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A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« on: September 10, 2006, 09:30:26 AM »
Recently aquired a minty A500+ housed in the Micronik mini tower with the ZII busboard which also has room for 4 kickstarts.
At the moment I have two kickstarts in the sockets on the busboard but I have no clue on how to switch between them..the manual is in german and I understand some of it but can't find anything related to switching betweeen them.
Has anyone here any experience in this hardware and can give me some hints?
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 10:09:57 AM »
Perhaps reboot and hold down the keys for a couple of seconds? Thats how an old switcher I had worked.

BTW, nice find, its a nice looking tower.
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 12:10:13 PM »
hey Amigaz, don't be lazy! post some pics too!  :-P
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2006, 12:25:26 PM »
There should be a 3-position switch that bolts somewhere,  but I broke mine and never installed it - and I had a 2-Rom switcher already.
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2006, 11:15:04 PM »
Hi:
have you tested any zorro cards with the busboard?
Do you use a a2000 acelerator with it?
Can you post a couple of pictures of the case and busboard?
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2006, 10:58:58 AM »
There are some pics on http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
  from  Micronik 500 tower and Micronik mini tower - they are the same; "officially" it was called A500 Classic Mini Tower I think. Perhaps a little better pics could be added...
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2006, 11:14:09 AM »
Tried hold down LMB while power-on? some rom schitches works this way
too lazy to use shift key properly...
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2006, 11:41:16 AM »
Will try the tips you guys gave me  :-)

Will also provide BBOAH with better pics than the crappy ones that are there and upload some here too.
This baby rocks...can't wait to get my hands on a nice A2000 turbocard for it and stuff an X-surf and a Cybervision gfx card in it  :-D

Here a pic of it I posted on a swedish Amiga forum
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2006, 02:43:49 PM »
There is a 3pin header on the busboard for the kick switcher - just try different combinations on it, probably shorting 2 pins. What is the default behaviour when nothing is connected there - the lowest KS I think?
 

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2006, 05:27:47 PM »
Amigaz,

What are your plans for this great piece of hardware? (an 060 would be a nice addition)

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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2006, 12:29:10 PM »
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zipper wrote:
There is a 3pin header on the busboard for the kick switcher - just try different combinations on it, probably shorting 2 pins. What is the default behaviour when nothing is connected there - the lowest KS I think?


It always boots kick3.1
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2006, 12:30:14 PM »
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Miked wrote:
Amigaz,

What are your plans for this great piece of hardware? (an 060 would be a nice addition)

-Miked


Yeah, I would love to get my hands on a Blizzard 2060 and then stuff an X-surf inside it together with my Cybervision 64 3D  :-)
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Re: A500 micronik tower, switch between kickstarts
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2006, 06:03:26 PM »
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Yeah, I would love to get my hands on a Blizzard 2060 and then stuff an X-surf inside it together with my Cybervision 64 3D  :-)


Really a powerful A500! Great AMIGAZ!!!  :-)
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