The A4000 that came back :-)

[A4000_Mad]

AmiJIm wrote:
the battery!
you have to remove the battery ASAP!!!!!
dont replace it,just remove it.
clean the surface with alchohol,and post some high res pics in here .it seems to be in a bad condition....
as for the extras,there seems to be a wrapengine ,with onboard scsi ,which you should use,and some that bridge card,which is useless.
have fun mate,that what your friend would want.

Thank you AmiJim :pint:




Well she's all stripped down and ready for me to remove that battery and do some cleaning :-)

I'll also be able to test the HDD, CV64/3D and Warp Engine in another A4000. I'm curious to know whether the bridgeboard can still do its thing. Does anyone have any idea how I would go about testing it?

[Krusher]

Big up to your friend in the sky, but doesn't it feel strange to use that Amiga? I mean, he used it, there must be files from him there..

[A4000_Mad]

Krusher wrote:
Big up to your friend in the sky, but doesn't it feel strange to use that Amiga? I mean, he used it, there must be files from him there..

No, I don't feel that there's anything strange or spooky about using this A4000. My very first and mostly used A4000 came from Andy too (the one in my avatar), and I happily remember him whenever I use it and the other Amigas and PC's I bought off of him. In fact, had I been told that it had been dumped instead of that it was still there, I think I would have felt extremely sad and that I had let him down in some kind of way.


EDIT - My posts just don't look complete to me without at least one smilie :-D

[A4000_Mad]

 @ krusher & countzero

Your spotting something in my first pic of the Warp Engine has been playing on my mind :nervous: So I decided to put checking it out to the top of the list. Here's a better photo of it taken with a Nokia N95 in natural daylight.




I ran it for an hour today in a different A4000 and it is perfectly fine :-) I was surprised to find that it had 64MB of onboard memory, as I thought it only had about half that amount. It's pretty fast as you can see from these SysInfo speed comparisons :-


040/25




Warp Engine 040/40




Cyberstorm 060/50



Note:- SysInfo cannot identify an 060 CPU.

:pint:

[taunusand]

Nice  :-D

But.. 7 A4000's?? WOW  :-o

I thought I was bad, to collect more than one Amiga.. But when I have finished re-building the house (upstairs) there will be a whole room for them to be setup. Instead of having to clean up the living room when I have a visit  :lol:

[countzero]

yup, warp engine is an awesome board, I know because I own one (in my A3000) wait until you use its SCSI.

[A4000_Mad]

taunusand wrote:

But.. 7 A4000's?? WOW :-o

There's a member here with 8 A4000's. The greedy #%&*%$ :lol:

countzero wrote:

wait until you use its SCSI.

I look forward to doing that 8-) I don't have any software for the Warp Engine, so I guess I might need to get some? My 50 pin SCSI HDD's are 'oktagon.device' on Oktagon SCSI cards at the moment. Will a SCSI HDD on the Warp Engine be a 'warp.device', 'scsi.device' or something else?

[A4000_Mad]

Well I put the 2GB Maxtor hard drive and CyberVision64/3D into another A4000 and it booted straight into this Workbench screen :-)



I tested the CyberVision64/3D up to screenmode CV64/3D 16Bit 1152 x 900 :-)

[marcfrick2112]

Hey A4000_Mad:

As for the WarpEngine software, check here

Second, you don't really need it to use the SCSI interface,
AFAIK... my Zip drive was recognized straight away.



 :-D

[Lemmink]

That bridge board must be quite rare. I have never seen this one and neither BBoAH nor AHD have it listed.

Does it say somwhere on the PCB who made it ?
A closeup of the board would be interesting too.

[Iggy_Drougge]

Lemmink wrote:
That bridge board must be quite rare. I have never seen this one and neither BBoAH nor AHD have it listed.

Does it say somwhere on the PCB who made it ?
A closeup of the board would be interesting too.

Isn't it just a regular A2088?

[A4000_Mad]

marcfrick2112 wrote:
Hey A4000_Mad:

As for the WarpEngine software, check here

Second, you don't really need it to use the SCSI interface,
AFAIK... my Zip drive was recognized straight away.



 :-D

Hi marc

Thanks for the link :-) I've downloaded 'WarpEngine.dms' and 'WarpEngine.pdf' to have a look at. So your Zip showed up as a normal 'scsi.device' 8-)

[A4000_Mad]

Lemmink wrote:
That bridge board must be quite rare. I have never seen this one and neither BBoAH nor AHD have it listed.


Does it say somwhere on the PCB who made it ?
A closeup of the board would be interesting too.

Hi lemmink

It's a Commodore A2386SX. I just searched and found it at BBOAH:-




""Emulates:  PC
Processor:  Intel 386sx@16Mhz, Intel 386sx@20Mhz or Intel 386sx@25Mhz, optional 387 FPU (PLCC)
RAM:  1MB (Expandable to 8MB with ZIPs, 16MB with a ZIP to SIMM converter)
Graphics Emulation:  MDA
CGA
(can use real ISA graphics cards)
Sound Emulation:  Real PC speaker
(can use real ISA sound cards)

A full length Zorro II card which emulates a PC at the full speed of a 386. It was available with three different speeds of 386, from 16Mhz to 25Mhz. The card plugs into both a Zorro II slot and an ISA slot and was capable of using real ISA cards. This bridgeboard could use your existing Amiga's floppy drives or dedicated floppy drives. Although the bridgeboard does not allow you to use ISA cards from the Amiga side, there is a special driver available from Aminet that does let you use NE2000 network cards from the Amiga.""


The one I've got doesn't have a battery fitted at the moment as in the pic from BBOAH (thank goodness :-)), but it does have a chip 'Cyrix FastMath CX83S87 -25 -JP' fitted in the empty socket above and to the left of the blue battery.

[amigakid]

Very sorry to hear about your friend there buddy.  I hope his family is recovering well and finding positive ways to deal with the loss of their loved one.  I really hope that everytime you turn on that miggy that you remember him and his family.

Cheers!!!!

[A4000_Mad]

I will thank you amigakid  :pint:

AmiJIm wrote:

post some high res pics in here

I won't be fitting a new battery, but I'm going to paint something over that exposed bit of copper tracking :-)

[A4000_Mad]

Well I couldn't stand to wait any longer to try the motherboard. So I screwed the mobo back to the chassis and connected just the PSU, RAM and Warp Engine. Then I plugged on an external SD/FF, grabbed a PC monitor and switched her on :nervous:




I HAVE AN INSERT DISK PROMPT SCREEN GUYS :banana: