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I don't think it's the disk sensor switch, as the drive activity light turns green and I can hear the head moving when I insert a disk. I'm intrigued by the bad capacitor possibility, though. Does anyone know of a site or repository online that has Amiga floppy drive schematics?

Hey guys! Hoping an old-school Amiga head might can help me out here. Recently picked up an Amiga 500. Powers up just fine, gets to the Kickstart 1.2 insert disk screen. But when I would insert a disk, the disk activity light would turn green and I could hear the head clicking, but nothing would load. I got to listening more closely and realized that the disk wasn't spinning. So I disassemble the A500 and clean everything. Take out the floppy, disassemble and clean it. Pretty dirty, but not catastrophically so. I put the floppy drive back together, hook the A500 pieces up (while still disassembled), fire it up, and still encounter the same problem: system recognizes when I insert the disk, disk activity light turns green, but the disk doesn't spin. So I turn the floppy drive on it's side so I can see the drum underneath an began to experiment. I found the when the disk activity light turned green, if I manually nudged the drum in the right direction it would spin up and read the floppy, letting me get into Workbench 1.2. But the timing had to be just right, or it just results in a disk error. I've gotten pretty good at it, though, and have been able to successfully load and run several programs. But I can only do it as long as the A500 is disassembled with the floppy drive bottom accessible. So the obvious two questions: Does anyone know whatnots doing this? And how might I fix it? I don't think it's the motor seizing up; the drum spins quit freely by hand. It's almost like it's some kid of sensor issue, or possibly a weak capacitor? Really not sure. Hence why I've come to the experts. Thanks in advance for any help! Let me know of you need any details or picture for the A500 or drive.

Doh! Never mind--scrolled right past them there in the middle.

You going to list some of your boxed computer games? (PC, etc.)

Useless though it may be, that's a cool looking piece of hardware.

The last similar managed estate sale I went to, the prices were ludicrous. And when I asked the insure manager how they priced the items, she said they scanned eBay BINs for a baseline. Geh.....

Boxed games or disc/jewel case only?

AC adapter, video cable, and controller(s)?

Picked up a very nice 3DS XL bundle from him. Arrived super fast and was very well packaged. Look forward to dealing with him again.

Bought a lot of Amiga disks and manuals off of him. Great guy, super easy to deal with. Looking forward to our next deal!

Bought a couple CD-i games from him. Very nice condition, and reasonable price. Nice guy to deal with.

Bought a lot of computer games from Retro-Z, and he was a pleasure to deal with. Packed everything up nice, tight, and protected, and shipped it right out. Got here safe, sound, and exactly as described. Thanks man! Look forward to our next deal.

$120 with no box, 1 controller, a NES RF adapter, the cheapest game for the system, and it comes with an aftermarket power supply. Really? Just... Just go to eBay already and pray for a sucker. Cripes.

Cellophane freaks strike me as being fairly nuts as well. <hypocritically glances over at sealed copy of Death Knights of Krynn on shelf> <cough> Anyway....

Picked up a smorgasbord of goodies from kevates. Good guy to deal with; no muss, no fuss.

$175 is way, WAY overpriced, IMO. (Especially considering the Night Trap is a burned CD-ROM with absolutely no value; not sure why you even bothered listing it.)

Bought a CIB Odyssey 4000 from unholy. The package arrived VERY carefully and effectively packaged, and the system itself was in even better condition than described. Can't recommend this guy enough. Thanks!

Grabbed it off a random eBay auction. It came with a somewhat ghetto SD2IEC adapter, so you can tell it was from a guy that liked tinkering. Any advantages to the SwinSID vs. the real thing? Or is it just a cheap replacement option for those who don't have a stack of old breadboxes to scavenge from?

I recently picked up a Commodore 64C with a Rev. 4 mainboard inside. It's had some modifications done to it, one of which was the installation of a 28-pin JiffyDos kernel ROM. The other change, I'm not so sure of. From what I can tell, the SID has been replaced by either a third party module or some kind of custom job. (You can see what a stock 8580 in that slot looks like here.) Of course, I'm by no means up on the Commodore modding scene. Can one of you guys take a look at the below pic of the mainboard and tell me what exactly that is in the SID slot and what it does different from the standard 8580? The "chip" in question is circled as number 2 in the above pic. I've played a few games on it, and the music and effects sound just like they do on my stock bread box, for the most part. (I did notice a very slight bit of humming a couple of times.) Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's not the SID stereo-out mod I've read about, although it would be awesome if it was and I just had to finish the wiring. Also notice what I believe is the 28-pin JiffyDos kernel replacement ROM circled as number 1 in the pic above. There is some wiring on the back of the mainboard associated with that chip, as such: I haven't seen any instructions for JiffyDos that required soldering wire bridges on the back of the board. Was that simply for the purpose of foregoing an external switch and instead hardwiring it to keep JiffyDos permanently enabled? Thanks in advance for any help explaining things to a C= hacking newb. - m@

Holy crap! You're THE Madrigal! Let me just say thank you so much for the work you've done over the years to simulate some of my favorite toy and gaming memories. You, sir, are both brilliant and an artist.

Little bit of both. I can buy AGS-101s at the local Play'n'Trade for $35 that are all original and come with a 30-day guarantee. And the 4 games you're including would go for well less than $35. Given that it's a refurb (and a rough one at that), you're probably looking at closer to $45+shipping max, IMO. (And that's only because MarioKart:SC is one of the games.)

Bought a CIB copy of Mad Dog McCree for the CD-i (complete with the Peacekeeper light gun) from Dragonautic. Great to deal with, very responsive communicator, and super fast shipper. Item arrived 3 days after purchase and very well packaged. Look forward to dealing with him again!

Bought a boxed Odyssey 2 with four games from Jeff for a fair price. He got them shipped out to me, and they arrived quickly and very well packaged. Hope we get to do business together again some time!

Just want something easy to hook up my A500 to the TV. I may go ahead and make my own RGB->Composite cable, but would prefer an A520 as a cleaner, more permanent solution. Thanks! Matt W. Murfreesboro, TN

Do you have any of the laserdisc arcade games, such as Dragon's Lair or Space Ace?