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Amiga 1000 Restoration: The Keyboard
In the previous instalment I found that the keyboard on the Amiga 1000 was not fully working, and it needed a clean anyway. So, I went ahead and started working on it. Read more
Amiga 1000 Restoration: Recap, Cleaning and Testing
Following on from my first restoration post the next step is recapping the PSU and cleaning the case. As with the first post, not everything went to plan… Read more
Amiga 1000 Restoration: Floppy Drive and WCS Failure?
As part of restoring my Amiga 1000 into the beautiful machine it once was, I wanted to be able to use the floppy drive without having to use a USB stick in the hole to eject it. And here my adventure starts… Read more
An Amiga 1000
Over the last couple of years I’ve slowly been building up a collection of every 16bit Amiga model. The most recent of these turned up this week, an Amiga 1000! Read more
Soldering Workbench Tour Update
A few months ago I gave a tour of my soldering workbench for anyone who might find it useful. All the money I make from manufacturing Amiga parts either goes to more R&D or upgrading my workshop so I can make more complicated projects faster/easier. Since then I have invested in some upgrades and new Read more
PiStorm in the MiniMig
The MiniMig is a board which is a hardware reimplmentation of the Amiga custom chips in FPGA which connects to a real 68000 CPU to provide a very accurate replication of an OCS/ECS Amiga. It was the starting point for the Amiga MiSTer core. The project has been around for at least 15 years now Read more
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