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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 2 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 4 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!

Commodore Floppy Drive 1570

March 6th, 2009 1 comment
My compilation is completed!

Autopsy:

My Commodore Floppy drive collection is completed!

Description:

  • Country: Usa
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Yes, it’s rare
  • Year: 1985

from Wikipedia:

The Commodore 1570 was a 5¼” floppy disk drive for the Commodore 128 home/personal computer. It was a single-sided, 170KB version of the double-sided Commodore 1571, released as a stopgap measure when Commodore International was unable to provide large enough quantities of 1571s due to a shortage of double-sided drive mechanisms.

Like the 1571, it could read and write both GCR and MFM disk formats. The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541 case with a drive mechanism similar to the 1541 except that it was equipped with track zero detection.

source: Wikipedia

Vector A2000i (Professional RAM Board) for A2000/3000/4000

March 5th, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

Vector A2000i with installed 4mb of ram.

Description:

  • Country: Germany
  • Most Common: Europe
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1991

from Amiga Resource:

  • 64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
  • supports 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations with autoconfig
  • the 6 MB configuration works only with autoconfig disabled – the memory has to be added by software
  • accepts 1M×1, 70 – 120 ns DIPs
  • running a 6 MB card together with a BridgeBoard requires replacing a PAL
  • not compatible with A2000-A motherboard.

source: amiga.resource.cx

Commodore Amiga CD32 with Joypad & Powersupply

March 5th, 2009 No comments
Commodore Amiga CD32

Autopsy:

Description:

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

from Wikipedia:

The Amiga CD32, styled “CD32“, was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe and Canada. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom on 16 July 1993, and was released in September of the same year.

The CD32 is based on Commodore’s Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset, and is of similar specification to the Amiga 1200 computer. Using 3rd-party devices, it is possible to upgrade the CD32 with keyboard, floppy drive, hard drive and mouse, turning it into a personal computer.

source: Wikipedia

Commodore Amiga A2090 SCSI/MFM Interface

March 4th, 2009 No comments

autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Usa
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Unrare
  • Year: 1987

from Amiga Hardware:

The A2090 is a full length Zorro II card which contains a SCSI controller and an ST506 (IBM XT MFM) controller. The card does not support autobooting, however there were solutions released which allowed the card to boot, such as the Commodore Autoboot Card or the Combitec AutoBoot Card (A2090b). This card is known by serveral names, but it is the same hardware.

For example the SCSI controller supplied with the A2500 is simply this card. It was also known as the A2092 which was simply this card packaged as a “Hard Disk Upgrade Kit”, including a 40MB hard drive for the A2000. To confuse matters further this “Hard Disk Upgrade Kit” was sometimes referred to as the A2094. The A2090a is simply this card, prefitted with auto-booting ROMS. The card uses the Zilog 80B processor. If you intend to use this card in Zorro III machines, then all drivers and buffers must be loaded into Chip RAM and not Fast RAM.

Bootable versions of this card uses its own custom booting method and ironically does not use the Commodore RDB standard which most hard drive controllers use. In order to prep and format the drive, a special prepping utility is required.You cannot have partitions larger than 256MB without a patch. In order to autoboot, you need at least Kickstart 1.3.

source: amiga-hardware.com

You need ice? :-D

March 1st, 2009 No comments

Commodore Amiga 600 + Kick 3.1 + 1Mb Expansion Ram

March 1st, 2009 2 comments
Amiga 600

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Usa
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Unrare
  • Year: 1992

from Wikipedia:

The Amiga 600, also known as the A600 (codenamed “June Bug” after a B-52′s song), was a home computer introduced at the CeBIT show in March 1992.

The A600 was the final model of the original A500-esque line based around the Motorola 68000 CPU and the ECS chipset. A notable aspect of the A600 was its small size. Lacking a numeric keypad, the A600 was 14″ long by 9.5″ deep by 3″ high and weighed approximately 6 pounds. AmigaOS 2.0 was included which was generally considered more user-friendly than AmigaOS 1.3.

source: Wikipedia

Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datasette (2nd Generation)

February 22nd, 2009 No comments

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: Usa
  • Most Common: Usa/Europe
  • Rarity: Unrare
  • Year: ????

from Wikipedia:

The Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datasette (a portmanteau of data and cassette), was Commodore’s dedicated computer tape recorder.

It provided access to an inexpensive storage medium for Commodore’s 8-bit home/personal computers, notably the PET, VIC-20, and C64. A physically similar model Commodore 1531 was made for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 series computers.

source: Wikipedia