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Offline marcusd666Topic starter

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Hello There from the UK....
« on: April 07, 2010, 03:04:53 PM »
Hi all, well after seeing some youtube clips of old amiga games I thought it was about time to get my old amiga out of the loft and see if she still worked!

Well once I found all the cables keyboard, mouse and monitor plugged it all in and switched on just the got the power light flashing oh no its not dead! I started to strip it a part all cards out memory simms then 1/2 can of computer solvent cleaner on all the connectors and plugs she powered up and booted workbench off the hard drive.

Result my old A4000/040 warp engine and Picasso IV is back in the land of the living lol not bad as its been well over 10 years since it was last in use. So I have a lot of catching up to do by the look off it hopefully it will all come back quickly.

Cheers
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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2010, 05:03:53 PM »
Quote from: Philophus;551874
Welcome....make sure you check the battery if it's not already removed.

Thanks for the welcome. the battery is well furry and dead so will remove it soon for a new one.
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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2010, 05:22:02 PM »
Quote from: Fanscale;551896
Hi and welcome,

Why the rotary in your avatar?


thanks for the welcome.
my weekend project is my mazda RX7 FD3 once you have had a rotary engine there is no going back lol.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2010, 05:27:30 PM by marcusd666 »
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A500+ kick2.0 GVP HD8+ rom switcher 2meg chip 8meg fast (still in box)
CD32 (Still in box) with some games.
 

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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2010, 06:11:48 PM »
Quote from: scuzzb494;551906
Hi

Just a quickie to say I would get the battery off as quickly as possible before you lose the Amiga all together.

scuzz

Can you run without the battery?
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CD32 (Still in box) with some games.
 

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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2010, 11:42:56 PM »
thanks for the advice I will remove the battery tomorrow when I was  cleaning everything be for I got it to work again. The battery was furry  but could not see anything on the main board.
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A500+ kick2.0 GVP HD8+ rom switcher 2meg chip 8meg fast (still in box)
CD32 (Still in box) with some games.
 

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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2010, 03:02:22 PM »
Right I have now removed the battery with the more professional way it was well ready for the bin and installed my old 4 way IDE board and a DVD rom from my old pc luckly I still had IDEFix97 still on the hard drive and it worked straight away. On having a read about I have also just ordered some new kickstart 3.1 roms ver 40.70 as it looks like that I am going to get hold of AMIGA OS3.9 for the time being. Got to admit its fun using it again I am well rusty with it lol.
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A500+ kick2.0 GVP HD8+ rom switcher 2meg chip 8meg fast (still in box)
CD32 (Still in box) with some games.
 

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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2010, 03:59:41 PM »
Yeah checked with ww.Amigakit.com and they can be used with the 4000D
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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2010, 04:27:49 PM »
Quote from: Bazzaq;553686
I did not know they were compatible.. the 40.70 are missing workbench.library so will only boot disks with workbench.library installed already.. The 4000T 3.1 disks were different than 4000D versions.

I have got a copy of the 4000T workbench discs with the workbench.library on so should be ok ? I hope. lol
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A500+ kick2.0 GVP HD8+ rom switcher 2meg chip 8meg fast (still in box)
CD32 (Still in box) with some games.
 

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Re: Hello There from the UK....
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2010, 12:41:05 PM »
Quick update: Well the Kickstart 3.1 Roms came today from ww.Amigakit.com that's well quick service only ordered yesterday at about 2pm!

Updated Workbench 3.1 4000T before replacing the roms Thanks for the info Bazzaq Powered up and after a couple of software failures messing around with the startup-sequence and reinstalling my Picasso IV software all booted up ok now.

Looking forward now to messing around with it and getting up to speed again.
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A4000 040 Warp Engine,  98meg, Picasso IV, vlab y/c capture card

The rest of the family
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A500+ kick2.0 GVP HD8+ rom switcher 2meg chip 8meg fast (still in box)
CD32 (Still in box) with some games.
 
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