Amiga 600

[ToddH]

My 600 is fixed and on the way back. Got a stack of Amigakit upgrades ready to install. Now if they would hurry up and get to my name on the Vampire 2 list I'd be set.

Edit: Looks like my ACA 620EC arrived today as well. It should hold me over until the Vampire 2.

[ToddH]

Well, she's recapped and upgraded (thanks Ascii). Installed a 604n chip ram expansion, Indivision ECS, real time clock module, 3.1 ROM, 4GB CF IDE hard drive kit, Workbench 3.1, and ACA 620EC accelerator. Only thing I'm waiting on now is for my number to come up on the Vampire 2 wait list.

Configuring Easynet and getting online was a pain and took some trial and error but I managed to get it working.

I'm loving the Indivision. Got her hooked up to an old Dell monitor I had sitting around. Here's what she looks like now.



Still haven't started customizing 3.1 yet so it looks a little stock. Also, a few of my keyboard keys work intermittently. I'm wondering if it might be time to buy a replacement membrane. And is the disk light supposed to flash when the hard drive is accessed?

Other than that having a blast reliving my younger years.

[Acill]

Dont forget about that single custom KS Rom chip with 1.3 and 3.1 on the same chip!! That a great upgrade hack! Love that one on them. Oh and to nifty new PSU!

Glad you are enjoying it too. I am very jealous of that machine. It was so much fun to build and sad to mail it back!!

[midway]

Cool ! How did you get Easy Net to work ? tried it with three different adapters until I gave up and used Miami, which works fine with the latest Individual network card, although speed isn't all that great, getting at most 400 kbytes per second via ftp.
 
 would you mind posting your easy net settings which worked ?

[paul1981]

Yes, the DISK light (bottom one) should illuminate on hard disk access. This is likely your CF IDE adapter at fault.

[ToddH]

Dont forget about that single custom KS Rom chip with 1.3 and 3.1 on the same chip!! That a great upgrade hack! Love that one on them. Oh and to nifty new PSU!

Glad you are enjoying it too. I am very jealous of that machine. It was so much fun to build and sad to mail it back!!

Yep, forgot about the ROM switch. And I'm loving the power supply. The little Pico unit is working great.

Cool ! How did you get Easy Net to work ? tried it with three different adapters until I gave up and used Miami, which works fine with the latest Individual network card, although speed isn't all that great, getting at most 400 kbytes per second via ftp.
 
 would you mind posting your easy net settings which worked ?

Sure. When I get off work I'll try and post up my settings and how I got it working. It wasn't easy I can tell you that.

Yes, the DISK light (bottom one) should illuminate on hard disk access. This is likely your CF IDE adapter at fault.

Looks like it's time to put a ticket in with AmigaKit, since I purchased it from them. Thanks.

[Tenacious]

Nice looking machine.

Yes, the DISK light (bottom one) should illuminate on hard disk access. This is likely your CF IDE adapter at fault.

Maybe not.  Commodore did some really squirrelly things to block the upgrade path and try to force folks to buy the A600HD.  On some non-HD models, they actually pulled the one pin from the IDE HD header on the motherboard that carries the 'activity' signal back to the motherboard.  If you look at the header, there is probably one missing pin out in the middle.  That's it.  I'm pretty certain Commodore could not have sourced headers like this.  They must have purposely modified it at assembly.  How spiteful can a company be?  

I got around this by cutting a pin from my wife's sewing kit to length and soldering it in place.  Works great.

[Acill]

Nice looking machine.



Maybe not.  Commodore did some really squirrelly things to block the upgrade path and try to force folks to buy the A600HD.  On some non-HD models, they actually pulled the one pin from the IDE HD header on the motherboard that carries the 'activity' signal back to the motherboard.  If you look at the header, there is probably one missing pin out in the middle.  That's it.  I'm pretty certain Commodore could not have sourced headers like this.  They must have purposely modified it at assembly.  How spiteful can a company be?  

I got around this by cutting a pin from my wife's sewing kit to length and soldering it in place.  Works great.

You know what, I think I noticed that and thought to myself how odd it was to see the pin missing. It could have been this one when working on it or another, but I know I have seen that.

[paul1981]

Nice looking machine.



Maybe not.  Commodore did some really squirrelly things to block the upgrade path and try to force folks to buy the A600HD.  On some non-HD models, they actually pulled the one pin from the IDE HD header on the motherboard that carries the 'activity' signal back to the motherboard.  If you look at the header, there is probably one missing pin out in the middle.  That's it.  I'm pretty certain Commodore could not have sourced headers like this.  They must have purposely modified it at assembly.  How spiteful can a company be?  

I got around this by cutting a pin from my wife's sewing kit to length and soldering it in place.  Works great.

I've never heard of that before. I know that some people have snapped pins off, but they really should all be there to start with. How odd if true though, again...I've never heard of this before now. Has anyone else?