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I unpacked my Amiga yesterday, had been in a box since 1992. Yellow as hell. I am going to have a shot at cleaning it up, and retrobrighting it. Mine is a 1990 model. Besides the Amiga I also pulled two C64's, two 1541 drives, 3 cassette drives, 3 power supplies and a Mitsubishi ML-F48 MSX computer plus a stack of books out of the box (which was large and frikkin heavy LOL). So I got some work to do.
I found an Amiga 500 with monitor, mouse, external floppy drive, and a full box of disks, in perfect working order, being thrown away... which I gave a good home, of course. This is one of my favorite vintage computers.
How RMC all began for me. I've watched it so many times. Still worth a watch for any Amiga 500 owner or former owner/user. Neil's sound use here was excellent together with the dialogue was perfect. It set the tone for the channel in many ways
@@RMCRetro It really has been and it's been awesome watching every step along the way. Thank you and good luck with the museum, and the retro collective. Its astounding what you have all accomplished. It's like fate shone on you and you were forced to moved to move. The story already is amazing and deserves a book for sure. 'Trash to Treasure and the Retro Collective' by Neil, etc. Splendid. If you don't write it, I may do as its quite a story.
Hi, I'm really quite certain that this is the Amiga that I sold from my father's estate - The cartoon on the box and stickers on the screw covers are very familiar. I'm glad that you are restoring this, it's brought back a lot of good memories of watching him play it. Thank you.
Steve Kirk Hi Steve, I'd love to try and verify that if possible and talk about it in the next episode. Are there any other distinguishing marks or software you may have had with it? There was something else distinctive written on the box you might remember?
Hi, I've gone back through my eBay history to see if the original advert pictures exist, however it was too long ago now. It was sold as a pair of Amiga 500's (For whatever reason, he had two at the end!), so maybe he had acquired one to replace one that had stopped working. Games would have been Grand Prix and maybe The Settlers, however I suspect these have not stayed with the broken '500. Other than the advert description and eBay item number, I have no proof. So, as much as I would love to verify this, I cannot. Please keep up the excellent restoration work, I'm really enjoying this.
Steve Kirk Thanks Steve, it didn't come with those games, it had "We Love Amigas" written on the box which I can send you a photo of if you want to check the handwriting. Anyway thanks for watching and she has found a good home.
Oh boy. Need to get my amiga unboxed from a car boot find many years back. Can't wait to see this restored to 100%. Maybe I'll put mine up on may channel.
Still got mine plus 300+ games. Flashback. Another world. Super frog. Moonstone. Super cars, lotus. Alien breed. Turrican II etc etc... Amiga was really ahead of its time... and I think it had the best sounding games too back then. Sometimes I would plug in a game just to listen to the cool title music. I might dust off my old Amiga again after seeing this video. Thank you.❤️
Neil, you closed the video with my absolute favorite track from the Amiga, the SOTBII death sequence theme. I still think that they are some of the worlds most beautiful chords ever written. The guitar solo just put it over the top. Thanks for the great videos and music.
At 8:34 "...and you could hold the hue and change the luminance". Not an Amiga-expert (just allround retrogeek), but I am pretty sure HAM worked directly on RGB; not HSV. However, in the really early design phases the Amiga was designed around HSV. This was later abandoned for RGB. Btw. the famous HAM mode almost wasnt. Jay Miner wanted to remove it as he thought it was of little use in its RGB-version, but the chip-design had progressed so far that removing it was far more complex/costly than simply leaving it in. And the rest is history :) ...thanx for the vid!
asgerms I read that story just last week, really interesting, it was also a feature of flight simulators of the time. Amazing how devs found uses for it in ways never imagined. Thanks for watching and sharing the story.
My god..just remembering my childhood days with the Amiga A500 brings me to tears...best days ever when life was so simple yet still fun...thanks for bringing life back to this beautiful Amiga !!
Thanks for this 4 part a500 series. It has helped me a lot in my 500-restore project (revision 5 version 3). I am not finished, though blogging on each progress that I make on it. So far, I am like 75 percent finished in bringing it back to functioning state. It needs a floppy drive, and then I am only left with the cosmetic stuff.
Yeah, if I remember to my factory days, not Amigas or fun stuff like that mind you, boring old fiber optic transceivers, the final month was the huge push to get everything done and out the door to make the final quarter shine brightly and make the investors happy.
WOW that was a blast from the past. I actually worked at Computer Care South some 24ish years ago and performed surgery on many out of warranty Amiga's. Maybe even yours!
Amiga was and still is an amazing machine,almost everyone that had one fell in love with her,i cant believe you got all this stuff for almost nothing !
LOve this channel just found you!...man the memories. I was cutting edge back in the day...I started off with an Amiga 1200 with a 1942 Multisync monitor...man was I the envy of all my Amiga/Commodore friends. I even bought an Amiga CD32..remember those...what a lemon that turned out to be...good tech...zero support. ha I had more money than brains even then...:) good times.
Ahhh my Old Baby! This was my first venture into modern computing - as you say an early 'Multimedia' system. The Tandy TRS-80 was the very first but the Amiga was more of a technological leap. Mine was accelerated; hard-driven and maxed with memory for graphics and gaming and never broke down in its life in my possession. Ahh _Things that Lasted a Lifetime!_ ... once
I live in Reading and used to go to Computer Care South all the time. Many weekends spent there as a child looking at all the kit I couldn't afford...!
4:35 the gaps in the fins where the perfect size to slot in and firmly hold a collection of floppy drives for very convenient access...almost like they where designed for it.
BEST COMPUTER I EVER OWNED !!! endless hours of fun as a kid the games were amazing so many great game creators , Speed ball 2 , Monkey Island , Syndicate , Populous , Megalomania , Panza kickboxing an endless amount , nothing compares to it ... not even my ps4
I still have my Amiga 500,has a flicker fixer too,hard drive 100gb,i made all the rear ouput extension cables & fitted the circuit board into a PC case,that allowed me to have two floppy drives and the hard drive all in the case,then I had a amiga 1,000 keyboard and made a cable to fit the rear connection,changed the CPU to a faster one,increased memory by purching a memory card MOD.
~16 years ago I got tired of keeping my Amiga 500 so I sold it for a price of mere shipping cost. A remarkable notion on the specific machine was that it had the serial number 1. For real. Just one digit 1 on the serial number sticker.
fond memories, many a sleepless night on this beast. seeing the inside i was reminded of the time i took a chance and cracked the case to install the 'fatter agnus' chip so i could run all the overseas games that ran in PAL as opposed to NTSC, which was not available by default in the US.
That is one solid memory expansion, I think we only had bare circuit boards, and few wires running to on/off switch, wich never worked so it was just wires tied together. We also took apart my friends A500 in order to mod it to for 1Mb Chip mem I think? We had to saw one circuit from the board and maybe did a jump wire for the processor? Can't remember, but we did something.. and it did work.
Awe brings back memories.... I had one back in 1988ish? I had a Vic20, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and then the Amiga then IBM clones. I use to play Earl Weaver baseball everyday after school playing many seasons and printing out stats on my dot matrix printer. Great stuff
Hi, I surfed the web today and found your TH-cam channel. Very nice channel you have because I was a teenager in the 80's. And my first computer was a Commadore 64 take care and greetings from Sweden.
I'm at work, but my VERY FIRST EVER Amiga (a 500) just was delivered to my house, proceeded in delivery by a Gotek, brand new PSU, video converter, and SCART cable. These last two hours at work are going to draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!
The Amiga, The ST, C64, TRS-80, etc. have all turned up in boxes at the Sally Ann or Value Village around here or else I got given some or never sold mine (like my Atari ST). Nice to see old hardware still has a place in the modern world...
Thank You so much for the trip down memory lane! , i had to watch twice, the first time after 2mins my mind had drifted and serving me so many memories from this era, all based around the amiga, i even used mine to do a live p.a. at an organised event, i belive that would be the correct term lol, ive liked & subscibed and will be checking out your other videos for sure...LONG LIVE RETRO GAMING!!
I have an amiga 1000 with box, monitor, and all the books and disks, and the same with a 2000, both I bought in the 80's. But I must admit, I was always stunned by the design of the 500 and 1200. The lines and shape is still so very beautiful. There is something unique of this era of computers. When I look at the 500, 600, 1200, and also the Atari of that era they had some of the best designs of computers to this day.A really nice design time for 'puters. I wish you all the success on the repair. I may post a vid of my amiga 1000 at some point.
Awesome I still have two machines 500 and the 1200 both working, I bought them when i was a kid now 43, just the best computer(500) that was ever made, that started me of in to programming, now it's my job, who care about the PC or the other junk this is history, I solute you sir!! :)
I watch this sitting next to my deceased A500 in box (it lives next to my PC) and the still working A600 I bought off a friend to replace it with. I got the A500 during the final year of my A Levels and it was light years ahead of the opposition. After about 9 years of giving me joy, I came home one day from work to find that it had died at the hands of one of my housemates. I'll never know if it just died or got a whack, but I'm now intrigued to know if I can revive it 20 years after it died.
I bought one from a guy at a community sale for $20. No power supply. I cleaned it, and it sat around 10 years. I finally got a power supply, and it fired right up.
Maybe testing each of the main ICs on a known-to-be-good board would be a good start! By the appearance of that tracks, some corrosion has damaged the board. Good luck restoring this baby!
Ah, nostalgia... I had an A500 (even got a 20GB HDD to plug into that side expansion), then an A1200 and briefly an A4000 too - then Commodore went down in a smoldering ruin and I had to move on. Still, I learned a lot of skills on those machines that I still use to this day - primarily Perl. I remember my A500 used to go through PSU's fairly regularly - I think I had 3 of them over about 5 years, never had the same issue with the 1200.
I remember coming home from school one day in the late 80's and this was setup on the dinning room table. There was a golf game that I think came with it? Ended up with a second disk drive a while later. So many hours spent on that machine playing some great and some god damn awful games.
The 500 does have "electrolytic" capacitors, they just aren't surface mounted as they are in the 600, 1200 etc. The through hole type used are more robust and when they fail they most often don't spew their guts all over the board. Waiting for part 2 :-). Check your PS, I've had a few go bad.
+James Webb Thanks James, these series are greatly improved by insights, corrections and tips from comments like this to help me improve the content and accuracy as I progress through them.
A good shot of contact cleaner always starts the process of getting these old units going again. A blast of air blows out the spider carcasses and who knows what. A clean contact will bring back any dead subject.
Ah the Action Replay. If only I knew then what I know now.. Though I did have a book on 68000 assembly language, it was too much for my young BASIC programmer brain to understand. It was such a powerful piece of kit, I just used it to rip music from games and give myself extra lives.
I like your video! It reminded me my first A500. HAM mode doesn't change luminance but R,G or B component. In #00 mode it just takes direct color from 16-color palette. And vertical resolution in PAL Amigas is much higher than you mentioned, without overscan 512 lines interlaced or regular 256.
Good to see 'Fat Agnus' again lol. Dungeon Master on the Amiga made me the fan of rpg's I am today. The C-64 was my favourite though. Special Memories. Great video!
Oh man, This brings back so many memories ... I had the exact same machine, and the same expansion board. All except for the monitor, in my case I had the 1084S. Thank you so much, I am eagerly expecting the follow up with the restoration work. Liked and subscribed of course.
Cover disks were awesome! I had a Commodore64. I regularly bought a couple of C64 magazines, that came with cover disks or cover tapes. Every issue came with at least two or three full-version computer games and a bunch of demos!
WOW! Computer Care South!! There's a blast from the past and it's actually still there at that exact address, albeit a truncated version of the huge store that it would've been when that Amiga visited, I would imagine. I bought RoboCop & Batman The Movie from there in 1989 for my CPC6128 :) Excellent video Sir.
I have about 15 of these bad boys stored out in a garage cupboard. Could never walk past an orphan without taking it home. Since the event of emulators, I kind of moved on to virtual Amigas. This series is making think I should dig them out again and check them all over to discover their inner secrets.
OMG I loved my Amiga 500. I went to the horse race track with my Dad in 1987 and he gave me 10 dollars to bet on horses. By the end of the day I was taking home $1500 and what did I spend my money on of course the Amiga 500 with two extra disk drives and a ton of games even a joystick I was like a little kid in a candy store. Everything came to $1585 my Mom gave me the extra $85. Later I added a modem for it and it was the first time I played a game with someone over the phone line. I still remember punching the number into the Amiga and it dialing my friend hearing that weird buzzing and beeping sounds like something from the future. Then it connecting and the hours of playing games with a friend that was two blocks away from me it was something.
My first computer was a Commodore VIC 20 with a whopping 5K of ram. And of course I had to save my allowance to buy the tape cassette drive. You would type code for hours that came out in the VIC 20 magazine each month to get an error code in the end. No one under the age of 35 believes me when I tell them this story till I pull ol' VIC out of the basement!!!
Loved so many games on my Amiga 500. I'm 45 now and, back when I was 15, mum told me I could only have an Amiga 500 (as an upgrade from our spectrum!) if I saved up half the cost. So I worked at Spa every Saturday for 9 months, and more overtime, to pay it off and keep earning some more spare cash for my boardgaming hobby too. I think back then the Amiga 500 cost £500 even without a monitor (we never got a proper monitor for it - just a telly), and I think the 0.5meg RAM upgrade for it was another £50 XD. Happy days. I think we all knew someone in those days who was pirating games, which helped, but I also poured a ton of cash into the machine and games too. It's strange - I still felt like a bit of a hacker having a computer, even though I only actually (briefly) experimented with simple coding on my Spectrum and never on the Amiga. Computers were just overwhelmingly cool at the time. And it felt good having it not the Atari ST, which I was always conscious had a marginally lower spec. Great days.
Great, great video. Makes me miss my old A500. I've always considered the A500 the most aesthetically pleasing of the computer-in-the-keyboard products. Oh, and I love the background tunes :)
allanfortytwo thanks for watching. If you check the description this series of videos is available in an updated link with a few improvements to sound levels and things. You may enjoy it better
I still have my 2 Amiga 500's one with Kickstart 1.2 and the other with Kickstart 1.3 and 2.04 Rom on a Rom Switcher, plus an Amiga 1200 (with faulty CIA Chips causing a missing colour) and several Acorn Archimedes A3010 and A3020 plus a few BBC Micros Model B in my loft. I remember all the fun I had back then as a child / teenager playing on them, its a shame modern computers aren't as robust as they were back then.
I had the same Philips monitor for my Amiga 500 over 27 years ago! I remember it had a color/monochrome(green) switch which I used sometimes in few flight sims to emulate night vision goggles. Great times.
A box of games, working Phillips monitor and a non-working A500 for £20 is a great deal for you even though the computer itself doesn't work. I would have been tempted even though I can't repair computers - I would have found someone who could.
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Jaguar xj220 theme, Amazing m8 👍👌
I unpacked my Amiga yesterday, had been in a box since 1992. Yellow as hell. I am going to have a shot at cleaning it up, and retrobrighting it. Mine is a 1990 model. Besides the Amiga I also pulled two C64's, two 1541 drives, 3 cassette drives, 3 power supplies and a Mitsubishi ML-F48 MSX computer plus a stack of books out of the box (which was large and frikkin heavy LOL). So I got some work to do.
Continually digging these TtT videos, and I look forward to more of this lovely Amiga!
I do like these sort of in depth teardowns. Will be subbing to this guy from now on.
Lazy Game Reviews it is extremely difficult to not read your comments in your voice
Lazy Game Reviews you here and not in hollywood?
Amiga 500 vs Amiga A500 I was thinking about buying one in my area, is there a difference between the two?
My beloved Amiga 500. Brings back so many happy times. Life was so much more simplier then.
I found an Amiga 500 with monitor, mouse, external floppy drive, and a full box of disks, in perfect working order, being thrown away... which I gave a good home, of course. This is one of my favorite vintage computers.
Good man I'm glad it found you!
Who would throw that away?!
How RMC all began for me. I've watched it so many times. Still worth a watch for any Amiga 500 owner or former owner/user. Neil's sound use here was excellent together with the dialogue was perfect. It set the tone for the channel in many ways
Hey thank you! A life changing video for me ❤️
@@RMCRetro It really has been and it's been awesome watching every step along the way. Thank you and good luck with the museum, and the retro collective. Its astounding what you have all accomplished. It's like fate shone on you and you were forced to moved to move. The story already is amazing and deserves a book for sure. 'Trash to Treasure and the Retro Collective' by Neil, etc. Splendid. If you don't write it, I may do as its quite a story.
And the kid now an adult asks his/her Mum where is my old Amiga I left with you 20 years ago...
Hi, I'm really quite certain that this is the Amiga that I sold from my father's estate - The cartoon on the box and stickers on the screw covers are very familiar.
I'm glad that you are restoring this, it's brought back a lot of good memories of watching him play it. Thank you.
Steve Kirk Hi Steve, I'd love to try and verify that if possible and talk about it in the next episode. Are there any other distinguishing marks or software you may have had with it? There was something else distinctive written on the box you might remember?
Hi, I've gone back through my eBay history to see if the original advert pictures exist, however it was too long ago now. It was sold as a pair of Amiga 500's (For whatever reason, he had two at the end!), so maybe he had acquired one to replace one that had stopped working. Games would have been Grand Prix and maybe The Settlers, however I suspect these have not stayed with the broken '500.
Other than the advert description and eBay item number, I have no proof. So, as much as I would love to verify this, I cannot. Please keep up the excellent restoration work, I'm really enjoying this.
Steve Kirk Thanks Steve, it didn't come with those games, it had "We Love Amigas" written on the box which I can send you a photo of if you want to check the handwriting. Anyway thanks for watching and she has found a good home.
Thank you!
Your channel is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. Keep it up!
Classic Gaming Quarterly Thank you! Means a lot especially from the big guns like you
My guns are far from big, but thanks for saying so.
i senced grateness but 52k views and how fast the channels growing all i can say is keep up the good work like this
TheRicheg crazy isn't it. I have quite a few in production at the moment in a similar vain so here's hoping it continues, I'm enjoying making them
This is my absolute favorite episode, hands down, you really work the A500 from head-to-toe and it's captivating from start to finish.
Another great video and what a rare A500 you got there. I strongly approve the background music choices!
Oh boy. Need to get my amiga unboxed from a car boot find many years back. Can't wait to see this restored to 100%. Maybe I'll put mine up on may channel.
NERDVille excellent, subbed so I can see it
Still got mine plus 300+ games. Flashback. Another world. Super frog. Moonstone. Super cars, lotus. Alien breed. Turrican II etc etc... Amiga was really ahead of its time... and I think it had the best sounding games too back then. Sometimes I would plug in a game just to listen to the cool title music. I might dust off my old Amiga again after seeing this video. Thank you.❤️
Neil, you closed the video with my absolute favorite track from the Amiga, the SOTBII death sequence theme. I still think that they are some of the worlds most beautiful chords ever written. The guitar solo just put it over the top. Thanks for the great videos and music.
At 8:34 "...and you could hold the hue and change the luminance". Not an Amiga-expert (just allround retrogeek), but I am pretty sure HAM worked directly on RGB; not HSV. However, in the really early design phases the Amiga was designed around HSV. This was later abandoned for RGB. Btw. the famous HAM mode almost wasnt. Jay Miner wanted to remove it as he thought it was of little use in its RGB-version, but the chip-design had progressed so far that removing it was far more complex/costly than simply leaving it in. And the rest is history :) ...thanx for the vid!
asgerms I read that story just last week, really interesting, it was also a feature of flight simulators of the time. Amazing how devs found uses for it in ways never imagined. Thanks for watching and sharing the story.
My god..just remembering my childhood days with the Amiga A500 brings me to tears...best days ever when life was so simple yet still fun...thanks for bringing life back to this beautiful Amiga !!
Lotus Esprit and Jaquar XJ220 music was just INSANE! That slap bass is just so badass.
A cracking deal on the Amiga 500 lot. Especially, the Philips monitor.
Atari Fitness Certainly got lucky, the monitor looks great on my working 1200
Spent the evening watching your videos. It's always a good day when you find another channel you want to subscribe to.
Michael Dodd That's very kind I'm glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more coming soon 👍
Free CRT monitor and box of games??
Dude, you were being groomed.
was waiting for ..... dont fancy paddy hopkirks monte carlo mini its cluttering up the garage if you want it lol
Growing up , it was my absolute favorite, I took mine apart because I heard b52's the music group was printed on the board
7:35 Jaguar XJ 220 Main Theme.
Thanks for this 4 part a500 series. It has helped me a lot in my 500-restore project (revision 5 version 3). I am not finished, though blogging on each progress that I make on it. So far, I am like 75 percent finished in bringing it back to functioning state. It needs a floppy drive, and then I am only left with the cosmetic stuff.
Well done I'm glad Ibcould help. I'm working on an A2000 now which had a few unexpected problems. Do you have a blog link?
@@RMCRetro Sweet. That is a nice system. Compatible and expandable. 👌
My blog is: to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-amiga500-refurbish-project.html?m=1
9:50 you got to feel sorry for the poor sods who had to build Amigas over Christmas week :D
+Larry Bundy Jr you sure do! Great to see you here Larry
LOL subscribe to the both of you chaps !! haha.
Yeah, if I remember to my factory days, not Amigas or fun stuff like that mind you, boring old fiber optic transceivers, the final month was the huge push to get everything done and out the door to make the final quarter shine brightly and make the investors happy.
WOW that was a blast from the past. I actually worked at Computer Care South some 24ish years ago and performed surgery on many out of warranty Amiga's. Maybe even yours!
GrrArg oh wow that's cool, maybe you put the sticker on it!
Amiga was and still is an amazing machine,almost everyone that had one fell in love with her,i cant believe you got all this stuff for almost nothing !
Wow that brings back some memories, I learned 68k assembly on the Amiga. Lovely bit of kit at the time.
LOve this channel just found you!...man the memories. I was cutting edge back in the day...I started off with an Amiga 1200 with a 1942 Multisync monitor...man was I the envy of all my Amiga/Commodore friends. I even bought an Amiga CD32..remember those...what a lemon that turned out to be...good tech...zero support. ha I had more money than brains even then...:) good times.
So many memories. Can't wait to see you work your magic on this one 👍
Amiga 500 is my favourite gaming platform of all time!
Do you have a favourite game on in?
Ahhh my Old Baby! This was my first venture into modern computing - as you say an early 'Multimedia' system. The Tandy TRS-80 was the very first but the Amiga was more of a technological leap.
Mine was accelerated; hard-driven and maxed with memory for graphics and gaming and never broke down in its life in my possession. Ahh _Things that Lasted a Lifetime!_ ... once
I live in Reading and used to go to Computer Care South all the time. Many weekends spent there as a child looking at all the kit I couldn't afford...!
jimbobsquelchy According to another commenter they are still open!
OH MY GOD!!!!,MY BELOVED AMIGA 500!!!,I TRADED UP TO THE 500+,WHERE I LEARNED TO ANIMATE!!!AHHH!!!SUCH TIMES!!!THANK YOU.
Still having my Amiga 500+ and about 900 games and i still play the games from time to time
Ahhhh.. the unmistakable Jaguar XJ220 theme at 7:30 Awesome. Nostalgia overload today.
Its like LGR meets This Is Dan Bell. I'm in heaven. PS I know this guy!
4:35 the gaps in the fins where the perfect size to slot in and firmly hold a collection of floppy drives for very convenient access...almost like they where designed for it.
BEST COMPUTER I EVER OWNED !!! endless hours of fun as a kid the games were amazing so many great game creators , Speed ball 2 , Monkey Island , Syndicate , Populous , Megalomania , Panza kickboxing an endless amount , nothing compares to it ... not even my ps4
Oh my god I used to own a 500 and then a 1200!! Thanks for the souvenir!!
I still have my Amiga 500,has a flicker fixer too,hard drive 100gb,i made all the rear ouput extension cables & fitted the circuit board into a PC case,that allowed me to have two floppy drives and the hard drive all in the case,then I had a amiga 1,000 keyboard and made a cable to fit the rear connection,changed the CPU to a faster one,increased memory by purching a memory card MOD.
~16 years ago I got tired of keeping my Amiga 500 so I sold it for a price of mere shipping cost. A remarkable notion on the specific machine was that it had the serial number 1. For real. Just one digit 1 on the serial number sticker.
fond memories, many a sleepless night on this beast. seeing the inside i was reminded of the time i took a chance and cracked the case to install the 'fatter agnus' chip so i could run all the overseas games that ran in PAL as opposed to NTSC, which was not available by default in the US.
Used to love my A500 with 1mb RAM upgrade! Still got a 1084 Monitor laying around somewhere.
That is one solid memory expansion, I think we only had bare circuit boards, and few wires running to on/off switch, wich never worked so it was just wires tied together. We also took apart my friends A500 in order to mod it to for 1Mb Chip mem I think? We had to saw one circuit from the board and maybe did a jump wire for the processor? Can't remember, but we did something.. and it did work.
Awe brings back memories.... I had one back in 1988ish? I had a Vic20, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and then the Amiga then IBM clones. I use to play Earl Weaver baseball everyday after school playing many seasons and printing out stats on my dot matrix printer. Great stuff
These playlist set's have earned my subscription (for what its worth!)
*Top work* Mr RMC.
I DREAMED of having that monitor back when I had my Amiga 500 / 1200.
I loved this computer as a kid. Ah the memories. I eventually moved on to a Mega Drive.
Hi, I surfed the web today and found your TH-cam channel. Very nice channel you have because I was a teenager in the 80's. And my first computer was a Commadore 64 take care and greetings from Sweden.
The revolution of computerssss
Brilliaaaaaaaaaant! Took me back 30+ years to the day I opened my brand new Amiga 500
I remember buying one of these in Dixon's, 1992 Cartoon Classics.
"Ah, the Amiga 500". You sounded exactly like the Nostalgia Nerd guy.
You mean the nostalgia nerd ?
I'm at work, but my VERY FIRST EVER Amiga (a 500) just was delivered to my house, proceeded in delivery by a Gotek, brand new PSU, video converter, and SCART cable. These last two hours at work are going to draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!
Awesome attention to detail in repairing this.
The Amiga, The ST, C64, TRS-80, etc. have all turned up in boxes at the Sally Ann or Value Village around here or else I got given some or never sold mine (like my Atari ST). Nice to see old hardware still has a place in the modern world...
Thank You so much for the trip down memory lane! , i had to watch twice, the first time after 2mins my mind had drifted and serving me so many memories from this era, all based around the amiga, i even used mine to do a live p.a. at an organised event, i belive that would be the correct term lol, ive liked & subscibed and will be checking out your other videos for sure...LONG LIVE RETRO GAMING!!
+Kev Hu welcome aboard Kev, keep it retro
You have choosen the correct music and thus have earned a like and a sub in the first 10 seconds, sir.
I have an amiga 1000 with box, monitor, and all the books and disks, and the same with a 2000, both I bought in the 80's. But I must admit, I was always stunned by the design of the 500 and 1200. The lines and shape is still so very beautiful. There is something unique of this era of computers. When I look at the 500, 600, 1200, and also the Atari of that era they had some of the best designs of computers to this day.A really nice design time for 'puters. I wish you all the success on the repair. I may post a vid of my amiga 1000 at some point.
2:01 Unreal title music - one of my favorite game soundtracks on the amiga!
That was an awesome computer, way ahead of its time. I ran a "Hack & Slash" BBS on mine.
The best homecomputer ever made, had one myself.... nice vid, thanx!
Awesome I still have two machines 500 and the 1200 both working, I bought them when i was a kid now 43, just the best computer(500) that was ever made, that started me of in to programming, now it's my job, who care about the PC or the other junk this is history, I solute you sir!! :)
Holy uujeah! I had that monitor on my first Amiga setup.
I absolutely love that Commodore 500 Windows 3.1 M1 Tank Platoon
Good grief, I used to go to Computer Care South (I think) to pick up components for my first IBM compatible PC!
I watch this sitting next to my deceased A500 in box (it lives next to my PC) and the still working A600 I bought off a friend to replace it with. I got the A500 during the final year of my A Levels and it was light years ahead of the opposition. After about 9 years of giving me joy, I came home one day from work to find that it had died at the hands of one of my housemates. I'll never know if it just died or got a whack, but I'm now intrigued to know if I can revive it 20 years after it died.
I bought one from a guy at a community sale for $20. No power supply. I cleaned it, and it sat around 10 years. I finally got a power supply, and it fired right up.
Maybe testing each of the main ICs on a known-to-be-good board would be a good start! By the appearance of that tracks, some corrosion has damaged the board. Good luck restoring this baby!
Ah, nostalgia... I had an A500 (even got a 20GB HDD to plug into that side expansion), then an A1200 and briefly an A4000 too - then Commodore went down in a smoldering ruin and I had to move on. Still, I learned a lot of skills on those machines that I still use to this day - primarily Perl. I remember my A500 used to go through PSU's fairly regularly - I think I had 3 of them over about 5 years, never had the same issue with the 1200.
I remember coming home from school one day in the late 80's and this was setup on the dinning room table. There was a golf game that I think came with it? Ended up with a second disk drive a while later. So many hours spent on that machine playing some great and some god damn awful games.
The 500 does have "electrolytic" capacitors, they just aren't surface mounted as they are in the 600, 1200 etc. The through hole type used are more robust and when they fail they most often don't spew their guts all over the board. Waiting for part 2 :-). Check your PS, I've had a few go bad.
+James Webb Thanks James, these series are greatly improved by insights, corrections and tips from comments like this to help me improve the content and accuracy as I progress through them.
A good shot of contact cleaner always starts the process of getting these old units going again. A blast of air blows out the spider carcasses and who knows what. A clean contact will bring back any dead subject.
Ah the Action Replay. If only I knew then what I know now.. Though I did have a book on 68000 assembly language, it was too much for my young BASIC programmer brain to understand. It was such a powerful piece of kit, I just used it to rip music from games and give myself extra lives.
Great video! Totally love your TtT content 😊 Thanks and greetings from Finland!
I grew up in Reading and remember Computer Care South well! They fixed my A600 once!
Love the box. Remember wanting one as a kid!!
How nostalgic to hear that SOTB2 guitar riff at the end! I was thrown right back to the early 90s!
I like your video! It reminded me my first A500. HAM mode doesn't change luminance but R,G or B component. In #00 mode it just takes direct color from 16-color palette. And vertical resolution in PAL Amigas is much higher than you mentioned, without overscan 512 lines interlaced or regular 256.
I lost a 500 and a 1200 in a flood a few years ago. Now I wonder if they could of been saved. Thanks for the video, here's a like.
Good to see 'Fat Agnus' again lol. Dungeon Master on the Amiga made me the fan of rpg's I am today. The C-64 was my favourite though. Special Memories. Great video!
Oh man, This brings back so many memories ... I had the exact same machine, and the same expansion board. All except for the monitor, in my case I had the 1084S. Thank you so much, I am eagerly expecting the follow up with the restoration work. Liked and subscribed of course.
Nice video and an even nicer Amiga 500 you got yourself there. I hope you'll succeed in bringing it back to life and glory. :)
Zed Beeblebrox thanks, part 2 is underway and it's looking positive so far
My first ever computer, I was so young I'm surprised I got anywhere with this this without help but i still have fond memories of several games
Cover disks were awesome! I had a Commodore64. I regularly bought a couple of C64 magazines, that came with cover disks or cover tapes. Every issue came with at least two or three full-version computer games and a bunch of demos!
I loved my Amiga500. This brings back so many memories!
WOW! Computer Care South!! There's a blast from the past and it's actually still there at that exact address, albeit a truncated version of the huge store that it would've been when that Amiga visited, I would imagine.
I bought RoboCop & Batman The Movie from there in 1989 for my CPC6128 :)
Excellent video Sir.
Don't tell them I opened it, it might void the warranty
I have about 15 of these bad boys stored out in a garage cupboard. Could never walk past an orphan without taking it home. Since the event of emulators, I kind of moved on to virtual Amigas. This series is making think I should dig them out again and check them all over to discover their inner secrets.
OMG I loved my Amiga 500. I went to the horse race track with my Dad in 1987 and he gave me 10 dollars to bet on horses. By the end of the day I was taking home $1500 and what did I spend my money on of course the Amiga 500 with two extra disk drives and a ton of games even a joystick I was like a little kid in a candy store. Everything came to $1585 my Mom gave me the extra $85. Later I added a modem for it and it was the first time I played a game with someone over the phone line. I still remember punching the number into the Amiga and it dialing my friend hearing that weird buzzing and beeping sounds like something from the future. Then it connecting and the hours of playing games with a friend that was two blocks away from me it was something.
My first computer was a Commodore VIC 20 with a whopping 5K of ram. And of course I had to save my allowance to buy the tape cassette drive. You would type code for hours that came out in the VIC 20 magazine each month to get an error code in the end. No one under the age of 35 believes me when I tell them this story till I pull ol' VIC out of the basement!!!
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Been there, Done that, Worn the Tee shirt. AH Memory's. just one thing thought it was 3K of RAM.
Loved so many games on my Amiga 500. I'm 45 now and, back when I was 15, mum told me I could only have an Amiga 500 (as an upgrade from our spectrum!) if I saved up half the cost. So I worked at Spa every Saturday for 9 months, and more overtime, to pay it off and keep earning some more spare cash for my boardgaming hobby too. I think back then the Amiga 500 cost £500 even without a monitor (we never got a proper monitor for it - just a telly), and I think the 0.5meg RAM upgrade for it was another £50 XD. Happy days. I think we all knew someone in those days who was pirating games, which helped, but I also poured a ton of cash into the machine and games too. It's strange - I still felt like a bit of a hacker having a computer, even though I only actually (briefly) experimented with simple coding on my Spectrum and never on the Amiga. Computers were just overwhelmingly cool at the time. And it felt good having it not the Atari ST, which I was always conscious had a marginally lower spec. Great days.
That monitor is *still* good-looking after all these years. Great find.
Great, great video. Makes me miss my old A500. I've always considered the A500 the most aesthetically pleasing of the computer-in-the-keyboard products. Oh, and I love the background tunes :)
Great channel. I still have my amiga 500 set up and running. Look forward to seeing more videos.
allanfortytwo thanks for watching. If you check the description this series of videos is available in an updated link with a few improvements to sound levels and things. You may enjoy it better
My favorite old system, that background music brings back memories
I still have my 2 Amiga 500's one with Kickstart 1.2 and the other with Kickstart 1.3 and 2.04 Rom on a Rom Switcher, plus an Amiga 1200 (with faulty CIA Chips causing a missing colour) and several Acorn Archimedes A3010 and A3020 plus a few BBC Micros Model B in my loft.
I remember all the fun I had back then as a child / teenager playing on them, its a shame modern computers aren't as robust as they were back then.
You lucky boy. I trade my A500 to a long friend of my for a game boy. And now hunting for a A500 fill a gap in my nostalgia sector.
My first computer was a Amiga 600, bought it from my bro, had a lot of fun with it, leisure suit Larry still cool.
Wow, £20! Ebay is about £60 to £100. That monitor is worth about £100. Great find
Andrew Littleboy I know! Although I don't intend to sell these once fixed up, they will take pride of place
I had the same Philips monitor for my Amiga 500 over 27 years ago! I remember it had a color/monochrome(green) switch which I used sometimes in few flight sims to emulate night vision goggles. Great times.
A box of games, working Phillips monitor and a non-working A500 for £20 is a great deal for you even though the computer itself doesn't work. I would have been tempted even though I can't repair computers - I would have found someone who could.