Amiga 1000 Pt2: The Parceiro II 

Fred Fish was the most famous software line of Public Domain Software. From Games to tools to crazy apps it had it all.

Fun to see an Amiga 1000 easily handing the split screen view that Android and iOS were recently so pleased with themselves over. :D

fred fish was a PD library - used to be able to get on cdrom :)

A1000 was such a nice design. I sold my c64 and all my games, pooled my pocket money in the bank and got one in 1987. Loved it. Later got a sidecar for it

Well, there you go! Guess I better get the A1000 working now 🙂 That Parceiro looks like a game changer for us A1000 owners.

When the Amiga was first released, until WB 1.2 it was 'a tad incomplete'. In the enthusiast world people started creating demo, utilities, programming examples (like a demonstration of the graphics.library by Dale Luck) and ultimately full applications. Some, like Perry Kirvokiwitz's Recoverable RAM disk were 'duplicated' in later OS releases (1.3). For things so useful the authors asked that people send in a check (shareware), VD0: was $10. Kirvokowitz would go on to create the company ASDG and is a professor of Computer Science in New England. Fish (a programmer himself) stated putting these together on serialized floppy discs, almost no one outside of a university setting had access to the early (pre-web) internet. Amazing Computing magazine started covering the contest of these assembled items as Fish would publish them about 10 at a time, say early 86. It was a godsend, but everything about the Amiga was and that's why nearly 40 years later we're still here. 👍.

The Parceiro is an elegant solution.

Jason - really loving your latest videos, and this A1000 restoration series done beautifully. Well done!

Great video and well done showing the mod install for the Parceiro II. Being a Parceiro user from one of David's very first ones they are great and David is a fantastic guy with amazing support!!! I really enjoyed your video on this!

Fred Fish was one of the original archives of Amiga Shareware the numbers referred to the various Fred Fish floppy sets.

Ahh, yes, the desoldering gun/hot air method, as first executed by one, Adrian Black...and it has saved my @55 multiple times...

Thank you so much for putting a link to part one in the description. I can't believe how many RU-vid videos have a multiple part series, and they don't think the previous and next parts!!! WTF!

Nice work! Really enjoyed the journey on this one. Thank you for sharing. 😁

I got mine a few weeks ago - it's FREEKIN' AWESOME!!!

I loved the name of the thing! Parceiro means _male friend_ while amiga means _female friend_ in Portuguese 😂

Very nice A1000. Looks new and mint. I had a MC68010 in my A2000 back in the day, and i don't remember it being as fast as yours.

The tall pins are called "Stand offs". I want this!

That parciero looks interesting, thanks for the heads up!

Now that is an interesting piece of kit!

Wonderful video. Thank you. Yep. the 010's main claim to fame was that it could interface with external PMMU's and a few extra interrupts that the 68000 won't know about or care for .. HP did this in the HP9000-300 (and some other models (SGI with the 68k gear pre Iris, $etc)) with a home-made MMU to run full HP-UX with protected && paged memory for instance. Compared to a bog 68000, it has a few instructions that are 'slightly' faster than a 68000 at the same speed. Sometimes this can cause incompatibilities with demos (timing mostly). I ran one for over a decade daily. It's good. Fred Fish was a guy that made a massive shareware /freeware archive and released "Fish Disks" periodically. You get the disk directory listing (printed or electronically in a text file) and you order a shareware disk with the software you want to try. I really hope you enjoy exploring this machine. Amiga's are a joy. If you do any development, check out SAS C, heck you could probably easily run v6.5. Loved the King Tut moment :) :)

Doing the digging in on that Indiana Jones games really helps. I like this approach since I too am learning after not having an Amiga when they were current.

Great video and I enjoyed the way you edged around the upgrade options. I am old school Amiga user and fast CPU, networking, memory and RTG are just upgrades and make a great machine incredible. However, I agree that you have it perfect for the authentic experience.

I know you wanted to keep it period correct but the Amiga 1000 was discontinued before 1.3 hit retail. Most were sold with 1.0 or 1.1 and a few will have been sold with 1.2 towards the end of it's life. It's possible retailers might've added 1.3 to old stock but not Commodore as far as I know. 1.3 Is still way better than 1.2, which is way better than 1.1 and 1.0. Whatever you want to run on yours is up to you. I just thought you might not know. The Fred Fish archive is a huge PD collection. You should be able to use a tool like KingFisher and KingFisher2db on Aminet for a better search. DPaint III has hard disk support but also try Brilliance. Great vid, glad you're enjoying your A1000!

Loved this project. Great kudos on keeping old faithful blue too! Everybody these days instantly jump on the +3.1 bandwagon but there is a lot to be said for a nice 1.3 setup and of course it's pure nostalgia. Gday from Adelaide too.

You have my fav joystick for the Amiga and Amstrad there, love it!

The reason the 68010 supports universal quit key is because the 68010 was the first one that supported virtualization. Without an external MMU, it can't protect or trap memory (and thus can't virtualize memory or hardware properly), but on its own it does have the capacity to at least keep code execution contained on a logical level by trapping access to supervisor mode, by having an exception handler trick the userland code into thinking it can mess with supervisor mode, so if the running code doesn't trash actual memory containing the functions of the interrupt and exception handler, it is none the wiser that it isn't really in control of the system. Thus adding a quit key is trivial, you just have a supervisor-mode interrupt that checks if the quit key is pressed, and the game doesn't even know its there. You can just have a default quit key on every program without having to write anything new. The 68000 can't do this -- userland is free to mess with supervisor mode, so if you want to add a 68000-compatible quit key to a game you have to actually patch it into the game itself.

Love that solution for an Amiga 1000

I believe the A1000 floppy doesn't have the optical track 0 sensor, so "no click" applications will not work and trying to use them may misalign the drive over time. Of course, I haven't verified this on my own A1000. The program I use for my A1200 (and WinUAE) is called StarClick, and it works great.

Great video!

I still use Directiry Opus in Windows 10. It's a fantastic file manager.

The "plastic pins" as you call them are called "standoffs".

Very nice to find out about the Fat32 transfer partition on the SD card (~13:00). I am also new to Amiga and have been wonder about how to transfer files. I haven't had any luck with my IDE "CF Card" HDD, probably because I am a newbie. I'll have to check out Fred Fish software (2 comments mention it).

JST was the for-runner of Whdload. It's Author is still active on the English Amiga Board (although French) as JOTD. I believe he now writes Slave Files for Whdload.

"Parceiro" ("pah-zay-do") means "partner" in Portuguese. Makes sense considering what it is.

I just want to add even though I don't own one I dealt with the developer through numerous emails asking questions about it on the older version man that guy came back all the time with replies so helpful

Just need an a max Mac thing now!

Nice bit of kit i wish i had not sold my a1000 years ago they have gone up a lot now

Is it correct that the A600 benchmark in sysinfo is based on a stock unit with no fast ram?

With the 68010, you will need a program named "decigel" in startup-sequence.

Great work with the A1000 and keeping it period correct with workbench 1.3 was great to see. I don't suppose you'd have a link to somewhere I could download that launcher? It looks like it'd be perfect for my similarly setup A500 with IDE and workbench 1.3.

it's funny how a little bit of fast ram frees up cpu to make it perform a little better in cpu

I use MultiCX as my NoClick.

HI, I released the same with my A1000 PAL (Europe without daughterboard). If have time for make a video of this for the European person this holidays, I make this 😁 French: J'ai réalisé la même opération sur mon A1000 (sans carte fille), Si j'ai le temps pendants ces vacances je ferais la vidéo 😁

man you shake more than I do and I drink beer everyday, BTW good video

The icons being on the left in WB 1.3 had me thinking you're running kickstart 2 or 3. They would normally be on the right, but one could manually move them to the left and snapshot the desktop.

I could not find a website of where to buy this? Also I found mention of a V3 that now also includes WiFi? Also my A1000 's don't have daughter boards so... 🤷‍♂️

How would this work with the Rejuvenator since it allows any rom to be installed. Would the Parceiro boot into workbench normally?

Get one of those Rejuvenator boards... :D

You mention Randall during the video - who's Randall? I'm about to go through this install exercise on my A1000 - I'm confused though, did the SD card come pre-prepped AND with a Kick 1.3? So that once i modify the DAUGxxx chips, and flip some jumpers, things will just magically work? I wasn't looking forward to mounting the SD card on my PC via WinUAE, mangling some stuff, ejecting, inserting in Parceiro, etc. etc. Great video, thanks for that!

They all say the a3000 is the best classiest machine to upgrade. Just na the a1000 is the most elegant and beautiful MUST HAVE to own. I just want an a1000 where evrthing > HDMI and SD Card HDD and a piStorm type update - I want an a1000 with working FDD and the newer 68080 and fpu extensions and the 68K 1200mips newer CPU emp thingami not the traditional pistorm emulation you know the new CPU emulation

I have the original Parceiro, it works great on my Amiga 1000. Does the image for the Parceiro II work with the original Parceiro? If so, where can I get the image for the SDCARD.

You mention PAL. Does this also use NTSC ?

in Portuguese amiga means "female friend" and parceiro means "partner"

Maybe less an ideal, but leaving a floppy disk in the drive will stop it clicking

Now that ya got-er-done whatcha gonna do with it? 🤔My projects like this after all the hard work and a few days of tinkering it goes onto a shelf or boxed up for bragging rights!

Parceiro=partner... ;) Portuguese? Nice I thought it was Spanish. Amiga is also Portuguese...or Spanish.

Disk Master is much better than DOPUS 😊

Interestingly I was just looking into your pronunciation of "caveat" which I hadn't heard before and as I was reading that i's an accepted variation you were giving up on "parceiro". Well the "ei" in "parceiro" is pretty much the same sound as your first "a" in "caveat". Whenever in doubt there's a handy website to look up the pronunciation of any word in any language called Forvo. (Not including the link since that can upset YT sometimes.) (Yes I'm a language nerd as well as a computer nerd.) Which reminds me that the way you're pronouncing "parceiro" sounds like Spanish "pesero", which is a kind of bus/taxi hybrid in Mexico City (-:

If you have more than one daughter board, do they become sister boards? Asking for a friend....

If the Workbench 3.2.1 came with the product, I'd be careful. It was released quite recently (december 2021|) and pirating it would be in the "not cool" category. Other than that, a really neat niche product. Now I just need that A1000 ... :)

You shouldn't run no click software. The clicking is the Amiga's heart beating! You wouldn't stop your child's heart beating for aesthetic reasons, would you!?!?

Will this device work with the A500 [Plus]? Also, Fred Fish's wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish

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