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How I Diagnosed the Amiga 500 PCB Issue
Someone asked me how I diagnosed the break in the PCB trace of the Amiga 500. So I thought I would go into a little more detail in this blog post. Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500, part 3
Last time I left my Amiga 500 with a keyboard fault, is this issue that fault has been diagnosed and a new boot time fault emerged… Read more
Amiga 500 Plus Gotek Installation
For the most part the restoration of my Amiga 500 Plus is complete. I still haven’t managed to repair the internal floppy drive so I figured I’d use an alternative called a Gotek drive. Read more
Repairing an Amiga Roctec RF332C Floppy Drive
In a recent Amiga 500 Plus haul I managed to obtain a boxed Roctec RF332C external floppy drive, it even can with the original invoice and receipt! It was dirty like everything else, but more importantly it was faulty. Listening to it running the head was moving but it didn’t sound like the drive was… Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500 Plus, part 3
We left part 2 of this series with several problems still to solve. Progress has been made so here is another report! Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500 Plus, part 2
In part 1 I took a quick dive into what I had to work with. Now I’m working on the actual restoration. Read more
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