25 October 2021, 10:14 | #1 |
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Do you remember the time when the first batch of Amiga's had a red led ?
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Everything is in the title ! To be more precise, I am thinking of certain games like Wild Street, at least in a cracked version, which did not run on a "green Power LED" Amiga , just like Rubicon. For Wild Street, it dates from early 1990 from memory and for Rubicon from 1992. I don't know the exact release date of these "green LED" Amigas so I have a hard time being more precise. As I do not have real machines at home to test, your feedback will be welcome as the addition of other games in the list and even Demos. Thank you ! Edit: addition of the type of led, for Power Last edited by New Sky; 25 October 2021 at 11:26. |
25 October 2021, 11:05 | #2 |
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Green LED Amigas arrived with Kickstart 1.3 and ECS
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25 October 2021, 11:24 | #3 |
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The Power Led which was red before. I'm editing my first post...
Thanks Galahad / FLT for the date! Indeed, I saw these first Amigas in the summer of 1990 from memory. The A3000 was released in June according to Wikipedia. Last edited by New Sky; 25 October 2021 at 11:29. |
25 October 2021, 19:10 | #4 |
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My first A500 had Kickstart 1.3 and a red LED but it came with Workbench 1.2. Must have been an early 1.3 model. Had the OCS dual-playfield glitch (only noticeable in SOTB I think).
I could boot from HD so that was good. |
25 October 2021, 19:14 | #5 |
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I have 2 Amiga 500 with mechanical keyboard and they have red power LED.
It is rev. 3, 1987. From what I seen they rev. 3 also came a little later without mechanical keyboard. After that, rev. 5, rev. 6 etc. none of them had red power lamp. |
25 October 2021, 22:15 | #6 |
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My first a500 was a 1.2 in June 88. It was replaced under warranty in August 88 with a 1.3 version with WB 1.3 disks. They all had red power LEDs. The latter was a rev5 Mobo.
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25 October 2021, 23:45 | #7 |
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I remember a school buddy of mine had the Batman Pack (1989) and that had a red LED power light and kickstart 1.3. I got the flight of Fantasy pack the following year (1990) and mine was a green light.
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26 October 2021, 06:51 | #9 |
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According to my speculations, green LEDs arrived for good in 1990. 1989 machines still were mainly red LED machines.
I had a red LED 1.3 machine myself, bought in late 1989. |
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Wild Streets (1990)(Titus)[cr Subway][t +2 Trilogy].adf Code:
Rubicon (1992)(21st Century)[cr NMS][t +13 DC].adf Code:
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Hello,
Thank you for your feedback ! Quote:
@SquawkBox My memory is therefore not lacking at least for the arrival of versions with green LEDs and for Wild Street which affectively is not a memorable beat them all. Even too mechanical for the movements. For Rubicon, I could not know the version of the Amiga 500, other than the presence of ROM 1.3 in it, where it did not work. Is it crack or not... |
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As i got my Amiga 500, it had Kickstart 1.3 and a Green power light. I was so confused My Friend and i had discusions about that. "Why would they change the colours? " We came up with all kinds of theories Still, even to this day. I always see RED when i power on my Amiga 600 I did mod the LEDS . Red=Power Yellow=Floppy Disk Green=Hard Disk Like it should be Last edited by Torti-the-Smurf; 26 October 2021 at 15:15. |
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26 October 2021, 18:37 | #13 |
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I bought new LEDS to recreate this But the other way around Red HD, Green Power and Yellow for Floppy. Mind you I say it's more orange than yellow but who cares!
First Amiga I saw was green power and orange floppy - screen gems so it was 1.3 roms. I later saw cooler looking red leds in Armagh planetarium in Northern Ireland. The red made me jealous! But then I didn't know they were older variants than what I owned. Not that I had a clue back then. |
27 October 2021, 02:45 | #14 |
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That's only half of the demonstration. As I said, if you really want to know which is which, you should find yourself a guinea pig, I mean... a well inclined person among the EAB community, or the French Amiga community to test those versions with a pre-rev. 6a A500 with Gotek. Until proven otherwise, it might as well be two bad cracks.
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27 October 2021, 12:20 | #15 |
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Hello,
Exactly, I speak about it on this topic in case someone thinks to test. It could even be the crack itself which made a problem... |
28 October 2021, 17:14 | #16 |
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The first Amiga 500 we had with Kickstart 1.2 from 1987 had a red LED. But it has had terrible hardware problems and after all, my brother decided to throw it away and get a used Kickstart 1.3 Amiga 500 with green LED. I used to play Mouse Trap a lot on the red LED one, I got far, but I never finished it.
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28 October 2021, 20:50 | #17 |
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Yes! At first I couldn't afford one. I biked through heavy, thick snow to a mate every day after school and across the winter holidays to check out the new releases. <3 Probably my eyes glowed with envy even brighter than the LED.
During these insufferable weeks, I coded my first demo which was actually for the MSX. I remember also building a 4-bit sampler for it and recording "TheEgg" (ei) sample from his Amiga. I also did all the things on my mate's Amiga: Soundtracker, DPaint, some cheesy demo using graphics.library in Assembler. But before the snow could melt, I had my own and formed my fondest memories. I discovered the Demoscene on my mate's Amiga, and took part for real as soon as I got my own. Ever since then though, when I see the coppershades in the sky in, well, about the same time of year as now (I've already spotted them!) winter brings about an urge to cozy up in a room with an Amiga every year. About two years later I bought another Amiga, actually another Amiga 500, and it had a green LED. This would be late 1990 or 1991. I... don't remember why two Amiga 500s. When I moved to England late 1991, I bought a, you guessed it, Amiga 500 there. Still have that one and the Swedish green LED one. At work I used an extremely dirty A500 and an A3000D with its excellent monitor. When I wasn't at my Amiga at work or at home, I was eating and reading ... Amiga magazines. Had a comment from my flatmate alluding to, "...are you all right?" But these were the heydays of the Amiga as a shining beacon, and I'm glad I was there through them. Less than three, friends. Less than three. <3 Last edited by Photon; 28 October 2021 at 21:27. |
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First Amiga I brought back over from Australia with the Crazy Cars/Super Ski pack had the Red LED.
@Photon What job allowed you to use an Amiga and also what software did you use on it? The A3000 was it 16mhz or 25mhz? thanks |
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I was an Amiga game programmer for a short period in 1991-1992. Must have been the fast A3000D, because I remember it had the expensive monitor and I rendered animations on it in Real3D. And coded assembler of course. They also had an A2000/030 with Video Toaster, but that was reserved for others.
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Hello,
I didn't think I had so many answers. Great ! The Video Toaster used among others in Babylon 5 ! |
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