Repair

Two special Amiga 4000s: Finishing Jools RepairTwo special Amiga 4000s: Finishing Jools Repair

Two special Amiga 4000s: Finishing Jools Repair

You may remember that the A4000 known as "Jools" went to its new owner for an event in a semi-working…

1 month ago
Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics CardRepair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card

Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card

Hot on the heels of repairing the Cirrus Logic VLB card, I acquired a dead Trident TGUI9440 based VLB graphics…

2 months ago
Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics CardRepair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

Fellow vintage computer collector, Gammitin, challenged me to fix four VLB graphics cards, as well as upgrade the RAM on…

2 months ago
Two special Amiga 4000s: More Jops RepairsTwo special Amiga 4000s: More Jops Repairs

Two special Amiga 4000s: More Jops Repairs

In my previous post in this series, I managed to diagnose and repair three very strange issues that were causing…

3 months ago
Two special Amiga 4000s: Jops videoTwo special Amiga 4000s: Jops video

Two special Amiga 4000s: Jops video

I finally got Jops to generate a good DiagROM serial output, but the video output wasn't working. This time I…

4 months ago
Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 3Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 3

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 3

All the motherboard issues were resolved in my previous post in this series, now it is time to reassemble and…

4 months ago
Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2

With this Amiga 2000, I previously got it into a state where it would boot from the main CPU and…

4 months ago
Two special Amiga 4000s: Repairing JopsTwo special Amiga 4000s: Repairing Jops

Two special Amiga 4000s: Repairing Jops

Last time I worked on Jops, I left myself a lot of work to do. This weekend I picked it…

4 months ago
Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 1Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 1

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 1

I recently acquired an Amiga 2000 for £350 which was in an unknown state, but had many upgrades in it.…

4 months ago
Diagnosing an Amiga 1200 Data Path FaultDiagnosing an Amiga 1200 Data Path Fault

Diagnosing an Amiga 1200 Data Path Fault

I recently acquired an Amiga 1200 motherboard in a spares/repairs condition for about £100 recently. There was evidence of a…

5 months ago