My 500+ Project

[djos]

Whats the difference between the CF-IDE68k or HxC ? I'm not really upto speed on my A500 expansions.

On a different topic, are you thinking about connecting your A500+ to your home LAN? I know you weren't keen on the ACA500 but I think Jens is thinking of adding a NIC at some stage.

CF-IDE68k is just an IDE add-on + CF adapter (a600 gayle emulation) and HxC is a floppy emulator that uses images stored on an SD card:

http://torlus.com/floppy/

I havent bothered with networking, until something decent comes out I just put my CF cards into WinUAE and copy stuff that way.

[djos]

Nice work, thats a good price!

Considering it's coming from Germany I was stoked with the shipping, normally something like that would cost $70-$100aud to ship so im not complaining that it was $60 all up.

[djos]

Doh, I thought 20euros was a bit cheap for shipping, seller just asked for another 40euros!

.... and I really want this 500 so I paid it even tho its obviously his mistake.

[djos]

Yay some toys arrived today! Got my a500 extension board and 8mb fast-ram board today from Kipper and they work great!

Getting a bit crowded in here now!



So I decided to mount my CF-Reader facing out so I can remove the card when I want to transfer files:


Much Better, now I can easily remove it to copy files around! :cool:



I also got a prototype 1mb/2mb Trapdoor card from TomThul for use with a3000 2mb agnus chips (8372B and 8372AB) that have been transplanted into a500's with rev6 Mobo's - as this is a prototype it isnt working 100% atm ... yet.

[Azryl]

looks like spaghetti inside your case
tho nice new shiny pcb's have been stuck inside as well

nice A500 system you have now...

so, what is the next project?

Az

[Azryl]

oh, djos if you need a spare a500 keyboard USA layout let me know
I have about 6 of them lying un-used in my shed

can have for postage

Az

[djos]

looks like spaghetti inside your case
tho nice new shiny pcb's have been stuck inside as well

nice A500 system you have now...

so, what is the next project?

Az

Cheers

My next project is my second a500 which is getting a KCS Power PC (not PPC, XT PC trapdoor card) installed and I'll prolly put a HxC into the FDD bay and just run KS1.3 only in it - although I do have a couple of space KS Switchers and spare roms of various versions lying around that I could use (might do a 1.2/1.3 setup). :p

oh, djos if you need a spare a500 keyboard USA layout let me know
I have about 6 of them lying un-used in my shed

can have for postage

Az

That would be awesome, how much is postage for one to Adelaide, 5039?

[djos]

Finally my replacement rev8a board arrived (on a Saturday too - nice one AusPost!) and while it had a small amount of battery acid damage, it had been rescued in time and works perfectly!



This cap needs to be relocated so I can install my fast-ram board:


sorted including mount points for Gayle emulation by the side-car connector:


everything now installed :cool: :


and my 500 is now a true 500+ again and has 2MB chip-ram:


The last two days have been very productive, Im so happy with the current state of my 500+ that I did up the case screws once everything was confirmed to be working! :p

PS, I also told my wife a bought a 2nd 500 which went down surprisingly well - this was prolly helped by the fact that i "forgot" to mention the cost of shipping.

[Azryl]

Some nice chip and fast ram numbers

Cute little cpu adapter you have there

Az

[MelbourneBen]

Awesome! There isnt many A500+'s in Australia. I think I've only seen 1 on ebay Australia in the last 5 years.

In my opinion the A500+ was one of the nicest Amiga's ever made.

[djos]

Some nice chip and fast ram numbers

Cute little cpu adapter you have there

Az

Cheers.

Yeah it is neat. I had asked kipper to make a version of the 8mb fast-ram board that moved the CPU away from the keyboard so there was room to install an IDE68k as well. he then came up with the idea of the adapter as he was already making an adapter for his ram board to fit into a1000's without blocking the floppy connector.

Needless to say it works great and made mounting my cf-card reader easier too.

[djos]

Awesome! There isnt many A500+'s in Australia. I think I've only seen 1 on ebay Australia in the last 5 years.

In my opinion the A500+ was one of the nicest Amiga's ever made.

Cheers. I had to import mine from the UK - I'm not sure they where ever officially sold here.

Me too, IMO it's the pinnacle of the consumer ECS/OCS Amiga's, the only thing that let it down, back in the day, was the 2.04 rom.

[Azryl]

Ahem... A3000 was the pinnacle ECS machine

Az

[djos]

Ahem... A3000 was the pinnacle ECS machine

Az

I did clarify with the word consumer. the 3k was a business machine IMO.

[utri007]

Just noticed your wb screenshot and since I have also A500 setup, I would suggest that you install MCP 68000 version and turn on no icon borders.

Doesn't take much resourses or memory, but makes it look much better

[djos]

Just noticed your wb screenshot and since I have also A500 setup, I would suggest that you install MCP 68000 version and turn on no icon borders.

Doesn't take much resourses or memory, but makes it look much better

To be honest I like wb3.1 just the way it is. :cool:


Btw, dose anyone know the best way to change a partition to FAT without killing the remaining PFS partitions? Obviously I'll lose anything on the partition I want to change to FAT but that's fine with me.