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

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yes :/

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there's still a second layer of plastic over the contacts?!? argh!

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keyboard is going around in circles now.... :p

I lightly sanded the plastic off the cable, and slid it in and out of the connector, till all keys were working (had to wear through the remaining plastic)

Excellent!

Next day, I removed the keyboard, refitted it, half the keys don't work.... :/

So now I've painted it with the conductive silver paint, the whole thing! and while the paint was still green, I scratched a line between each contact to separate them from each other

Tonight I test it!

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when I first received the kickstart rom stuck in foam, I emailed the seller and said:

foam isn't an acceptable packing material for static sensitive ICs unless the  foam is first wrapped in aluminium foil.

to which he responded:

Thanks for let me know useful information about foam need to be wrapped in  aluminium foil.

I ordered a second kickstart from the same seller (for the A600) and today, I received this...



:destroy:

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Sid chips fail for no apparent reason, so even if it doesn't work you wont know if it was because of the foam :p

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I forgot these pics.

I've decided 22-24 degree day, in direct sunlight is good!

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The last pics? its an svideo output on the A600.
I thought you would have seen the thread on amibay?

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Why have they failed then?

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Usually a faulty 12vac source kills SID

Az

did you mean

9v ac?

or 12v dc?

or the unregulated "9 volts ac"?

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Been pulling apart the power supply that came with the A600, its an A500 PSU.

Not the point, buy for my own reference, it uses a L296 switchmode regulator for the +5volts (rated at 4amps) and a L4960 for the +12volts (rated at 2.5amps)

-12volts uses a 7912 regulator, apparently on a separate winding on the transformer, with its own rectifier diodes....

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IDEfix97 wouldn't install on the real amiga, would just hang.

So I installed it with winuae, then the A600 wouldn't even boot?! black screen, nothing much else?

So, I uninstalled it using winuae, and now it boots again? :/

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what would you use?

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I ended up with AmiCDFS 2.4, with the atapi.device driver from IDEFIX97. Edited the CD0 file in the dosdrivers folder (from memory?) to use the different driver, and set the device number to 0.

CD rom drive and compact flash now work! CF is slave, CD is master.

But the issue is, it doesn't display names properly? whats going on here? these CDs work in the A500.... is it a limitation of the atapi driver that I should have known about?



Amiga T-Z, not the DF0, thats "broken" because the drive has no power.


Is this like a "dos" limitation or something?

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its a cd? what file system should I be looking at/checking?

file names are correct on the Amiga 500, and the PC.

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I dont think the Oxy Lift did anything.

whether it was because it didn't have the right ingredients, or because it simply has no effect on the bleach anyway.