Hi all, I'm new here.

[Xamiche]

Hi there,

I just registered to the forum and I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm posting this in the hardward section since this is where I can see myself spending the most time. I'm a Computer Systems Engineering student with a fetish for classic Amigas. Most of my mates at my college think I'm nuts. When they're banging on about their latest Athlon 64bit PeeCee, I quietly tell them all about my latest Amiga purchase. Old school they say. To which I reply, Yes they may be old, but so am I. And anyway the new computers just don't the same soul. Mind you I love the new as well as the old. I'm hoping to find a few people with some technical Amiga knowhow so I can improve my knowledge and keep my Amigas running.

My Amiga Hardware collection:

Amiga 2000 - scsi card 240MB HD - WB2.0
Amiga 1200 - Ebox memory and FPU expansion - 1 GB HD - WB3.1
Amiga 600 - Stock x 3
Amiga 500 - A590 Harddisk with 2MB memory (DRAMs salvaged from a few old ISA VGA cards)
Amiga 500 - stock with memory expansion(512k) x 3
Amiga 1000 - stock - not running, but working.
Amiga CD32 x 2
Roctek Genlock (Yeah they're crap, I know)
Vidi 12 Digitizer
Picasso 2 Video Card
A601 memory Expansion (Not working. Damn battery leaked. Trying to repair)


I don't have any real accelerators. They're just too expensive here, DownUnder. Amigas where never that big here, unless you where in the scene, so the prices on old hardware are rather hefty. Plus, students don't make a lot of money.   :-(

Well on with my first question. Does anyone here have or know of a site where I can get a technical schematic for building a scandoubler/flickerfixer for an Amiga. 1084 monitors are becoming hard to find and I want to start running my Amigas on regular PC monitors. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Xamiche
 :-)

[Xamiche]

Hi there,

Thanks all for the warm welcome and for helping me with my question.

To Stedy
Yeah I'm not too bad with a soldering iron. I can handle surface mounted stuff. [Reaches for magnifying glass] :-)
Sounds like a great project, I definately wouldn't mind waiting until the end of July to see how it turns out. I considered designing one myself, but my knowledge on video signals is limited, for now anyway.

Thanks again all for such a quick response. The last forum I joined to ask some hardware related questions (PC hardware) completely ignored me. Maybe they didn't like Newbs. :lol:

Xamiche
 :-)

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[Xamiche]

Hi there,

Great site you got there Dave. I especially liked the Genlock project. I'm in Perth so the Amiga groups you spoke of are way over the other side of our big brown country, from my POV. Although the Australia-wide group sounds interesting. I'm particularly interested in hearing some testimonials on the AmigaOne. I noticed you have one. Nice 8-)
I have heard from some sites that they aren't much more than a tweaked PowerPC. Before I spend a small fortune buying a MoBo and CPU,I'd like to hear some opinions on the beasty.

Xamiche
:-)