Here's the thing. My A500 looks like a plain old unmodified A500 from the outside. There's not even anything connected to the side port. But inside it has an MTec 68030 accelerator, an Mtec Megabody (internal IDE controller) with 4Mb 32-bit RAM and a IDE/CF converter with a 1GB CF "harddisk" and a ROM switch which works by holding down the left mousebutton on (re)boot instead of a manual switch.
I really like this setup and I like the fact that I can go from a bog standard A500 with 1.3 to a more advanced machine that allows me to connect to the Internet. The MTec accelerator has a 68000 mounted for fallback situations, for those games that won't work with the 68030. The problem is that I need to close a jumper to enable the 68000 and vice versa to disable it. Opening and closing my A500's case every time I want to play Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 is a prospect I'm not very fond of, so the only way out is to mount an external switch somewhere on my A500 and connect it to the afforementioned jumper.
I would really hate having to vandalize my pristine A500 case for this purpose, but I don't see any other option. Ofcourse I could let the wire and switch hang off the side of my A500 so I don't have to drill any holes into the A500, but I don't like crap hanging off my A500 either.
So you see my dilemma. I know lots of people wouldn't think twice about drilling holes into their Amigas, but I'm pretty anal about this sort of thing and I'm sure there are likeminded individuals here. Before I do decide to mount a switch somewhere on my A500 I thought I'd ask the wisemen here if there are any alternatives I hadn't thought of yet.....
