Retronaut > Amiga 4000 CH01: The Rescue & The Hoard

[Tchucolate]

In March 2022 I made a dash from London, to Worcester in the British midlands, to collect, or maybe even "rescue" an Amiga 4000.
I last owned an A4000 for a brief few months in the early 1990s, so getting an Amiga 4000 was something of a grail machine for me.
The machine was just a small part of a bundle of items, that had been used in the 90s at a commercial TV station in that area.
I was told the A4000 did not work, just a black screen...
Was the usual battery damage that so many 4000s fall foul of at play here?

Watch on and enjoy the journey of the Amiga 4000 rescue!

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[kriz]

Just write the story please

[grelbfarlk]

It was a gripping mystery. Surely this is the first time an A4000 has sat idle for decades and suffered damage which may or may not be repairable.

[Tchucolate]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

It was a gripping mystery. Surely this is the first time an A4000 has sat idle for decades and suffered damage which may or may not be repairable.

Sounds like time someone needs to get a new hobby. If you watch it, you'll see there is the hoard aspect, as well as its its origin story as well.

Seems you can't please everyone...

Maybe watch the chapter where I repair it, if your into that aspect?

[grelbfarlk]

It's a fine thing. I would prefer, how about instead of a video, like a post with photos and screenshots from amigapcb.org highlighting the traces and components that had a problem.
If you want to get fancy, show meter results.
And instead of talking about it write, I fixed this part that was obviously bad then it still didn't fix it, and I tested this thing downstream from it, and that was also bad <pic> and then it started working more.
It's a fine thing to resurrect an A4000 which is not a machine I was disappointed by unlike a certain model that was more than 3x worse.

[Tchucolate]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

It's a fine thing. I would prefer, how about instead of a video, like a post with photos and screenshots from amigapcb.org highlighting the traces and components that had a problem.
If you want to get fancy, show meter results.
And instead of talking about it write, I fixed this part that was obviously bad then it still didn't fix it, and I tested this thing downstream from it, and that was also bad <pic> and then it started working more.
It's a fine thing to resurrect an A4000 which is not a machine I was disappointed by unlike a certain model that was more than 3x worse.

I'm You-tuber, not a writer. Only so many hours in the day?

And besides, I think the video format actually works pretty well. Lets say I review a game, I can show it in action, play the music. All that, and also STILL show still images when needed.

I do try to put chapters in, so people can skip ahead or past irrelevant bits for them etc.

To each their own...