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Upgrading the Terrible Fire
In my previous post I mentioned that I acquired and repaired a faulty TF534 accelerator. Over the past couple of weeks I have been upgrading the card and the Amiga around it. This is where I am at now. Read more
Repairing a Terrible Fire 534
Surprisingly a Terrible Fire is actually a good thing! It is a range of accelerators for the Amiga and Atart ST. I recently picked up a damaged one on eBay relatively cheaply in the hopes that I could either repair it or use the parts to build a new one. It has a 68030 CPU… Read more
Restoring Amiga 500 #2, part 3
Now that I have much better desoldering equipment I decided over the weekend to get the motherboard for this Amiga out and start working on repairing it. Before now I was going to give up on it and scrap it for parts, but a friend donated a keyboard to use with this board and I… Read more
Restoring Amiga 500 Plus #2, part 1
Last month I acquired a faulty Amiga 500 Plus for a bargain price on eBay. I knew it was showing a black screen on power on and the keyboard was damaged (I had spare parts for that), what I didn’t know was just how bad the internal damage was. But I was up for the… Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500, part 4
This final part is a large one, the Amiga is finally fully restored but there were a few things I needed to do first. So, here we go… Read more
Restoring Amiga 500 #2, part 2
In this post I’m going to be taking a quick look at the A501 trapdoor RAM expansion and keyboard for the Amiga 500. Read more
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