My A1000 is ALIVE!

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Far out! Glad to see it working!

[motrucker]

That... is RAD!

I've always been curious about our cousin...

Don't get too excited. TOS is about equal to Amiga DOS 1.0.  At least with Amiga OS you have access to lot of GOOD software.

[motrucker]

Hey LoadWB, that's cool let us know how it goes. I learned about this CPU->ROM adapter in my travels and I am going to build one, I think it is within my abilities. It looks the simplest of the different methods. Why? Cause it would fun. If it works I'll give it to someone here who is still on kickstart disks.



"the AdIDE works if it's installed under the Kwikstart II." - THIS IS CORRECT.

The PAL chip I have I think is different / special, I think because it is socketed on my daughterboard. I'll get a close up photo of it.

A1000s, are hard to upgrade, but the most fun/easiest to hack on.

Hey, I still use the disks to start my A1000. Main reason is I have so many old games that will not boot under anything higher than 1.3 (1.2 in several cases!). I need to figure out how to add the ROM, AND still be able to boot from floppy.
BTW - did I tell you that Microbotics clock is working? Been ticking away for well over a week now (KOW)....

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Ah cool, I read somewhere it had some software it needed? Week is a pretty good sign...

See this page:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=&company=Microbotics

• a simple battery backed up clock
• time is read by a CLI command, it does not take over the system clock
• connects to the A1000's 2nd mouse port
• once the port has been used (eg. by reading the clock or pressing fire on a joystick) the MouseTime clock puts itself to sleep making the port totally transparent - but the time no longer can be read from the clock until the next hard reset
• passthrough connector

I've seen that. Strange little clock. My A1000 is in really good condition, inside and out, which makes me a little uneasy about cutting into it. Maybe I'll look for a second unit to work on....