Amiga 500 Trash to Treasure Pt.1 | A Rare Amiga find

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Full Series Redux: • Amiga 500 Trash to Tre...
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Welcome to Trash to Treasure, Amiga style. Today we're taking a look at an A500 I picked up from a classifieds advert. It's not pretty, but it's well worth rescuing not just because it's an A500 but because it's a little bit special.
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Part 3 • Amiga 500 Trash to Tre...
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Amiga Music from Final Fight Title
Amiga Music from Shadow of the Beast 2 - Game Over

[@RMCRetro]

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[@sonsofmatriarchy5552]

Jaguar xj220 theme, Amazing m8 👍👌

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I unpacked my Amiga yesterday, had been in a box since 1992. Yellow as hell. I am going to have a shot at cleaning it up, and retrobrighting it. Mine is a 1990 model. Besides the Amiga I also pulled two C64's, two 1541 drives, 3 cassette drives, 3 power supplies and a Mitsubishi ML-F48 MSX computer plus a stack of books out of the box (which was large and frikkin heavy LOL). So I got some work to do.

[@LGR]

Continually digging these TtT videos, and I look forward to more of this lovely Amiga!

[@enigma776]

I do like these sort of in depth teardowns. Will be subbing to this guy from now on.

[@charliebear]

Lazy Game Reviews it is extremely difficult to not read your comments in your voice

[@BratislavMetulskie]

Lazy Game Reviews you here and not in hollywood?

[@Kampup]

Amiga 500 vs Amiga A500 I was thinking about buying one in my area, is there a difference between the two?

[@bradsalubby]

My beloved Amiga 500. Brings back so many happy times. Life was so much more simplier then.

[@PaulKostrzewa]

I found an Amiga 500 with monitor, mouse, external floppy drive, and a full box of disks, in perfect working order, being thrown away... which I gave a good home, of course. This is one of my favorite vintage computers.

[@RMCRetro]

Good man I'm glad it found you!

[@VictorFNV]

Who would throw that away?!

[@elmerfudge1891]

And the kid now an adult asks his/her Mum where is my old Amiga I left with you 20 years ago...

[@raggersragnarsson6255]

How RMC all began for me. I've watched it so many times. Still worth a watch for any Amiga 500 owner or former owner/user. Neil's sound use here was excellent together with the dialogue was perfect. It set the tone for the channel in many ways

[@RMCRetro]

Hey thank you! A life changing video for me ❤️

[@raggersragnarsson6255]

@@RMCRetro It really has been and it's been awesome watching every step along the way. Thank you and good luck with the museum, and the retro collective. Its astounding what you have all accomplished. It's like fate shone on you and you were forced to moved to move. The story already is amazing and deserves a book for sure. 'Trash to Treasure and the Retro Collective' by Neil, etc. Splendid. If you don't write it, I may do as its quite a story.

[@CGQuarterly]

Your channel is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. Keep it up!

[@RMCRetro]

Classic Gaming Quarterly Thank you! Means a lot especially from the big guns like you

[@CGQuarterly]

My guns are far from big, but thanks for saying so.

[@TheRicheg]

i senced grateness but 52k views and how fast the channels growing all i can say is keep up the good work like this

[@RMCRetro]

TheRicheg crazy isn't it. I have quite a few in production at the moment in a similar vain so here's hoping it continues, I'm enjoying making them

[@tiannaumann]

This is my absolute favorite episode, hands down, you really work the A500 from head-to-toe and it's captivating from start to finish.

[@saarek]

Another great video and what a rare A500 you got there. I strongly approve the background music choices!

[@TVR-Steve]

Hi, I'm really quite certain that this is the Amiga that I sold from my father's estate - The cartoon on the box and stickers on the screw covers are very familiar. I'm glad that you are restoring this, it's brought back a lot of good memories of watching him play it. Thank you.

[@RMCRetro]

Steve Kirk Hi Steve, I'd love to try and verify that if possible and talk about it in the next episode. Are there any other distinguishing marks or software you may have had with it? There was something else distinctive written on the box you might remember?

[@TVR-Steve]

Hi, I've gone back through my eBay history to see if the original advert pictures exist, however it was too long ago now. It was sold as a pair of Amiga 500's (For whatever reason, he had two at the end!), so maybe he had acquired one to replace one that had stopped working. Games would have been Grand Prix and maybe The Settlers, however I suspect these have not stayed with the broken '500. Other than the advert description and eBay item number, I have no proof. So, as much as I would love to verify this, I cannot. Please keep up the excellent restoration work, I'm really enjoying this.

[@RMCRetro]

Steve Kirk Thanks Steve, it didn't come with those games, it had "We Love Amigas" written on the box which I can send you a photo of if you want to check the handwriting. Anyway thanks for watching and she has found a good home.

[@TVR-Steve]

Thank you!

[@johnmarshall8395]

Neil, you closed the video with my absolute favorite track from the Amiga, the SOTBII death sequence theme. I still think that they are some of the worlds most beautiful chords ever written. The guitar solo just put it over the top. Thanks for the great videos and music.

[@emsss78]

My god..just remembering my childhood days with the Amiga A500 brings me to tears...best days ever when life was so simple yet still fun...thanks for bringing life back to this beautiful Amiga !!

[@NERDVilleUK]

Oh boy. Need to get my amiga unboxed from a car boot find many years back. Can't wait to see this restored to 100%. Maybe I'll put mine up on may channel.

[@RMCRetro]

NERDVille excellent, subbed so I can see it

[@techydiy]

Wow that brings back some memories, I learned 68k assembly on the Amiga. Lovely bit of kit at the time.

[@ryancor]

So many memories. Can't wait to see you work your magic on this one 👍

[@WiggysanWiggysan]

These playlist set's have earned my subscription (for what its worth!) *Top work* Mr RMC.

[@asgerms]

At 8:34 "...and you could hold the hue and change the luminance". Not an Amiga-expert (just allround retrogeek), but I am pretty sure HAM worked directly on RGB; not HSV. However, in the really early design phases the Amiga was designed around HSV. This was later abandoned for RGB. Btw. the famous HAM mode almost wasnt. Jay Miner wanted to remove it as he thought it was of little use in its RGB-version, but the chip-design had progressed so far that removing it was far more complex/costly than simply leaving it in. And the rest is history :) ...thanx for the vid!

[@RMCRetro]

asgerms I read that story just last week, really interesting, it was also a feature of flight simulators of the time. Amazing how devs found uses for it in ways never imagined. Thanks for watching and sharing the story.

[@CasperUK31]

Spent the evening watching your videos. It's always a good day when you find another channel you want to subscribe to.

[@RMCRetro]

Michael Dodd That's very kind I'm glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more coming soon 👍

[@Realmasterorder]

Amiga was and still is an amazing machine,almost everyone that had one fell in love with her,i cant believe you got all this stuff for almost nothing !

[@kubel83]

Still got mine plus 300+ games. Flashback. Another world. Super frog. Moonstone. Super cars, lotus. Alien breed. Turrican II etc etc... Amiga was really ahead of its time... and I think it had the best sounding games too back then. Sometimes I would plug in a game just to listen to the cool title music. I might dust off my old Amiga again after seeing this video. Thank you.❤️

[@Larry]

9:50 you got to feel sorry for the poor sods who had to build Amigas over Christmas week :D

[@RMCRetro]

+Larry Bundy Jr you sure do! Great to see you here Larry

[@SWIFTO_SCYTHE]

LOL subscribe to the both of you chaps !! haha.

[@llloyd4]

Yeah, if I remember to my factory days, not Amigas or fun stuff like that mind you, boring old fiber optic transceivers, the final month was the huge push to get everything done and out the door to make the final quarter shine brightly and make the investors happy.

[@iamgort70]

LOve this channel just found you!...man the memories. I was cutting edge back in the day...I started off with an Amiga 1200 with a 1942 Multisync monitor...man was I the envy of all my Amiga/Commodore friends. I even bought an Amiga CD32..remember those...what a lemon that turned out to be...good tech...zero support. ha I had more money than brains even then...:) good times.

[@DXing]

Great video! Totally love your TtT content 😊 Thanks and greetings from Finland!

[@gogreengameon2146]

Lotus Esprit and Jaquar XJ220 music was just INSANE! That slap bass is just so badass.

[@AtariFitness]

A cracking deal on the Amiga 500 lot. Especially, the Philips monitor.

[@RMCRetro]

Atari Fitness Certainly got lucky, the monitor looks great on my working 1200

[@GR8TM4N]

Oh man, This brings back so many memories ... I had the exact same machine, and the same expansion board. All except for the monitor, in my case I had the 1084S. Thank you so much, I am eagerly expecting the follow up with the restoration work. Liked and subscribed of course.

[@tabletopbattlezone5711]

Awesome video, looking forward to more. Great score on this one, love the C= key on the keyboard!!

[@Arpi3333]

Wow. the time just flew by! This was a great and educational video! Nice edited to! Thanks. I am off for part 2! :)

[@TrevKen]

Free CRT monitor and box of games?? Dude, you were being groomed.

[@chrisrobson8540]

was waiting for ..... dont fancy paddy hopkirks monte carlo mini its cluttering up the garage if you want it lol

[@kevhu4064]

Thank You so much for the trip down memory lane! , i had to watch twice, the first time after 2mins my mind had drifted and serving me so many memories from this era, all based around the amiga, i even used mine to do a live p.a. at an organised event, i belive that would be the correct term lol, ive liked & subscibed and will be checking out your other videos for sure...LONG LIVE RETRO GAMING!!

[@RMCRetro]

+Kev Hu welcome aboard Kev, keep it retro

[@cbm80amiga]

I like your video! It reminded me my first A500. HAM mode doesn't change luminance but R,G or B component. In #00 mode it just takes direct color from 16-color palette. And vertical resolution in PAL Amigas is much higher than you mentioned, without overscan 512 lines interlaced or regular 256.

[@NTPTM]

Hi, I surfed the web today and found your KZbin channel. Very nice channel you have because I was a teenager in the 80's. And my first computer was a Commadore 64 take care and greetings from Sweden.

[@jayc2469]

Ahhh my Old Baby! This was my first venture into modern computing - as you say an early 'Multimedia' system. The Tandy TRS-80 was the very first but the Amiga was more of a technological leap. Mine was accelerated; hard-driven and maxed with memory for graphics and gaming and never broke down in its life in my possession. Ahh _Things that Lasted a Lifetime!_ ... once

[@ThemeParkWorldTour]

Loving the nostalgia! Have subscribed!

[@Chris-Kay]

Brilliaaaaaaaaaant! Took me back 30+ years to the day I opened my brand new Amiga 500

[@ZedBeeblebrox]

Nice video and an even nicer Amiga 500 you got yourself there. I hope you'll succeed in bringing it back to life and glory. :)

[@RMCRetro]

Zed Beeblebrox thanks, part 2 is underway and it's looking positive so far

[@maarkaus48]

I have an amiga 1000 with box, monitor, and all the books and disks, and the same with a 2000, both I bought in the 80's. But I must admit, I was always stunned by the design of the 500 and 1200. The lines and shape is still so very beautiful. There is something unique of this era of computers. When I look at the 500, 600, 1200, and also the Atari of that era they had some of the best designs of computers to this day.A really nice design time for 'puters. I wish you all the success on the repair. I may post a vid of my amiga 1000 at some point.

[@retronostalgic]

Awesome attention to detail in repairing this.

[@ThePressurizer]

Great, great video. Makes me miss my old A500. I've always considered the A500 the most aesthetically pleasing of the computer-in-the-keyboard products. Oh, and I love the background tunes :)

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Used to love my A500 with 1mb RAM upgrade! Still got a 1084 Monitor laying around somewhere.

[@brostenen]

Thanks for this 4 part a500 series. It has helped me a lot in my 500-restore project (revision 5 version 3). I am not finished, though blogging on each progress that I make on it. So far, I am like 75 percent finished in bringing it back to functioning state. It needs a floppy drive, and then I am only left with the cosmetic stuff.

[@RMCRetro]

Well done I'm glad Ibcould help. I'm working on an A2000 now which had a few unexpected problems. Do you have a blog link?

[@brostenen]

@@RMCRetro Sweet. That is a nice system. Compatible and expandable. 👌 My blog is: to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-amiga500-refurbish-project.html?m=1

[@grrarg9319]

WOW that was a blast from the past. I actually worked at Computer Care South some 24ish years ago and performed surgery on many out of warranty Amiga's. Maybe even yours!

[@RMCRetro]

GrrArg oh wow that's cool, maybe you put the sticker on it!

[@allanfortytwo]

Great channel. I still have my amiga 500 set up and running. Look forward to seeing more videos.

[@RMCRetro]

allanfortytwo thanks for watching. If you check the description this series of videos is available in an updated link with a few improvements to sound levels and things. You may enjoy it better

[@KenMrKLC]

Awe brings back memories.... I had one back in 1988ish? I had a Vic20, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and then the Amiga then IBM clones. I use to play Earl Weaver baseball everyday after school playing many seasons and printing out stats on my dot matrix printer. Great stuff

[@robmuzz]

I loved my Amiga500. This brings back so many memories!

[@windwalkerrangerdm]

You have choosen the correct music and thus have earned a like and a sub in the first 10 seconds, sir.

[@glues4wood]

Growing up , it was my absolute favorite, I took mine apart because I heard b52's the music group was printed on the board

[@ilkkakoski82]

That is one solid memory expansion, I think we only had bare circuit boards, and few wires running to on/off switch, wich never worked so it was just wires tied together. We also took apart my friends A500 in order to mod it to for 1Mb Chip mem I think? We had to saw one circuit from the board and maybe did a jump wire for the processor? Can't remember, but we did something.. and it did work.

[@80s90sGuy]

Ahhhh.. the unmistakable Jaguar XJ220 theme at 7:30 Awesome. Nostalgia overload today.

[@rodc2678]

4:35 the gaps in the fins where the perfect size to slot in and firmly hold a collection of floppy drives for very convenient access...almost like they where designed for it.

[@edtheluck]

WOW! Computer Care South!! There's a blast from the past and it's actually still there at that exact address, albeit a truncated version of the huge store that it would've been when that Amiga visited, I would imagine. I bought RoboCop & Batman The Movie from there in 1989 for my CPC6128 :) Excellent video Sir.

[@RMCRetro]

Don't tell them I opened it, it might void the warranty

[@Waltkat]

Thanks for this look-back at a great machine. I still have mine stashed away somewhere in the house. I may have to find it and fire her up again and play some retro games. Ah, I miss those exciting and simpler days of computing!

[@Tyresome]

Love this resto series man. Even Fat Agnus go some action!

[@mnieuwhof]

The best homecomputer ever made, had one myself.... nice vid, thanx!

[@jublywubly]

Cover disks were awesome! I had a Commodore64. I regularly bought a couple of C64 magazines, that came with cover disks or cover tapes. Every issue came with at least two or three full-version computer games and a bunch of demos!

[@timjamesvella]

Love the box. Remember wanting one as a kid!!

[@meisterchris8075]

7:35 Jaguar XJ 220 Main Theme.

[@brianbagnall3029]

Trash to Treasure is an amazing series. Thanks!

[@henrygod514]

Oh my god I used to own a 500 and then a 1200!! Thanks for the souvenir!!

[@damsonn]

I had the same Philips monitor for my Amiga 500 over 27 years ago! I remember it had a color/monochrome(green) switch which I used sometimes in few flight sims to emulate night vision goggles. Great times.

[@xStrych9x]

fond memories, many a sleepless night on this beast. seeing the inside i was reminded of the time i took a chance and cracked the case to install the 'fatter agnus' chip so i could run all the overseas games that ran in PAL as opposed to NTSC, which was not available by default in the US.

[@Plan-C]

Nice! Hope you get it going. I just fixed up another A500 Plus board today (dreaded battery leak). I really should EBay some of them but I just like saving them lol. You can rig it up to an Atx supply if you don't trust the old power brick or maybe are not getting all the voltages. I did a vid on it a while ago. You can also hack certain pc floppy drives to work if the drive doesn't work. Good luck with the project. Subbed.

[@hawleygriffon9290]

The Amiga, The ST, C64, TRS-80, etc. have all turned up in boxes at the Sally Ann or Value Village around here or else I got given some or never sold mine (like my Atari ST). Nice to see old hardware still has a place in the modern world...

[@ufoclips1]

OH MY GOD!!!!,MY BELOVED AMIGA 500!!!,I TRADED UP TO THE 500+,WHERE I LEARNED TO ANIMATE!!!AHHH!!!SUCH TIMES!!!THANK YOU.

[@t3chnod3lic]

Good to see 'Fat Agnus' again lol. Dungeon Master on the Amiga made me the fan of rpg's I am today. The C-64 was my favourite though. Special Memories. Great video!

[@CP200S]

Maybe testing each of the main ICs on a known-to-be-good board would be a good start! By the appearance of that tracks, some corrosion has damaged the board. Good luck restoring this baby!

[@eviltwin2322]

How nostalgic to hear that SOTB2 guitar riff at the end! I was thrown right back to the early 90s!

[@osgnuru]

Enjoying some nostalgia watching your video. I have been watching Halt And Catch Fire and there were so many cool events back then. If you find an old Commodore that does not work it's body could live on as a housing for an SBC running an emulator.

[@Shundi12]

Loving the Jaguar XJ220 music! I always wanted an Amiga when I was younger, but I only had a C64 and a Master System at the time. I think I might buy one on eBay now I've seen this video :)

[@Marcmenardtechno]

Nice video! Can't wait to see the next one and hope you can figure out the cause for it not working, although I have a hunch that the power supply is faulty. Good luck! (I still own a working Amiga 1000 from 1986, these things were made to last!)

[@ProjectGeek1]

Its like LGR meets This Is Dan Bell. I'm in heaven. PS I know this guy!

[@jimbobsquelchy]

I live in Reading and used to go to Computer Care South all the time. Many weekends spent there as a child looking at all the kit I couldn't afford...!

[@RMCRetro]

jimbobsquelchy According to another commenter they are still open!

[@Bleedyeyes2]

My first ever computer, I was so young I'm surprised I got anywhere with this this without help but i still have fond memories of several games

[@airjuri]

Holy uujeah! I had that monitor on my first Amiga setup.

[@Dunk1970]

I watch this sitting next to my deceased A500 in box (it lives next to my PC) and the still working A600 I bought off a friend to replace it with. I got the A500 during the final year of my A Levels and it was light years ahead of the opposition. After about 9 years of giving me joy, I came home one day from work to find that it had died at the hands of one of my housemates. I'll never know if it just died or got a whack, but I'm now intrigued to know if I can revive it 20 years after it died.

[@HatsuneMiku3D]

My favorite old system, that background music brings back memories

[@spoiledknight6]

I always loved my Amiga 500... I own two of them still. One has been modified to rum IBM software, memory upgrade and all the extra bells and whistles. Even have the original commodore stereo monitors plus several boxes of games and programs... about 1000 or more disks.... probably have every game or program that was made for it. I may eventually sell them.

[@stage3muppet]

Have early working one of these myself boxed hahaha stumbled across this video and instantly took me back to being 15 again haha Excellent went from spectrum 48k to Commodore 64 then the 500 :) Mind blowing at the time haha

[@Nikuros]

Still having my Amiga 500+ and about 900 games and i still play the games from time to time

[@paul.mcallister]

That was an awesome computer, way ahead of its time. I ran a "Hack & Slash" BBS on mine.

[@ThePlugSeeker]

I loved this computer as a kid. Ah the memories. I eventually moved on to a Mega Drive.

[@MrPiggybank1974]

Awesome I still have two machines 500 and the 1200 both working, I bought them when i was a kid now 43, just the best computer(500) that was ever made, that started me of in to programming, now it's my job, who care about the PC or the other junk this is history, I solute you sir!! :)

[@lesjones471]

I still have my Amiga 500,has a flicker fixer too,hard drive 100gb,i made all the rear ouput extension cables & fitted the circuit board into a PC case,that allowed me to have two floppy drives and the hard drive all in the case,then I had a amiga 1,000 keyboard and made a cable to fit the rear connection,changed the CPU to a faster one,increased memory by purching a memory card MOD.

[@BriansManCave]

Cool! I grew up with the C64... always wondered about the Amiga.

[@dickdolby8271]

That monitor is *still* good-looking after all these years. Great find.

[@kilppari78]

~16 years ago I got tired of keeping my Amiga 500 so I sold it for a price of mere shipping cost. A remarkable notion on the specific machine was that it had the serial number 1. For real. Just one digit 1 on the serial number sticker.

[@Preview43]

I have about 15 of these bad boys stored out in a garage cupboard. Could never walk past an orphan without taking it home. Since the event of emulators, I kind of moved on to virtual Amigas. This series is making think I should dig them out again and check them all over to discover their inner secrets.

[@paulolameiras861]

Amiga 500 is my favourite gaming platform of all time!

[@RMCRetro]

Do you have a favourite game on in?

[@henrymach]

"Ah, the Amiga 500". You sounded exactly like the Nostalgia Nerd guy.

[@hunterericson6782]

You mean the nostalgia nerd ?

[@paulhaynes8491]

A common problem with the earlier A500 models was that the AGNUS chip would get warm and pop up out of the socket. Commodore released a kit which was basically a bracket that clipped across the socket and kept pressure on the chip to keep it from popping up.

[@darkpoethd9913]

Thanks for this I had this exact model with the commodore key. I'm 50 now and got mine age 21. Crazy! I'm still a gamer and always will be, but this was the pinicle for me, no period in gaming has ever surpassed it for pure awe and excitement. I bought mine from Laskys in Manchester and I also got the official Amiga monitor to go with it. One thing I do remember was having to wait about a month before I got the 500, it was mad as I took home the monitor on the very day I paid but had to wait weeks for the bloody computer to come in stock. I used to just stare at my monitor Sat on my desk with no 500 lol. Torture

[@voidremoved]

thanks buddy for the video. had one in the day. its nice to see inside. but when you reveal the line lump power brick I am like oooh yeah. forgot all about that.

[@Khaos969]

BEST COMPUTER I EVER OWNED !!! endless hours of fun as a kid the games were amazing so many great game creators , Speed ball 2 , Monkey Island , Syndicate , Populous , Megalomania , Panza kickboxing an endless amount , nothing compares to it ... not even my ps4

[@djspecialpaul]

Nice to see this Amiga 500 :) - i used this kind of machine, too.

[@TimothyMusson]

I've just dug mine out of the garage to check and remove the battery. Haven't opened it yet, but yay - it has a C= key on the left. I'm in New Zealand - I wonder which keyboard type was more common here? :)

[@Dudeitsmeee]

oh wow have one from back in the day we are trying to get working but it apparently needs a new motherboard. we also have an amiga 1000 as well. great machines

[@Daz555Daz]

Great video as always. One small request though. When opening these sorts of devices it would be great to see how to get these old plastic cases open safely. Where should we pull, where is it likely to crack etc?

[@RanFuRe]

Awesome! At the rate you're going, you'll have a proper museum up, this time next year ;) You seem to know your way around hardware. Personally, I'm making it up as I go along, as far as hardware goes ^^ Probably the reason why I'm still fighting with the sc-88. I'm looking forward to the next episode :)

[@RMCRetro]

R. F. R. Video editing can make experts of us all! I am really enjoying revisiting the Amiga though. So many good memories of this one and the kind of quantum leap in computing over my 8bit you rarely see these days.

[@neonlife84]

2:01 Unreal title music - one of my favorite game soundtracks on the amiga!

[@BollingHolt]

I'm at work, but my VERY FIRST EVER Amiga (a 500) just was delivered to my house, proceeded in delivery by a Gotek, brand new PSU, video converter, and SCART cable. These last two hours at work are going to draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!