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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
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
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