My A1000 is ALIVE!

[TheGoose]

I got it to boot to the WOM yesterday. Then I got the DKB Kwikstart II working tonight, with glorious 3.1 ROM screen!

Next to examine is the ICD AdIDE.

I am using the base board from my 11.50 ebay win and the daughter-board from my original A1000 (has special PAL chip on-board for DKB K.S.)

Stupid thing I realized was you must have a DF0: present in an A1000 to even get to the WOM screeen. The old MB, something was blown, but not the 68k, just had no life.

So, white screen of sadness, was really just white screen of dumbass.

:laughing:

[TheGoose]

All you need now is KickTOS!  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ta4OYhsEY



She'll purr with that while Jay Miner spins in his grave...

-P

That... is RAD!

I've always been curious about our cousin...

[TheGoose]

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!

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.



"the AdIDE works if it's installed under the Kwikstart II." - THIS IS CORRECT.

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.

[TheGoose]

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

We are going down the same crazed path my friend. I have one of those clock port boards for A500/A1000 sitting in a box. I wish the subway had a flash rom like the Deneb, that would solve a lot.

I also heard about a new board coming from Individual Computers, ACA 520 ? Is that still alive?

[TheGoose]

BTW - did I tell you that Microbotics clock is working? Been ticking away for well over a week now (KOW)....

Ah cool, I read somewhere it had some software it needed? Week is a pretty good sign...

See this page:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=&company=Microbotics

• a simple battery backed up clock
• time is read by a CLI command, it does not take over the system clock
• connects to the A1000's 2nd mouse port
• once the port has been used (eg. by reading the clock or pressing fire on a joystick) the MouseTime clock puts itself to sleep making the port totally transparent - but the time no longer can be read from the clock until the next hard reset
• passthrough connector

[TheGoose]

Ok, more good news; got everything working today. I had two big hurdles to get over:

1. DKB Insider had a broken pin, repaired it with a leg cut from another IC and soldered it on.
2. The IDE cable header did not fit, so I filed it down, now all sits nice.

A little more clean up and blasted with air can. More easily seen here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1977rabbit/A1000Rebuild#

[TheGoose]

Test Boot, I get a yellow screen only when I boot from the early startup-sequence. But seems fine. Normal boot, the yellow does not happen. Crappy capture does show some off colors that are not there in reality. But the yellow is real.

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[TheGoose]

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

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