fixing the non working pcmcia networking situation, and being able to see card activity on the ehide port on my tf1260. I have previously attempted to create a "hack" to do this but my soldering...
I tend to use this blog as a historical record of my various amiga issues and how they get resolved, so when I forget in future exactly what I did, I know where to look. Also thanks to google etc it may end up helping someone else. So, whilst awaiting various parts to progress my checkmate...
Hmm - since all my previous disasters, what have I managed:
- Well, I have swapped the motherboard from My checkmate a1200 out into the wedge and put the wedge one back in the checkmate
- I have flashed the 68090 firmware onto my TF1260 -which was not as straightforward as the last firmware...