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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Boards and Floppy Questions.
« on: January 30, 2018, 12:28:49 AM »
Check this out if you want to use a different keyboard (pic attached).  I've never used one personally but seems like a neat idea.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wireless-favourite-USB-keyboard-replacement-for-AMIGA-1200-/172642765068?hash=item28324f890c

3.1 ROM's can be had for under $20 USD from sites like AmigaKit and ebay.  Definitely worth it (IMHO) as they contain various bugfixes and may work better with certain accelerators.

https://amigakit.amiga.store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40_99&products_id=62

Good luck, have fun!  :)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Boards and Floppy Questions.
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2018, 02:23:53 PM »
AFAIR there's no conversion process to take a PC high density drive  (1.44MB) and use it as an Amiga 1.76MB drive.  Most of the instructions  out there detail converting standard double density (720K) drives to  Amiga (880K).  Making a HD drive that can natively read & write  Amiga HD format is going to be pretty tricky, but good luck!  :)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Boards and Floppy Questions.
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2018, 07:27:17 PM »
You can buy replacement LED's on Ebay.  Or, as you mentioned, you could repair your own. ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Boards and Floppy Questions.
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2018, 12:00:03 AM »
Quote from: Carrot007;835613
Also found a A1200 Ram expansiopn with 8mb sim and fpu. No sign of crystal for FPU though, are these available and how do I know which I need?

With most trapdoor expansions if there's no separate crystal then the FPU will run at the same clock speed as the CPU.

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Any thought's on the keyboard?

Clean, tighten, try again.

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Also I notice on workbench while the picture is great over scart (sound test not as much, might check the soldering on the lead though I guess it could also be the ports)

Bad sound = a sign of failing caps.

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This is certainly good enough and I am scared to use modern LCD's at 16:9 after seeing sooo many horrible stretched video's on yourtube etc. And people calling them out claimed the TV could not alter the stretch which scared me the most! (Though I suspect they just did not know how to!).

A good TV, properly connected, can be set to display proper 4:3 aspect ratio screens (not stretched).  Just you'll have black bars on the left and right sides of the display.
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos