i had an amiga 500 my mate had the 500 plus if i remeber rightly alot of my games were incompatible with this system to his horror as i had hundreds which he intended to copy! have you come across this issue let me know !!
I remeber years ago when the Disk Drive broke and my dad had to open our amiga up and get a replacement ordered in and he sort of jury rigged the secondary drive in there. Me being incredibly young at the time ate one of the screws in what was left of the secondary drive at the time... when the replecement came everything went back together in the end.
I did have a wave of nostalgia hit me when you lifted up that adapter modual thing. much time wasted fiddling with it to get colour out of it :|
You need to remove the battery asap I already see some leakage and it will damage your motherboard beyond repair, for the yellowing use hydrogen peroxide with a teaspoon of Vanish oxi and leave under a UV light for 6-8 hours this will make it nice and white like new
I always REALLY wanted one of these when I was younger. They were waaay too expensive though so I had no chance in hell of convincing my parents, lol. I ended up being bought a C64 instead. But even a C64 was pricey back in the day. Kids today get it so easy when it comes to gaming!.
Awesome stuff, back in the day the Amiga was ahead of its time. At that point I was programming on IBM clone PCs with DOS at work and was always impressed by the blitter chip and how it could throw pixels around the screen at high speed. No PC came anywhere near the Amiga.
I remember having a 320 MB SCSI drive inside a huge wedge case on the side LOL. Then it all went pear shaped, if my memory serves me it was around the time of Wolfenstein 3D for the PC the Amiga could no longer cut it.
@EyesOfTheGamer Remember Gloom and Alien Breed 3d? On a bog standard A1200 with such a poor frame rate, it was like was like walking through shit. I remember the first time I saw doom on a 486 and thought that was the future.
I think winuae is the best if you want to go down the emulation route, its free and legal. As RetroGamerVX said, I wouldn't worry about if its legal, the copyrights for most of the software have been abandoned now, one of the most famous software houses 'Team17' was allowing people to download there old amiga games direct from there site not so long ago.
@alexgameroom I've heard winuae is the best Amiga emulator. But the Amiga Kickstart Roms are still copyrighted, if I'm not mistaken. And you need those for the emulator.
Ahh nice find. I picked up a similiar condition 1200 at a carboot that i restored to basically near mint condition. Took about 2 weeks of retrobright to get it white again lol.
@SteveBenway Exactly. The marketing in the UK and Europe was done a lot better then it was over here in the States, where Commodore just completely tanked it. I mean, it was multimedia before that word was even in vogue.
Good to see you in action again - very tomorrow's world mate!! With a little hint of Blue Peter, on the 'here's one I took apart earlier' vibe. The Amiga was always above my station as a youngster, and featured some lovely music and sound if I remember. I always used to be dead impressed the one of the footy games on it. In fact it made my PC Engine seem a bit outdated. Will check the Retro mag's hardware manual for any killer apps.
I owned the very first Amiga machine when Amiga first began. The Amiga 1000. It cost me $1100 US and it worked with either a monitor or you could cook it up to a TV. When it worked, it was an amazing machine and way ahead of its time. It was far superior to anything Apple had at the time. :-)
@GlockNinja The Amiga 1000 had 256K internal memory with upgradeable compartment in the front to upgrade to 512K. It goes to show that great programing is not all about memory size or power but how it is programmed. Because the Amiga 1000 could do a lot of the things computers do today, even multitask. :-)
i had an amiga 500 my mate had the 500 plus if i remeber rightly alot of my games were incompatible with this system to his horror as i had hundreds which he intended to copy! have you come across this issue let me know !!
longrodvonhugendon 3 months ago
@longrodvonhugendon That's what the relokick disk is for! Run it, wait until the screen turns off then put your game in.
doritostheking 1 week ago
@doritostheking wish we knew that then nevermind have you sorted this one?
longrodvonhugendon 1 week ago
I would get that battery out of there asap . . . when they leak - they really do leak! Acid all over the motherboard is always bad! :(
DrewPee70 3 months ago
@DrewPee70 That battery was replaced just after I made this video, over a year ago.
alexgameroom 3 months ago
I remeber years ago when the Disk Drive broke and my dad had to open our amiga up and get a replacement ordered in and he sort of jury rigged the secondary drive in there. Me being incredibly young at the time ate one of the screws in what was left of the secondary drive at the time... when the replecement came everything went back together in the end.
I did have a wave of nostalgia hit me when you lifted up that adapter modual thing. much time wasted fiddling with it to get colour out of it :|
CFkimahri 4 months ago
Great video. I too have an A500+ but mine has the upgraded RAM, original users manual among other paperwork and a wealth of games!
MattLoaf92 5 months ago
hey, i have an amiga 500+ also, and i had got told it was haveing 2 kickstart roms, and i dont remember right how the switching was working,
nicolaj0154 6 months ago
the super nintendo's audio is kinda sick to be fair. super fx chip ?
1982labman 9 months ago
You need to remove the battery asap I already see some leakage and it will damage your motherboard beyond repair, for the yellowing use hydrogen peroxide with a teaspoon of Vanish oxi and leave under a UV light for 6-8 hours this will make it nice and white like new
mikepowell2006 1 year ago
I always REALLY wanted one of these when I was younger. They were waaay too expensive though so I had no chance in hell of convincing my parents, lol. I ended up being bought a C64 instead. But even a C64 was pricey back in the day. Kids today get it so easy when it comes to gaming!.
RetroGameTech 1 year ago
Awesome stuff, back in the day the Amiga was ahead of its time. At that point I was programming on IBM clone PCs with DOS at work and was always impressed by the blitter chip and how it could throw pixels around the screen at high speed. No PC came anywhere near the Amiga.
I remember having a 320 MB SCSI drive inside a huge wedge case on the side LOL. Then it all went pear shaped, if my memory serves me it was around the time of Wolfenstein 3D for the PC the Amiga could no longer cut it.
EyesOfTheGamer 1 year ago
@EyesOfTheGamer Remember Gloom and Alien Breed 3d? On a bog standard A1200 with such a poor frame rate, it was like was like walking through shit. I remember the first time I saw doom on a 486 and thought that was the future.
alexgameroom 1 year ago
Boo, found your video on Sir Benway's channel :o), great video :o)
RetroGamerVX 1 year ago
@RetroGamerVX Thanks buddy, think I unsubbed from you by mistake. Been trying youtube on my new iphone, I'm like a cow with a gun!
alexgameroom 1 year ago
I'd love to get an Amiga, but so many of the games were released on PAL. There is a program called WHDLoad, but I don't know if it's legal.
dave4shmups 1 year ago
@dave4shmups Oh come on, it's 25 years old now, who cares if whdload is legal anymore lol, just have fun :o)
RetroGamerVX 1 year ago
I think winuae is the best if you want to go down the emulation route, its free and legal. As RetroGamerVX said, I wouldn't worry about if its legal, the copyrights for most of the software have been abandoned now, one of the most famous software houses 'Team17' was allowing people to download there old amiga games direct from there site not so long ago.
alexgameroom 1 year ago
@alexgameroom I've heard winuae is the best Amiga emulator. But the Amiga Kickstart Roms are still copyrighted, if I'm not mistaken. And you need those for the emulator.
dave4shmups 1 year ago
@dave4shmups Oops! You are indeed spot on with that one. Amiga Forever 2010 looks good though.
alexgameroom 1 year ago
@dave4shmups You could just import an Amiga 500 and use PAL/NTSC converters. That's what I'm eventually going to do.
TeamRocketReviews 3 months ago
Oh nice,i really want one of these,i always look for one at the car boots.
As for the yellowing try making some retr0brite i havent made any myself but its supposed to reverse the process pretty good.
amurphy245 1 year ago
Ahh nice find. I picked up a similiar condition 1200 at a carboot that i restored to basically near mint condition. Took about 2 weeks of retrobright to get it white again lol.
roundtr1p 1 year ago
Excellent value. I have yet to have a working Amiga system again. I sadly have resorted to Emulation in the mean time.
markvergeer 1 year ago
Such a shame the various companies who owned the Amiga made a complete pigs ear of selling it.
I often wonder what the computing and gaming world would be like now if they'd done a better job.
SteveBenway 1 year ago
@SteveBenway Exactly. The marketing in the UK and Europe was done a lot better then it was over here in the States, where Commodore just completely tanked it. I mean, it was multimedia before that word was even in vogue.
dave4shmups 1 year ago
Good to see you in action again - very tomorrow's world mate!! With a little hint of Blue Peter, on the 'here's one I took apart earlier' vibe. The Amiga was always above my station as a youngster, and featured some lovely music and sound if I remember. I always used to be dead impressed the one of the footy games on it. In fact it made my PC Engine seem a bit outdated. Will check the Retro mag's hardware manual for any killer apps.
futurematt5 1 year ago
I owned the very first Amiga machine when Amiga first began. The Amiga 1000. It cost me $1100 US and it worked with either a monitor or you could cook it up to a TV. When it worked, it was an amazing machine and way ahead of its time. It was far superior to anything Apple had at the time. :-)
GlockNinja 1 year ago
@GlockNinja The Amiga 1000 had 256K internal memory with upgradeable compartment in the front to upgrade to 512K. It goes to show that great programing is not all about memory size or power but how it is programmed. Because the Amiga 1000 could do a lot of the things computers do today, even multitask. :-)
GlockNinja 1 year ago