My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

[AmmoJammo]

In PAL: High Res Laced mode, the workbench image is correctly positioned, and fills the screen nicely.

But games obviously don't run in this mode.

However, if I start up in NTSC mode, while still running the PAL workbench res, some games are correctly positioned... ZOOL for example is good... but, other games now have the bottom of the screen cut off... Flimbos Quest being one... :/

[AmmoJammo]

This monitor does the same image shift with the Sega Megadrive, connected either via composite, or svideo.

HOWEVER! much like the Amiga output being correctly centered when set to "interlaced" the sega output, when playing sonic in 2 player, is also correct...

The Sega changes resolution in 2 player mode...

[AmmoJammo]

[Lurch]

@AmmoJammo Very nice!!!! :-)

[AmmoJammo]

My brother and I had a "retro games" evening, while he was in Adelaide.

some games really suck! :p

[Lurch]

One thing about playing old games some just don't live up to what they were when you were a kid.

You think to yourself what am I doing! :-)

But then there's a couple of games that are amazing that you never played as a kid and have just discovered :-)

One game is ruff'n'tumble... blew me away when I tried it a few months back.

[AmmoJammo]

*fingers crossed*

[djos]

I'm surprised you haven't grabbed a 1200 yet, the 600 is a waste of time IMO, commodore should have put the time and money the wasted on the 600 into the AAA project!

[AmmoJammo]

I tried a 40Mhz crystal in the Mega Midget Racer today (in place of the 36Mhz)

It causes a software crash, which I thought was a bit strange, so I put an 8Mhz instead, just to see what happened, well, sysinfo reported it as being 7.09Mhz, but it benchmarked 1451 dhrystones, while a stock 68000 does about 580.

Reason for the A600, internal ide controller, composite video out with the possibility to modify it to give s-video out, up to 2 meg chip ram, 35cm wide, whereas the A500 with A590 plugged in is 60cm wide!

[Lurch]

A600 makes a great A500plus replacement :-) My A1200 get's a lot of attention lately, although at the moment all the mods are hanging out the back.

I end up sitting down to mod it but end up scratching my head on how to fit it all in the case :-(

[MelbourneBen]

It's very hot here in Adelaide today so I thought I'd take some time out to get my newly aquired PCMCIA NIC working. I'm posting from my A1200 now using Ibrowse, it's working really quite well. I could even do some prouctive web tasks, my wife asked me if I could lookup an ABN no. on the web, within about 30 seconds I had the answer for her :-)

[djos]

Nice one, Im waiting for a CF adaptor so I can install WB3.1 on my 1200 and get my Netgear Wifi card up and running!

[AmmoJammo]

Unfortunately, I ended up with two sets of front rotors, one for the turbo version, one for non turbo..

[AmmoJammo]

A600 appears to work, and even came with a cupcake in the trapdoor!

Although the battery had eaten halfway through the board, its not in the area that effects the memory

Floppy drive works too, and it came with an A500 power supply... once again, the only model power supply I've ever seen! lol

[Lurch]

Congrats on the 600, how did you end up with two sets of front rotors???

[AmmoJammo]

how did you end up with two sets of front rotors???

that's what I'd like to know...

box has the right part number on it, but the item inside was wrong.

contacted the seller, and they'll refund my money, but it was a clearance item...

"As far as getting a replacement set goes, I'll look into what's available, as  these were the last of the clearance sets we had."

I wouldn't have bought any if I couldn't buy fronts and rears... :griping: