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Well I have nothing to add re my projects involving my Checkmated A1200, that will all be for the new year, but I got my A1200 motherboard back from Amigakit (recapped and timing fixes etc), and even got an Omniport to go with the freeway USB. It was all a tight squeeze but its now in there and...
Well, work has been so busy that I have barely had time to do much on my projects, but I have now done enough that I might park them till Xmas (I have auditors in for a few weeks and so much to do....)
Clockport expander project
As per earlier posts this did not go well, despite help from Chris...
Well, my new a1200 turned up, warranty seal still intact.
result 1 plugged in a psu and a scart cable and it booted to the kickstart screen.
Result 2: opened it up to find its a 1d4 board (I haven't got one of those - EDIT Turns out I do - I just read my own signature and reminded myself that my...
Well, although my two projects for my Checkmate a1200 are ongoing, (and are/will be the subject of further posts), as I have said previously that is probably as far as I can take that Amiga, and I have concluded that my desktop a1200 with mediator is pretty much complete as well. It then struck...
Aah, damn it.
Got the clockport extender cables and despite trying to be ever so careful as soon as I switched on the extender released a little puff of magic smoke......
Obviously switched it all off immediately.
The only thing that was plugged into the extender at the time was the RTC/temp...
And as usual with this hobby there is always a catch...
Well, I started by having to fit one of my 3.2 custom roms (inc the ehide driver) into the rom riser that is linked to the rom.expander to provide power (I assume).These roms are however fractionally larger and I had a mare trying to get...
Well they have arrived! Hopefully will get a minute to fit them, but as others have reported amigakit don't send the software or provide a working link on the product page, so at best I will be able to test that my rapid road still works and the RTC.....
EDIT - Actually they replied within an...
Well I have been so busy with work that I havent been able to spend much Amiga time for a while, but as the new Amibay is back and looks really good I have to say, I thought i would post something.
It is also about this time of year that upgrade fever hits me and I so I was considering what I...
Well, I bought one of those ftdi cables that mean I can flash new firmware directly onto my tf1260 without removing it from my checkmate case.
I followed the videos available online and flashed the latest alpha firmware without any problems.
Much to my joy I found that my Rev 6 060 seems quite...
I fguess amibay is mainly for selling stuff, so I need to go somewhere for help. My A-2000 was working fine one day last week, then just quit. No output to monitor with hard drive in or out. sometimes a blank screen, sometimes just a
white screen. Any suggestions where I should go for help?
OK - after some twists and turns along the way, I am almost there.
My checkmate a1200 is still utterly in bits over my desk, but is just pending one more part prior to being rebuilt.
So, the TF1260 is now up and running, and thanks to a friend who made me some physical ROMs with the ehide...
Well, a little time has passed and thanks to Fitzsteve I have the upgrade bug again.
I got no further with the fastata although the broken leg was repaired and the amiga mostly sees the Kickstarts but with the rom risers its not 100% and cannot see the fastata card itself.
I have setup 3.2 on...
Well time for a little catchup post. I decided that AmigaOS 3.2 would be my next investment and so ordered not only the CD but a set of ROMs as well. I decided to do a clean install and build this from scratch. It all went OK although it is still a bit barebones as it comes and installing...
Going through my small cache of software, I discovered, in its original box, an OS 3.5 compact disk, with the familiar Boing logo. My A3000 in Montana was attached to a non-functioning CD-ROM drive which must have been working at one time. I think this computer also has a Picasso II Board...
After a 20 year hiatus, I am just getting back to where I abandoned my Amigas, around the turn of the century, 2000. As the internet became popular, most of the less hardy Amiga fans in the United States (of America) abandoned the platform because of a lack of support for Java scripting for the...
Well following on from the last two posts, the audio mixer that a.mi.goun so kindly made for me arrived today. It works great and was fitted in minutes. It allows me to not only combine the audio from the cdda output from the cd drive with the output from the RCA posts for the system sound...
Well as I cannot work out how to add pictures to my own comments, I have created a new post for the comparison pics of the 2 5.25 drives.
The darker (LG) drive is a tight fit which is good as it holds itself in (as the screw fixings don't line up), the lighter drive is a bit looser and I will...
Well my next project with this case is to get the CD Audio working properly. I can play music CDs using an app that reads the music from the data stream, but as I want it all, I want to use an app that can do that AND look up the CD details online. These apps it seems just get the cd drive to...
Well for Xmas I got a rapidroad USB for my checkmate. I got a couple of short USB extenders that did not have chunky female connectors, and took my dremel to my spare little additional front panel for the checkmate case.
At first it was great, but then I realised that I could not refit the...
Well, after all the shenanigans with the DVD drive, its fitted and although the inside isnt tidy, and there are some more things I will do if I get a chance, its closed up and running, and I am loving it.
(Just in case anyone has the same question I did, I would suggest M2 3mm screws to fit...