No update at the minute, they’re planning a restructure of the code to support many different network types. In the mean time I might update the bluescsi firmware to a newer build if I get a moment
Great video as always Rob. I unfortunately inserted my A2000 action replay in reverse causing serious damage. I'm hoping i can find someone with the skills to repair it one day.
Damn, 32 years in and around the Demoscene and this is the first time I have seen OktaMed in action. Hell yeah! Thanks for the great video. Edit: And if anyone has any doubt how much more there is to this story, he did not even mention any of the trackers I used on PC between 1992 and 1997, hahaha. ModEdit, Whacker Tracker, and MultiTracker, roughly in that order of chronology and enjoyablility :) (MultiTracker really deserves to be remembered for its 32-channel capabilities alone)
I have a ROM Switcher with switch thanks to Pillock now on the rear. So switching ROMS will be easy. Great video and choice of music to accompany the build!
@@RobSmithDev If you want to borrow my whole card, feel free. I don't actually know if it works but can throw it in a 2000 to try; I bought an accelerator off Amibay years ago and the guy threw it in for free as he didn't want it.
It’s a less common configuration with output feedback - but with the scope I could see constant charge/discharge happening - could do with another to check with lol
@@RobSmithDev Ah! if it has output feedback then it is unlikely. Unfortunately I got rid of my A500 one to compare with. So, I'm not quite sure how the slow mode is supposed to work, I would guess at pulsing the Halt or something?
I just checked the control for my Mk2 The wiper of the 10K pot is connected to pin 1 on the main board (that you have labelled POT) One side of the pot (the anticlockwise end) is connected to pin 9 on the main PCB (you have labelled 5V) The other side of the pot is left floating, no connection The SLOMO toggle switch connects pin 2 to GND when in the ON position I tested the real world connections with a multimeter on continuity
I think there are some "patched" rom versions in existance which allow the AR to at least co-exist with later ks versions - mind you not fully function but at least not prevent the amiga from working/booting. Ofc that would require re-programming the roms (assuming you could find such a patched rom) - and you would still need to kickstart switch back to 1.3 to get full functionality from the AR.
@@RobSmithDev the winuae source code has quite a bit of info in it about how AR works (ar.cpp in the winuae github). it states v3.17 of AR3 ROM works with Kickstart 2.04 but also has info on patching other versions to work on KS2 as well.
@@RobSmithDev I don't there there is an in-circuit official upgrade path no, you could try by using a chip-clip attached to the eeprom and programemr (if it's not the OTP type) - Personally I would pick 2 new chips and program those then replace the ones currently on the board, but keep them as a rollback/backup option
Yes I had the Amiga 2000 version, I know I’ve still got it, not 100% sure where. I need to look. I was thinking about it the other week when I saw the holes I’d drilled in the back of the case for the button :)
Probably the same reason as some games don’t work on KS2+, probably expecting things to be at a specific location in the ROM that moved in newer versions and it didn’t check it properly - which would be tricky while keeping it invisible to the system
There's a thread at A1K where they're completely reversing the AR III - it's been going for a while now, although the main reason is repairing old ARs. They are still missing one of the GALs. There is talk of a working CPLD version, but it's not available. Thread title is: Action Replay Mk III (A500) Schaltplan / Repro
Cool I’ll take a look. I did find a repo on GitHub where someone had been reverse engineering it. Not sure if it’s related - but some of the schematics didn’t seem correct to me - I’ll check out A1k
1990 I had use the action replay for Pc's too. i have later use this versions external controller for the action replay of the amiga 500 converted for my A2000 by a self made adapter card 😆
Wait, what?! Please somebody slap me in the face! Unbelievable! Never expected that to happen in my Amiga veteran days, what a joy! o) Thank you for being the kind and smart person you are!
floppy drives and it's media were never meant to last this long, but here we are 40 years later. But the media now is decaying to the point where the magnetic layer is stripping off the discs. You can have a brand new sealed in shrinkwrap boxed disks unopened and half of them refuse to format without bad sectors. That's discs that have had no use or wear with the drive head. No amount of cleaning is going to fix this. The drives themselves can have restorative maintainance replacing caps, regreasing worm screws and head cleaning, but the media for them is becoming increasingly unusable over time. Someone needs to start a kickstarter and re-manufacture some new media theres no other way around this.
@@RobSmithDev 5.25 disks were generally more robust despite the lack of protection encasement offered by 3.5". Lower density and better materials before everything started to go cheap mid 90s
Hey, for a project instead of using a jack plug for the mic, im using a AITRIP INMP441 Omnidirectional Microphone and i was wondering which of the plugs i would connect it to there.
while i never owned a 500, i did own a 600 and a heavily invested in a 1200, with HDD (a huge 6mb) 2nd floppy and the ram upgrade. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood.
That is awesome! I've got boxes of Amiga and ST disks which I haven't looked at in years, I'll have to get a drive and give this a try, maybe I can finally make a set of Workbench disks for my Amiga 🙂
@@RobSmithDev If I had seen that software for sale, I wouldn't have hesitated to buy a copy. The Futurama "Shut up And Take My Money!" meme was stuck in my head throughout the video right up until you announced it was free 🎈
Not really used commercial anymore, although you might find the odd one that’s been left doing something. But for hobby, depends what part of the world you’re in. In Europe, really popular with new games, software and hardware coming out all the time, and several (trade) shows to go to, and then there’s the active demo scene too! But around the globe there’s many many different Amiga groups that meet regularly- check out retro.directory see if there’s one near you
I remember as a kid I often used to ask my father whether we could load our C64 diskettes on his Pentium 200. Would have loved to see this being back then, so I am glad for everyone who can still make use of this i.E. indie devs :)
