Amiga 600

[Acill]

After selling my beloved Amiga 1200 back in the 90s, it looks like I'm back in the Amiga game. Just picked up an Amiga 600. What brought me back? The Vampire 2 of course.



It is super clean and white (ceiling light doesn't do it justice). It even still has the plastic over the badge  and the warranty sticker looks intact. Even came with a brand new mouse. Only problem...power supply is 220V! Looking at Amigakit's site they seem to be out of replacement power supplies. So I need to track down a power supply. Any ideas?

Also am going to open her up and get the motherboard to ASCII for recapping. So I'll post updates as I go along. Looking forward to upgrading the old girl.

If you want to send the entire thing I can do some testing for you and make sure it all works. Still the same price for a recap. I'll also pull out the modulator so you can mount the vampire 2 HDMI in its place.

Will do the same if you just want to send the board of course.

[Acill]

Ian Stedman has a page full of information on Amiga power supplies and different hacks and adapters.  You can use the information to do a quick and dirty hack using the cable from your power brick.  You should be able open the brick and remove the cable without cutting it.

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_PSU/amiga_psu.html

If you want a neater looking longterm solution PicoPSU is good option since you can fit inside the case the only external box is a neat little AC adapter.A 60w kit with a genuine PicoPSU fairly cheap at $35 and will supply more than enough with being as excessive as normal ATX supply of these times.

Ian sells adapters which include a header for a on/off switch.

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Sales/sales.html

If you decide to go down this route ask Acill if he'll solder some wires to the internal side of the PSU connector ready for fitting into the adapter.

Yeup, if you send me the UK power supply I will open it up and convert it over for you using a pico ATX. Its not a bad job. Having the original so I can reuse the cable is a big help. Those are hard to find these days!

[Acill]

Acill how much for this kind of conversion?

Just the cost of the new power supply and $45 to mod it.

[Acill]

Dont forget about that single custom KS Rom chip with 1.3 and 3.1 on the same chip!! That a great upgrade hack! Love that one on them. Oh and to nifty new PSU!

Glad you are enjoying it too. I am very jealous of that machine. It was so much fun to build and sad to mail it back!!

[Acill]

Nice looking machine.



Maybe not.  Commodore did some really squirrelly things to block the upgrade path and try to force folks to buy the A600HD.  On some non-HD models, they actually pulled the one pin from the IDE HD header on the motherboard that carries the 'activity' signal back to the motherboard.  If you look at the header, there is probably one missing pin out in the middle.  That's it.  I'm pretty certain Commodore could not have sourced headers like this.  They must have purposely modified it at assembly.  How spiteful can a company be?  

I got around this by cutting a pin from my wife's sewing kit to length and soldering it in place.  Works great.

You know what, I think I noticed that and thought to myself how odd it was to see the pin missing. It could have been this one when working on it or another, but I know I have seen that.