My A1000 is ALIVE!

[LoadWB]

Congrats!

I, too, have had the happy feeling just within the past 24 hours of reviving my A1000.  And from the looks of it, you're doing the same thing with yours as I am with mine: the Kiwkstart II (and thanks for the really good pic which will ensure I connect the proper wires to the proper pins,) the floppy drive port changer (shuffle board?,) and even the AdIDE.  The only thing I am doing differently is I have also installed the FastPALs, but I think the Kwikstart II and its PAL makes the FastPAL moot (and may also be incompatible.)

IIRC, the AdIDE works if it's installed under the Kwikstart II.  I do recall that the AdIDE must live under a CPU socket accelerator.  It happens to work very well under the Derringer in my A500, but there's no room for that stack.  Good luck!


And that KickTOS thing is sick.  And I don't mean like sick as in "cool," but "ill."  WTF??!!

[LoadWB]

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.

That looks crazy... and fun!

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.

I got my FastPAL upgrade and Kwikstart II working together.  Turns out that the socket to which the KSII defaults was empty, and that was causing my start-up problems.  I cannot find my spare KS2.04 ROMs, and all my 3.1s are spoken for, so I just dropped a 1.2 and a 1.3 in the KSII and voila.

I'm not certain, but I think the FastPAL upgrade *is* moot with the KSII, since the WOM is bypassed.  So, I may take it out and just keep it spare for a while, maybe sell it.

While I play with the USB in my 4000, work an SPSS project for class, and get my TI system set up in the computer room, the A1000 will go back in its box temporarily.  Once all the rest is settled, I will be back under the hood with the AdIDE and some accelerator.  I have considered stealing the 50MHz Derringer from my A500+ so it's all enclosed.  But the only other accelerator I have for the 68k socket is a rickety 40MHz Derringer, then a GVP A530.

The derringer kicks the A530's ass.  So, I really have two choices: the grumpy 40MHz Derringer and an all-enclosed accelerated 1000, or awkwardly hang the A530 off the side.  The SCSI on the A530 is irrelevant since I will be using the AdIDE.  hrmmmmmmmmmm

Keep up inspiring the Amiga.org A1000 Rebirth Revolution!

[LoadWB]

Given time and fundage, I am considering a clock port and Subway for the 1000 with Anaiis (spelling?) USB stack.  But then, realistically, I will probably put a Subway in my 1200, first.  hrmmmmm

[LoadWB]

BTW, I realized today that the ICD Shuffleboard sits under the Gary -- which does not exist in the 1000.

Ah, well.  I am going to fit my 40MHz Derringer in today or tonight...

[LoadWB]

That's an ICD Shuffleboard you have on the CIA, right?  Amiga Resource says it goes in the Gary... I am confuse...

[LoadWB]

Yes CIA, right where you see it. I have the manual, I was gonna scan it.

Would be a great benefit to myself, and probably others, to have the correct installation information.  If you do scan it, I would appreciate a copy, and it would be neighborly if you were to submit it to Installer's Heaven.

I'm going to put mine in tonight.  Having the internal DF0: hanging there makes me nervous.  Plus, I think I can use the floppy power to supplement the power and ground to the Derringer.  I might build a quick regulated supply to cut the noise.  I need to pull up my 1000 schematics to assist.

[LoadWB]

Yup!  Got my shuffle board installed and moved to the 1011, which draws MUCH less power than the internal.