Wrapped Up

12 Apr 2015

The original capacitors in my Amiga 1200 are now over 20 years old. I was extremely lucky that the machine even booted after having not been used for 17 years. I don’t want to try my luck, though, and decided that it is time to replace the original capacitors as they may destroy my hardware in the not so distant future.

Stefan from Stefans Amiga Welt was kind enough to offer the service of replacing my Amiga 1200’s old electrolytic capacitors with new polymer capacitors. Today I packaged my Amiga 1200 up and will send it on its way to Stefan tomorrow.

External Disk Drive Adapter

12 Apr 2015

Thanks to an adapter made by KMTech Design, I was able to connect my GoTek USB floppy emulator as an external disk drive.

Hardware Programming

06 Apr 2015

I started to follow Photon/Scoopex’s excellent Amiga Hardware Programming tutorial. To be as oldschool as possible (without a real Amiga 500 at hand) I am emulating an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 using WinUAE.

I tweaked S/Startup-Sequence to start ASM-One after the system has booted.

Mac Mini G4

31 Mar 2015

I bought an Apple Mac Mini G4 (2005 model) for cheap on eBay. Now I have a machine on which I can run MorphOS.

PCMCIA Network Adapter

31 Mar 2015

The EasyNet PCMCIA network adapter that I ordered a while back arrived today. Its XJACK connector is probably the weirdest connector I have encountered so far.