Amiga 500 Tower with SuperGen

[scuzzb494]

My Checkmate has an external keyboard connected to the 500. Don`t be fooled by the 1500 badge. This was made before the A1500 was created. Sadly no carrying case though somewhat light.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz86.htm

What did have a neat handle was the C128D Plastic.. Plus the keyboard locked into the bottom of the unit.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_jun12/a_scuzz_jun12_01.jpg

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz17.htm

Have fun.

[Selles]

Ok, I did manage to get an Amiga 2000 / 3000 keyboard to work.
 
Only ram boards and other simple 5 volt Zorro II boards work in the Zorro II adapter.  SCSI boards and other complex boards will not work.  Maybe the -5 v and 12 v lines are missing.

[Darth_X]

Hello everyone, I am new to Amiga Org. I am building an Amiga 500 tower for doing titling and genlocking. The motherboard is revision 6 with a 1 meg Agnus and 1 meg of chip memory. Kickstart 3.1 and a high density disk drive installed. I also installed a SuperGen genlock and a Micron Tech. Inc. Amiga 500 Interconnect board (zorro II adapter).
 
Everything is working fine except the Amiga 3000 keyboard and Zorro II adapter. The Amiga 500 is not "seeing" any board plugged into the Zorro II adapter board. Also, any of you know how to hook up an Amiga 3000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 motherboard?  Oh, and I want to hook up a reset switch.  I do not want to Control-A-A.  The Atari ST computer has a reset swith, I wonder if something like that can be hooked up to my Amiga 500 tower?

This sounds like a cool project. Anyone know why this guy is banned?

[B00tDisk]

he was a doomy sockpuppet

[Dandy]

There were plenty titling software for Amiga.  IMO the best was Scala.  
...

The shortcoming of Scala is that you cannot switch to modern rtg screenmodes.
If you want to use it, you'll need the possibility to display one of the old, crappy Amiga video modes.

It is completely useless on my Amiga4000 PPC with Mediator and Voodoo4 graphics card and TFT monitor.

Bummer!

[Dandy]

...
Also, any of you know how to hook up an Amiga 3000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 motherboard?  

Aside from getting the circuit diagrams and looking there for ways of connecting an Amiga 3000 keyboard I do only know of an (theoretical) way to connect PC keyboards to an A500:

It could be a solution to get hold of a clock port expansion for the A500 (I have a weak remembrance that once there was a hardware add-on for the A500 offering an A1200-compatible-clockport, but can't remember the name a.t.m.. There you could (in theory) connect one of E3B's USB cards for clockport(Algor/Subway), that can be operated with Anaiis USB stack for low-spec Amigas.
Now you can connect USB-keyboard and USB-mouse. Possibly also a 10 mBit network interface card works? That should allow for the fastest possible file transfer with old, low spec Amigas...

But I never tested the USB solution - therefor I wrote "in theory". I don't know for sure if a network card works with Anaiis - but you could ask Gilloo:
Contact address
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Any mail, comments, suggestions, documentations are welcome!

Please send a mail with the title "ANAIIS" at the following mail address
gilles dot pelletier at voila dot fr

Enjoy USB on old classic Amiga.
And remember: Only Amiga makes it possible!

Oh, and I want to hook up a reset switch.  I do not want to Control-A-A.  The Atari ST computer has a reset swith, I wonder if something like that can be hooked up to my Amiga 500 tower?

Perhaps you prefer the new Microsoft keyboard (see attached)?
;-)