Amiga setup "woes," possible change-up ahead...

[klx300r]

@ blakespot

awesome computer room!

+1 on the Amiga 1000 as I'll always keep mine no matter what.

personally I have no interest in towering my A1200 since I got my OS4.1 machine back in 2009 & more recently upgraded to my X1000.  I still have my 1200 Desktop with Blizzard though.
I also have my original A500 mint but just don't have the space to set it up ..yet

[klx300r]

.. And how bad _are_ the caps in the A4000? I've got a room full of computers...

http://www.bytecellar.com/photo_pano.html

...and I've never, ever had a caps issue in any of them.
bp

Wow I strongly suggest you open up each case (well at least save the Amiga's :-) & examine each cap for leakage right away.

I lost my A1200 IDE port last year because a cap right next to it slowly leaked and destroyed a bunch of traces beneath it ! It took a while to get her sorted out so do yourself a favour and replace them caps now & save yourself alot of headaches

[klx300r]

I just opened my Amiga 1000. No leaky caps. It's one of the oldest machines here. Why do I not have caps problems? Is everyone else?
bp

ah but you are talking about the best built Amiga ever IMHO in the A1000. Build quality and parts went downhill from there.

FWIW, my A1000 has a build date of early 85 and the MB and PSU still look like brand new, now of course that doesn't mean that stuff won't start failing after all this time but my next project is replacing all the caps in my A1000 after my experience with my A1200 (build date 1992)

[klx300r]

No magic...

http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93233&sid=14f226f3153edbc8781ad5094ec05b30

:-)

bp

thanks for the link! played those 3 classics to death on my 64 so looking forward to playing on my A1000, damn i really have to visit good ol lemonamiga more often:)