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Old 30 August 2014, 00:06   #1
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Questionable Amiga 1000 Modifications.

Upon further investigation, I think this is the results of the A1000 1MB Piggback Hack. I'm going to see to either re-finishing, or undoing this hack and moving forward. Any advice and knowledge is welcome. Original post follows.

I've recently acquired a non-functional A1000. The optimist in me suspected it could be resurrected, but looking at the thing there are a few oddities.....
On the mainboard:
  • The CIA's have been removed.
  • Sockets have been soldered on top of all the chips at B,C,D,E.
  • Resistors soldered to, and then cut, on the chips at H,I,J.


On the daughter board:
  • There is a jumper wire to soldered to PIN 20 of the DAUGCAS that is not connected to anything on the other end.
  • PIN 10 of DAUGCAS and DPALCAS have been jumpered together, as has PIN 20.
  • PIN 10 of DAUGEN and DPALEL have been jumpered together as has PIN 20
  • PIN 13 and PIN 14 of the connector at P have disconnected jumper wires soldered to them

It would be simple enough to put in some CIA's and test thing, but given all the other oddities I see here, and the fact I've never owned an A1000 prior to this, I thought it best to ask the experts before doing anything further. My gut says that this all part of some sort of homebrew ram expansion that has been subsequently removed.

Last edited by fordp; 30 August 2014 at 05:45.
 
Old 30 August 2014, 07:55   #2
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I had an A1000 that had the remnants of a very shoddy piggy back mod in it.. Really the best option is to revert it and then start debugging the machine.
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