My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

[AmmoJammo]

Picked up this lot for the grand total of $Au50!

Two A500 consoles, both revision 6 motherboards, one faulty.
A590, with 40meg HDD and 1meg fast ram!
A501 ram in the trapdoor
External floppy
1084s monitor
Two tank mice
Four joysticks
Plus a fair bit of original software! and some less than original :p

[AmmoJammo]

after spending half a day crawling around under the house, looking  through boxes, cupboards, spare room, and everywhere I could think of, I  finally found an old SCSI drive...

its a 2.1gig, Seagate ST32430N.

So, I ordered some version 7.0 roms for the A590, and while I was at it, I also ordered a KS3.1 rom, and 68010 CPU, cos thats just how I roll!

[AmmoJammo]

Deciding that a SCSI CD rom was the best idea ever, I trawled the interwebs to see what I could find, and ended up with a Yamaha CD burner, at the same time I decided to order a newer chip for the A590 (can't they get anything right? ) just incase there was any compatibility issues.





I'm pretty sure this is how all A500's were intended to be setup!
everything lying on the bench, with random cables going everywhere... afterall, everything is external anyway :whack:

The plan is to tower it, seeing as its a "sometimes" setup, I can't possibly plug and unplug everything all the time!

Also,                     while cleaning up, I Found some old Amiga discs in the basement

[AmmoJammo]

Our discs were either sold, or thrown out. The random discs I've found were just leftovers that must have been misplaced at the time.

I sent you a private message btw

[AmmoJammo]

I went looking for a suitable megadrive controller to use on the A500, got distracted, went and bought another plastic tub to store them in :p



Top row are wireless PS2
Next row are all USB, pretending to be PS2
3rd row down are usb again, the "sega" ones are good for emulators!
4th row, genuine PS2, and more USB "sega"
next, USB arcade joystick, genuine N64, most likely broken.
6th row, non genuine N64, horrible to use, but it makes it fair!
final row, two old, original, totally stuffed megadrive controllers, some cheapos which work ok, and finally some claimed to be genuine with terribly inflexible cords!

Although.... I have no megadrive games bought a console, was borrowing my cousins games... she wanted them back!

[AmmoJammo]

I have no megadrive games bought a console, was borrowing my cousins games... she wanted them back!

problem solvered!

[AmmoJammo]

Yeah gumtree. I would have loved to get a 1200!

[AmmoJammo]

mmm, sandwich!



and Walker, that wouldn't load through WHDLoad with the original 2 megs of ram I had :p



might be nearly time to put the lid back on!

[AmmoJammo]

yup, 8meg, and the 512k trapdoor is now set up as chip ram
so, 1 meg chip, 8 meg fast.

[AmmoJammo]

I only just bought this 8meg fast ram, arrived here yesterday...
although he wasn't actually advertising them, might be worth sending him a message?
unless he's already said he has none? :p

[AmmoJammo]

They were only 4 meg weren't they? And didnt auto configure?

[AmmoJammo]

I was considering putting the whole setup in a tower... but, I reckon I'll keep it original.
 

 
However, I'm going to try and stuff an AT (maybe ATX) power supply in the external CDrom drive case, and use that to power everything. A500 and A590, plus of course the cd rom drive, possibly the GBS8200, and anything else that needs power
 
The space behind the drive is the size of a full sized PSU PCB... so we'll see how that goes
May end up trying to find a smaller psu.
 

 

[AmmoJammo]

because I'd still want to put it inside the cd rom case, which would involve hacking the psu up anyway
 
trying to reduce three power cords, and two external PSUs down to a single power cable.
 
oh, and its not hard work! if it was, it wouldn't he a hobby :p

[AmmoJammo]

I'm considering doing this to the A590 HDD...
 
http://members.iinet.net.au/~davem2/overclock/a500hd.html
 
but am a little hesitant as I'm not sure how much current the edge connector, and tracks are actually designed to handle...

[AmmoJammo]

I tend to get rather easily distracted, and flit between interests on an almost daily basis...