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Restoring Amiga 500 #2, part 1
I recently acquired another Amiga 500, I knew it was dirty and it was the machine only, no PSU or accessories. Beyond that I did not know much about it. So, I have started documenting the repair of this machine. Read more
Old post: The importance of backup verification
I’m currently going through an archive of my old dead blog trying to resurrect old posts that may still be useful, this is one from January 2014 talking about testing backups: Read more
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
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