rootboy

Yes he does! It took me forever to find myself an GVP Impact A500 for my A500. And then finding extra memory for the darn thing.

Me too! I just @&%^#$$ love it when systems guys think that their brand of computing/hardware is the only one out there. I was (still am) doing professional computing on machinery, aka PLCs, since the '80s... My world is almost all bit-level, and crashes come with large sounds and consequences. Often followed by fire, flood, and panic... As for hardware, ever come up with a hack to double the RAM on a GE Series Six memory card? I did. Saved the company I worked for $4k per board in upgrade avoidance. GE was not amused...

You will want to open up that 1.5mb wedge and remove the battery from it sooner rather than later...

I've put my keycaps in pantyhose and run them through the dishwasher. Works very well. And if it has a rubber membrane pad, that goes in there too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Commodore-Amiga-1200-Keyboard-Untested-/272541426210?hash=item3f74bc2222:g:tHQAAOSwNnRYkQ5F Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't swap out the UK keys for US ones that you already have. Although, for all I know you live in the UK and it wouldn't be a problem.

It's definitely good enough. The way that it works is that you place as many .adf files as you like (within reason, I suppose) on the USB drive, and you select the image that you want to load by either a menu selection, or selecting the "track" by way of the Gotek's external buttons and rebooting. You shouldn't have to re-flash either one (after all, they are already setup to work on Amigas), but if need be, you can check out this post if you have any trouble. http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?82081-gotek-quot-Unrecognized-Device-quot-SOLVED That too, should work just fine. You can make an image in Whdload and copy it to your CF card rather than building it from scratch on the A600. Just one. Don't cut up your case if you can avoid it. As for the floppy drive, ditch it for the Gotek. Look for KS3.1. I get mine from this guy: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Licenced-ROM-3-1-for-Commodore-Amiga-computers-500-500-600-2000-/152413500764?hash=item237c8d755c:g:E94AAOSweW5VdurD You will need to tell him that it's for an A600 when you order it.

For me, I'd say that a lot of it came from using a PC at work, and naturally using one at home for play. I was more into BBS'ing at the time rather than gaming, so the DOS platform wasn't any problem. I hadn't even *heard* of Amiga until I attended a Allen-Bradley PLC programming course and the instructor was lamenting the folding of Amiga. We just looked at each other and wondered "What the heck is an Amiga?".

After reading the Amibay post, I'd say just swap out the Agnus and go for it. BTW, nice score on the A500 and monitor!

If you resort to dremeling anything, cut off the metal tabs from the battery to get it out while leaving plenty of metal for you to grab when you go to desolder the tabs from the MB. Once you get your MB free, throw the entire MB into a tub with denatured vinegar (aka "white vinegar") and let it soak for a few hours (how long you will need to let it soak is dependent on how much the battery had leaked). Use an old battery-powered toothbrush to scrub down the board. Once you are satisfied that the alkaline has been cleaned off of the board, rinse the board off really well, I use regular "city water" for that. Then shake the water out. It takes a lot of shaking, those edge card connectors will trap a lot of water. Then immediately, and I mean immediately, set the board next to a space heater and begin a 2 - 3 day drying process. In other words, be sure that it is dry, and don't get into a hurry. I've done this to all of my 2000's and 4000's (about 7 or 8 MB's total) and haven't had a problem. I've done it to nearly all of my A500 memory expansion cards (a lot of them), but screwed up and didn't dry them off (I let them air dry). The boards are fine, but the metal covers now have surface rust.

Any chance of an A2000 adapter to fit this card from the CPU slot in the A2000? Currently I'm messing around with a A500 V2 in my A2000. It works okay, although the HDMI port doesn't seem to do anything. I haven't come up with a great way of mounting it yet either. A couple of plastic caps to keep it off of the motherboard, I'll have to do better than that for a permanent solution. While the Vampire is cool, I tend to agree that having a modest accelerator that covers all of the bases (speed, memory, video, and disk access) is very enticing.

Thanks!

Anyone have the part numbers of the 512 Meg SRAM chips? Thanks!

I've got both the UW to 50 pin adapters, and the SCSI2SD. The UW to 50 pin adapter worked fine (IIRC, termination might have been an issue), while the SCSI2SD confused the heck out of the partitioning software on the Amiga. I also ran into a snag when I put my GVP 040 combo card in after prepping the hard drive from the SCSI card, the SCSI mysteriously stopped working. Plugging the SCSI cable into the GVP accelerator fixed that. ;> As for the SCSI2SD SD card, I'm going to try to prep it in Amiga Forever/WinUAE first. If it works, it should save a boatload of time. I have it all apart at the moment because I was also adding a Gotek drive, which gave me fits until I swapped out the 32GB USB stick with a 4GB stick (the only 4GB stick that I could find locally was a "Hello Kitty" stick, but sometimes a man has got to do what a man has got to do...). I also followed wbochar's lead and got a Goldfinger card (Peak 650) for it. I'll have to expand the 8-bit slots to 16-bit (which will have to wait until I get off of the road), but that shouldn't be a big deal. The cards that I bought look to have both IDE and SCSI ports on them. The cards: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271289697039?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I've got a couple of A2000's and I recently went through this. I had luck with the old Quantum Fireballs' and the newer ultrawide drives. What didn't work was the old Seagate Hawks.