a new Commodore Amiga A500++ in 2024

final Assembly video of my A500++
I bought the bare purple board in August 2022 then aquired a non repairable A500+ (varta clock battery leakage had eaten many traces and sockets) = ideal donor candidate. An enjoyable build with a very satisfying product at the end.
*built to my requirements
*Tindie A500++ purple board
*Mouser and ebay new parts except for ECS chip set, some connectors, clock IC + crystal and pot, ceramic 68K CPU with unnecessary Heatsink to trigger the critics, floppy drive and a few other reused parts.
*New Purple keyboard PCB with new caps, transistors and resistors. Re used the other bits from donor.
*SinteckUK keyboard membrane
*A1200 .net keycaps
* Wayne Joyce painted A500+ case to a unique 'one of a kind' colour. Cheers mate, looks luscious.
*original lower RF shield chopped down to just the rear connector plate.
*A500++ badge from badgeman
*Meanwell PSU refurb.
*Amiga A500++ bucket list box ticked
music: Captain - Beyond Music
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[@TheDevoUK]

That is a pure work of passion and a beauty to behold.... what a way to keep the Miggy not only alive but in your face 30+ years later. Mate I applaud you.

[@newkfromrotterdam]

Spectacular paint job!!! that glitter! 🤩screw retro-brighting, this should be the way to go :D

[@retro101gamer]

Agreed, "RestoModding" beats 'RetroBrighting" hands down!

[@Aexomer]

@@retro101gamer I'd have maybe tried a nice SGI-esque metallic purple. To match the PCB ;)

[@newkfromrotterdam]

@@Aexomer purple and yellow are complementary 🥰

[@retro101gamer]

@Aexomer I would also love metallic candy apple green or red, Hot Rod style.

[@naviamiga]

Got to love how clean the A500++ looks.

[@AlexPaulsen1]

Nice color, all though it was difficult to tell on the video cover image. I actually thought the case was just yellowed at first glance. Dark red, dark orange or dark purple would’ve also looked excellent.

[@Electrotat]

Impressed with that spray job.

[@DevilMaster]

That case is beautiful.

[@Boris_Amiga1200]

I appreciate how much passion and work you put in this computer! Congratulations! Great work, looks so beautiful!

[@ms-ex8em]

i say bring back the Amiga 500 with floppy drive !!! in 2024 yes

[@playnochat]

Amiga floppy drives are extinct. You may have secondhand drive if you are willing to pay 100€ or more.

[@havocnchaos2182]

Rather bring it back with internal SSD and Flashable OS chip. Chips are much faster these days. Relying on floppy speeds today would be like watching a race between paint drying and your computer booting up. The only thing wrong with the old commodore product was they were managed by an idiot so they died on the vine. Had they the same backing that Macintosh or IBM computers had back then, they’d have a majority slice of the market today because they were so good at multi-tasking.

[@BigWhoopZH]

​@@havocnchaos2182if you want to have a fast computer, buy a PC. This is a retro computer with retro speed and feel. That is the whole point.

[@SpeccyMan]

@@havocnchaos2182 Definitely.

[@Dunbar0740]

I'm a fan of the floppy, too. I'd pay a premium for a modern iteration of the old drive, along the lines of the LS-120 drives.

[@Sozzled39]

Very nice job! I'll be honest the yellow colour isn't for me for an Amiga, but you've done a lovely job of it with the pearlescent colour there. Love the Amiga music throughout too!

[@retro101gamer]

Thanks for the comment. Yes, the colour is love or hate. But it is unique, that's for sure 😊. Spray job done by my pal W.Joyce

[@mark12358]

@@retro101gamer so a VERY NICE spray job painting, really. It seems professionally made.

[@dubvallox]

Is very Beautifull !

[@XyNoST]

Even an Atari ST guy like myself can admit that this is really neat...and omg these VU meters that's AMAZING ! :O GG

[@retro101gamer]

😂 cheers

[@jennabarton433]

Nice setup. Seeing the insert disc animation again really took me back!

[@yopachi]

Thanks for sharing. I liked how you let the camera work do all the talking 🧑‍🎨

[@jzarfas]

Simply Stunning Build, love it

[@1107ml]

❤ great work ❤

[@jamespalmer5960]

Good to see the 500 board has been updated. Mine has keyboard and ram issues but luckily got a very yellowed a600

[@retro101gamer]

Happy Amiga'ing! Get that A600 recapped if not already, also fix that A500 ASAP 👍😎

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Motherboard e case spettacolare,A500 unico!. opera d'arte!!

[@mvl71]

Beautiful paint job. Very inspiring! I don't have an Amiga but I do have several C64's I want to fix and give a paint job.

[@DragonNova]

I normally hate these Amiga case spray paint jobs but this one looks amazing

[@retro101gamer]

Thanks 😊 . Me too but yeah I'm really happy with it. Worked with a friend; he sprayed this one up in return for recapping and installing Amiga Games Selector + additional hardware on his A1200 Hulk (painted green 💚)

[@MyChannel-vm6dw]

Work of Art

[@retro101gamer]

Thanks kind sir. Really pleased with it!

[@-Rook-]

Love it, great looking machine. The track is spot on too :)

[@TheOriginalChazno5]

Wow, what an Amiga A500 you have there!!! Absolutely beautiful - I want one too lol. Massive applause to you for building this! I've got to also say this video is by far the best video I have watched on KZbin all week! You've just earned yourself a new Subscriber! ✨👍

[@orcue70]

Oh wow Turricane one my favourite games, class job well done

[@powergameschemnitz3215]

looking very good!!

[@richardtherrien4696]

Stunning!

[@melvinturner6654]

Great work....Mega Amiga 😊

[@nikosdial9899]

A real beauty!!!

[@VallSWC]

awesome!

[@Bufferoverload.]

Fantastic Paint Job

[@olli-pekkajuusola3068]

Amiga forever ❤

[@MarkusBrunnhofer]

Excellent !!

[@sandrodellisanti1139]

loadwb ❤️ many greetings from brunswick in germany and please stay safe 🙃

[@grahambaker7563]

Question - can you build me one?? Still love the Amiga! Have 3 of these - 2 Pluses and a standard 500 - and a A600, too!

[@kevinhanley6462]

You don't expect an Amiga 500 Plus to look brand new and still have the Commodore logo with those adaptations! It's as if an agreement has been made with Commodore showing the B-52's and reverse engineering!

[@EffoVonOrton]

Amiga rulez! Forever!!!

[@6581punk]

The biggest issue with these is the custom chips. If building these depletes the stocks of spares then ultimately it is counter-productive. For rebuilding an A500+ that's been destroyed by a leaking battery then the new PCBs are useful.

[@retro101gamer]

Yeah I only did it as the original pcb was kaputt. But plenty of A500+ kicking about before we all go fpga :) . All the best

[@SEngelsg]

Not quite my cup of tea to be honest, but it is not hard to say that it is an excellent job still. And great to see that someone cares for the ECS chip set still. One little thing that really interested me was the VU meter to the left of the machine. Would it be possible to update the description with any details on that pretty please with sugar on top?

[@Alliswell-jj3ut]

Üstadım kanala şans eseri denk geldim yeni abone oldum öncelikle videoların devamini diliyorum bir sorum olacak şu yandaki çerçeve icinde disket ici lcd ekranda amiga oyunlari donen aleti siz kendiniz mi yaptınız yada bir yerden satın mi aldınız ayip olmazsa iki sekilde de kaça maal olduğunu ogrenme sansim varsa sevinirim amiga dolu gunler dilerim 😅🎉

[@retro101gamer]

Teşekkürler. LCD disk kendi buluşumdur. İleride bir toplu iş yapabilirim. en iyi dileklerimle

[@iangodfrey4518]

Ah yes ... a Jedis Weapon...

[@stephenwhite506]

Nice work! What did you do with the donor board? The damage on it is relatively minor, I have seen far worse repaired.

[@retro101gamer]

There was trace damage under Agnus that I also repaired on the donor and I managed to get the kickstart image up, however there were graphical glitches that kind of suggested one of the ECS ICs were faulty OR one memory chip was bad or Further trace damage. I was simply spending more time on fault finding than I wanted to. Then the idea of a new PCB grew on me.

[@Tobiemoss]

Loogadis just loogadis!

[@telebutler92]

Nice work! What's the name of the song you used? It sounds very familiar to me but I don't remember the name currently.

[@retro101gamer]

Cheers. It's Beyond Music by Captain

[@Roman_G.]

Cool!!! Hello from Russia!

[@Zan_Jayna]

Did you fix the garbage floppy drive?

[@retro101gamer]

Just serviced it, it is Still working lovely. I now have an external gotek that plugs into the external floppy drive port and then a switch to set it as df0. So that has reduced the need to always use the floppy drive. I will add a spitfire accelerator eventually, which has an ide port. Therefore, I plan to add an SD2IDE interface and load the SD card with workbench, utilites and whdload games. Or just put AmigaGamesSelector on the SD card. Which will virtually make the internal floppy drive redundant, apart from nostalgia floppy loading. But I love the floppy 💾 drive. It is an integral part of the Amiga.

[@SpeccyMan]

My only criticism is of your misspelling of the word unnecessary. 😉

[@retro101gamer]

Cheers, now amended.

[@Electrotat]

Hopefully it will run Wizball

[@MiguelAngelValdepenaDelgado]

donde puedo encontrar el emulador del software Med de amiga 500 para la pc please ...

[@retro101gamer]

Join one of the popular commodore Amiga Facebook groups. You'll have faster and more help there.

[@siturl5834]

Wow how much to build?

[@Slowpode]

Is that a looking glass with the floppy screen ?

[@retro101gamer]

LCD

[@teemum.9023]

Today the letters are larger than the components they describe

[@sarahhodkinson3914]

How much to buy

[@chris.b0]

❤️‍🔥💖👾👾🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@jediknight2350]

awesome but im still fedup nobody brings out a cheap 16bit audio card add on that works and is cheap.

[@obvioustruth]

It should be ATARI grey.

[@aldob5681]

only a pcb replacement job? No improvement?

[@retro101gamer]

Fresh pcb with a couple of design changes/fixes over the original, then new discrete and logic components. Original custom IC's used. A great project for an AMIGA fan, if you have a dead A500+ because of clock battery leakage + corrosion. This replacement PCB can bring it back to life. Add a modern accelaror, RGB to hdmi, SD based hard drive etc. , if you wish.

[@sabathiel]

Great! Cool! Nice! swap or die!

[@user-cu7uu5qb2o]

CNCd

[@czviktor]

Look like IQ151 😂

[@retro101gamer]

Yer it Does. I put a photo of it thru an AI photo app and the result looked even more like an iq151 😁

[@aldo8589]

all is fine excepting that horrible yellow color,all black it would have been the correct choice

[@marcins6071]

why german keyboard

[@retro101gamer]

Because black UK keycaps were out of stock

[@Alchemy.C64-AMIGA.DemoScener]

And now, code in Assembly like hell, my friend. 🧮

[@iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_]

stunning WOW what a beauty!

[@retro101gamer]

TY 😊

[@dubvallox]

Is very Beautifull !