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Offline AmigaClassicRule

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Re: How to test my Amiga, and did I get Amiga 500 or 500 PLUS?
« on: November 28, 2012, 09:35:34 PM »
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I had exactly a bastard mobo like this which was an A500+ mobo with OCS Denise but with New Agnus and with Kickstart 1.3, 512KB soldered Chip and without the RTC circuit and Audio filter.
 
It's true that some Commodore A500's where shipped with the new mobo but without the extra stuff that actually categorize an A500 as a plus (RTC circuit, Kickstart 2.04, ECS Denise, 1MB Chip plus audio filter).
 
It's not so difficult to upgrade this mobo to a full A500+ but you need to put the ECS Denise, solder the rest 1MB Chip chips, and find some difficult to find decoupler for the RAM plus some RTC chip and some other caps/resistors for the audio filter circuit.
 
I tried to make this, but never actually made it. Imho it's easier to get an real A500+ mobo than try to make this a full one or keep it and treat is as an Rev6 mobo :)
Just keep it as it is as a rare bastard board from the Commodore era :P

You seem to bash it for reason? I take it you had some bad experience with it? Or do you hate it because it could have being potentially an A500+ but it is not?
 
What is exactly your beef toward the A500 Rev 8 motherboard anyways? :)
 

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Re: How to test my Amiga, and did I get Amiga 500 or 500 PLUS?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2012, 10:23:38 PM »
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The chip rams are TMS44C256-80N, I found them on sale on some component stock company website for 10 Euros each! pretty expensive...got the amiga for 40 euros but that ram chips will cost far more than the amiga itself!
 
I am still looking for an answer to my main question! How to connect amiga 500 to LCD ?!

 
Oh um...hehe, you could buy an external TV tuner and hook your Amiga into the external TV tuner and the TV tuner into the LCD monitor. That is what I did for years and years until I decided that a Commodore 1084s is more fitting for me as a full experience :)
 
I preferred the 1084s over the LCD anytime...the colors and pictures are just delllliccious heh.
 

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Re: How to test my Amiga, and did I get Amiga 500 or 500 PLUS?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2012, 10:34:58 PM »
Oh jeeze no. You can do a little research online for a good external tv tuner, I bought one for 70 bucks it supports: PAL/NTSC/SECAM and all combination of these...oh heck let me send you a link to the one I got that is A++:
 
YEAH BABY: http://www.opalia.com.au/product.jsp?id=SUPERA-HD
 
that is the one!! THAT IS WHAT I HAVE AT HOME NOW...TWO OF THEM IN FACT...YUP, YES SIR TWO OF THEM. And I aint using them now at all in fact!!
 

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Re: How to test my Amiga, and did I get Amiga 500 or 500 PLUS?
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 02:10:34 PM »
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Thanks for the input guys. I won another auction for an A1200 Tower that comes with a commodore color monitor. It's on the way...hopefully I am going to be a happy amiga owner soon :P

Maaan...your financially set. But wait a minute!! If you you just bought an Amiga 1200 and a tower at that, what would happen to you A500? It would be in the closet unused.
 
Personally, if I own an Amiga 1200, towered too, with AGA and an Amiga with OCS with only 512 KB of RAM, Kickstart 1.3 I would only use the A1200 and leave the A500 collecting dust.
 
HOWEVER, if I only an Amiga 500 then I have no choice but to use it, you see what I mean?