Amiga 1500 Trash To Treasure (Pt3) | Classic Power Upgrades

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This Commodore Amiga 1500 has been through a lot with us in the series, repairing the CPU socket, fixing sound issues, managing a live stream like a champion. Now it's time to reward it with some classic Amiga upgrades including the Apollo 2030 Turbo with 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU, a SCSI controller and more. Let's see how far we can push it.
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[@RMCRetro]

OK we're back after a quick fix to the video. Thank you for watching and for your continued support at www.patreon.com/RetroManCave - Please check the video description for more links on the items seen in the video. Frontier aside....what games do you recommend on an accelerated Amiga like this? Neil - RMC

[@gower1973]

F16 falcon and Hired Guns and maybe Virus too and Carrier Command

[@amigadude6409]

How about Doom EHB ?

[@RMCRetro]

@@TheRodripe That's a Pro Tip if ever I heard one

[@brostenen]

This 500, might be the equivelat of your 1500 in terms of speed... www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=64092

[@FinalBaton]

I love that you went with mostly upgrade parts from back in the day. Yes modern accelerators are handy and cheaper... but they don't make for as good a video as the OG upgrade parts :)

[@WuDMatthauser]

Those framerates are so smooth after the upgrade, amazing!

[@chainq68k]

Good choice with the 68030/50. I have a selection of 68060 powered Amigas, and even a couple of PowerPC expansions, but to have a good selection of period games running at excellent performance, and still maintaining the best compatibility a 030/50 based expansion is probably the best choice. I have a Blizzard1230/IV based A1200 as well, just for this reason. And yeah, the Apollo's SCSI is a bit infamous for being an Apollo SCSI (it's non-DMA for example), so the 2091 is also a great addition. :) All in all, a great Amiga episode!

[@Yukatoshi]

The 68030 50Mhz seems like perhaps the most popular upgrade. Perhaps best used on an A1200 though as that has the better graphics hardware.

[@Lucretia9000]

@@Yukatoshi Because the 040 and 060 were stupidly expensive then. An A1200 with the Blizzard 1230 IV/SCSI/FPU and extra memory just made the machine so much better, but the heat caused to the machine from the SCSI made it unstable.

[@matt47110815]

@@Lucretia9000 Oh man, i remember the heat underneath my A1200 with Blizzard Card (68030+68882 50MHz), it was scary hot. :-D But it never seemed to crash nor unstable.

[@moofasa6953]

Your Amiga 1500A series showed up in my Recommend feed, and I have to admit I am super happy that it did!! I absolutely love your content great work!

[@shevat]

Quantum Fireball 1,3GB was my first PC's hard disk... The same disk is now in my A1200. That spin up (and spin down) sound is just great. Great build!

[@cheaterman49]

20:40 YES drum'n'bass retro gaming!!! I love it so much!!! EDIT: Yay music credits in the description

[@RMCRetro]

Hehe glad you enjoyed it man

[@bwgti]

Every time I see an arcade button. Which for some reason comes up a lot lately. I say in my head "genuine Sanwa arcade parts" in your lovely speaking voice. Thanks for the great in depth content. I have learned more about the Amiga than I ever thought was possible.

[@RMCRetro]

You are also reading this in my voice now. Hehe thank you I appreciate you watching

[@SuperJet_Spade]

The speed increase with the upgrade you placed in the A1500 was quite impressive.

[@Kawa-oneechan]

Fun fact about the Police Quest 3 title screen at 20:40. That blue thing on the left is supposed to be a siren, fading out to to black as the right half of the screen turns red, via palette rotation. However, this effect is only properly supported in 256-color modes. The Amiga ports of Sierra's SCI games only used up to 32 colors (if this copy of KQ5 is any indication) so much like when running an SCI1/11 game in 16-color EGA, the palette rotation effects called for by the game scripts were effectively ignored, and the siren in PQ3 and the PQ1 remake was stuck on blue. You can approximate this on 256-color DOS versions by using the EGA640 video driver, which only redraws the screen revealing that the colors have changed at all when something needs to be drawn, such as when the PQ3 logo or its subtitle are wiped in, or in SQ4 when Roger hurtles through the chronostream and the rainbow effect only works around his hair and sleeve.

[@TheTurnipKing]

That's interesting, because the Amiga is pretty well known for doing palette -based colour cycling effects.

[@Kawa-oneechan]

I figure Sierra decided 32 colors would have to do to make their games run on as many different Amiga models they could. Doesn't leave much space for the effects, and the script code is pretty much identical. I'm serious -- the EGA version of PQ3 and SQ4 *try* to do their palette rotations but the interpreter doesn't let them.

[@TheTurnipKing]

@@Kawa-oneechan actually I think the OCS/ECS Amigas would have been the only models available at the time. It might actually use just 16 colours to match the ST and EGA. I may be wrong, but I don't believe they upgraded the Amiga Interpreter to use 32 colours until about KQVI. AGA was available then but suspect they wanted most Amigas to be able to play it.

[@Kawa-oneechan]

"Until about KQ6" you say... yet my KQ5 on Amiga is 32 colors. Now, KQ5 is the only game I have an Amiga copy of, but there's always MobyGames' screenshot section. And looking at some random SCI1 games that would otherwise be 256 colors on DOS are all 32 colors on Amiga. So that settles it.

[@TheTurnipKing]

@@Kawa-oneechan I am the first to admit that my memory may be faulty. I just recall them making a big song and dance about all the upgrades they'd made for kq6, and to be fair that did look really nice

[@DubiousEngineering]

I’m off to watch this properly on the tv upstairs! ... I will no doubt learn something useful about the Amiga!! A new found love!!

[@RMCRetro]

take me to your bedroom Howard

[@DubiousEngineering]

RetroManCave done and Elite looks amazing at a decent FPS! ... cracking work!

[@TheMegaross91]

Finally, someone keeping a hard drive in a retro build. That's how I like my retro builds - warts and all. My gaming experience wasn't spectacular back then, I couldn't afford expensive gear - few could. I quite like that really Nice to do the "Go ham with the parts" build but era appropriate with a hard drive? Lovely jubbly

[@Lilithe]

20:15 And he still puts in on crooked! (hehe it's okay, it's your box. Just funny!)

[@geezerbigfoot]

yes they slap it on at asembly line in indonesia so more authentic that way lol ?

[@paullefur6213]

Your eyes are wonky mate lol

[@zevindd]

I would suggest looking at repairing the old power supply with new caps and regulators if possible. While the idea of putting a new power supply in there seems awesome, I have run into problems with the concept. Mainly, PC power supplies today focus on 12v for running graphics cards and such, and 3.3v for CPUs. Some old power supplies I've used, albeit not amiga ones, used like 20-30 amps of 5v, because most everything except the HDD ran off 5v. In my experience you're hard pressed to find a modern PSU with 20amps of 5v. Also, some old PSUs provided -5v and -12v, though I'm not familiar enough with amigas to know if that will be an issue. Best of luck, and be careful man!

[@progandy]

It looks like some older supplies like the Seasonic S12II (at least 430W) from 2007 are still available, it is only missing a -5V rail. The only question is if it will work with underused 3.3 and 12V rails, if necessary add some fans and fancy lighting to get it. Edit: By the way, this is a good resource: www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_PSU/amiga_psu.html

[@KuraIthys]

If you look really carefully you can find some 25 amp ones... But yeah, modern power supplies tend to have a completely different balance to older ones. If you've got a 90's PC for instance it may well be using ATX power supplies and even compatible connectors, and may not put much demand on even a 300 watt supply of that era... But good luck finding a modern supply that can provide the correct voltages in high enough currents to be usable...

[@xureality]

@@progandy the S12II series in particular is group regulated. so it's not really recommended to be ran this far out of spec, as voltage regulation may go haywire.

[@lemagreengreen]

Would an older AT style PSU be a good choice? Back when PC's used more 5V... but of course it'll be an old PSU :) maybe some new old stock around though.

[@matts.8342]

@@lemagreengreenNewEgg carries new AT power supplies still. Looks like they are actually new too.

[@nelsbruckner2209]

A-10 Tank Killer right there on the table. That's a blast from the past.

[@kimlebrocqu692]

Now that's an amiga great vid Neil and some great gameplay ..nice new decal too 😁😁😁 Kim 😁😁😁

[@curiousottman]

Adding memory to the 2091 card improves the data transfer and buffering performance by a lot. The card can DMA to the on board 1 megabyte much faster than motherboard ram. Glad to see it installed.

[@Murrlin27]

SO SWEET. I could actually fall in love with Amiga performance like this!

[@simonoleary9264]

Thanks for the great video. I miss the Quantum drives. Back in the day, I had an A4000/030 with the stock Seagate and a larger & faster Quantum Fireball. 25 years later, the Seagate was dead, but the Quantum was still going strong.

[@janneaalto3956]

That Elite 2 opening fanfare...

[@mrbrianparker]

So you got to it in the end. I've always been scared to go into a power supply so I'd like to see someone who knows what they are doing do that.

[@templar2b1ask]

Brian Parker I’ve got the same interest!

[@TristanBuckley]

I wonder how fast Indiana Jones the fate of Atlantis would run? I used to get sub 1-2 fps on that game in certain scenes within Egypt with an A500 with 1MB ram, oh and it came on 10+ disks!!

[@Sephy69]

i was gonna say what happened ot the vid, saw the notification on way home from work and couldnt find it when i got home lol. great video!

[@brianhoskins1979]

Your build is similar to my A2000 machine. I acquired my A2000 a few years back when I travelled to purchase a towered A1200 from a chap in Chepstow. While I was handing over the cash he said... "You wouldn't be interested in this, would you? She doesn't work, I'm afraid". Yup! I'll have that! So I handed over even more cash and came back with the A2k and a couple of faulty Commodore monitors. The trouble with the A2k turned out to be a leaked battery of course. It may have been worth mentioning that in your video. Most retro computer users are aware of these now but people who had a miggy back in the day but never bothered with one since would benefit from the information. Anyway I managed to get the Motherboard sorted out on the A2k. Now she has a Vampire accelerator and a hard drive card like yours. I've also got myself a network card but haven't had time to set it up yet. I'd like to get a graphics card next to make workbench use a lot nicer. But I'd prefer a card which can manage the standard AMIGA output as well as the high resolution output so that I don't have to keep swapping cables.

[@RobotnikPlays]

Man... Quantum Fireball. That takes me back!

[@rkornilo]

Great trilogy, Neil. Wow I wonder how much longer we can expect that hard drive to last...

[@MarkyShaw]

Quite a bad ass machine right there. Amazing to see the FPS differences.

[@ValeryLevchenkoTurin]

I just love the initial music of this channel!

[@benashcroft7758]

Excellent videos and very informative, thanks. I have just bought an A1500 (to join my A1200's), and it too has both the non-working audio channel and battery leakage!

[@tanuki2k]

Makes me want a big box Amiga more then ever. Nice video!

[@StuffWePlay]

It's always nice to wake up to see some more Amiga love!

[@lemagreengreen]

Thanks for making these Neil. Was always interested in these big box Amigas back then, I had a PC and didn't know anyone with anything other than Amiga 500's and 1200's so never got to see the nuts and bolts of these machines. They look like great machines, definitely looks like you'll be able to get a standard PC power supply in that strange case too.

[@RMCRetro]

You're welcome Mr EggyPickle

[@Rip-Van-Tinkle]

Nice video Neil. I did something similar recently with my A1200 and a Blizzard 1230 IV. Makes a big difference to the stock machine as you have found, and keeps compatibility nicely. 👍

[@gonzo3915]

Frontier is most likely my most played game of all time, across my A600 then on the PC, in fact i still play on occasion today.

[@daga68]

Hi there, I really enjoyed the video, also the background music is excellent. Two things: 1.- I got a bit lost, why you didn't choose to use the Accelerator SCSI interface to connect the hard drive 2.- From a Technician back in those days, they complain about the A2091 SCSI card, because the weight of the hard drive eventually damages the Zorro Slot pins, so they advice to mount the drive on the front bays of the case. Keep doing this Amiga series, really LOVE THEM

[@brianoconnell6459]

Jeeze, that takes me back, the case that is, the first Amiga I got to play with was a 2500 using Sculptanimate 4D.

[@dave4shmups]

I would definitely love to see some PAL exclusive games on this Amiga, since I live in (and am from) the USA, where the Amiga was never properly marketed.

[@AdamAinsworth]

Another excellent video! It would be great to see Stunt Car Racer and Microprose F1GP running on the beefed up hardware.

[@nickwallette6201]

I really enjoy your selection of background music. I would absolutely watch realtime videos of you turning screws and cleaning keyboards to that soundtrack. :-D

[@driftbp]

Nice video and makes me want to get my accelerated A1200 back up and running again. I think one of the caps has gone bad on the M-Tec 030 board that I have. Was considering either sending that off for repair (if I could find anyone willing to work with it) or get an ACA 1233N. Doing a video of games that benefit from an accelerator sounds like a great idea!

[@ThriftStoreHacker]

You found some really cool parts for that machine.

[@nosferadu]

Good video again Neil. I'd like to see the Amiga put to work - literally, as I heard it was used back in the day as a workstation for things like graphics and video production. It would be amazing if you could get your hands on a Video Toaster and edit some RMC on the system :)

[@RMCRetro]

That would be cool. I know two people with toasters so maybe we can do something one day. I'm not sure I'll be lucky enough to get myself one though they are pretty rare

[@woksrandomchannel]

Always look forward to a new episode. I really want to get my hands on an Amiga someday.

[@JesusisJesus]

Don't we all, unfortunately the price is skyrocketing so it might be an Ami-Pi taped underneath a Logitech Wireless Keyboard & Mouse for most people...

[@d2factotum]

Interesting to see that the Amiga version of Frontier had the same bug the PC version did--namely, that the spinning nacelles on the Imperial Courier spun faster on faster CPUs! Really weird, considering everything else in the game ran at a fixed speed regardless of processor.

[@namakudamono]

d2factotum makes it look cool though!

[@chillax141]

Loved this 3 part series. Seriously well done video. Amazing job!

[@RMCRetro]

Thank you!

[@ChinFu535]

At 13:55 i can see, that the mmu of the 68030 isn't on. You have to activate it on WB startup. That will give you a good speed bump.

[@Koka2609]

MMU won't really give him a speed bump. However, turning caches on (which are all off on his setup), just might do that, to some point.

[@one_b]

Great vid as always. Got to play with an '030 accelerator for A500 once and still dream of finding one for my secondary A500. I love my "artificial flavorings" Vampired A500 but having a pure one with my GVP SCSI side car with 8 meg RAM and a true 030 board would be the fullfiment of a childhood dream.

[@RMCRetro]

I have a lot of respect for the Vampire and hope to get one some day. I backed the Checkmate A1500 case which would be a nice base for one. A modern amiga case with a modern accelerator or even standalone v4

[@paulgascoigne5343]

When I upgraded my a1200 (040 fpu mmu) the stock power supply couldn't keep up and would frequently reboot the system. So I managed to wangle an old AT power supply from my school, remove the offending spaghetti cables and solder on an adapter using the original power lead from the amiga psu. I think it output 300w which was more than enough for the amiga!

[@RMCRetro]

Thanks Paul I must get around to fixing that PSU. Loved your work in Italia 90.

[@paulgascoigne5343]

@@RMCRetro working with Gary Linikar was the highlight of my career, a lifetime supply of free crisps is arguably better than gin.. but hey

[@LMacNeill]

Absolutely interested in seeing a video on how to adapt a modern PC power-supply to a retro computer like this one! Please make that video ASAP!

[@SlavomirG]

I would like to see Robocop 3 and Stunt Car Racer

[@tweakpc]

the most important upgrade was the sticker. that old one really hurts. xD

[@thorham1346]

But it's just as ugly! A metal one would've been much nicer.

[@loganjorgensen]

Always a real treat to see so many models of Amiga, here in Canada it was hard to find NTSC Amiga 500s with anything higher in model being rarer, fewer, and very expensive typically. I see an NTSC model for the 1500 but I don't know who owns them or talks about them, much bigger Amiga scene in the EU. Accelerated game title episode sounds awesome. :D

[@tjlazer71]

1500 was only released in England, US never got them. All they were are A2000's with two floppy drives and no HD.

[@loganjorgensen]

@@tjlazer71 Only really, that's odd, hadn't considered any models not reaching the rest of the EU, interesting.

[@geezerbigfoot]

great Amiga episode! u make em ill watch em

[@smurfberry2000]

Great video! I think that it'd look nicer if you had left the second floppy drive on, instead of replacing it with a cover. Also, I believe that painting the Gotek drive faceplate and its case adapter would be worth the extra restoration time.

[@Brewskii2117]

I miss my Amiga :(

[@RetroJay1974]

I have 4 of these machines, well 3 x 2000 and 1 x 1500. The 1500 is the better machine condition wise and I intend to fill it up with a bunch of upgrades. Liking how you fitted the gotek, I have a few of those drive adaptor frames. I think I have one in the exact same colour as the front bezel.

[@aspectcarl]

Wow just fantastic change, your production quality is really first class :)

[@RetroBoxRoom]

It would be nice to see dpaint pushed to its limits

[@jomeyqmalone]

Seems like Amigas are largely remembered for gaming in Europe and Video editing in the US. Definitely a system ahead of its time in both fields. I'd say the next video should be cut together on a Video Toaster, but I suppose that would be easier on an NTSC machine. This has inspired me to finally reinstall Workbench and Toaster on a scsi2sd I've had sitting around since my 2000HD's hard drive finally gave out a year ago.

[@TheTurnipKing]

In theory with Kick 3.1, it should be possible to run in NTSC mode. The challenge would likely be sourcing a Toaster.

[@kuntosjedebil]

Pretty much anything 3d would be interesting. Falcon, Sherman M4, Gunship 2000, Castle Master, 3D Construction Kit II, Stunt Car Racer, 4D Sports Driving, Zeewolf, Hunter. Maybe if you are adventurous, that weirdness called Air Support could be interesting too. From the 2D part of the zoo, you could showcase Dune 2 and Syndicate. These games were overtaxing the 7 MHz CPU by a lot in all but the earliest game levels. Maybe also Theme Park.

[@stevencarlson5422]

That’s a sweet machine lol wish I had that back when I was growing up

[@curiousottman]

If you remove the 2091 and connect the hard disk to the cpu accelerator card scsi directly, you’ll see a huge speed increase in load times.

[@mannycarrion7862]

See now this i like this is really upgrading it and speeding up not emulating it like they doing with the pistorm

[@Nukle0n]

Love the videos as usual, especially this series. Also you sure are a perfectionist, i didn't see any other problems with the first upload other than that typo.

[@RMCRetro]

If it bugs me it will bug others :D I just wish KZbin had the option to replace videos without changing links

[@Nukle0n]

@@RMCRetro so do I, but it would probably result in some nasty things happening where people swap out videos with something entirely different. Maybe with a short grace period but still, very exploitable.

[@X22GJP]

I’d love to see some enhanced demo scene stuff running on this, great restoration 👍🏻

[@MarcoPon]

F/A-18 Interceptor really likes an accelerator!

[@RMCRetro]

I can hear the "BONG" of the music starting now. I'll put that on the list

[@templar2b1ask]

Marco Pontello my favorite game!

[@TexasCat99]

This is kind of scary. I'm going need to get an SD drive and hope my hunters of discs are still good. They've been in a box or a closet for 20 years. I ran Amiga OS 3 on my A1000 (many improvements) and on my A3000, soft boot from the hard drive.

[@MegaWayneD]

Another gread vid, can't wait to see the power supply upgrade! How about doing a modern power supply upgrade for an Amiga 500/600/1200 power brick too?

[@garyslatter9854]

In the dim and distant past I learnt to program on a #6809 and #MC68000...

[@amigadude6409]

Awesome video 😁 love the way you do the comparison shots.

[@stylesoftware]

At Least before it blows; Total electrolytic capacitor replacement does 9.5/10 cases for old age units.

[@bryndal36]

I would think that games like Wings, Falcon and Stunt Car Racer would go much better on it now. Fantastic video btw. I've really enjoyed this series.

[@RMCRetro]

Wings! Now that's a great one for sure I'll give that a go

[@PixelsAtDawn]

Nice work as usual Neil! Frontier looked amazing! Sims will definitely benefit from that setup - Microprose Grand Prix for example should fair fly on that machine. TFX should look pretty good too. You also have the Amiga stabs at FPSs to try as well.

[@namakudamono]

Pixels At Dawn TFX was AGA only, I believe.

[@PixelsAtDawn]

@@namakudamono Darn, you're right. Well, there's plenty of OCS flight sims to choose from!

[@joncarter3761]

Love seeing stuff about the Amiga as I never personally owned one, my Dad had an Atari Mega ST (can't remember if it was a 2 or original) for work and got the family an Acorn 3000 which is where most of my early micro gaming was done. I'm still hoping to see an Amiga vs Acorn video at some point, probably would suggest using the stock A500 vs the stock A3000 as they seem to be the 'standard' models most home users would have had and if I remember correctly they both had similar capabilities and specifications. It would be great to compare ports and see if Acorn fanboys (myself included) are correct in saying the Acorn was just as capable as the Amiga at gaming... the only thing Acorn and Amiga fanboys can agree on is they both outperformed the ST! ;)

[@chrismifsud7154]

Dammit. I already don't have enough space in my games room and you are going to make me bring up my A2000 from my garage and set it up. LOL

[@MauroSanna]

An awesome thing to see would be a Video Toaster mounted into the A1500. :-)

[@namakudamono]

What a lovely video, thank you very much Neil! Frontier absolutely flies on the miggy now! Did you encounter any compatibility issues with those games as a result of upgrading the kickstart and/or CPU? I love the idea of comparing OCS/ECS software on the upgraded A1500 versus stock! Great idea! Some suggestions I have are Virus (Lander clone), Zeewolf/Zeewolf 2, Alien Breed 3D, Theme Park or Syndicate, an adventure game with interlaced graphics like Darkseed, or how about IK+ with the F10 turbo speed? Ah, Gunship 2000 definitely! In terms of productivity software, it might be “fun” (as a geek) to try some of the demo scenes in Imagine 3D - those that use procedural textures will surely benefit from the FPU. Once again, excellent video Neil. Thank you so much for taking me back to the early 90s!

[@vix_in_japan]

I was going to ask about the PSU...then I watched to the end. Good job on planning on replacing that. Interestingly the A1221EC in my A1200 runs almost as fast as this A1500 and Apollo 2030, about 1.5MIPS slower. I guess it has a wicked fast memory controller, and the general 32bit vs 16bit architecture of course, but still an EC020 at 28MHz running almost as good as an 030/50. One good game to run on the expanded A1500 is The Settlers, that made some excellent use of expanded memory and faster Amigas back in the day. One final note, that tell tale Apollo trick, scratching off the actual rated speed of the 030 chip :)

[@Checkmate1500]

Excellent video as always :-)

[@AmigosRetroGaming]

Wow, what a system! Color me jealous! Great stuff!

[@CRG]

I honestly thought you'd get more speed out of that accelerator at 50mhz. A 50mhz 030 in an a1200 will run a fair bit faster. Saying that though it's still plenty fast as is and nice to see it upgraded with genuine retro parts. I do love me a physical hard drive. All that noise at least let's you know it doing something.

[@Yukatoshi]

Pretty impressive.

[@tekk9995]

Great show as always!

[@Charlie-Cat.]

I'm wondering why BBC doesn't hire Neil in the tech department. This man is the best. 8^) Anthony..

[@ireway1988]

Hi Neil, brilliant episode as usual, I loved playing Supremecy on the Commodore C64, I remember seeing an Advert in one of the magazine's for the A500. Could you play that one on your sweet machine.

[@RMCRetro]

Thank you Wayne I'll give it a whirl

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice video shot, keep it up, thanks for sharing it with us :)

[@robbyxp1]

Great video. Recap the PSU is my vote.

[@MarkTheMorose]

I remember Hard Drivin' being transformed when I got it to run on my A4000/030. It should be easier to get running on the upgraded A1500, though you may need to soft boot an earlier Kickstart. [Edit] Hunter, Virus, and Zeewolf might also be interesting to see.

[@RMCRetro]

That's a great suggestion thank you Mark. I always marvelled at Hard Drivin in the arcade but opted for 4D Sports Driving to recreate it at home. It will be interesting to see how it runs now

[@MDFRESCUER]

Good video.

[@playfield1977]

Great job, man. I love stuff like this!

[@bweebar]

You need to put a jumper on the 2M pins on the A2091, it's only showing 1 megabyte but you have 2 megabytes of chips installed.

[@RMCRetro]

I'll double check that thanks

[@Alex-gi7sm]

I´d like to see you doing this power supply project that you mentioned at the end of the video! thx. Big Fan! ..and of course... will Dune II run on this machine and how? The grandfather of Command and conquer, we shouldn't forget!

[@EightNineOne]

Epic, epic stuff! Loved it!

[@heberdua]

I love these videos. Thanks ☺️

[@bazza5699]

how tempted were you to add an A2000 badge?

[@RMCRetro]

Very, I even have a brand new A2000 badge here. What swung it for me is that I have the 1500 original box which is heavily 1500 and not 2000 branded so I went with 1500.

[@RobA500]

It may already be there. On my A1500 all I had to do is remove the ugly black badge and the A2000 one was under it. Ha ha I should have watched the whole video before commenting, yours clearly didn't, I guess I struck lucky in that case.

[@bazza5699]

i'd love a big box amiga (A4000)..i couldn't afford one at the time and now they're still out of my price range.

[@RobA500]

Yes another fine machine and was my next purchase after the A1500. After upgrading to a tower case and obtaining another motherboard I now have two.

[@electronash]

@@bazza5699 Can't beat a nice bit of badge, Baz. ;)

[@Maniac536]

Play Carmen Sandiego on it. Pretty sure there were amiga versions of the original games. I’m curious how they looked in comparison to DOS

[@HighlandSteam]

Your license code on the chip is actually visible before you faded in the white blanking bar.

[@RMCRetro]

Thank you. I'm not hugely worried as I bought it used so the key is already out there, and you can't do much with it. Well spotted though

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

If I may humbly absail my opinion in through the skylights of the mancave, smashing down onto the scsi of that A1500 CPU+FPU board, I think you should use the SCSI on that too if you can. The reason is to minimise wear and tear to the machine in general. If you use a SCS2SD adaptor (a modern gadget), you can daisychain a bunch of devices together so as to access (read and write) to the SDcard on it simulteanously (a bit like having a crude NAS). This guy did it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oarXiZeXgJiEbas It saves popping the hood or input-and-output being done in invasive ways. By all means continue to use the SCSI quantum you have too though. Also, rather than gotek, if you use a Pi, you can then script it to write to the floppy images whereas you cannot always do that on a gotek. See here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIe8h41pm9iYqc0

[@drPeidos]

I wouldn't replace the original sticker with an after-market one, even if they are equal. Otherwise, nice build.

I remember using that Sysinfo software with my 68060 co-processor CPU in my A1200 and the comment was, 'Call me!' I never did, though.

[@namakudamono]

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