A1200 restoration project.

[Hercules]

After a year, and alot of money spent, I've finally finished work refurbing my A1200. It been a fun, but a very expensive exercise...

A1200 mods:
New A1200 case from A-eon.
A1200 bitfrost (programmable LED lights).
New Amiga badge for my new A1200 case.
New keyboard membrane.
A1200 Keyboard retrobrighted, but they still seem very yellow :-(
A1200 Tin shielding removed.
A1200 hard disk cradle removed.
Motherboard recapped
A1200 motherboard timing fixes performed.
TV Modulator removed to allow room for future expansion.
CC_RESET fix performed for PCMCIA port.
Newly burned EPROMS for Kickstart 46.143
IDE to CF adapter.
Gotek fitted with 3D printed bracket (in place of floppy drive)
Indivision MK2cr for scandoubling display on modern PC monitor.
ACA 1233n accelerator with 128MB of Fast RAM plugged in the trapdoor (just finished fitting the clock module onto the board).

Final part of the journey has been:

Installing Workbench 3.1.4 using HSTWB with WHDLoad packs
Tracking down a set of bookshelf speakers which I've wired up to a Lepy LP-2020A amplifier

Sorting out internet connectivity via Roadshow TCP/IP stack and a LinkSYS network card. I used a set of powerline adapters to use my the electrical wiring of the house for setting up the ethernet to get online. Finally can get his old beastie online and FTP'ing stuff to the A1200.

The nice chaps at Monsterjoysticks.com have sent me over a Joystick kit, which I've finished constructing with a nice Sanwa JLS quality joystick.





I've never had so much fun in ages. Now this projects out the way, I'm shortly moving onto to the ZX Spectrum's I have laying around which also need restoring

[modrobert]

Cool setup...

[fxgogo]

Congratulations, it looks fabulous. Any ideas on what you will do on your new Amiga? I have been doing the same thing to my 1200, did not do the timing fixes to the MB or the reset fix to the pcmcia port. What benefits do you get by doing that?

[Hercules]

Originally Posted by fxgogo

Congratulations, it looks fabulous. Any ideas on what you will do on your new Amiga? I have been doing the same thing to my 1200, did not do the timing fixes to the MB or the reset fix to the pcmcia port. What benefits do you get by doing that?

I will be using it for Protracker and Amos stuff, but also a bit of gaming. Back in the day, I did alot of beta testing (enforcer / segtracker) as a way of helping out developers. So I be using the machine for those tasks.

With regard to timing fixes on revisions of A1200 motherboards, these fix timing issues on some revision motherboards details you may find here:

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/am..._mobo_fix.html

CC_RESET fix ensures the PCMCIA receives a reset signal when soft resetting via CTRL AMIGA+AMIGA keys. You can either DIY a reset fix onto the motherboard (solder work required), or alternatively fit the KA21 solderless reset fix. If you don't fancy either of those options then you can download CardPatch program in your startup-sequence. I also prefer fixing the route cause of the problem with a hardware mod.