Broken and filthy Amiga 600 Needs Help

I was kindly given this Amiga 600 by Neildo to repair and restore. The motherboard is in reasonable condition, apart from a couple of holes burned into it where some caps melted.
Join me as I repair, restore and finally upgrade the worst Amiga Commodore ever released (also the best).
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00:00 Ugly Micro
01:08 Charity Amiga 600
02:40 A500 Comparison
03:45 A 600 For My Own
04:00 The Chisel Method
04:44 Burned Ceramic Caps
05:35 Hunting for the Bad Caps
05:57 Voltage Injection
06:25 Removing The Caps
07:45 I Made a Mistake
09:12 Dead Caps
10:22 Replacing the Electrolytics
11:29 Does it Work?
12:06 Dyna Blaster
12:25 Cleaning and Restoring
12:48 Building a RAM Expansion
16:38 ‪@CRG‬
18:21 Fast RAM
19:12 ‪@TechMadeEasyUK‬
19:34 What I Think of the A600
#amiga600 #amiga #computerrepair

[@albert_vds]

I'm simultaneously relieved and disappointed that the hammer and chisel method wasn't used, and by disappointed I mean extremely relieved.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Got to build up to it. One for a future episode!

[@SofaKingWhatA]

ChuckyGang showed how to dislodge pesky Amiga 4000 caps with a hammer and pliers, albeit with some minor pad loss.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Or you can use the peroxide and do your hair like Billy Idol! Great work, Lee! (MoreFunBlondeingIt)

[@TheGunnarRoxen]

I dunno... it might be a Shock To The System. Lee might be forced to give a Rebel Yell 😉

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

@TheGunnarRoxen got to be careful with harsh chemicals, I could end up with eyes without a face!

[@TheGunnarRoxen]

@@MoreFunMakingIt 🤣

[@Larry]

I had an A600 back in the day, all my A500 owning friends were fascinated by it, especially how light the AC box was compared to theirs. But the only thing I didn't like about it was that I couldn't play Robocop 3 on it >.>

[@Sozzled39]

Ah the A600, a misunderstood machine, but a great little portable gamer now. Great video Lee, I've never seen the A600 need all those underside caps replacing before.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

It was very strange! Wasnt just the ones on the bottom, there were a load on the top too! Does make me worry that others on different parts of the circuit are going to go faulty too.

[@JamiesHackShack]

Great vid! Always thought these 600s looked pretty cool. Bonus points for personalized components! 😂

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Its a neat and tidy little machine!

[@JohnDoe-qg6hm]

I LOVED the A600 ! Still DO ! Not 70s or early 80's Retro but my First computer with a Floppy Disk Drive ! :) The Excitement, The FUN ! How can anyone HATE this beautiful little computer. They must be INSANE !

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

I love it now! Does that count?

[@MikkyTee]

A600's are a great wee machine, at least it doesn't take up a whole desk like the huge a500.. Also a nice option for clearing out the inside and putting a mister in ;)

[@mikeh_nz]

Good job Lee I appreciate that life is competing with these videos, but your still turning out good content :)

[@hyzenthlay7151]

I loved my A600, and I really miss it!!

[@Rockythefishman]

The 600 was my first Amiga, everyone else had gotten 500/500+s the years before so for Christmas I got a A600. I loved it very much and took up a lot less desk space then my mates beast of a 500+ I upgraded the RAM, and added a second floppy. By the time 94 came around their was no point in upgrading it any more Commodore was done and it was clear the PC was going to take over. Nice repair mate, hope you enjoy many hours with it

[@bobingabout]

13:30 I remember I had a whole box of graphics cards like that. when I wanted some chips off one of them, I literally just took some sort of pliers, and wiggled the chips off. It ripped a whole bunch of tracks off the board too, but the chips were in otherwise perfect condition to use in their new home. I mean, I had an entire box of about 50 of them, they were going into E-Waste.

[@ClassicRetroByte]

Another cracking good video 👍 and great tip with the memory chips on the Graphics card that I also have laying around.👍

[@geezerdiamond]

The first Amiga I ever saw was a 600 at a friend's house, and I pestered my parents for one the next Christmas. I've got lots of nostalgia for it, and I always like its cut-down A1200 looks.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

It really is a nice looking duck :D

[@n13ldo]

Nice to see it working and clean. I wasn't responsible for it's manky state 😁

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

All that filth protected it 😆

[@TheFuzzy70]

At least the graphics card I gave you has been put to good use in a proper computer 😂

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

🤣

[@TheRetroChannel]

Big fan of the hammer and chisel method but you should never do that on an Amiga, because reasons.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Because REASONS!

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

The A600 was the Amiga Mini before the Amiga Mini.

[@Grid56]

One of the main problems with the commodore machines was that upgrades often were incompatible with software (mainly games). Having progressed from ZX81 and BBC-B micro and master I got a 500+. Later I added a scsii hard drive on my 500+ but had to disable it to run many of my favourite games. I remember similar complaints from "lucky" people who had the money to upgrade to 1200s then found difficulties. Happily I had many years of Pinball Dreams / fantasies and Lemmings before I moved to P.C. (mainly due to demise of commodore leading to lack of new support and software). Good Times nevertheless

[@marjon1703]

My computer history is the same although after the 500 I progressed to the 2000 for the expendability.

[@spencerdavies4666]

Never owned an Amiga (ST Rulez... ;) ) but always liked the look of the A600. More a spiritual successor to the C64.

[@DaveVelociraptor]

I really enjoyed seeing your name on the smd component

[@colincurrie9151]

I can't wait to see what all the auction items end up going for. Hopefully make loads for charity.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Going to be a hell of a day! Even if we dont make 15k it will be a huge amount just with everything I have here to sell.

[@originalbrucesmith]

Love the A600, had to buy it again after it was soled. Sad times, True story..

[@originalbrucesmith]

i had that ram cost me £25, when i was 14.

[@FixTechStuff]

I enjoyed that, a bit of Amiga nostalgia.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Thanks!

[@synchro62]

I never thought it was ugly but just considered it a poor mans A1200 :)

[@gingerhippygaming7962]

My first amiga I loved it

[@Retroguyuk75]

I love my A600, it has the 3.2 rom and card hard drive too. I have an A500 as well, not by choice I put a bid on Fleabay for £30 thinking it would never go for that and it did 🤣

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Bargain! But also you now have to store a 500 :D

[@Momentvm]

an excellent video, Lee! Another (checkmark) icon saved from the bin. I wonder what's the problem with losing the red signal?

[@hollybrereton3140]

I was so looking forward to the hammer action ;(

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

I'm still refining the method...

[@leonkiriliuk]

"causing high resistance" -> "causing low resistance". :)

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

I always get that the wrong way round 🤣

[@vertigoz]

Had it AGA it would have become a beautiful swan

[@keyboard_g]

Added fast ram only blocks the PCMCIA port functionality if you go over 8MB. You'll need some to run whdload games. Some cards even come with jumpers to downscale the fast mem so you can pick and choose how it works.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

fantastic video Lee.

[@Retroguyuk75]

You can use the PCMCIA card with the memory expansion you just need to set it to a bit lower on the jumpers can't remember now either 4 or 6 mb...

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

That works on my 1200, but this expansion is 4mb only. No jumpers to set. And since I made the video the ram has gone faulty! Will need to think again with that one

[@NathanOZlegend]

turned out to be the best amiga for transfer of adf at the time

[@keyboard_g]

I'm torn, I love the A600 and that another Amiga was brought back. Disappointed that a retro GPU had to die to get those memory chips when chip memory upgrades with new hardware are readily available. Glad that the hot air delamination didn't totally destroy the board but, could that be the source of the flickering video?

[@panagiotisandrikopoulos6853]

i still have it, an A600 and works perfect ! after 20+ years ? (somewhere there :D )

[@retrowedugmiksola1810]

You can switch off half of fast memory (software script or hardware jumper), and PCMCIA will work properly :)

[@robertjones3223]

What about the fire and gunpowder method to remove caps?

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

I need to experiment!

[@originalbrucesmith]

Just to point out some times there a key combo to disable some fast ram to enable the pcmcia, or as long as you do t go over 4/4.4 mg fast ram it may work still can I not remember the limit.

[@bobingabout]

I honestly wouldn't say the Amiga 600 is "Worst" than an A500. It's basically an A500+ in hardware, with the addition of PCMCIA and a built in IDE hard drive controller. It was only an issue if you actually wanted to use some of the existing hardware expansions (that didn't plug into the back ports, like a floppy drive), so for the people it was aimed at (Like my Dad who didn't have an Amiga at the time), it was a brilliant starter model. The 1200 is a lot better though.

[@MrClump]

Is the clock working on that expansion? I've built a few of them, and while the RTC is detected it never runs.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Ive not had a chance to check that yet! Sorry.

[@ChadDoebelin]

hammer and chisel?!

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

You heard it here first! (and possible last) :D

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

It was awesome.

[@mikeh_nz]

If it looks like a duck… and it sounds like a duck… …

[@rossbennett5069]

I guarantee you’ll break £15000. I’ll be bidding at least £1000 and will definitely be outbid.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Wow! I hope you get something in the auctions Ross! There are soooo many things. I will soon be making a video going through all the items.

[@rossbennett5069]

There are at least two that I really want and they have been on my wish list for years. The bath full of ice is ready for the backstreet kidney donation

[@mattloren9708]

Those caps look horrible to replace

[@peteredwards2318]

Um, excuse me? Hated? I LOVED my Amiga 600. Words like "everyone" only have a valid use when there are no dissenting opinions, therefore your title card is incorrect.

[@BumdanglerFartbiscuit]

maybe watch the video before losing your rag at a complete stranger, chum

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

Um, excuse me? Hyperbole? But thanks for watching and taking the time to comment :D