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Motorola 68882 FPU for my Blizzard 1230 MK IV

April 21st, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Motorola 68882 was a floating-point coprocessor chip that was utilized in some computer systems that used the 68020 or 68030 CPU.

source: wikipedia

my Amiga OS3.1 – 1024×768 24bit – 32 Colors – NEC Lcd

April 20th, 2009 No comments

My Amiga with Indivision 1200 now boots directly into 1024×768 32-colors Workbench.

SIMM 64 MB PS/2 EDO for Blizzard 1230 MK IV

April 20th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

I have upgraded the memory to 64mb, so now I’ve got an Amiga 1200 with 64mb Fast RAM and 2mb Chip RAM ;-D

Nightfall members (strange old photo)

April 15th, 2009 No comments

Photo Description:

  • On the left: The Ripper in The Eye of the mother “l’occhio della madre”
  • Center: Leo & xAD at the Boozing Party.
  • On the right: Victor / Slash / xAD at the Boozing Pary.

The Final Cartridge III

April 7th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Final Cartridge III was a popular extension cartridge which was created for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128, produced by Riska B.V. Home & Personal Computers. It offered a fast loader, increasing the speeds of the disk drive, and a freezer, allowing the program execution to be stopped to be resumed later.

Final Cartridge III Manual here

Thanks to Krille McKrill for his donation.

source: wikipedia rr.c64.org

Original Floppy Drive Chinon for Commodore A2088XT

April 4th, 2009 No comments

Phase5 Blizzard 1230 MK I 32Mb *updated*

April 4th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Germany
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Unrare
  • Year: 1993

from Amiga Resource:

  • 68EC030 @ 40 MHz, QFP.
  • Optional FPU, PLCC and PGA sockets – can be clocked synchronously or asynchronously with the 68030 up to 50 MHz.
  • Two 72 pin SIMM sockets accept 64 MB RAM.
  • Supports 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 MB SIMMS.
  • Hardware maprom – no need for MMU.
  • Optional Fast SCSI 2 controller (FAS216) with DB25 external connector, supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD.
  • Battery backed up clock.

source: amiga.resource.cx

Phase5 Blizzard 1230 MK IV 64Mb

April 4th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Germany
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Unrare
  • Year: 1995

from Amiga Resource:

  • 68030 @ 50 MHz PG.
  • Optional 68882 @ 50 MHz PGA.
  • One 72 pin SIMM socket accepts up to 128 MB, 60-70 ns RAM.
  • Maprom selectable by jumper.
  • Automatic RAM size detection.
  • 7 MB/s asynchronous, 10 MB/s synchronous transfer speed.
  • Additional 72 pin SIMM socket accepts up to 128 MB RAM.
  • External DB25 female SCSI connector.
  • Supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
  • Can be disabled with a simple keystroke.
  • Battery backed up clock.

source: amiga.resource.cx

IDE-Fix Express with IDE-Express Adapter

April 1st, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

The IDE-fix adapter doubles the internal IDE port of your A1200. At the same time it’s an adapter from the rather uncommon 2.5 inch standard to the less expensive 3.5 inch standard connections. The first of the two IDE outputs is available as 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch connector, to you can use existing cables.

The IDE-fix adapter is buffered and terminated. That means that your Amiga is shielded from noise that is caused by long cables, so it continues working reliably without crashing.

IDE-fix 97 Key features:

  • use cheap Atapi CD-Rom drives.
  • use removable IDE/Atapi devices (Syquest, IDE-ZIP, LS120).
  • supports TD64-commands – harddisk capacities larger than 4 GBytes possible!
  • IDE harddisk autopark.
  • Atapi CD-changers (NEC, Sanyo, Torisan) are perfectly supported (CD-change can be done either by a program, or by a separate icon for each inserted CD).
  • Cache CD filesystem included!
  • CD32 emulator included!

source: vesalia.de

Indivision AGA 1200 (Flickerfixer for Amiga 1200)

April 1st, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

During the 80s, it was common use to build computers in a way that they can output their picture on a TV set. This was done in order to reduce the overall system cost for the user. TV sets work with lower frequencies compared to today’s monitors, therefore the picture flickers. A flickerfixer (aka de-interlacer) converts the signal in a way that a modern VGA monitor or TFT-display can be used. The name flickerfixer was mainly created because the problem of a flickering picture is solved. Individual Computers already had a very successful product called Indivision in 2002. It was connected to the monitor output of the computer, but it has been sold out since 2006. Indivision AGA‘s most notable features are:

  • 24 Bit colour resolution in all screenmodes.
  • support for super hires modes.
  • Highgfx support up to 1024×768 pixels.
  • all screenmodes can be displayed at 60 Hz or more.
  • no adjustments necessary.

source: vesalia.de forum

My daughter Zoe play with a Yellow Floppy Disk

March 30th, 2009 No comments

Zoe with a Floppy 5" 1/4

1541 III MMC/SD-Card IEC-Drive

March 25th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

from Project Homepage:

The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to a Commodore computer  via the standard IEC-bus (the serial bus normally used to connect diskdrives and printers).

The main goal of the circuit is to behave like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). The MMC/SD card contains D64-files (or normal .PRG files).

source: Project 1541 III

Amiga Ethernet Zorro Ariadne II card with PGA Upgrade done

March 17th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Germany
  • Most Common: Europe
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1998

from Amiga Resource:

  • Realtek RTL8019AS Ethernet controller.
  • a cost reduced version of the original Ariadne (it costs half as much)
  • 10Base2 and 10BaseT connectors.
  • supports full-duplex on 10BaseT.
  • the two protocols are selectable by software.
  • 32 kB buffer.
  • early versions need PGA upgrade to work reliably.
  • socket for optional boot EPROM.
  • 10% slower than the original Ariadne.
  • AmiTCP Genesis included.
  • SANA II compatible driver.
  • supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

source: amiga.resource.cx

Commodore A2088XT

March 7th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Usa
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1986

from Amiga Resource:

  • 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
  • optional 8087 FPU
  • 512 kB RAM
  • 16 kB XT compatible BIOS
  • 360 kB 5.25″ floppy drive supplied
  • 720 kB 3.5″ – uses external Amiga floppy drives on the external connector
  • CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
  • can use Amiga parallel ports
  • could be upgraded to 386 with the Roßmöller 386si

source: amiga.resource.cx

Some pieces recovered from a Amiga 2000 devastated by humidity!

March 7th, 2009 No comments

Some pieces recovered from a Amiga 2000 devastated by humidity!