A Favour Returned

[scuzzb494]

Hi

On 24th January 2004 I helped a fellow Amigan by sending
him a copy of the A4000 Service Manual. Yesterday I went
to see him and he let me have it back and gave me all of
this as a thankyou.....

Just part of the full list....

Amiga 3000 with A-MAX II+ by Readysoft Mac Emulator
Computer has two hard drives. Battery replaced in 2003.
A4000 EC 030 with 1.2 GB HD CyberGraphics and CD Rom
A4000 030 Basic no boards
Amiga 1000 complete with mint box and Spirit board
Amiga 1000 in original Commodore blue red box mint
Amiga 1000 complete in original Amiga 'tick' box
Amiga 600 with 80mb hard drive
Amiga 600 in Commodore blue red box 80mb HD + memory card
Amiga 600  - The Wild The Weird The Wicked
Amiga 500 Cartoon Classics plus expansion
Amiga 500 with Workbench 1.3
Amiga 500 Screen Gems with all seals intact - Removed A501 cheese
Amiga CDTV - Complete in original Commodore blue red box
Amiga CDTV without box complete with remote, keyboard this
unit fitted with adaptor for two mice.
GVP A530 Turbo 40MHz Impact Series II Sidecar for the A500
Amiga 1081 Monitor
A530 User Guide, power supply, install disks
Boxed 1411 CDTV black floppy drive
second CDTV floppy drive
A4000 daughter board
Boxed A520 modulator
2 No KCS PowerPC Boards for the Amiga 500 ( Never opened )
A3000 - Quick Connect - How to set up the Amiga 3000
Amiga 3000 Thick binder - Volume 1
Amiga 3000 Thick binder - Volume 2
Introducing the Commodore Amiga 3000
The Amiga Handbook
The Amiga System
The Kickstart Guide to the Amiga
CDTV Service Manual
A3000 Monitor Cable
A1000 Serial Lead
2 x Amiga 3000 chips 8520A-1 1790-24
Amiga 1000 mouse
Musical Instrument Digital Interface for the A500
Big box of assorted cable leads
2 x A2000 keyboards
3 x A4000 keyboards
GVP Products Guide 1992
Spirit Inboard 1000 Series Installation Guide
Connecting the Amiga 1000 Memory Expansion
Connecting the Amiga 1000 External Floppy Drive
Amiga 1000 Circuit Board Diagram
AmigaDOS V1.1 and v1.2 User Guide and Software boxed
Amiga Kickstart 1.1....... Plus boxes of books, software,
games, disks, manuals, samplers, cables etc etc etc.

And on and on and on. And he wanted nothing in return.
He was happy that all of his treasured Amigas were going
to a safe home. I was more than happy to oblige.

We had developed a friendship through Amibench and
yesterday was the first time we had actually met.

Thanks to Chris... A treasured Amigan.

PS: He did keep his A4000 and A1200 Workhorses that he
uses daily. After all he is an Amigan

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[zombie10k]

that is unbelievable.. Where do you have room for all this? your collection seems endless, it could easily be the Amiga Museum.

+1 for the A1000's and the GVP A530 turbo, two of my treasures. I grew up not far from CBM in West Chester PA and used to visit GVP in King of Prussia PA to pick up memory for my A530 many moons ago.

What do you think of the of possibility of connecting the A530 turbo to the A1000? I bought the DJBase rom connector for the A1000 a few years back and thought it might be possible to upgrade the A1000 w/ kick 3.1 and autoboot into WB 3.1 via the GVP A530?

I used to have the supra side car HD on my A1000 back in 1989, whopping 20 MB but it was great at the time.

Some photos updated on your site of the new treasure would be great to see!

[tone007]

I tried an A530 on an A1000 once, didn't work for me.

[save2600]

@Tone007 - did you have a Kickstart 1.3 or better ROM inside the machine when you tried?

[tone007]

No ROM, it seemed to load a 1.3 Kickstart disk but when going to boot from the WB disk stuff went weird and it froze up.

[save2600]

No ROM, it seemed to load a 1.3 Kickstart disk but when going to boot from the WB disk stuff went weird and it froze up.

Just curious because I read that the VXL030 wanted you to have Kickstart in ROM when used in an A1000. Maybe the A530 was designed the same way. Damn WOM/WCS getting in the way once again! lol

[zombie10k]

Just curious because I read that the VXL030 wanted you to have Kickstart in ROM when used in an A1000. Maybe the A530 was designed the same way. Damn WOM/WCS getting in the way once again! lol

@ save2600 - I am going to install the DJBase adapter and go right for a 3.1 Rom. I also have the updated GVP Rom for the A530 that TJLazer just burned for me, so I'll post the forum if I have any success.

I can boot from the HD no problem with an A590 (20 MB XT drive!) with the kickstart disk. I think it would be a blast to a see an auto-booting A1000 with an 030 board. I want to see if I can get the GVP 286 card working as well.

[scuzzb494]

that is unbelievable.. Where do you have room for all this? your collection seems endless, it could easily be the Amiga Museum.

+1 for the A1000's and the GVP A530 turbo, two of my treasures. I grew up not far from CBM in West Chester PA and used to visit GVP in King of Prussia PA to pick up memory for my A530 many moons ago.

What do you think of the of possibility of connecting the A530 turbo to the A1000? I bought the DJBase rom connector for the A1000 a few years back and thought it might be possible to upgrade the A1000 w/ kick 3.1 and autoboot into WB 3.1 via the GVP A530?

I used to have the supra side car HD on my A1000 back in 1989, whopping 20 MB but it was great at the time.

Some photos updated on your site of the new treasure would be great to see!

I have just spent two days finding holes for everything. They first have to be stored safely an then photographed. That will take a further two days and probably mean a weeks holiday for me.

The A530 was an amazing find. I was struggling around in the loft handing down boxes to the chap helping me, and there like a gleaming diamond was the GVP in a small box. I was so pleased I gotta say. Also getting three Amiga 1000s and two CDTV's was incredible.

The danger time for any collection is the travel and moving. I just dread it. This time there were no casualties, so really pleased.

As to using the kit, other than my Amigas that I have set up around me I very carefully store everything because one day all of it will go to a museum. I am very hopeful that the good people at Bletchley will expand their operations to include a museum of the home computing era of 1981-1995... From the rise of the ZX81 to the collapse at Windows95.

Anyway.. Better get busy. Still loads to do. And guess what I have two mails logged from folk that want me to collect more. Goodness me.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[Hell Labs]

Scuzz, you are the luckiest person on the forums.

[scuzzb494]

Scuzz, you are the luckiest person on the forums.

I like to think my luck started when I bought my first Amiga. Seems that my computer hobby has just grown and grown and grown. I still have my first Amiga. Works just fine. I started collecting cus I was worried my Amiga would break, so I started getting spares. Thing is I have enough spares to open a museum and the Amiga is still working as new. :-)

scuzz

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[scuzzb494]

Hi

I have added some images of the new kit and the A530 to my latest blog.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/scuzzblog1003.htm

May be of interest to you.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[TjLaZer]

Hi

I have added some images of the new kit and the A530 to my latest blog.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/scuzzblog1003.htm

May be of interest to you.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

Dude, are you married or have a gf?  LOL  I think you might have a tad tougher time than me doing this.... LOL

I have to "put away" my Amigas when I bring over my date/gf's.  LOL

[Hell Labs]

scuzz, I just got a 1200, and i'm interested in this setup you have here. What monitor is that? What cd-rom, monitor stand, external drives, etc?  I really want mine to be "just like yours" if that doesn't seem stalkerish. Oh, and do you know what's good for getting keyboards back to their origional colour?

[scuzzb494]

scuzz, I just got a 1200, and i'm interested in this setup you have here. What monitor is that? What cd-rom, monitor stand, external drives, etc?  I really want mine to be "just like yours" if that doesn't seem stalkerish. Oh, and do you know what's good for getting keyboards back to their origional colour?

OK from the top...

Thats a 14" Microvitec monitor for the Amiga bought in 1994. Multisync.
The modem you can forget.. cus I now have a PCMCIA network card and am on broadband using MiamiDX and YAM mailer. The first boxes are SCSI external boxes which you can pick up for next to nothing off Ebay ( or could ) I have a Blizzard Turbo IV with the SCSI kit on the card so I have all these SCSI boxes daisy chained from the back of the machine. Inside the boxes are two SCSI hard drives, I stay 2.1GB cus they really never get full. Inside the Amiga I have a 2.5" 550MB which I bought in 1995 and cost me £350. And still works fine. To the right of the monitor is a Power Computing XL Drive for HD PC disks 1.4MB. The CD Rom drive is also Power Computing SCSI unit daisy chained off the SCSI kit. What you can`t see is the Iomega 100MB ZIP drive which is also connected off the chain.

There is nothing fancy about the set up. I have been running 3.0 on this machine since November 1993 and she still works fine as my main Amiga machine. I have her networked with PCs and use Samba to do this. I have all my PC drives set up with icons I created with scripts so that I can access all partitions throughout the house by simply clicking an icon.

I live on DOpus IV. I hate V. My DOpus is massive and has been customised for my purposes and is still growing. I do quite a bit of programming on the Amiga with Dice.

The CD on the front is Everybodys Girlfriend by Mr Pleasance who was trying to take over the Amiga back in 1994. Hope I spelt his name correct.

That white thing with the keys in it is the girlfriend by the way...

The monitor shelf is pretty typical of types for the day. I just pick them up off Ebay when one pops along. I have them on my A500s also.

In 1994 I would have also had a SONY video camera attached to the machine with a VidiAmiga capture card and a hi fi unit connected to a TechnoSound Turbo... I liked sampling and using ProTracker with AMOS. Great fun. I once made a whole piece of music from Ghostbusters digi samples. Lace that with DPaintIV animation and 32MB RAM for the file size and you really still can have mega fun. I do.

Think that was about it.. I have a gamepad for Sensi Soccer...

All fitted without interfering with the 1200 and works a charm.

PS: Every one of my A1200s that I use daily have the Blizzard with SCSI Kit. And I have a brand new Amiga 1200 which I bought new with a complete duplicate of this computer in a box just in case. I copy all my Workbench to ZIP so that it would be a simple copy over to get running again. I really can`t be without the Amiga.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[Hell Labs]

That's kind of mental how you can rattle all that off... I'm looking at my miggy right now and wondering, driving lessons, or blizzard ppc/bvision?