All of these guides and repair videos are priceless! They are clear and very simple so any of Amiga owners can jump in and try to fix their computers. I love it :)

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

T W Thank you for your kind words, i really appreciate it🙏🏻🙂

@atlasreed281

3 жыл бұрын

i know im randomly asking but does someone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my login password. I would love any help you can give me.

@sergiolucas6712

3 жыл бұрын

@Atlas Reed Instablaster :)

@atlasreed281

3 жыл бұрын

@Sergio Lucas Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site on google and im trying it out now. Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@atlasreed281

3 жыл бұрын

@Sergio Lucas It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thank you so much, you saved my ass :D

Thanks a ton! I have three Amiga 500s in my parents basement, that I got for free many years ago. I'm on a nostalgia trip right now, and I'm planning on putting together at least one working machine, just like the one I had in the early 90's. I don't know much about them just yeat, but I tested them by powering them up and just one of them gave the green light and the disk drive echoed that lovely clicking sound. As of now I don't have any peripherals for them, only the three machines, one power supply and one external floppy drive. The one that seemed to work is made in West Germany, the other two that didn't are made in Hong Kong. I don't know about their differences, but your video is a great help in identifying them. I think I'll have to at least get a monitor, a mouse and some disks to do some more tests. For a joystick a TAC-2 would be ace, since even back in the day it seemed to be the best joystick to have. I felt that the Quickshots were just crappy..

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Mikko Kukkonen 👍🏻Great comment, you’re welcome buddy, glad to help, its the purpose of this video. I really hope you can fix all your Amigas, and get some nostalgic-love. Its an amazing feeling today to replay your old Amiga games again. Hope you’ll update us after repair😁👍🏻

@kukko83

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Sure, I'll give an update in any case. I'd really like to get at least one working and I might need some advice from you if I get stuck! :) First of all, what's the best alternative for the old CRT monitor these days and how to connect it to the Amiga? Is it just plug and play with some LCD screen?

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Mikko Kukkonen Glad to help, join us on Facebook: Commodore 64 - Amiga Retrocengo. Start with some picks of your amiga there, also if it has a ram upgrade on. Easyist way is a rgb to scart connector, if hour tv has it😁

@kukko83

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Great, thanks! I'm not in Facebook, but I'll try and work my way forward, as I poke around the Amigas a bit more.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Mikko Kukkonen Allright, good luck😁👍🏻

My A500+ had two holes at the back, 1MB chip switch + Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 switch. I also had holes on the back of my A590 too. A 4 position switch to select how much RAM it had and a switch to turn the hard drive power on or off. This was so that I could reduce the amount of RAM in the system when I was using the Action Replay, so it didn't take so long to scan the memory. It was also nice to be able to completely disable the hard drive from booting up with the other switch. In fact, there was also a slit along the back because I rehoused the hard disk into an external casing under the desk on a long ribbon cable. This was to cut down the noise it made, which also meant I could unplug that piddly little fan that was even noisier than the drive as there wasn't the heat being generated. If you find an A500+ or an A590 with white plastic glued on the inside of the casing to cover the holes... it was probably mine :-D

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Error 42 😀😀great story😀 I’ll keep that in mind but A590 is not easy to find today

Hey Cheni... You're going all Jan Beta on this video! Another awesome video from you.. thanks for posting!

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Chino Thanks dear Chino, thats a great compliment thanks😁🙏🏻

Love your video’s excellent stuff Love the 500

@RETROCENGO

2 жыл бұрын

What a great comment to wake up to😊 thank you brother 🙏🏼

Funny how i never noticed your channel before... ;-) Just checking all the vids you have. Weekend (optimistically saying) is coming and I'll have time to check them...

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Misel Zivanovic love this comment, thanks for the support buddy. Well I didn’t activate monitazation, couse I don’t like adds, so my videoes didn’t pop up, couse youtube dident earn money, now its on, sorry by the adds but it helps on viewers now😁😁🙏🏻😉

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Misel Zivanovic Talking about it in the beginning of this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGGEo8erdaeTiJc.html

Uhhh.... I forgot to add, that the rev5 only takes 256k and not 512k kickrom chips. If you buy that resistor pack that eliminates the boot issue, then you can use 512k kickrom chips as well.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

brostenen Well yes, and another reason to clear my point about the rev5. Thanks😁👍🏻

@brostenen

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Yup. I bought a rom-fix for my rev5.

The battery in my Amiga leaked, damaged a few traces and took out the Gary socket and some through hole components. Thankfully the parts are cheap! The plastics on it however are in perfect condition. Hope I can get it working again. Anyway, great videos dude.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Tobias Rieper Offcourse you can, its varta damadge as usual, many guides out there, hope you’ll fix it and give us an update 😁👍🏻

@TobyRieper48

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Thanks buddy, definitely will :D

I have just got myself an 500, no power light when turned on, the diskdrive is humming tho, and when plugged into my tv via scart it automaticly switch from tv to scart so theres some signal going out to the tv, nothing else happens, im a total beginner and dont know what to do, theres no visible leaking from the capacitors. What would be the best way to start the troubleshooting? Previous owner says it started a few years ago, could it be corrosion on any of the chips, or can they actually go bad just by age?

On my Rev.5 Amiga motherboards I have done a small mod to make the power LED dim like 6A and 8A, instead of turning off like shown in the video here. It will dim (turn off on older boards) when the audio filter is disabled. The mod is very simpe. Just ADD a 100-ohm resistor between emitter and collector of Q502. In my case I used two of the soldering points of the keyboard connector on the underside of the board. I measured the two soldering points that was connected directly to emitter and collector of Q502 and just soldered on a 100-ohm resistor. Now my Rev.5 boards will dim the power LED when audio filter is disabled, just like newer revision boards. I hated the fact that it would turn completely off.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Mats Larsen Nice with the guide😁👍🏻 i also prefer it turned on, but hey im all into rev 8A.1

@larsenmats

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO I know, Mr. 2MB Chip RAM :D I love all A500 boards. In fact, I love anything Amiga 500 or 500 Plus more than my A600s or A1200. Probably because nostalgia. But I also love A600s and A1200s. I love anything Amiga or Commodore 64 :D

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Mats Larsen A600 was my first, but i feel the same way, the A500plus is on top😍 but A1200AGA is also amazing 🤩🤩 Amiga 4ever bro

Rev5 is not a bad machine as such, IF the goal is to play them old games from floppy or gotek. That said. Rev5 have this little bug, that sometimes makes it boot wrong. That can be fixed by adding a circuit with some resistors between the kickrom and the kickrom socket. Yet with an rev5 machine, and 512k expansion, and a scandoubler. Then you have the perfect and cheapest way of playing over half of all Amiga games ever created. Just make sure you get a kick switcher too, and install kick 1.2 and 1.3 in the machine. That way, you can play pre-1988 games as well, without any issue at all.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

brostenen NO Amigas are bad😁😁 I just prefer newer versions for obvious reasons yes😁👍🏻

@brostenen

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Nope. No Amiga's are bad.... Well... Except for those that are not working. 😁

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

brostenen we’ll fix em all🤓😁😁😅

Always good to see a working Amiga after so many years... I noticed your SYSTEST disk and found it on the net, but also that there is like a newer version AmigaTestKit-v1.5 (or is it just renamed). Need to check it with the emulator first... I'll give that a go with the Amiga 1200 i recieved as defect... Maybe i can turn my frustrations into a good mood ;-) You never know... But first I need to buy this internal floppy terminator cause internal isn't working at all, not booting, not showing disks. Last time i wanted to rescue the Amiga, i made a HD by using Amiga Forever and connect it then to Amiga... I got ROM 3.1 already last time, but didn't really help, also the stronger 4.5A power supply...

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Misel Zivanovic Thanks. Instead of floppy drive, buy a cheap ide to CF adaptor on ebay an a 16GB CF card. Pump your amiga1200 with alot of software and WHDLoad games😁

@miselzivanovic2181

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO have that already, but would like to have a working floppy disk too... Love to hear the floppy clicking...haha... Have SD/IDE and also CF/IDE adapters, and even still have one SEALED (in antistatic bag) 2.1GB 2.5" harddisk. I just can't find strenght to open it... ;-) I tried AmigaTestKit on emulator and it looks like what you were using, so I'll try that asap. Maybe it can be of help somehow...

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Misel Zivanovic amigastore. Eu sells new floppy drives

@miselzivanovic2181

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Interessting you are naming that shop ;-)... I have there a cart full of products for my defect Amiga 1200 open since a while. Didn't order it due to the fact that i doubt I am going to be able to fix the Amiga and will then have a bunch of accessory dusting around... You see, it's a difficult decision, but I am close to hit the order button... ;-) ... I guess i got some extra motivation boost while watching your videos...

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Misel Zivanovic Great news, makes me so happy to reay, another retro gamer to the community 😁👍🏻👍🏻 But make sure your A1200 boots up first. Does is boot with HD/CF card? Nice picture and sound? Make sure its okey, and try without any accl cards

Today a lot of people just use their Amiga's to play games with WHDload and only need kickstart 3.1, but back in the day when the Amiga was current, if people wanted to run their older games as well as take advantage of the later games/software a kickstart switcher was essential. I bought one for my Amiga 600 back in the 90's cause a lot of the old games and demo's i use to watch did not work with kickstart 2.0. I had kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 on the switcher. I ended up only keeping the Amiga 600 which i bought brand new for only 6 months and bought another Amiga 500, because at the time the A600 was crap compared to an A500 which had many expansions available.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Boom Box Ohh my first Amiga was A600, remember games not working without reloadkick disk first, was SO irritating. But yes today i don’t understand the kickstart switchers, 3.1 and WHDLoad and you are good to go😁👍🏻

@BoomBox02

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO I think all the Amiga 500's that you come by now with holes and switches on them, they would have been done back when the Amiga was still being sold. No use for a kickstart swapper these days. These days people are doing a lot worse. I see so many Amiga cases on Facebook pages that are hacked so a Gotek can fit where the original floppy use to go. Even worse is some people are hacking their Amiga cases even worse just to get an LCD screen fitted on the top so they can see what is running on the Gotek. That is one thing i will never do.

@brostenen

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody seems to remember that the issues when kickstart 1.3 came, was just as big, as when the Amiga 500+ and Amiga600 came. Games from between 1985 and 1988, sometimes require kickstart 1.2 in order to run issue free. And there are even an article in a 1991 Danish Amiga magazine, talking about that people had forgotten all these compatibility issues that came when 1.3 was introduced. (it was about the Amiga500+ machine and incompatibility)

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Boom Box Ohhh those Gotek hackers are the worst😢 sorry but it just makes me so sad to se people sawing there Amigas

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

brostenen Well today 98% is all about WHDLoad, thats why I don’t understand kick switches. But yes back then, on disk only i fully understand people’s “upgrade”

The best A500 revision is Rev6A. The Rev8A is nice but there is the problem of the battery clock leakage. Rev3 en 5 not so great to have for upgrades on the board.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Johan den Hertog its the 8A.1 that has the battery, plus model, the 8A is great, with all the plus chips/upgrades exept ram and varta batt😁👍🏻

@johandenhertog6878

4 жыл бұрын

There are Rev8A boards with a battery clock on it and there are Rev8A which lock like a upgrade Rev6A without the battery. The Rev8A.1 boards have always battery leakage on it. For me the Rev6A boards are the best to have. Have alot of ACE2 on it and a Indivision ECS is a must to have.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

rezargamer yes its without varta desrtoyer, highly sought after today

One of the few vids that is any good on the amiga... ps do i need a boot disk for my amiga 500 or not?

@RETROCENGO

Жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy, no the Amiga 500 has kickstart rom does not need boot disk

Thanks for your videos, I just discovered your channel, great stuff. Really enjoy your humour. I just took my A500 out of a 20 year storage, have managed to get fairly reliable disk drive performance but the keyboard has some issues. The whole bottom row and some of the next row up are dead. Is this usually a broken trace on the pcb membrane? I love my amiga, but really can't keep using it with so many dead keys.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Mac Happy to have you on the team😁 Its easy to buy another membrane and replace the old one, its also possible to draw new traces and repaire😁👍🏻

@jmac79ers

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO ok thanks, I had taken it apart to clean, hoping that would help(only lost 1 out of the 100 screws haha) but it didn't. So next step, I'll look for a broken trace. Thanks so much!

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Mac Most welcome, you can actually buy a pen, that makes the same “think” as on the back carwindow, you know the heaters, it can repair traces on the membrane, and sorry i dont know its name though 😁👍🏻

@jmac79ers

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO couldn't find a pen locally, but I got a little bottle of conductive paint. After alot of trial and error with my multimeter(including learning how to use my multimeter again) I found three dark corroded spots and managed to get all keys working last night. I used alot of painters masking tape to do a narrow winding trace with a brush. Finally have my bottom row of keys including spacebar!! Thanks for your help!

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Mac Great news, allways happy to help😁

There are many reasons for wanting to change ROMS and the most important reason is to run the older software that was not so compatible with I believe 2.x. Most use 3.x ROMS and have no need for other ROMS's. Having a ROM Switch would allow you to run the ROM you like and install DIAG ROM without having to open your case. If you have the toys to burn ROMs then its a very viable option. The ROMULATOR allows you to install ROM's on an SD Card which is cool. Most accelorators will allow to run a maprom to load in different ROM or you can do a rekick to load a ROM file. Anyway we all have different needs and not everyone needs nor requires the ability to run different ROMs but the options are there should you need to. Oh man my A500 the other night went poof when I turned it on. No lights, no video sync but the very noticeable scent that something burned. I never had my nose so close to a motherboard trying to isolate that electrical burn smell. I was smelling everything the PSU is ok no bad smells but the A500 I can smell it everywhere but the disk drive has the stronger scent and the smell is stronger on the drive side as well. Usually you can spot a burn but like Sgt Shultz I saw nothing but that's just a preliminary visual inspection on the top size of the board. I will know more once I run the board under my microscope. Anyway looks like another Amiga Repair and that's just part of the retro experience although most would be crying about, me its about keeping the dream alive and the A500 is old like all my other Amiga's. The only bummer is that I had an Indivision, ROMULATOR and Memory Expansion so I am not sure how far south my A500 went but I will find out by the end of the month.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Bruce Try to take a look at the buttom side on the A500. Yea back then with disks it was important with compatible kickstart rom, but today, most of us use WHDLoad, i mean I upgrade everything to 3.1 and it loads everything 🤘🏼😁

@stephenbruce8320

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Damn I wrote a detailed response on what I went through with the A500 which is now fully functional. I had the motherboard on my bench all day mostly inspecting everything under the microscope finding no signs of a burn. Only thing I could find was what appears to be a broken trace that appears to have been drilled its a perfect hole. This trace run between the edge connector P50 to Pin 20 of the 68000 and to Pins 25 on U7 & U8 of the CIA's but my board has a 68K resistor between the 68000 and U7 which appears to complete the circuit and its installed on some A500's to resolve one EMI issues but not all A500's but its listed as XR1. I spent the day doing way too much in-circuit testing not finding anything. The board was recently recapped by the previous owner, his work was done well but he chose to use HITANO caps and so I am not familiar with those but from what I have read the quality is questionable by some while others swear by them but for now I will just leave them alone. Not finding anything wrong I decided to just electrify the bastard, keep in mind I had already removed the Indivision Board, ROMULATOR and RAM Expander. I figured it something was going to burn let it burn then I would know what I had to deal with. Yup I turned it on and she booted no issues. I started installing the components in one at a time and no issues found. Yea its working and I should be happy but I did smell a burn last week. The only thing I could think of is when I installed the ROMULATOR I had to raise it up with another socket because Capacitor C816 was commming in contact with the SD Card preventing me from fully seating the ROMULATOR. The added height meant the set of Jumpers on the end of the ROMULATOR for selecting which revision motherboard its installed in came in contact with the keyboard. Even though I was not using these jumpers I did leave the jumper connected off to the side but unknown to me it fell off when I installed the top cover which may have pushed the keyboard close to the jumpers on the ROMULATOR but there was no arching marks on the bottom side of the keyboard. So just to make sure I insulated the bottom of the keyboard because I did not want to risk a short even though there is space between the ROMULATOR and keyboard its not worth taking chances. Anyway I spent way to much time on this issue and then several hours more loading different ROMS and bootinng and rebooting with disks just to make sure this puppy is good to go. I will expand and accelerate this puppy so that it will fly and it occupies a space on my server desk and I did install an external GOTEK Drive you know those are hit or miss and the two I never use because they are hit or miss well one is kinda sorta working but its good enough to boot from. Now if I can find my special edge connector I can possibly get a HD Setup with 8MB or additional RAM but I will be damned if I know what I did with that edge connector but it can be used on the A1000 or A500 but it allows me to install a Zorro Board. Its funnly because for over 10 years it sat on my counter then I found a new home for it but this old fart forgot where that new home is. So I will rip my house apart this weekend until I find it.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Bruce Look at the bright side, you have another working Amiga now😁 Sometimes we look for the worst case scenario, but the error later appears to be a simple fix🤗 Is it going to be a disk using Amiga, since you are using different roms?

@stephenbruce8320

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO There is a new board out, Amiga 520 Classic that can be used on the A1000 and A500 that allows you to run at I believe its 28 mhz but it provides an IDE you can boot from. I do want a Vampire for the A500 but the wait is long. The Vampire will just ignore the ROM so the ROMULATOR will not be usable. What I like about the ROMULATOR is I can easily switch between ROMS including running DIAGROM and since its not accelerated it comes in handy. As you know with an accelerator you can do a MAPROM and do the same thing. I hate disks with a passion because they are so unreliable which is how I got back into the retro scene because I wanted to protect my disk collection and get everything stored on my server so I could access it and move the what I want to use. One thing lead to another now I have a house full of C64, 64C, 128, 128DCR, Amigas and emulators be it WINUAE, Pi, Mist and shhhh I got some PPC Mac's to play with Morph OS but you only get 30 mins to play with it before you have to reboot to get another 30 mins. They should give you a couple weeks to know if its for you or not before you buy it because Mac's are slow but I have them, hell I even have an AMAX II for my A2000 and I have MAC software but meh its not Amiga and just pretty room ornaments best left to look at. Only good thing I can say about a MAC is when it Crashes it makes a broken glass sound. Very cool.

Hey Cheni... What screen are you using? How do you connect the output from the Amiga to it?

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Chino its a standard LG tv screen, tuned well in. Connected with a GOLD RGB to Scart cable, pic quality is amazing

@chinosts

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO what about the aspect ratio? On camera the picture didn't looked stretched but with a 16:9 screen isn't the picture going to look too wide horizontally? I didn't noticed any black bars either...

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Chino Aspect ratio is 16:9 but i can adjust to 4:3. Both looks good. I’ve used it 16:9 for a year now and used to it, looks perfect for me😁👍🏻

@chinosts

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO yep it looked great in your footage!

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

Chino Thanks buddy, happy you are here

Is workbench preinstalled on Amiga 500 or it's something you have to load from a floppy?

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

binaryblog have to load it

@binaryblog

4 жыл бұрын

@@RETROCENGO Thx for the quick answer :D

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

binaryblog most welcome😁

I think that it is time that all the special chips that make an AMIGA work should be implemented as FPGAs or CPLD or a combination of both before it is impossible to actually do it.

@RETROCENGO

4 жыл бұрын

DAVID GREGORY KERR Sounds like a great idea