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I still have my A500 (with a 1084s), it has a failed floppy drive, but it still works otherwise as far as I can tell. I want to spend some time restoring it.
That was beautiful. Nicely done, and congratulations on your restomod A1000! I’ve heard people describe it as a 16 bit computer a few times lately though and it always catches me off guard. It was usually referred to as a 32 bit computer at the time, and defensibly so. Some of its implementation details were 16 bit, like the data bus and ALU, but they were largely invisible to users and programmers. Assembly code use…
> That was beautiful. Nicely done, and congratulations on your restomod A1000! Author here. Thanks, had a lot of fun! Not sure why the original post from a few days ago didn't merge with this one, it's the same url ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42832032
I'm going to blame the first part on us being in Europe and most of the HN crowd living in US timezones :)
I still have my A500 (with a 1084s), it has a failed floppy drive, but it still works otherwise as far as I can tell. I want to spend some time restoring it.
The floppy drive cries out to be replaced with an SD card reader, there are several on the market :)
My father bought me an Amiga 1000 at a Federated Group store in late 1985. Coming from a C64, my mind was blown by the Amiga's graphics and the multi-tasking. I could run the amazing RoboCity animation demo and then drag it down half way and see my Workbench. Marble Madness on the Amiga looked and sounded just like the arcade. 1985 was a magical year in general for me, but a big part of that magic was conjured by the…
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECu6i6WR7mo
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87q-TTG48Ew
He fixes Amigas, BBC Micros, Archimedes etc...
I have 4 of these sitting at my house. I should either do this sort of project or sell them off.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same story here. Christmas 1985. I remember distinctly how my dad showed me how to type "DPaint" at the "CLI>" line, and the magic that followed. He made friends with a sales guy at Federated, so we got a bootleg copy of Workbench 1.2 when it came out. I used that computer daily for over ten years. From 1st grade through my junior year of high school. While the TV played advertisements for Windows 95 in the backgroun…
> I still have it in a closet. It booted up about ten years ago, but I'm afraid to power it up now without taking a look at all the capacitors. I was surprised that the capacitors and the motherboard in general on my A1000 looked so good ~35 years later. Either way, yes, replace them.
*The caps on the motherboard, anyway. I am not sure about the durability of the internal PSUs. I haven’t bothered to replace anything in either of the A1000s I acquired recently.