A500 upgrade

Has anyone out there ever upgrade an A500 to the max. I mean 2 meg Agnus stuff like that. Im interested in how this is done. Any webpages or personal stories would be cool. Any pages with parts or so on is also cool.

[SilvrDrgn]

In my A500, I do not have a 2 Meg Agnus, but I do have 8.5 Meg worth of RAM in it which is 512K less than the max in its current configuration.  It also has a hard drive attached to the left side of it.  If you have any questions, drop me a line at my Email (button at the bottom of this message).  You can check out my A500 here -> About My Computers - At the bottom of the page.

cool ive been to your site about 8 times befor and it is already in my bookmarks.

[SilvrDrgn]

Not much to my site.  Mostly just a bunch of links that I haven't updated in a long time!  :-)  Well, that's cool, too anyway!  Let me know if you have any questions about the system.

[Ilwrath]

The best 500 I've personally seen was owned by a friend of mine...  It was approx -
A500 w/ VXL 68030@28mhz + 8MB FAST on card.
DKB MegaChip 2MB Agnus
ECS Denise
DataFlyer/DataRam 105MB HD/4MB RAM
1.5 MB Baseboard Supra (for the MegaChip?)
This system was back in 1992, or so, so it was pretty cutting edge for the time.  
(...until I bought my A1200 with the GVP '030@40mhz and 0wn3d him.  hehe!)

I have a unique add-on in my closet that would be a prime find for any Amiga 500 expansion fan.  The Bodega Bay Zorro II expansion box.  It'll turn an A500 into an awkward looking A2000.  It's large, heavy, and guaranteed to not fit on any conventional desk you've ever seen!  Picked it up at an old C= auction for $10(!!)  Guess no one wanted to lug it back home with them...  I wonder why....   :-P

[Desmon]

Ilwrath!
The buttons on your requester don't work....

[game_fan]

Hmmm A500 Upgrade.

There have been a number of 68030 accelerators, but i`m sure I remember seeing a GVP 68040 one years and years ago.
2M Chip Ram
? Fast Ram (I`m not sure if accelerators can take it past 8.
3.1 ROMS
IDE\SCSI
HDD, CDROM, etc.
Zorro 2 slots (Bodega Bay?) - Hence all manner of Zorro 2 Cards

 

[Acill]

There is actually 2 nice 030 cards for the A500 on the US ebay site right now going cheap. One is a GVP A530 and the other is one that goes on the 68000 cpu socket. I had the later one and loved it for my A500 back in 93 or 94. If your interested in a lkook just search for Amiga accelerator and they will come up. (they are not mine by the way! )

[fjudde]

I've got some pictures of my Amiga 500, 68030 25 Mhz, 68882 50 Mhz, 2 Mbyte chip memory, 8 Mbyte 16 bit memory, 16 Mbyte 32 bit memory, FFV II, IVS Grand Slam 512 Mbyte Disk and HD/DD diskette drives.

http://www.users.wineasy.se/fredrik.abramsson/amiga/amiga_setup.html

Thats quite a floppy setup. is it homemade or bought. Are those just pc floppies reworked. Do you know of any place with instructions on how to do this or a place to buy those controllor cards?

[fjudde]

@ compuguy

Thats quite a floppy setup. is it homemade...

They are homemade and yes it's PC drives. I guess I made some circuitry diagrams and a PCB layout but I'm not shure where they are. I can look but it might take a week or two to come out with an answer.

Sure, are they bootable, all the ones ive sen have a side affect of not being bootable just a question not a big deal. If you find them thatd be nice info to have.

[KnightStalkerBob]

I have two 500's, both w/ 2Meg MegaChip and A530 (40Mhz 68030 & 40Mhz 68882), 8Meg Fast. Various drives attached (EZ135, 2x 1Gig, 2.2x CDROM). Works great, when the kids don't get on it, crash it, and invalidate the boot partition! :-x

Thats another thing is it possible to add a pc cdrom with a little editing.

[fjudde]

@compuguy1986

Is it possible to boot at df1:? Anyway havent tried.

I have a pc cdrom SCSI (Pioneer 10X) and that one works with my Grands Slam.