The Lovely ACA500Plus

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[@djpirtu2]

Greets from Finland! It's always fun to hear Captain's (Markus Kaarlonen from Poets of the fall) Space Debris playing here and there :) Don't forget that another great piece from Captain: Beyond Music. Edit: but watching more of your videos I'm 110% sure you know all about tracker music. 😄

[@jazzthief81]

The ACA500plus is a fantastic bit of kit. It makes the Amiga 500 so much more usable nowadays without "overpimping" it.

[@UnixAnt]

I've had one of these for a few years. Plexilaser in Germany has a perspex kit for the ACA500Plus. Does the job nicely...

[@barnabas5688]

I love this card - it's a tweaker's delight. The ability to make a CF card with OS3.1 installed in just a couple of minutes is really handy, such a time saver. And then the ability to switch back to KS1.3 and boot ADFs from an external gotek with no messing around. I bought mine second hand with an X-Surf network card and a clear plastic case that I think comes from a german website. p.s. yes to bringing back nostalgia time.... I am nostalgic for nostalgia time :D

[@ralfr.5974]

Great Card!! 🤩 I never saw Buggy Boy in Lightspeed🤣😂

[@frankowalker4662]

That's so cool. It gives the A500 a new lease of life.

[@skideric]

The CF OS Install is Worth It Alone!

[@Pascaldema]

I have the same revision as You. I bought it Twice. The last revision seems to have more stability in hightest CPU speed (@42 MHZ). I use it without accelerator Card (CPU @14) for more stability with all games. I know only 2 games who aren’t compatibily with that card. Platoon & Galaxy force II. For Platoon game, You can by-pass the problem if You use A500 profil but with CPU 68000 @ 42 MHZ. The creator of this card doesn’t know why but on that speed The game will works correctly with a disk in Your drive. The WHDLOAD installation of that game doesn’t works too. For Galaxy Force II there is an Hardware incompatibility with it... Not at the start of The game but just After selection of The planet. The only way to play that game is to remove The ACA500Plus card. Don’t miss to make the firmware update to 0.141 to obtain The best stability. Except theses 2 problems, it’s a perfect card for the A500. Sorry for my English if it isn’t perfect... Best regards, Pascal

[@piyushkhengar]

I used to have the Eyetech tower too! Had my A1200 plus an 060 card in there, as well as my PC motherboard. Flipping the power switch would power on both, and then I’d use a KVM to switch between the two machines.

[@shasmira76]

Hello mis bad lemon. ❤ This card has many possibilities. don't hesitate to make several videos. I would love to see them 🤩

[@MsMadLemon]

I may be a mad lemon.. But I'm certainly not a "bad lemon" 😆 A a500 plus Videos already filmed and upcoming 🙂

[@shasmira76]

@@MsMadLemon Yes sorry. I was wrong 🙃

[@bloxyman22]

I would love to see a hd install of workbench 1.x including setup process.

[@gentoolive]

I've had a aca500plus for about a year and a half now, it's a great addon.

[@MsMadLemon]

It really is, it's been well thoughtout!

[@piyushkhengar]

Workbench 1.3 is not stupid. It’s the most beautiful of all Amiga installs!

[@leoc.9341]

I love my ACA500Plus, and have to thank you for featuring it in your episode. It is amazing and is by far the simplest way to expand your Amiga 500. Having the ability to use my 512 KB trap door memory as chip memory without any motherboard modifications is wonderful. And their auto workbench 3.1 install to a HDD/CF is brilliant. IndividualComputers did a great job packing so many features into this device while keeping the price very affordable. Not to mention, I received mine just 3 days after placing my order on their website, and I live in the USA.

[@matp8493]

I picked up one of these last week, it's absolutely brilliant

[@erwindewit4073]

Damn, this is the first time I really regret selling my Amiga 500, 10 years or so ago... It would have been perfect with this card! Be able to use 1.2, 1.3 and 3.1 is great! I have run Amiga OS from harddisk on 1.3, but only fairly recently 3.1 (Amiga 4000/030 that I switched to from the Amiga 500). Weird how similar it is, and still different enough to look for things all the time ;) Really cool video, thanks! Oh, Retro Shack has a video that showcases (haha) these plexiglass cases in case you're curious!

[@RetroHawk]

Looks a great peice of kit

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

I feel the same way. The ACA500+ is a great piece of kit, but the card plus the A500 eats up so much of my desk that I find myself using the A1200 with its internal expansions instead, just because it's so much more compact. Being able to transfer large files from a PC thanks to the ACA's second CF card slot is wonderful, though. Welcome to the ACA club! :)

[@naviamiga]

Nice, lovely overview.

[@piyushkhengar]

I’m the same, I have an A4000/060 and a AA3000+. But neither of them hit the sweet spot like my old A500 did. That’s why I had to buy an A500 too!

[@johnwiesen4440]

A very nice video I got a ACA 500+ with the X-Surf. What I like is you can put a KS rom on I have got KS 3.2.1 as will the 1.3 and 3.1 that it came with, adding may ACA1233n if I want. Getting into the net and down loading to a CF card on the second slot. I did put a heatsink in the CPU to help, I got some plastic standoffs so my 68030 card is at the same high as the ACA 500+. I put the through the holes on the card. You will have lot of things that can be done with it an Action Replay cart all the time.

[@milk-it]

Sold me on the ACA500Plus. My A500 has a GVP 40 MHz accelerator and it's incompatible and too quick for some programs. This will fill that gap, perfect!

[@deamondeathstone1]

I made mine stick out even more by adding a ACA1221lc

[@squeakonline]

12:00 angels comic bakery!

[@Zontar82]

Got One last year, Is Absolutely Amazing. I am using both the cards and a gotek floppy emulator

[@bitdigital8052]

Your A500 is so clean! After I sat on my top casing I lost the love for it ☹ Plus the keyboard is faulty. I do have all the parts to resurrect it and will use this video as inspiration. Loving the ACA demo but looking to fit something internally in mine since I’m already accident prone. lol

[@10MARC]

The ACA500+ is a really nice product. I love having different profiles available so I can swap a CF card and jump between Amiga OS 1.3 and 3.2.1 so easily. Many of them just don't work at 42 MHz. My original one did, but my second ACA500+ will not boot if I push it up to 42 MHz. I guess it depends on the 68000 chip Jens installs.

[@is2scooby]

This is a fantastic product. In fact, everything I’ve tried from Individual Computers has been amazing.

[@davidegalliussi1979]

Wow very nice set 👍

[@giuseppe40]

Fai bellissimi video. Hai una voce bellissima. Sei bellissima !

[@Antonio-fl3nr]

That nice curiosity like a child's. Love it. Wait. Did you have a BlizzardPPC with its graphic card? Did you got to play Wipeout 2097 and try early MorphOS? I'm very intrigued now.

[@MsMadLemon]

I had a Blizzard PPC back in the early 2000, but unfortunately not for that long. I didn't get the chance to try out any of these things. No chance of getting on now as they are very expensive and quite faulty. Or I would defnintely give Wipeout 2097, OS4.1 and possibly MorphOS a try.

[@Antonio-fl3nr]

@@MsMadLemon It would be interesting to know how you got it and what you did use it for.

[@PurpleMaleFroslass]

I have an A500 in a checkmate case with an ACA500Plus. Being able to change machine behavior right on boot is a huge plus, I can easily switch between a stock A500 config and my hilariously upgraded workbench setup.

[@MrTatica1973]

How do you swap CF cards or use action replay button with the ACA500+ inside the checkmate? I have my ACA500+ and was thinking to buy checkmate case, but this is the major drawback for me

[@raymondleggs5508]

Bleep bleep Vrooooooooooommmmmmm!!!!!!!

[@bytesabre]

IIRC PCB way have a 3d printing service so get them to print you a case for it

[@MsMadLemon]

Well it would have to be designed first.

[@paulb4uk]

A nice bit of kit i had a cdtv at one point and a hard disk controler that had workbench 1.3 installed and it autobooted no idea who made the controller but it used an ancient mfm hard drive i sold it many years ago and i to had that eyetech full tower with the ppc card a 200mhz ppc with a 25 mhz 040 and the blizzard vision graphics card add on but sold it i got most of the money back the ppc card cost new now they fetch over twice as much so i wont be getting another .

[@johnseamons7455]

Looks fantastic. Do you know where I can purchase One look on a couple of sites and on back order tks

[@MsMadLemon]

I ordered it from individual computers' website itself

[@johnseamons7455]

@@MsMadLemon Thank you I did see that. Good to know they are reliable. Cheers

[@Marie579]

I do enjoy your mad videos, Sorry if I show my ignorance but is buggy boy or similar all it does? Can it be used as a word processor or the internet?

[@MsMadLemon]

not a problem, yeah you can do way more than just play games on it, I used to do my homework on it back in the day as well as making music on it, which I still do to this day. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYHKhnxpeMR6obs

[@johandenhertog6878]

That’s a very old ACA500Plus V1 Version. Use that version with the 2019 ACA1233n-55. Have also the newer ACA500Plus V2 from 2018. The ACA500Plus can do many many more than you show on your video. For the A500 the 68030 is the best card for WHDLoad. Use it only for Demos which I did in the 80’s an 90’s. About the Vampire I believe only in the Vampire V4+ Standalone. That’s is the only Vampire which get the most Core updates and features. For the rest I do a lot with my A1200’s such as the Blizzard 1230 IV and the TF1260. Like the old and the new and the Vampire V4 have did big steps forward this year. Now the most of us would like to see what the PiStorm32 would do with the A1200. Thanks to A1200NET we have a black A500 case and waiting for the black keycaps for it. There is always things to do with our A500/A1200 and the Vampire V4 Standalone. There is also a V4 Ultimate Expansion Board for the Vampire V4 Standalone. My best AMIGA card is always the Blizzard 1230 IV which have FPU and 128MB on it. Like also to use diskettes for new Demos and to install different AmigaOS’s. My first AMIGA is the A500 back in 1988. And it’s still working now. Would be great to use the A1000 which I didn’t effort in 1985. And must buy the Commodore 64 with two diskdrives. Which is also a great computer to use even today.

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

What is best option for HDD for Amiga 500? aca500plus?

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

What is best option for HDD for Amiga 500? aca500plus?

[@bloxyman22]

Have to say individual computers have some quick shipping. Ordered it myself after watching this video and arrived here in Norway after 4 days. Now just need to get hold of some CF cards.. Are they all compatible?

[@coreyostman]

The static at 6:02 made me jump! lol

[@MsMadLemon]

i'm glad i'm not the only one who jumped lol!

[@coreyostman]

@@MsMadLemon I really enjoy your Amiga videos. I must say I missed out on the whole Amiga thing. I started with an Ohio Scientific, then an Apple ][+, wrote software for the VIC-20 and Commodore 64 and then leaped to Mac and Unix/Linux. I've always done MIDI, but I would have adored exploring tracker on the Amiga. Just another awesome video. Can't wait 'til the next!

[@skideric]

Hey,just do what i did.....Slipped a sandwich bag over the PCB....LOL !

[@MsMadLemon]

Lol! just pictured that 😀

[@FinnGamble]

You've probably addressed this in a past video, but how do you get such a crisp image from your A500 to the monitor? Mine is kind of crappy. Is it an HDMI mod or something like that?

[@FinnGamble]

I think I found it. SCART -> HDMI upscaler!

[@MsMadLemon]

@@FinnGamble Yes, but it depends which upscaler you get, some are cheap and nasty, have delay.. others are pretty decent and give the best experience. OSSC is the best one i've tried personally.

[@FinnGamble]

@@MsMadLemon Thank you for the clarification! I saw one in your previous video, and that exact one is available at a local shop, and it's quite cheap. OSSC looks different and more expensive. I'll look into that.

[@MsMadLemon]

@@FinnGamble I think you're referring to the flylink one.. In its price range it's probably the most reliable.. However you can't compare with an ossc.. The cheap flylink one has delay and permanently wide screen. Yes I would recommend da ING up a bit more and going for the ossc

[@KarpowSCX]

Why Individual Computers sent you older rev 2 version of ACA500plus? It surely looks like one!

[@matp8493]

They only sell the 2016 version at the moment

[@MsMadLemon]

This is news to me, what does the later revision have which rev 2 doesnt, what are the differences?

[@matp8493]

Not sure if there is any major difference, this is down to availability of chips as I understand

[@JosephTyson]

The newer rev have protections to limit the damage to the card if you were to plug the card in upside down. The 2016 rev does not have the protections. The CPU is rated to be more stable at faster speeds in the newer rev and I believe the LED display is also slightly different.

[@matp8493]

@@JosephTyson Yeah, I had to make sure I got a 2016 case to get access to the button

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

is it possible if a friend put MOD files on. a cf card to put it in AUX slot and playback those files without moving to main cf card? like a jukebox of mods