Amiga 1200 rebuild, what should I do to this machine? WHDLoad?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Sounds like a good plan, especially the part about sending it to Acill for a recap.  

You might want to take a look at the BetterWB pack, as well.  It's what I would use if I was running a lower-spec/non-3.9 Amiga:  http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

[kreciu]

Sounds like a good plan, especially the part about sending it to Acill for a recap.  

You might want to take a look at the BetterWB pack, as well.  It's what I would use if I was running a lower-spec/non-3.9 Amiga:  http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

It is quite nice "patch" for AOS3.1, but I don't see change in icons? I like MagicWB icon set .

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It is quite nice "patch" for AOS3.1, but I don't see change in icons? I like MagicWB icon set .

I meant "in addition to MagicWB".    I'm pretty fond of them, as well, for lower spec systems.  Ah, nostalgia!  

[Kremlar]

Still waiting to get the motherboard back from a recap from Acill, but here are the final exterior results. I'm extremely happy with the case and the lighter color keys, but I messed up with the darker keys by leaving them in the peroxide too long. They now have an uneven bleached look to them.

That being said, I much prefer it like it is now compared to how it was! Next time I will handle the darker keys a bit more carefully. This is 4 days in a tub with about $12 worth of off-the-shelf 3% peroxide. The keys were in for longer.

[kreciu]

Nice. I also got my case cleaned and looks much better (almost as new). Only problem I have are few keys that are still yellow. Maybe I should try to keep them longer?

[Kremlar]

Nice. I also got my case cleaned and looks much better (almost as new). Only problem I have are few keys that are still yellow. Maybe I should try to keep them longer?

Looks great!

[Kremlar]

Got my 1200 board back from Acill late last week and finally put it back together.  Installed the CF Card adapter w/backplate from Amigakit along with Kickstart 3.1 ROMs.  I used a bunch of hot glue to keep teh CF card bracket in place.  Also had to do a bit of solder work on the LED board - the floppy LED was intermittent.  Boots to floppy great!  

Although I thought the RAM expansion had 8MB RAM it does seem to be a 4MB SIMM.  If I move the jumper to 8MB the system will not boot.

I also moved the RTC chip from the clockport adapter to the RAM expansion, installed a new CR2032 battery, but have not yet tested the clock.

Now I just need to work on getting it setup to boot from the CF card I purchased.  Then I want to get WHDLoad working, which I've never done before.  If anyone has any specific pointers or walkthroughs they can point me to please do.

[mindprober]

Awesome! I'm still trying to locate an A1200. Almost thought I stumbled on one but it was a dead end.

[Acill]

Looking great!! As far as your RAM goes, do you have anything in the PCMCIA slot? I seem to remember some issues if you have more than 4MB and PCMCIA in use?

[Kremlar]

Looking great!! As far as your RAM goes, do you have anything in the PCMCIA slot? I seem to remember some issues if you have more than 4MB and PCMCIA in use?

No, nothing in there.  The card was originally set to 4MB but I looked at the SIMM and thought it was 8MB, thinking perhaps the previous owner used a PCMCIA card and set it to 4MB.  I think the SIMM is simply a 4MB SIMM.

[Acill]

Do you know what sized simm it uses? I may have a few 8MB ones here not being used. None of my boards use them if I still have them. LEt me know and I will look. If I find any you are welcome to them.

[Kremlar]

Hey -

I would appreciate it, but don't kill yourself over it!

The manual says this:

If you or your dealer are purchasing a SIMM from a source
other than MicroBotics, Inc., you must be certain to get the
correct type. MBX 1200z does NOT use the common, 8-bit
SIMM as found in the Macintosh marketplace. Rather it
uses the same sort of SIMM as used in the Amiga 4000.
This is a 72-pin, 32-bit wide SIMM. MBX 1200z needs only
an 80ns SIMM in order to operate at zero wait states. You
can use a 70 or 60ns SIMM but these may cost more for no
additional benefit. The following is a list of Micron part
numbers for the correct SIMM. You can use the equivalent
parts from any good quality manufacturer.
MBX 1200z SIMM SPECIFICATION; 80ns, 72-pin %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8220;widebody%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8221;
SIMM organized N-megabytes x 32 bits. For example,
Micron MT8D25632 (one megabyte); MT16D51232 (two
megabytes); MT8D132 (four megabytes); and MT16D232
(eight megabytes).

Thanks!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Then I want to get WHDLoad working, which I've never done before.  If anyone has any specific pointers or walkthroughs they can point me to please do.

WHDLoad installation is pretty much self-explanatory.  Download WHDLoad_usr_small.lha from the official site and install it, then install some games that use it.  You'll get more into the "nuts & bolts" of the thing when you need to start configuring it for a specific screenmode, or to disable certain functions (if you have an MMU, or an '040 or '060 accelerator, for example), but a lot of stuff will work right out of the box.  And for stuff that doesn't is where you'll need to go in and muck around with the tooltypes and config file options.  There's a good guide on those here:

http://whdload.de/docs/en/opt.html

Have fun!