21 June 2016, 14:05 | #1 |
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red or green or yellow light A500
I did a search on this rather basic question but didn't find the answer, sorry for being lazy:
I got two A500: one has a combination of green/yellow light for power/drive, and the other one has a red light in the combination (do not remember if it is for power or drive. I think it is for power. And it is deep in the wardrobe). What is the difference, else than the colors? |
21 June 2016, 14:09 | #2 |
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I haven’t seen a yellow one, if you mean changing the red LED to orange they did it after a certain year,
probably when the orange LEDs were as cheap as the red ones. |
21 June 2016, 14:10 | #3 |
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Red light ones are older, I think.
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21 June 2016, 14:14 | #4 |
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Yep, it's just the age. Some time in the 90s they changed to green for power and amber for drive activity.
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21 June 2016, 14:34 | #5 |
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Ok, so there is no difference under the hood. Boring.
Personally I think the red light is cooler. |
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My A500 has a red light. It's baddass!
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21 June 2016, 15:08 | #7 |
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I think a red LED can’t be an A500+, but orange LED doesn’t mean it has to be A500+.
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21 June 2016, 16:26 | #8 |
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I never saw an A500 with buddies that did not have a red power led. But then all my buddies bought their A500s between mid 87 and mid 89.
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21 June 2016, 16:31 | #9 |
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My ยด91 had orange.
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Wow, that is a very weird function, seems very unnecessary. But cool.
On my green/orange Amiga it is the Drive led that is orange, not the Power led. Quote:
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21 June 2016, 18:05 | #11 |
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remember the SCA Miami Vice sounddemo intended for A1000, where they would blink the power led on/off throughout the demo, but if played on an A500 it would screw up the sound due to the filter kicking in/off all the time.
Solution was to put a small led util inside the startup-sequence so the led would stay permanently off on non-A1000 machines. I had to try a few led tools before I found the right one that would really force the led off all the time. |
22 June 2016, 14:38 | #12 |
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The keyboard/LED PCB of the A500 has the LED colour printed on the silkscreen. Question is if the silkscreen was changed to coincide with the LED colours.
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22 June 2016, 20:12 | #13 |
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Red LED for kickstart 1.2 machines, and Yellow for later 1.3 revisions.
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23 June 2016, 07:14 | #16 |
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Let's put the led colour vs. Kickstart discussion to rest. :-) There's plenty of kick 1.3 machines with a red led.
1.2 + red + power led goes off = rev3 or early rev5 1.3 + red + power led goes off = upgraded rev3 or rev5 1.3 + red + power led dims = rev 6 |
23 June 2016, 08:56 | #17 |
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There is also the question about the capslock color
My first A500 (that I still own) have all red LED's (even capslock), and it also have a C= button instead of left Amiga button. (This means it have the old type of keyboard, that is much nicer to write on than the new keyboards.) |
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My aug88 1.3 still had red caps lock led. They probably changed at the same time as the other leds.
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In my experience, the caps lock LED is the same colour as the power LED, unless of course someone has changed it.
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