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Title: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Amigaz on September 10, 2006, 09:30:26 AM

Recently aquired a minty A500+ housed in the Micronik mini tower with the ZII busboard which also has room for 4 kickstarts.
At the moment I have two kickstarts in the sockets on the busboard but I have no clue on how to switch between them..the manual is in german and I understand some of it but can't find anything related to switching betweeen them.
Has anyone here any experience in this hardware and can give me some hints?

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: cv643d on September 10, 2006, 10:09:57 AM

Perhaps reboot and hold down the keys for a couple of seconds? Thats how an old switcher I had worked.

BTW, nice find, its a nice looking tower.

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: keropi on September 10, 2006, 12:10:13 PM

hey Amigaz, don't be lazy! post some pics too!  :-P

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: zipper on September 10, 2006, 12:25:26 PM

There should be a 3-position switch that bolts somewhere,  but I broke mine and never installed it - and I had a 2-Rom switcher already.

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Rod_cl on September 10, 2006, 11:15:04 PM

Hi:
have you tested any zorro cards with the busboard?
Do you use a a2000 acelerator with it?
Can you post a couple of pictures of the case and busboard?
Best Regards

Rod

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: zipper on September 11, 2006, 10:58:58 AM

There are some pics on http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
  from  Micronik 500 tower and Micronik mini tower - they are the same; "officially" it was called A500 Classic Mini Tower I think. Perhaps a little better pics could be added...

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Chain on September 11, 2006, 11:14:09 AM

Tried hold down LMB while power-on? some rom schitches works this way

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Amigaz on September 11, 2006, 11:41:16 AM

Will try the tips you guys gave me  :-)

Will also provide BBOAH with better pics than the crappy ones that are there and upload some here too.
This baby rocks...can't wait to get my hands on a nice A2000 turbocard for it and stuff an X-surf and a Cybervision gfx card in it  :-D

Here a pic of it I posted on a swedish Amiga forum (http://safir.amigaos.se/bildgalleri/users/1671.JPG)

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: zipper on September 11, 2006, 02:43:49 PM

There is a 3pin header on the busboard for the kick switcher - just try different combinations on it, probably shorting 2 pins. What is the default behaviour when nothing is connected there - the lowest KS I think?

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Miked on September 11, 2006, 05:27:47 PM

Amigaz,

What are your plans for this great piece of hardware? (an 060 would be a nice addition)

-Miked

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Amigaz on October 29, 2006, 12:29:10 PM

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zipper wrote:
There is a 3pin header on the busboard for the kick switcher - just try different combinations on it, probably shorting 2 pins. What is the default behaviour when nothing is connected there - the lowest KS I think?

It always boots kick3.1

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: Amigaz on October 29, 2006, 12:30:14 PM

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Miked wrote:
Amigaz,

What are your plans for this great piece of hardware? (an 060 would be a nice addition)

-Miked

Yeah, I would love to get my hands on a Blizzard 2060 and then stuff an X-surf inside it together with my Cybervision 64 3D  :-)

Title: Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
Post by: AlbyVai on November 01, 2006, 06:03:26 PM

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AMIGAZ wrote:
Yeah, I would love to get my hands on a Blizzard 2060 and then stuff an X-surf inside it together with my Cybervision 64 3D  :-)

Really a powerful A500! Great AMIGAZ!!!  :-)