12 April 2008, 14:08 | #1 |
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Rebuilt A1200
Got the Amiga bug and brought a second hand (or third, seems to have had a hard life) A1200. Spent the past couple of weekends rebuilding it. Out went the yellowed case, on went the tidier, and Commodore badged case. Out went the original (and still working) Seagate 40MB hard drive, in went a IDE-CF card adapter with 1GB card. Out went the 3.0 ROMs, on went the 3.1 ROMs. Sadly the Workbench 3.1 floppy was crapped out, but got bit of a Workbench 3.1 setup on it.
Anyway, this weekend managed to get a working WB 3.1 disk and do a proper installation of WB 3.1 on it. Then got a PCMCIA CF card adapter working with it (thanks to the sticky thread in the hardware forum) and installed a few things, including Classic WB Lite. Sadly no expansion in it yet, either too expensive or too rare in Australia. Want to get a nice 030 expansion for it. Photos show in order of work done to it, left to right. Even though the floppy drive looks pretty smashed up, it still works fine. I don't know what the previous owner was doing with it. |
12 April 2008, 14:19 | #2 |
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@AUS1200
good work sir! I love a good recovery story!!! other than an 030, have you any more plans for it, like a Optical drive mod? I have been toying with building a couple of external SATA ports converted over to IDE... it should work, and lookie nice too |
12 April 2008, 14:24 | #3 |
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Now what issues did I have? A few.
Firstly no DD disks. Luckily at work there was a cabinet full of old disk based software. And a ton of old Apple software on DD disks. Thanks Apple Secondly was having a PC with a floppy disk drive to format the disks in so I could copy basic stuff between the PC and A1200. A really old laptop I had still worked, had USB, so I could copy programs from my main PC to it, then onto floppy. Next was the lack of CrossDOS on the A1200, due to the incomplete WB 3.1 install. Thankfully I had the original WB3.0 disks, which worked, and grabbed the CrossDOS stuff off it. After getting the PCMCIA CF card reader stuff on the A1200, I had issues with HDToolbox, which recognised the main 1GB CF card as the old 40MB HDD, but still gave me a gig of space. Updating HDTB with its patch off Aminet finally got the OS to recognise the CF HD as DH0. Next step will be working out the mysteries of WHDLoader... |
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I'd love to get an internal scan doubler for it, but who doesn't? Maybe will get my PCMCIA wireless network card running with it one day as well. |
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12 April 2008, 17:25 | #5 |
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Nice work and you said the 030 expansion would be the icing on the cake, but they are getting quite rare.
Those internal flash hard drives are just the best! |
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I don't know if you can hurry enough...
Check here Yesterday it had Blizzard 030 on stock... Today only Viper! lol |
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Love the flash drive, the A1200 is dead quiet. The converter unit has a LED on it whenever there is data access, I must find a way of removing it and tapping the lines from the original HDD LED on the case to it. Check here Yesterday it had Blizzard 030 on stock... Today only Viper! lol[/quote] Yes, saw that, but a wee bit expensive for my tastes. Especially when it comes to shipping huge distances as well. |
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13 April 2008, 15:27 | #8 |
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excellent job
now you just need a Blizzard 030@50 with 32MB ram and we will have the same system |
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let me know if you get this going as I have a 2GB CF HD working great in my machine but it would be awesome if the LED worked
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theres a Thread by Aminos of how to simply hack the CF cards so that they signal activity http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=35893 its subtle.... I LIKE IT! |
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thanks dude..you the man |
14 April 2008, 02:55 | #12 |
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There is a very small LED on my adapter, one of those really flat ones, so I would need to desolder it and solder the wires from the HD LED to it. I think it would be a bit messy to do, and really don't want to break it
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14 April 2008, 03:28 | #13 |
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@Aus1200,
have a lookie at the link i posted previously... its only a small solder job on the adapter. very simple, but very effective! |
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15 April 2008, 05:16 | #15 |
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Very nice man
Just make sure you put something under that CF adaptor so it doesn't short out on the old HDD cradle! PZ. |
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Judging by the amount of yellowing, I'd say they were a heavy smoker that smashed the thing about alot - gezz!
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Very nice, in middle of a rebuild of my uk made 1200 at mo (made in irvine scotland, being a scot this is something im proud of, my other 3 1200's are all philipino made) Aus 1200 im lucky cos i have a couple of 030 Blizzard boards, gonna get a PCMCIA CF Dongle, for sticking the Games on. either that or ive a 20GB 2.5HDD laying around from my old ibook. (my 1200 does have a 172mb hdd in it, but this is way to small) my new keyboard from amigakit just came and im finishing the respray of my case, hell im a perfectionist to detial to point of being anal about it. im gonna recycle the small HDD into my good original nick 600, this should be enough to hold a few games and whatnots.
Next up is to get a IDE64 for my C 64 so i can dump all the games onto a CF card for that, and im looking for a good nick 1541 Mk II disk drive for my little 8 bit baby. if anybody has one in good nick gimme a pm! |
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