Blog entries by CrazyC
Well as I didn't want to start the usual flame war about emulators vs real kit and what is an emulator and is a vampire a real amiga and all of that....I thought I would put a few thoughts here where no one will see them :)
Personally I believe that the best thing is whatever does it for each...
Having now received my ratte switch and getting the appropriate cables, I have set my towered a1200 to run both the native and Voodoo3 outputs via the ratte switch into the monitor.
It didnt quite work at first but that was due to the jumper on the switch being in the wrong place but easily...
And now with my current workbench, Acer G276HL Monitor (15khz capable) and Logitech Z207 speakers.
Well its been a while, but I came across a tower case on ebay which I miraculously won for a tiny price, and so it seemed rude to not then tower my main a1200. So I set out on another adventure with a few twists and turns and as is generally the case with this hobby, a few setbacks. These are...
Well, my a1200 is all back together. The case is closed despite the fact it is all a bit tight in there to say the least. Visually it now looks almost identical to in previous pics, with one exception.
The Blizzard 1260 has angled RAM and so the a1200 is raised about an inch both to give that...
Well I finally picked up an SCSI to IDE bridge and am hopefully going to try and fulfil the long held dream of speeding up my disk access.
Will try and do pics and an update this weekend - as nothing EVER goes smoothly for me I will no doubt have issues and be back on here and EAB for advice...
Well, here it is all finished.
1 Five volt regulator, 7 LEDs, a few bits of wire, a DB9 connector and some soldering:
Well as time and money are a bit too tight for me to progress my bigger amiga projects/desires, I decided to follow up on an old thread and see about making a joystick tester.
Simple for most of you I know, but I am just a noob to most of this stuff.
After some helpful advice via PM I am almost...
Well, real life seems to be keeping me busy at the moment with little time for retro. Am just marking time really until Tanks Furry comes out next month - that looks cool.....
Having purchased a second A1200 to fulfil my plan of having one in the summerhouse for games etc, I sent the new motherboard off to TheCorfiot in Wales for some work, namely:
recap the board (of course), reinforce the power lines to the floppy drive power connector, remove the RF modulator, and...
Well, I managed to get my hands on an a1200, whose motherboard (rev 1A) is now winging its way to The Corfiot in Wales for a recapping and some mods. Whilst I wait I have used my previous motherboard to create the a1200 that will go in the man cave - so just a basic a1200 with CF hard drive, and...
Well after all the hassle and not getting the few games I did all this for to work on the gotek I took that out, still had some issues with some games on the floppy versions, and then the floppy drive itself started playing up.
I have decided to park the a500 back in its box, and put a basic...
Well, I got my a500 for the man cave, and so proceeded to try and write a few adfs to disk to play out there. Hmm, it all went a bit wrong, as whether it was in infected or corrupts adf one of them trashed my CF HD on my a1200.
I ended up having to go back to an earlier backup (hence why I like...
Well as I seem to be getting nowhere fast with my A1200, and have little occassion to use it in the spare room, my attention has turned to the summerhouse. As my daughters are getting older and I approach 40, I think I need a man cave of retro goodness.
So, My desk out in the summerhouse...
Well its been a few months now and the madness is starting to return. Once again I am eyeing up one of those aztecmonster cards, so as to run my CF card on SCSI and put the DVD drive back in (just so I can).....
Well, I have had great fun with the kids over Christmas on the miggy, and have got them into Dynablaster etc.
The previous onset of Amiga Fever meant that the inside of my a1200 was getting rather crowded, especially in the corner with the IDE-Fix express, double CF adapter, cabling for the...
Well, now that finances have put a hold on any hardware mods for a while, I am getting my fix by looking into making my own 3.9 kickstart.
As this will be softkicked rather than burnt onto eproms, I am limited to 512kb so out goes the workbench library to start.
I am trying to start with a nice...
Still needs a bit of tidying - but she works!
Here is how it looks, which was pretty much what I was trying to achieve actually.
OK - well now the miggy can see the drive, and whilst there are some bits to sort out, putting in the OS 3.9 CD does exactly what it should.
After a bit of dremel related action on the white case, its now fitted, and I will slide it under the Amiga once I sort out the cabling issues.
Here is a...
After a short sojourn into the world of the C64, I was again gripped by the Amiga Fever this summer.
I had known for a while that my CF card performance on the IDE side was poor, and had not been able to remedy this. I therefore decided to look out for an IDE-Fix Express. These are however...