I continue to upgrade my Amiga 2000 PAL REV 4.5. After the upgrade of the chip Fat Agnus and the Kickstart/4MB, today i have replaced the Denise chip with a new one. The Super Denise chip is capable of still higher resolutions and bit depths.
I have created a funny Poster with some things from my Museum.
Download: NightfallCrew Poster (29Mb / 4677 x 3307)
I had to make this change to get the Expansion Ram 320XL running on my Atari 800XL:
source: atariage.com
These are some Sid examples which i have recorded from a Commodore 64 with the SwinSID installed. You can Download the original Sid track in .sid file format and the SwinSID in .ogg file format (High Quality), so you can compare the musics.
- The Alibi by Thomas E. Petersen (Laxity) 1989 Maniacs of Noise- SID (6581)
- The Alibi by Thomas E. Petersen (Laxity) 1989 Maniacs of Noise- SWINSID
- Albino Human by Alexander Rotzsch (Fanta) 2006 Fanta – SID (8580)
- Albino Human by Alexander Rotzsch (Fanta) 2006 Fanta – SWINSID
Some Sid tracks play perfectly others need some emulation fixes.
I wanted to try my new desoldering station Aoyue 474A+ with the motherboard of the Commodore 64, i have unsoldered all chip and i have added a socket. It works so good and is so fast.
I continue to upgrade my Amiga 2000 PAL REV 4.5. I have upgraded the Kick Rom and added my Vector A2000i zorro Card with 4MB of fast memory.
I have decided to upgrade my Amiga 2000 PAL REV 4.5 for get 1MB of chip ram. I also took advantage of this update to install a new battery for the system clock. Amiga 2000 PAL REV 4.5 Fat Agnus 8372A Installation:
- Install a new Fat Agnus 8372A or 8375 (8375 R1)
- Look for jumper J101 beside the power connector to the motherboard. Change it to the opposite position. (photo)
- Look for trace J500 at the back of the machine near the Cia’s (8520′s). It’s a jumper trace that you will have to cut with a razor blade. (photo)
- Look for trace J102 near the Fat Agnus (8372A). It’s a jumper trace that you will have to cut with a razor blade. (photo)
source: amiga-hardware.com amigahardware.mariomisic.de amiga.org
My SIO2SD interface is dead (without any valid reason) after 2-3 hours of playing demos/games.
I have tried to reprogramming the firmware with a STK500 USB ISP Programmer and the tools AVRDUDE and it has worked perfectly.
The functions keys (Start / Option / Select / Reset..) of my Atari 130 XE not making good contact, i have fixed this problem with a good clean-up and graphite of a pencil.
This is a Joystick Adapter for Apple IIc, with this adapter you can use the Apple ][ Plus Joystick.
Joystick Adapter Pinouts:
Some fixes for the Electron Data Recorder ALF03.
- Fixed the output Audio.
- Replace the belt.
- Clean the tape head and fix the Azimuth.
- Fixed the Powersupply cable.
- Self made RGB Cable.
- Self made Data Recorder Cable (DIN 7 PINs).
Click here for my Acorn Electron computer.
Autopsy:
This is my homebrew C2N232 Interface.
from Marko Mäkelä’s homepage:
The C2N232 is a small RS-232 interface that can be plugged to the cassette port of an 8-bit Commodore computer:
- PET series: 2001, 3000 series, 4000 series, 8000 series, 200 series
- PET-II series: CBM 500, 600 or 700 series (P500 or the B series)
- Commodore VC-20, VIC-20 or VIC-1001
- Commodore 64, 4064, 64c or 64G
- Commodore 128, 128D or 128DCR
- Commodore 264 series: 16, 116, plus/4 or 232
source: Marko Mäkelä’s Homepage
My homebrew Powersupply adaptor for Amstrad CPC 6128 with a External Floppy Drive 3½.
source: cpcwiki.eu jrp king homepage kjthacker.f2s.com
Parados Installation Photo Gallery:
ParaDOS is 16kB ROM that replaces the AmsDOS. Allows to use double-sided floppy disks and some more disk formats.
source: grimware.org
Foto review of the Serial cable and Transfer program:
ADTPro may be used to transfer Apple diskette/disk images in DOS or ProDOS/SOS format.
The Apple client side happens to run under ProDOS or SOS, but it is perfectly capable of reading or writing Apple DOS (or Pascal, or CP/M, or…) diskettes.
source: adtpro.sourceforge.net
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