Blog entries by CrazyC
Well, its been a while, and I am still awaiting my original colour a1200.net case so will add photos when that arrives, but I am still focussed on my a1200 wedge which is set up on the dining room table.
In summary:
Picowyfy - for various reasons I could not get this to work, gave up and got a...
Well, I turned my attention to my wedge a1200 and made some progress - I fitted a black keyboard and a SOLAS, although managed to blow something up during the process and had to send the motherboard off for repair (Cheers to Rob Cranley for sorting this) - but anyway, its back and the SOLAS is...
Welcome to my 'review' of my towered a1200. Now revived with a new psu it lives again (But read on as subsequent events complicated matters)
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This machine actually does not get much use these days, but still holds a special place in my heart for various reasons. I have had this board since...
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...
Well I have found a little time to play with my amigas, but immediately ran into an issue with an old favourite game - and its a version of one of those that I played with my mates back in the day so its a real deal breaker for me - Supercars 2 AGA. I posted in the thread over on EAB so wont...
Now that I write that title I am not sure I shouldnt have worded it differently, but given almost no one reads these blogs except me I shall let it remain....
[EDIT -I have now changed the title from performance issues to WHDLOAD issues, as that is what it has turned out to be]
Anyway....
So...
OK - so no progress on anything else but I finally ordered an Indy Mk3 for my wedge a1200. It came, I fitted it and I got a picture. I then connected it to the Omniport from my previous post, and was a bit concerned about which way to put the cable. The manual for the Omniport only shows the...
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...