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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: marcusd666 on April 07, 2010, 03:04:53 PM
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Hi all, well after seeing some youtube clips of old amiga games I thought it was about time to get my old amiga out of the loft and see if she still worked!
Well once I found all the cables keyboard, mouse and monitor plugged it all in and switched on just the got the power light flashing oh no its not dead! I started to strip it a part all cards out memory simms then 1/2 can of computer solvent cleaner on all the connectors and plugs she powered up and booted workbench off the hard drive.
Result my old A4000/040 warp engine and Picasso IV is back in the land of the living lol not bad as its been well over 10 years since it was last in use. So I have a lot of catching up to do by the look off it hopefully it will all come back quickly.
Cheers
Marcusd666
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Welcome Marcusd666! Hope you enjoy Amiga.org!
//som99
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Welcome....make sure you check the battery if it's not already removed.
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Welcome....make sure you check the battery if it's not already removed.
Thanks for the welcome. the battery is well furry and dead so will remove it soon for a new one.
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Hi and welcome,
Why the rotary in your avatar?
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Hi and welcome,
Why the rotary in your avatar?
thanks for the welcome.
my weekend project is my mazda RX7 FD3 once you have had a rotary engine there is no going back lol.
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Welcome!
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Hi
Just a quickie to say I would get the battery off as quickly as possible before you lose the Amiga all together.
scuzz
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Hi
Just a quickie to say I would get the battery off as quickly as possible before you lose the Amiga all together.
scuzz
Can you run without the battery?
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Can you run without the battery?
Yes you can! Tho clock and date has to be set everytime you start your amiga (if you want/care) and all files edited/created will allways have the same annoying date :)
But other then that it will work just fine :D
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Yes you can! Tho clock and date has to be set everytime you start your amiga (if you want/care) and all files edited/created will allways have the same annoying date :)
But other then that it will work just fine :D
My 4000 has been running without a battery for ages - it just runs FACTS (http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk/index.php?pg=facts) when it connects to the net!
Get that battery out ASAP though! It'll kill your motherboard!
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Can you run without the battery?
If your Amiga has an internet connection you can set the time using the program Facts which will set the time for you.
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That green "fur" will eat into the motherboard and surrounding components.
Cut the old battery off and clean the surrounding area well.
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Can you run without the battery?
No problem really.. In fact I have my A4000 on the internet so every time I fire her up I connect to the atomic clock and it auto updates the time anyway.
I always remove batteries from Amigas now. It is just too risky. You will lose the mouse otherwise and then the motherboard will fall apart. It runs down underneath and causes even worse probs you cant see. Very sad...
Here is an A4000 I rescued
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz201.htm
I generally just rock the battery back and forth till it snaps off.. Ever so gently... Here is the more professional way...
http://www.tekniikka.oamk.fi/~archy/a4kbattery/
Better to remove the battery than lose a valuable computer...
scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com
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thanks for the advice I will remove the battery tomorrow when I was cleaning everything be for I got it to work again. The battery was furry but could not see anything on the main board.
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Right I have now removed the battery with the more professional way it was well ready for the bin and installed my old 4 way IDE board and a DVD rom from my old pc luckly I still had IDEFix97 still on the hard drive and it worked straight away. On having a read about I have also just ordered some new kickstart 3.1 roms ver 40.70 as it looks like that I am going to get hold of AMIGA OS3.9 for the time being. Got to admit its fun using it again I am well rusty with it lol.
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40.68 3.1 roms are for the A4000D
Are you sure you have ordered the correct roms?
40.70 seem to be for the A4000T
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Yeah checked with ww.Amigakit.com and they can be used with the 4000D
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I did not know they were compatible.. the 40.70 are missing workbench.library so will only boot disks with workbench.library installed already.. The 4000T 3.1 disks were different than 4000D versions.
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I did not know they were compatible.. the 40.70 are missing workbench.library so will only boot disks with workbench.library installed already.. The 4000T 3.1 disks were different than 4000D versions.
I have got a copy of the 4000T workbench discs with the workbench.library on so should be ok ? I hope. lol
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Quick update: Well the Kickstart 3.1 Roms came today from ww.Amigakit.com that's well quick service only ordered yesterday at about 2pm!
Updated Workbench 3.1 4000T before replacing the roms Thanks for the info Bazzaq Powered up and after a couple of software failures messing around with the startup-sequence and reinstalling my Picasso IV software all booted up ok now.
Looking forward now to messing around with it and getting up to speed again.
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Welcome aboard :)
(I know that's a bit late, but better than never)
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Welcome back to the Amiga world!
Looks like you unpacked it just in time before the battery could do any damage, when I got my A1200 out of the loft last June the battery in the Ram expansion had already destroyed the ram board.
Anyway no looking back now I'm half way through an A1200 Tower project, this Amiga'in is adictive stuff once you get back into it!
Check out Classic Workbench, its a great up to date workbench with lots of interesting tools and apps pre installed, I run CWB ADV SP which has the nice Glow Icons and looks just like OS3.9 even though its running on WB 3.1. Take a look http://classicwb.abime.net/
All the best & enjoy!
Steve.