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Amiga 500 Tower with SuperGen
« on: August 11, 2010, 10:43:49 AM »
Hello everyone, I am new to Amiga Org. I am building an Amiga 500 tower for doing titling and genlocking. The motherboard is revision 6 with a 1 meg Agnus and 1 meg of chip memory. Kickstart 3.1 and a high density disk drive installed. I also installed a SuperGen genlock and a Micron Tech. Inc. Amiga 500 Interconnect board (zorro II adapter).
 
Everything is working fine except the Amiga 3000 keyboard and Zorro II adapter. The Amiga 500 is not "seeing" any board plugged into the Zorro II adapter board. Also, any of you know how to hook up an Amiga 3000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 motherboard?  Oh, and I want to hook up a reset switch.  I do not want to Control-A-A.  The Atari ST computer has a reset swith, I wonder if something like that can be hooked up to my Amiga 500 tower?
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Re: Amiga 500 Tower with SuperGen
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2010, 09:35:18 PM »
I already have 4 Amiga 2000 computers and an Amiga 3000.  They are to big to take out into the field.  The Amiga 500 tower that I am building will have everthing built in.  2 straps will go around the tower case connected to a carrying handle on top.
 

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Re: Amiga 500 Tower with SuperGen
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2010, 04:12:18 AM »
We are getting WAY off topic, but, I will answer your questions. I use Deluxe Paint 3 for creating the graphics and titling that is genlocked over live video. I do have a complete Video Toaster setup, but, I can not drag that out into the field.
 
The reason why I do not use my Amiga 3000 is because it has a tendency to over-heat.  I can leave my Amiga 500 tower on all the time and it never over-heats.  The case is slightly larger then an Amiga 3000, but much more durable.
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Re: Amiga 500 Tower with SuperGen
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2010, 02:04:08 PM »
Ok, I did manage to get an Amiga 2000 / 3000 keyboard to work.
 
Only ram boards and other simple 5 volt Zorro II boards work in the Zorro II adapter.  SCSI boards and other complex boards will not work.  Maybe the -5 v and 12 v lines are missing.