Upgrading The Worlds Newest Amiga - The A500++ (3/4)
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The Commodore Amiga is a computer close to the hearts of many retro computer fans, but as time goes on the Amigas are dying, not least because of the dreaded Varta battery leak so common in the A500+. Today we upgrade the A500++ with some modern upgrades fitting of the build including the Vampire V2 FPGA board, USB keyboard and SD Card storage.
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Update: CD is now working thanks to your suggestions. Updating from Kickstart 3.10 to 3.1.4 was the key!
You need to pin this response to the top or else you're going to get heaps more CD connection suggestions :-) (like mine)
so those of us who don't have that version, then what? Something in the upgrade of 3.1.4 fixes or automatically configures something right? If we knew what it did, could do manually in other versions I assume
Interested in your findings!!!
This is great to hear. I appear to be one step behind you new with my build and the CD was my next step. Are you using it with the Buddha and which IDE to SATA do you recommend or does it not make much difference?
@@jakedeeboy I'm using it with the final adapter shown (with the two black capacitors on it) and the jumper set to slave. This is then on a two channel cable direct to the Vampire IDE port. In the longer term I might experiment with the Buddha as you can get more speed out of your CF or SD card if it's the only thing on the channel, but it's plenty fast enough for me as is for now.
WOW, my old Sysinfo program from a very long time ago is still being used. Seeing this put a huge smile on my face :)
This is amazing. The kind of dream Amiga that every Amiga kid wanted back in the day.
Around 1990 my father wanted to buy me my first computer so he could not decide what to do: Buy me a cheaper Amiga or to go the more expensive PC route. At the end the PC won but I always asked myself what it would happen if he bought me an Amiga instead 😀 And now after watching your videos I decided to build my first Amiga almost 30 years later! Great video series by the way.
You made me laugh when you said about absorbing vibrations when the SD Card spins up :).
This has been an amazing journey. It is more than just a build. Looking forward to part 4.
That workbench theme is unsettling
Here Italy, this new case for Amiga 500 remember the "Micronik case for Amiga 1200 and 4000" ESCOM time year 1996 !!!
Brilliant video, can't wait for next one in the series.
Wish they did a version of that Vampire card for my Atari STe.
It does just plug into the 68000 socket...
Looks great!
Btw, most folk don't realise this and it's handy as hell - that logitech keyboard will run on one battery. It loses range slightly but that's it.
Also the vampire was a excellent upgrade we also did the sd adapter exstention to our 500 case we wanna move it to a checkmate case on day. Just remember vampire doesn't work with some auto config card i was surprised the Buda worked
I had the same problem with IDE to Sata boards with my Amiga 2000, Buddha IDE and a SSD drive. I got it all to work using AmigaOS 3.1.4 (ROM + OS). You can also write the AmigaOS 3.1.4 ROM into the Vampire using tools available on their web-site. Use the A500 version of the "unsplit_unswapped" ROM available with your 3.1.4 licence from the Hyperion web-site. I would try that first to get the CD drive to work.
Hmmmm interesting thank you. I have a 3.1.4 ROM here so I can legally slap that on the Vampire and see what happens. Thank you for the tip!
This is the answer right here, vanilla AmigaOS 3.1 only supports SCSI CD drives because it lacks an ATAPI driver.
@@yukisaitou5004 Just use IdeFix.
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For the CDROM drive use a slot loader one from an old CRT imac or an old G4 powerbook. Theyre already IDE and in the same form factor.
Now that's a GREAT idea.
This looks brilliant - hopefully you get the CD issues sorted for the next episode!
Great! Finding a new video of RMC after coming home, ready to be watched!
What I did differantly is that my vampire is inside a real Amiga 600 case with real Amiga 600 motherboard/floppy/tank mouse/PCMCIA network card. Therefore anyone who sees it beleaves it's an amiga 600 in it cause that's what it is. A boring Amiga 600. The looser of the family.
Then the machine boots and thrill starts... Yeaaaaaah. That's cooool.
Anyone else a bit disappointed RMC went the Vampire route?
Well I mean he was going for the most modern Amiga 500, not the most authentic... It's more fun to recreate the hardware with modern(ish) components than to have to deal with 30 year old components that may or may not have withstood the trials of time...
Would be interested in a build series using a stand-alone Vampire (or similar) for us less extravagant cave dwellers.
Is that out yet?
@@IanC14 My understanding is that some were released at Amiga34, but it's effectively in "public beta".
This is the first time since the early 90s that A. I wanted an Amiga more than anything I could think about and B. I'd thought about taking a soldering iron out to realise what you could achieve by modifying the Amiga. Things have seriously moved on in massive strides since the standard mods. Thank you for making this series of videos, they're a breath of fresh air 👍
RMC: 2 different screws pair.
Every subscriber: Amiga keyboard clicking intensifies.
*Amiga:* how much ram can I have?
*RMC:* yes
Was never an Amiga person but so want this !
This is much how the brain evolved over time. New parts were layered over older parts.
Brilliant, inspiring video. Loved it. Thanks for doing this!
I'm glad RMC is here to make these projects. If I tried anything like this I'd end up with a bin full of expensive components!
Hahaha hahaha ha me too 😂😂😂
If that bloke who won £170m on the lottery was looking for something to spend it on...
Neil, I'm really enjoying this series you've got going here! I never had any of the Amiga line of computers, but I did have a 68k Mac (a Mac II ci) that did use a similar chip as the Vampire FPGA board there tries and succeeds at simulating. Did I read the sysinfo output right? Was that running at over 100 MHz? Holy crap. The Mac II ci I had back in the day I think only ran at like 20-30 MHz at best, and the triple digits were reserved for the PowerPC machines released later on. I'm sure you'll show this working in Part 4, but I'm sort of not surprised that you're able to emulate an era Mac with the Vampire, since it's basically the same chipset as what the Amigas had at around the same time. I can't wait for part 4. Keep up the great work overall on everything you post as well!
Thank you I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm working on part 4 right now, and it includes some Mac emulation which I think you'll enjoy!
@@RMCRetro I'm looking forward to its release!
nice to see you place the LG cdrom drive insiddddde. i have the same offcource but not tested it in place. was wondering because these drives have their own little front panel also.
Check another optical drive, maybe it´s an issue with that specific drive
Or settings in the mount file.
I have had issues with drives and drivers in my 500-desktop convertion. I have noticed that it will give issues, if I set the master slave drives attached on the wrong spot on the ribbon cable. And most of the times, I can not boot with the use of specific CF card dongles or DOM modules. I personally think it is a drive speed timing issue. I have seen it on 486 VLB class computers as well, back in 1995. If you can boot yet can not get it to work with IDE-Fix, then try the AmiCD driver. (I think it is named that on Aminet). As far as I remember, then it is version 1.15 that I am using.
Regarding your CD drive issue, a couple of things:
- Those adapters adapt to IDE, but do they adapt to PATA? Or is the Amiga even PATA compliant?
- Instead of using an adapter, have you considered a used native 2.5" IDE/PATA DVD drive? They do exist, and aren't that expensive!
Cool background music, and great video as always!
Great stuff! The Vampire is amazing! I've used the exact same wireless keyboard adapter in the A2000 upgrades I've done.
Epic work Neil... I especially liked the double sided Velcro to reduce vibrations from the SD card platen when it spins up! :)
That's my top tip Howard. Gotta dampen those SD spins!
Was excited by the standalone V4 but... damn they are expensive. :(
Wish you put the sd card extension in the second expansion bay with the floppy faceplate 🧐
Almost dropped my tea at the sight of mismatched screws
Careful now
Thanks very much for your Amiga videos and also for clarifying Vampire card purpose. I was HUGE Amiga fan over many years back in the days, my last one was quite decent A1200 config in tower case with Blizzard IV card, multiple HDDs, genlock, sampler, ISDN modem with Internet, but that was looong time ago and I'm certainly not up to date with the latest stuff despite taking occasional look at Amiga news (when I'm bored). Vampire was one of those that always puzzled me! ps. that A500++ board is amazing and your work ins very inspiring. Congrats and keep it up! :-)
Ah, ISDN, and how the Baby Bells totally screwed it up over here in 'Murica. To think my Atari 1040STf was compatible with ISDN in 1986 - and was even a selectable option for configuring the RS232 port - but PacBell didn't even start getting serious with rolling out residential ISDN service until about 1998 when most of the industry was already promoting DSL and cable modem services as superior - and cheaper - successors arriving "shortly".
Brilliant video, congrats with the vampire.
Would have been great if that ramboard was 2MB instead of 1MB.
2MB chipram is the best part of the A500plus board/chips😉
The Rock Lobster is Proud of You!!!👍👌
Awesome but one thing missing xcopy! 😂
You may have started with a Vampire card, but you ended up building quite the monster--congratulations Dr Frankenstein!
Excuse my ignorance of Amiga architecture, but does the vampire clock increase affect the system busses and therefore signal integrity on the pcb or push the custom chipset beyond their limits?
It does not, in just the same way that CPU accelerators of the time don't either. The custom chips run in parallel at their own speed
The hdmi cut out was kinda arghhhh but then you did the screws differently and I nearly died :S, but you fixed it few!!!!, great work by the way :).
I use a hand nibbler tool. Much easier and neater than sawing and filing.
Fantastic! My Vampire should be here in a few months, and I am very excited to make my A500 a modern machine in my Checkmate.
If you've ordered it from the main Apollo site, try 2 years, if at all.
@@tiannaumann I have generally heard just a few months once you express interest. Thousands have been sold and it has only been out a bit over two years
An integrated Gotek with big OLED and rotary encoder would have been even better.
That would be a nice touch, I really must upgrade my gotek screen
@@RMCRetro sounds like an excellent idea for a video....how to buy a cheap gotek, how to flash the flashfloppy firmware, how to modify the gotek for use with amigas, how to add OLED and rotary encoder, often used options in the config file.....
What's not to like? I really enjoyed the video
"really is quite odd that a 30 year old machine can be made to perform in this way"
I know I'm being a pedant here but well, when you pull out the CPU and replace it with a chip that basically doesn't even exist, then it's not exactly 30 years old anymore is it. Kinda like strapping a Saturn V rocket to the Ship of Theseus if you catch my drift.
I get your point but there's plenty of classic software and games that can make use of the performance and Neil did select the older firmware without the FPGA AGA chipset etc - so it's pretty much just a fast CPU. Any modern 060 accelerator card will be custom built recently too and I wouldn't consider them 'un-amiga'
@@JohnnyWednesday Not saying it's "un-amiga", just that it's like a weird hybrid between a machine from the 80's and something entirely new, emulating Neo Geo Games and all that.
It's not odd because all the tech is based on the same principles. You can do this kind of thing with just about any computer from the microcomputer revolution and after.
The only thing "odd" about it is using a [simulated] Motorola 680x0 anything since had Commodore and Atari Corp both survived, both of their platforms would've transitioned onto the PowerPC chips just like Apple did with the Macs.
@@TheJeremyHolloway pst, modern day Amiga does use PowerPC.
I'm a retro PC gal. I've never owned nor even used an Amiga, but I can tell this creation is truly a thing of beauty! Slotting modern daughter boards into CPU, RAM, and keyboard controller sockets - how cool is that!! The eclectic mix of old and new tech is right up my alley, and I'm really impressed with how many mods are available for these machines - using modern technology. Amigas must have really been something special to have this kind of community following today!
For the cd issue it boils down to these areas:
1. CD Drive is faulty.
2. SATA Slim to SATA is faulty.
3. SATA to IDE is faulty.
Test each stage to see what is wrong.
I would made some mounting/holder for SD-Adapter, instead of velcro.
For your problem with CD/DVD check if your adapter has slave/master/cable select jumper at IDE side.
You can try to use SATA to USB adapter and connect it to Vampire.
Amazing what you are doing here!
Looking back to the old Amiga years, no one could ever imagine that this was possible and that ever a group of people would reach such a high level of customization. Especially in terms of the quality of everything.
From my point of view, this is not only a typical diy thing. This is like real development here.
Furthermore, this Amiga deserves the same kind of care regarding the operating system.
That would be the next logical step.
You would be the person who should take care of the project. If not you, who else?
Looks awesome! You do need to work on that cablemanagement though 😁
As usual, your video has made my day. Thanks for sharing this!
Probably a long shot, but is there any equivalent stuff for the Atari ST?
Make sure to join in all of the Atari ST groups on Facebook and over at AtariAge proper and then voice your support for Vampire options. Hardcore ST fans from old are starting to return to the platform as a hobby. More rabid Amigans never let go of their platform so a lot of these continuation projects are far more mature in Amigaland in comparison. A lot of the existing ST projects have to do with using faster ROM chips for TOS to work better with modern 68020 accelerator boards with TOS 2.06 - and TOS switcher ROM boards - for maximum compatibility, although a lot of software has been patched for better compatibility since the 90s. OS ROM switcher boards are also popular amongst C64 and Atari 8-bit enthusiasts.
So... When will the Amiga architecture attain Gigabytes of RAM and Gigahertz processing speed?
Welldone!
You mention that the Vampire implements a 68080 Cpu. I never heard of a presumably 5th gen 68k iteration. Motorola/Freescale produced a pentuim like superscalar pipelined 68060 and Philips a 68070, but that's it. Is yout reference to 68080 just an error, or did the Vampire team implement an upgrade to the CPU Architekture?
It never physically existed, 68080 is an FPGA implementation only
You should've used Audacity on the intro. ;) Thanks for the Vampire card section - it's something I've always heard about but no one's ever given a nice summary like that before.
"This build required many skills..." yeah well Cable Management wasn't one of 'em. (I kid, I kid, this is really a great project to follow, Neil!)
He's Neil ;D
A little disappointed with some of the workarounds; velcro'd SD card readers, lack of biege monitor or use of the fullsize biege keyboard - but a truly incredible project nonetheless. But why no Floppy Drive? To me as an A500 owner back in the day, this is sacrilage... surely booting from a floppy as an option is a stretch goal? C'mon Simon, sorry, Neil you know we want you to ;)
@@aeiouxs Ack, I realized that a few minutes ago and meant to come back and make the change. I blame a sleep deprived brain. :)
@@dazaspc If you really want, you can also properly bundle and manage cables lile IDE ones, there are also round bundled variants that you don't have that large flat ribbon hanging around
@@dazaspc 300 bucks, what? We're talking about IDE cables and "if you really want"
Can you have 2meg chip ram and would an ide cdrw with out the need for an sata connector say an old cdrw from a laptop work as a slave on the ide port or on the zorro card as master or cable select using idefix 99 software?
17:10 I believe that all of those games (Doom, Quake, Alone in the Dark) were originally designed as software-rendered only products, without support for any 3D hardware acceleration.
Quake was right at the cusp of the GPU era, and quickly got support for OpenGL and 3DFX's Glide API. Hell, even Half-Life can be run in software mode. The Quake series didn't require a GPU until Quake3 i think.
Your shock and awe reminds me of of the first time I setup and ran Windows 3.1 on DosBox
Loving this series so far, I've never had the pleasure of actually using or even seeing an Amiga but to see a pretty much brand new one been built here is amazing!
Good video again Neil. I love the result. Does everything run on this machine as on the original Amiga 500? I know I had games back in the day which where very picky about the hardware.
I had similar issues when I upgraded my a1200 years a go with a £3 parallel cd rom drive I took out the parallel socket and just run a IDE cable thro the whole in the CD caddy . the amiga would see the drive but couldn't use it. think I mounted the cdfs in DEVS startup folder but it was years ago I done it. hope you get the CD issue sorted
Wow. This is the Amiga of dreams. I can’t wait for part 4. Incredible stuff Neil. Even the music at 16:00 evokes memories of something rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the past
have you tried a different CD drive? or tried using the cd drive on another computer. you may have a faulty drive.
Yes I took a couple of IDE CD drives out of some IBM desktops to check and I had the same result. The quest continues
I'd talk to Stephen Jones about getting the ?CD/DVD drive working. I think he discusses the gotchas in some detail in one of his epic 'short' videos :)
Neil, love the project.
Can you use that lovely late 80s trinitron you always have on the table?
If I'm not mistaken as I sell crt monitors for a living that trinitron has a full rgb scart?
Thanks
Thanks! I've actually been playing with a scart adapter on my Amstrad 664 CRT. It works but the colour is nowhere near as vibrant as I get from the CPC. I'll fetch the Sony
That everything is soldered down in a modern computer is a travesty, as i love seeing all the hacks that people have come up with that makes use of the chip sockets.
No, it's not, because it's more reliable.
Sorry what?
They solder them on to protect the chip and to keep it secure. And on most modern motherboards the only chip really soldered on is the chipset, and the board us designed with that chip only, replacing it with rev 2, might not work as the "traces" may not match up.
The BIOS is mostly eeprom these days, and all other chips soldered on can be replaced with a PCI/PCIe card if you so wish.. so really dont understand the problem.
Unless you mean laptops, but again thats to make sure things dont come loose when its being moved.
Oh and the other point, soldering on means smaller connection points, imagine how big smart phones would be if everything was a socket.
On modern PCs, there really isn't much margin to play around with new chips and stuff even if you could remove them since the boards are made and specifically designed for those high speed, high throughput chipsets individually
Huh? Graphics are on a separate card, cpu is replaceable… what else is there to do?
Have you confirmed that the Drive is actually working on a PC?
An A500 with a CPU much faster than any 68060? That's pure madness. I love it.
You're not putting a floppy drive in there somehow?
Will Test Drive run at more than 5 FPS :P
That wireless keyboard would drive me crazy, due to having a trackpad you can't mouse with.
no aga though kind of a waste limiting new hardware , on the sata front you will need different firmware on the drive or find a earlier drive with ide/sata jumper
i think with those adapter cards you need to set the board to slave i believe the startek ones have that option
I think putting an actual Floppy drive will be necessary to make it fit in among the other Amiga's especially when 99% of games came out on Diskettes, and since you're already going out of your way to put an Optical drive in then it wouldn't hurt to add a 'B:' drive to the mix.
I do like the idea of having a floppy drive in there for the purpose of capturing and archiving floppy disks before they die into ADF files, so I might just do that
Very nice indeed! I have a few Vampire 500 V2's and I am a little embarrased I have not actually used them yet :( But! I do have some slot load laptop cd-drives and a bunch of sata ide adaptors that I have somehow managed to acquire over the years. Thinking about seeing if I can get a drive working with one, I could even send you one if it would help :)
Also as much as I would love to go all modern with the checkmate for a case! I cant as my other half would hang my twig n berries on a wall lol! I have heavily invested in some A2000's so one of them is going to be the vampire build. Stephen Jones has really delivered on these checkmate cases and they look great :)
Vampire Standalone?
CIA chip just sounds wrong.
And that they can be destroyed by a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive controller.
This is pretty awesome. And speaking of 3D printing 10:25 my local library has a 3D printing service. Which was news to me. I found it slipped inside the book I checked out today
Nice video. However, 68080? I think not. Just because a company says it is a 68080 does not make it one. I'm guessing they are actually using the Coldfire CPU core which is 68K compatible, but not a 68K CPU.
Yes. It uses an FPGA and he mentioned that.
@@andycraig7734 Neil says "no this is a 68080." As I said above, no 68080 exists, not even a emulated core. As for the FPGA part, thanks for repeating the obvious.
Brilliant series this one *RMC* . Already looking forward to the next part.
It might be the fact it's a dvd drive as opposed to an actual CD drive. Might need to use a custom driver inorder to get it working.
Is a combo CD/DVD drive he's trying to use... no bueno as far as compatibility with older hardware is concerned.
I use a 22 speed DVD rewriter on my A1200. Works fine with standard drivers (needs some mount file tweaking).
Have the same Drive, realy Looking forward as i will have the same Problems ahead
Aren't quite a few of the interesting effects you can do with the copper and blitter and all that stuff tied in with following the scanlines of the output? How does that work with the hdmi output of the vampire?
This is something we can explore in the final part. With the V2 core classic Amiga software still comes out of the RGB so that remains unchanged. Quite how it works in V3 when its merged I don't know. There's a lot to explore, and I hope we will see a lot more also now V4 has been released
it's emulation (ducks dramatically...).
Wish this could somehow be tweaked to work on a 68040 Mac!
Tell all of the Low End Mac fans to jump aboard the project.
Andy, I'm glad I'm not the only one to make that reference. I miss my Mac II ci :(
nice link to skillshare..
have you tried a different cdrom drive with the controllers? to rule out the drive itself as the issue
how much have you spent on it so far Neil? i'm guessing somewhere near £800? it looks amazing I have to say.. but how do you play the AGA games? does Vampyre let you do that with the model you have?
DVD writer's CD speed not supported by the older adapter card? Do you have an older drove to check the boards are working?
I have an old IDE Style slot drive from an old Mac mini sat in my spares draw. Would that help with the conversion issue?
That sounds useful but I have tried a regular IDE drive in my testing with the same result, so I won't deprive you of it unless I can be sure I can get it working. Thank you for the kind offer
Try a original IDE CDRom Drive Great video
This is, of course, utterly pointless. But fun?
Think I just heard LGR's chin hit the floor
I don't think Clint has ever had an Amiga...
@@thecaptain2281 but me thinks he's played Doom once or twice 😏
@@shelby3822 Fair point!
Nah he doesn't care about the Amiga. And it isn't Duke Nukem.
@@thecaptain2281 He does... He's got a donated Swedish A500, he reviewed it long time ago... :-)
Is the CD/DVD drive configured as an IDE slave? (Check for hidden jumpers)
SATA drives don't have master/slave so no jumpers.
You've built a thing of beauty. its such a shame its unique. and prohibitively expensive for most of us to make.
I will do my best to take it to various user groups for people to play with, and hopefully the new Vampire V4 will make it more achievable for others who don't want to build an A500
What I didn't like about the build?
It isn't on my desk.
Words can't express how much I love this case. I know that it used to be somewhat of a thing to towerize an A1200, but I never liked the look of them as they all looked like a regular PC after. All the Amiga style was gone. This looks like an Amiga. The A3000 design basis is clear, and the A1000 garage is a nice finishing touch, call back to my A1000, my first computer ever.
The screws, THE SCREWS!!! Greetings from the states. Suggestion, check the DVD drive in a different machine, I.E. make sure the drive actually works. Get to a new know good, break the problem in half. Great series of videos.
I don't know much about Amigas but I love seeing people like you expanding on the original hardware.
I'd probably grab my breadbin C64 that's equipped with a keyrah V2H and a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to use it as USB keyboard.
OH AND VERY IMPORTANT - trying to get a gray screen.
Forget the none matching screws ....... phillips screwed been loosened & tightened with a flathead screwdriver . *THE HORROR* !