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  • Trying Out Even More Amiga 500 Plus Upgrades

    Trying Out Even More Amiga 500 Plus Upgrades

    My journey through trying out Amiga upgrades has been continuing recently with some minor changes to my Amiga 500 Plus. These ones are a little more minor but still useful. Read more

  • Building a Terrible Fire 536 Accelerator

    Building a Terrible Fire 536 Accelerator

    I already have a Terrible Fire 534 accelerator, but Terrible Fire created an improved 68030 based accelerator for Amiga 500, Atari ST and similar machines called the TF536. This accelerator uses a 100MHz crystal which clocks the CPU at 50MHz. Whilst it does not have an FPU like the TF534, it does have 64MB of… Read more

  • Converting a PC Floppy Drive to Amiga

    Converting a PC Floppy Drive to Amiga

    I recently purchased an external floppy drive the for the Amiga which was sold as “untested”. Unfortunately “untested” in this case meant “doesn’t work and someone did a bad attempt at repairing it”. There were parts of the drive physically broken and it was beyond repair. I lucked out because unlike the Rotec drive I… Read more

  • Programming Xilinx JTAG from a Raspberry Pi

    Programming Xilinx JTAG from a Raspberry Pi

    Many modern Amiga cards use Xilinx chips for everything from a basic CPLD for auto configuration to full blown CPU replacements. My Terrible Fire 534 accelerator has two of these chips and they are field programmable using JTAG. It turns out a Raspberry Pi can be turned into a programmer for these, so this is… Read more

  • Mounting the Amiga SD Card HDD Outside the Case

    Mounting the Amiga SD Card HDD Outside the Case

    Now that my Amiga 500 Plus uses an SD card for a hard drive the most annoying thing is having to open up the case every time I want to change the contents of the SD card or switch the card. So, I figured out a way of mounting the SD card outside the case.… Read more

  • Trying Out More Amiga 500 Plus Upgrades

    Trying Out More Amiga 500 Plus Upgrades

    After my TF534 accelerator was installed I decided that I needed to try some more upgrades to my Amiga. Some worked out, some didn’t. This post is my journey over the last couple of weeks. Read more