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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: A600 glitches after recap
« Last post by Jacksoft on January 22, 2026, 08:33:45 PM »
While finding an Agnus I bought an FTDI RS232 USB adapter to read the DiagROM startup log. Looks all ok, but I want to share here just for knowledge.
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by Jeff on January 22, 2026, 08:21:19 PM »
This is a direct quote from Laurent at Amedia-Computer after spending over $7000.00 with them in 3 months on 2 X5000 systems. Now that's customer service at its best! This was my Christmas 2022.


4 – Stock is not the problem, and A-Eon will give you the same answers than us.


5 – Please stop harrassing us since we’re trying all that we can.

We’ll send you any updates when we have some, not before, not after.



Best regards,
Amedia Computer France SAS
69, Avenue de la Libération
F-57530 Courcelles-Chaussy
France
TVA / VAT : FR15792714362
Tel : (+33) 9 79 72 56 15
Mobile : (+33) 7 71 10 72 22
Fax : (+33) 3 87 57 07 21
Site : http://www.amedia-computer.com
Mail : laurent@Amedia-computer.com

Following this, I was accused of being rude for expecting monthly updates regarding the status of my motherboard. All further attempts at communications with them went unanswered.  Kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it?
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by Jeff on January 22, 2026, 07:59:08 PM »
Seriously, these types of business practices can't be tolerated. Once communication fails, I no longer accept any delaying tricks or tactics before beginning the transaction dispute process with the finance company. I use a credit card or similar now, especially for overseas transactions in different currencies, and just pay within 30 days to avoid finance charges. For large purchases, there is also third-party escrow. The lesson was hard learned, but it has saved me money several times on difficult transactions since then.

I hope you end up getting your money back, but I feel that it may be too late by now. Honestly, I feel sorry for you if you do receive the X5000-5040. My 5040 complete system has been one of the worst, most expensive, and frustrating mistakes that I have made in the last 40 years on anything!

In my opinion, mine and others 5040 motherboards are somehow flawed at a firmware/hardware level and have never/can never work properly. Somehow, this behavior seems to have quietly been acknowledged and accepted as Standard Operating Procedure. I guess some people are happy if they even startup at all - so just deal with these nagging issues that can't be fixed.  This is my guess as to why new 5040 motherboards don't exist and likely won't be made again.

It almost feels like the 5040 motherboard and or firmware wasn't quite finished, and they pushed it out too early anyway. My 5020 on the other hand is a rock-solid pleasure to use. I had serial debug setup on the 5040 and even bought the device to read the MCU debug output. I gave up when the last update trashed the boot drive. Now, it doesn't boot from anything.
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by dtb on January 22, 2026, 01:30:17 PM »
Wow, our experiences sound very similar... Where were you 7 months ago  :)
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Amiga community support ideas / Re: What is status today? Future of Amiga?
« Last post by ZXDunny on January 22, 2026, 12:24:11 PM »
AmiBench is only available on A600GS and A1200NG based Amiga emulators, it won't run on actual Amigas I'm afraid.
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Amiga Desktop Audio and Video / Re: Advice for a returning Amiga User
« Last post by ZXDunny on January 22, 2026, 12:16:03 PM »
Now I want to connect the A1200 to my monitor which has 2 HDMI ports and I'm stuck between two options.  I'm going to be installing a Pistorm32-Lite using a Raspberry Pi 3B. I can output Workbench through HDMI to the first HDMI port on my monitor.  For Games I researched two options.

The first option is to use a OSCC and a RGB to SCART connector, and output the signal from the RGB port on the Amiga to my monitor. using the second HDMI port.

The second option is to install a Indivision AGA Mk3 and output this to the second HDMI port.

Just to butt in; The PiStorm folks have just released the FrameThrower for OCS/ECS Amigas. It sucks the display frames from Denise and sends them to the Pi's camera port where the Emu68 Videocore driver picks them up and displays them out the same HDMI as the RTG workbench.

However the A1200 version isn't available yet but should be in a couple or three months.

FWIW I have an RGB to Scart to OSSC which gets me RGB Graphics out to my HDMI monitor. It wasn't super cheap (FrameThrower will be super cheap) but it works just fine for now.
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by walkero on January 22, 2026, 10:27:43 AM »
I 've met Amedia people personally and to me, they seemed honest persons. I am surprised about what you are sharing here.
But if you asked for them to return your payment, they should definitely do so.
I hope this will be solved soon.
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by Jeff on January 22, 2026, 10:04:55 AM »
Not to mention, trying to install the AmigaOne OS with all the updates on X5000 is an expensive patch-work mess in my opinion with little to no support or guidance.

Even if you do manage finally to get everything installed and updated, the X5040 motherboard will likely not start the next time after being shut down without failing to boot once and crash due to an MCU error. This never happens on my X5020.

This behavior seems to be quietly accepted as SOP by other X5040 owners. The official fix from Amedia for this problem is to "unplug the mains or switch if off and push the power button about ten times to discharge the motherboard". If you're lucky, it might boot the first time after that. Once you do get it up and running, expect it to crash frequently for no apparent reason. Next is the warm re-boot issue if you are using the latest Radeon GPU/drivers. Again, since this isn't fixable, it too is quietly accepted as SOP.

My 2008 Sam 440 Flex however, still runs flawlessly to this day.
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by BozzerBigD on January 22, 2026, 09:37:49 AM »
Sad to hear. But not unsurprising. The launch of the X5000/40 model had no fanfare whatsoever, and yet it is supposed to be desirable?! The A600GS/A1200NG have better browser features!
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Public Service Anouncement
« Last post by Jeff on January 22, 2026, 05:21:05 AM »
Here we go again. I had a similar experience with Amedia-Computer - France several years ago. My advice would be to start a transaction dispute with your bank as soon as possible.

I waited too long, believing all of the delay tactics. Now I am stuck with a poorly designed $3500.00 piece of trash that cannot be depended upon. It took me almost 2 years of humiliating pleading and groveling to the entire Amiga community to even get that much. At one point I even offered my V4SA as a reward to anybody that could help get my motherboard returned to me.

By now all the X5040 boards must be almost 10 years old. The latest software update killed mine, now it won't boot from anything. It still makes me uneasy to look at it, so it's packed up for now. After 40 years of great experiences enjoying, using, and upgrading my collection of classic machines, I never dreamed that I would get screwed so hard buying the supposed "best" Amiga available.

Having been through this before, I feel your pain. It takes guts to admit that you have been ripped off for $3700.00 in a public forum.
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