Amiga 500 Trash to Treasure Pt.1 | A Rare Amiga find

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Welcome to Trash to Treasure, Amiga style. Today we're taking a look at an A500 I picked up from a classifieds advert. It's not pretty, but it's well worth rescuing not just because it's an A500 but because it's a little bit special.
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@RMCRetro 5 лет назад

You can watch the full, tweaked series with extras here: Full Series Redux: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8qUCMF6OZkA.html If you enjoy my content then why not throw some pennies in my hat at patreon.com/retromancave thanks! Neil

@sonsofmatriarchy5552 5 лет назад

Jaguar xj220 theme, Amazing m8 👍👌

@paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 года назад

I unpacked my Amiga yesterday, had been in a box since 1992. Yellow as hell. I am going to have a shot at cleaning it up, and retrobrighting it. Mine is a 1990 model. Besides the Amiga I also pulled two C64's, two 1541 drives, 3 cassette drives, 3 power supplies and a Mitsubishi ML-F48 MSX computer plus a stack of books out of the box (which was large and frikkin heavy LOL). So I got some work to do.

@LGR 6 лет назад

Continually digging these TtT videos, and I look forward to more of this lovely Amiga!

@enigma776 6 лет назад

I do like these sort of in depth teardowns. Will be subbing to this guy from now on.

@charliebear 6 лет назад

Lazy Game Reviews it is extremely difficult to not read your comments in your voice

@BratislavMetulskie 6 лет назад

Lazy Game Reviews you here and not in hollywood?

@Kampup 5 лет назад

Amiga 500 vs Amiga A500 I was thinking about buying one in my area, is there a difference between the two?

@bradsalubby 3 года назад

My beloved Amiga 500. Brings back so many happy times. Life was so much more simplier then.

@PaulKostrzewa 5 лет назад

I found an Amiga 500 with monitor, mouse, external floppy drive, and a full box of disks, in perfect working order, being thrown away... which I gave a good home, of course. This is one of my favorite vintage computers.

@RMCRetro 5 лет назад

Good man I'm glad it found you!

@VictorFNV 13 дней назад

Who would throw that away?!

@raggersragnarsson6255 6 месяцев назад

How RMC all began for me. I've watched it so many times. Still worth a watch for any Amiga 500 owner or former owner/user. Neil's sound use here was excellent together with the dialogue was perfect. It set the tone for the channel in many ways

@RMCRetro 6 месяцев назад

Hey thank you! A life changing video for me ❤️

@raggersragnarsson6255 6 месяцев назад

@@RMCRetro It really has been and it's been awesome watching every step along the way. Thank you and good luck with the museum, and the retro collective. Its astounding what you have all accomplished. It's like fate shone on you and you were forced to moved to move. The story already is amazing and deserves a book for sure. 'Trash to Treasure and the Retro Collective' by Neil, etc. Splendid. If you don't write it, I may do as its quite a story.

@elmerfudge1891 6 лет назад

And the kid now an adult asks his/her Mum where is my old Amiga I left with you 20 years ago...

@CGQuarterly 6 лет назад

Your channel is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. Keep it up!

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Classic Gaming Quarterly Thank you! Means a lot especially from the big guns like you

@CGQuarterly 6 лет назад

My guns are far from big, but thanks for saying so.

@TheRicheg 6 лет назад

i senced grateness but 52k views and how fast the channels growing all i can say is keep up the good work like this

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

TheRicheg crazy isn't it. I have quite a few in production at the moment in a similar vain so here's hoping it continues, I'm enjoying making them

@tiannaumann 6 лет назад

This is my absolute favorite episode, hands down, you really work the A500 from head-to-toe and it's captivating from start to finish.

@TVR-Steve 6 лет назад

Hi, I'm really quite certain that this is the Amiga that I sold from my father's estate - The cartoon on the box and stickers on the screw covers are very familiar. I'm glad that you are restoring this, it's brought back a lot of good memories of watching him play it. Thank you.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Steve Kirk Hi Steve, I'd love to try and verify that if possible and talk about it in the next episode. Are there any other distinguishing marks or software you may have had with it? There was something else distinctive written on the box you might remember?

@TVR-Steve 6 лет назад

Hi, I've gone back through my eBay history to see if the original advert pictures exist, however it was too long ago now. It was sold as a pair of Amiga 500's (For whatever reason, he had two at the end!), so maybe he had acquired one to replace one that had stopped working. Games would have been Grand Prix and maybe The Settlers, however I suspect these have not stayed with the broken '500. Other than the advert description and eBay item number, I have no proof. So, as much as I would love to verify this, I cannot. Please keep up the excellent restoration work, I'm really enjoying this.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Steve Kirk Thanks Steve, it didn't come with those games, it had "We Love Amigas" written on the box which I can send you a photo of if you want to check the handwriting. Anyway thanks for watching and she has found a good home.

@TVR-Steve 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@kubel83 6 лет назад

Still got mine plus 300+ games. Flashback. Another world. Super frog. Moonstone. Super cars, lotus. Alien breed. Turrican II etc etc... Amiga was really ahead of its time... and I think it had the best sounding games too back then. Sometimes I would plug in a game just to listen to the cool title music. I might dust off my old Amiga again after seeing this video. Thank you.❤️

@saarek 6 лет назад

Another great video and what a rare A500 you got there. I strongly approve the background music choices!

@gogreengameon2146 3 года назад

Lotus Esprit and Jaquar XJ220 music was just INSANE! That slap bass is just so badass.

@NERDVilleUK 6 лет назад

Oh boy. Need to get my amiga unboxed from a car boot find many years back. Can't wait to see this restored to 100%. Maybe I'll put mine up on may channel.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

NERDVille excellent, subbed so I can see it

@emsss78 6 лет назад

My god..just remembering my childhood days with the Amiga A500 brings me to tears...best days ever when life was so simple yet still fun...thanks for bringing life back to this beautiful Amiga !!

@johnmarshall8395 4 года назад

Neil, you closed the video with my absolute favorite track from the Amiga, the SOTBII death sequence theme. I still think that they are some of the worlds most beautiful chords ever written. The guitar solo just put it over the top. Thanks for the great videos and music.

@jayc2469 4 года назад

Ahhh my Old Baby! This was my first venture into modern computing - as you say an early 'Multimedia' system. The Tandy TRS-80 was the very first but the Amiga was more of a technological leap. Mine was accelerated; hard-driven and maxed with memory for graphics and gaming and never broke down in its life in my possession. Ahh _Things that Lasted a Lifetime!_ ... once

@iamgort70 6 лет назад

LOve this channel just found you!...man the memories. I was cutting edge back in the day...I started off with an Amiga 1200 with a 1942 Multisync monitor...man was I the envy of all my Amiga/Commodore friends. I even bought an Amiga CD32..remember those...what a lemon that turned out to be...good tech...zero support. ha I had more money than brains even then...:) good times.

@asgerms 6 лет назад

At 8:34 "...and you could hold the hue and change the luminance". Not an Amiga-expert (just allround retrogeek), but I am pretty sure HAM worked directly on RGB; not HSV. However, in the really early design phases the Amiga was designed around HSV. This was later abandoned for RGB. Btw. the famous HAM mode almost wasnt. Jay Miner wanted to remove it as he thought it was of little use in its RGB-version, but the chip-design had progressed so far that removing it was far more complex/costly than simply leaving it in. And the rest is history :) ...thanx for the vid!

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

asgerms I read that story just last week, really interesting, it was also a feature of flight simulators of the time. Amazing how devs found uses for it in ways never imagined. Thanks for watching and sharing the story.

@AtariFitness 6 лет назад

A cracking deal on the Amiga 500 lot. Especially, the Philips monitor.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Atari Fitness Certainly got lucky, the monitor looks great on my working 1200

@meisterchris8075 5 лет назад

7:35 Jaguar XJ 220 Main Theme.

@80s90sGuy 6 лет назад

Ahhhh.. the unmistakable Jaguar XJ220 theme at 7:30 Awesome. Nostalgia overload today.

@techydiy 6 лет назад

Wow that brings back some memories, I learned 68k assembly on the Amiga. Lovely bit of kit at the time.

@ryancor 6 лет назад

So many memories. Can't wait to see you work your magic on this one 👍

@Realmasterorder 6 лет назад

Amiga was and still is an amazing machine,almost everyone that had one fell in love with her,i cant believe you got all this stuff for almost nothing !

@ufoclips1 6 лет назад

OH MY GOD!!!!,MY BELOVED AMIGA 500!!!,I TRADED UP TO THE 500+,WHERE I LEARNED TO ANIMATE!!!AHHH!!!SUCH TIMES!!!THANK YOU.

@KenMrKLC 4 года назад

Awe brings back memories.... I had one back in 1988ish? I had a Vic20, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and then the Amiga then IBM clones. I use to play Earl Weaver baseball everyday after school playing many seasons and printing out stats on my dot matrix printer. Great stuff

@TrevKen 6 лет назад

Free CRT monitor and box of games?? Dude, you were being groomed.

@chrisrobson8540 4 года назад

was waiting for ..... dont fancy paddy hopkirks monte carlo mini its cluttering up the garage if you want it lol

@glues4wood 6 лет назад

Growing up , it was my absolute favorite, I took mine apart because I heard b52's the music group was printed on the board

@grrarg9319 6 лет назад

WOW that was a blast from the past. I actually worked at Computer Care South some 24ish years ago and performed surgery on many out of warranty Amiga's. Maybe even yours!

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

GrrArg oh wow that's cool, maybe you put the sticker on it!

@WiggysanWiggysan 6 лет назад

These playlist set's have earned my subscription (for what its worth!) *Top work* Mr RMC.

@Khaos969 5 лет назад

BEST COMPUTER I EVER OWNED !!! endless hours of fun as a kid the games were amazing so many great game creators , Speed ball 2 , Monkey Island , Syndicate , Populous , Megalomania , Panza kickboxing an endless amount , nothing compares to it ... not even my ps4

@maarkaus48 6 лет назад

I have an amiga 1000 with box, monitor, and all the books and disks, and the same with a 2000, both I bought in the 80's. But I must admit, I was always stunned by the design of the 500 and 1200. The lines and shape is still so very beautiful. There is something unique of this era of computers. When I look at the 500, 600, 1200, and also the Atari of that era they had some of the best designs of computers to this day.A really nice design time for 'puters. I wish you all the success on the repair. I may post a vid of my amiga 1000 at some point.

@lesjones471 Год назад

I still have my Amiga 500,has a flicker fixer too,hard drive 100gb,i made all the rear ouput extension cables & fitted the circuit board into a PC case,that allowed me to have two floppy drives and the hard drive all in the case,then I had a amiga 1,000 keyboard and made a cable to fit the rear connection,changed the CPU to a faster one,increased memory by purching a memory card MOD.

@Larry 6 лет назад

9:50 you got to feel sorry for the poor sods who had to build Amigas over Christmas week :D

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

+Larry Bundy Jr you sure do! Great to see you here Larry

@SWIFTO_SCYTHE 6 лет назад

LOL subscribe to the both of you chaps !! haha.

@llloyd4 6 лет назад

Yeah, if I remember to my factory days, not Amigas or fun stuff like that mind you, boring old fiber optic transceivers, the final month was the huge push to get everything done and out the door to make the final quarter shine brightly and make the investors happy.

@brostenen 5 лет назад

Thanks for this 4 part a500 series. It has helped me a lot in my 500-restore project (revision 5 version 3). I am not finished, though blogging on each progress that I make on it. So far, I am like 75 percent finished in bringing it back to functioning state. It needs a floppy drive, and then I am only left with the cosmetic stuff.

@RMCRetro 5 лет назад

Well done I'm glad Ibcould help. I'm working on an A2000 now which had a few unexpected problems. Do you have a blog link?

@brostenen 5 лет назад

@@RMCRetro Sweet. That is a nice system. Compatible and expandable. 👌 My blog is: to9xct.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-amiga500-refurbish-project.html?m=1

@NTPTM 6 лет назад

Hi, I surfed the web today and found your RU-vid channel. Very nice channel you have because I was a teenager in the 80's. And my first computer was a Commadore 64 take care and greetings from Sweden.

@CasperUK31 6 лет назад

Spent the evening watching your videos. It's always a good day when you find another channel you want to subscribe to.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Michael Dodd That's very kind I'm glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more coming soon 👍

@BollingHolt 2 года назад

I'm at work, but my VERY FIRST EVER Amiga (a 500) just was delivered to my house, proceeded in delivery by a Gotek, brand new PSU, video converter, and SCART cable. These last two hours at work are going to draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!

@MrPiggybank1974 6 лет назад

Awesome I still have two machines 500 and the 1200 both working, I bought them when i was a kid now 43, just the best computer(500) that was ever made, that started me of in to programming, now it's my job, who care about the PC or the other junk this is history, I solute you sir!! :)

@kilppari78 4 года назад

~16 years ago I got tired of keeping my Amiga 500 so I sold it for a price of mere shipping cost. A remarkable notion on the specific machine was that it had the serial number 1. For real. Just one digit 1 on the serial number sticker.

@tabletopbattlezone5711 6 лет назад

Awesome video, looking forward to more. Great score on this one, love the C= key on the keyboard!!

@t3chnod3lic 6 лет назад

Good to see 'Fat Agnus' again lol. Dungeon Master on the Amiga made me the fan of rpg's I am today. The C-64 was my favourite though. Special Memories. Great video!

@paulolameiras861 6 лет назад

Amiga 500 is my favourite gaming platform of all time!

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Do you have a favourite game on in?

@xStrych9x 6 лет назад

fond memories, many a sleepless night on this beast. seeing the inside i was reminded of the time i took a chance and cracked the case to install the 'fatter agnus' chip so i could run all the overseas games that ran in PAL as opposed to NTSC, which was not available by default in the US.

@MorrisseysMonkey 6 лет назад

Used to love my A500 with 1mb RAM upgrade! Still got a 1084 Monitor laying around somewhere.

@Arpi3333 6 лет назад

Wow. the time just flew by! This was a great and educational video! Nice edited to! Thanks. I am off for part 2! :)

@DXing 6 лет назад

Great video! Totally love your TtT content 😊 Thanks and greetings from Finland!

@cbm80amiga 6 лет назад

I like your video! It reminded me my first A500. HAM mode doesn't change luminance but R,G or B component. In #00 mode it just takes direct color from 16-color palette. And vertical resolution in PAL Amigas is much higher than you mentioned, without overscan 512 lines interlaced or regular 256.

@ComdrStew 6 лет назад

OMG I loved my Amiga 500. I went to the horse race track with my Dad in 1987 and he gave me 10 dollars to bet on horses. By the end of the day I was taking home $1500 and what did I spend my money on of course the Amiga 500 with two extra disk drives and a ton of games even a joystick I was like a little kid in a candy store. Everything came to $1585 my Mom gave me the extra $85. Later I added a modem for it and it was the first time I played a game with someone over the phone line. I still remember punching the number into the Amiga and it dialing my friend hearing that weird buzzing and beeping sounds like something from the future. Then it connecting and the hours of playing games with a friend that was two blocks away from me it was something.

@GR8TM4N 6 лет назад

Oh man, This brings back so many memories ... I had the exact same machine, and the same expansion board. All except for the monitor, in my case I had the 1084S. Thank you so much, I am eagerly expecting the follow up with the restoration work. Liked and subscribed of course.

@Nikuros 6 лет назад

Still having my Amiga 500+ and about 900 games and i still play the games from time to time

@jimbobsquelchy 6 лет назад

I live in Reading and used to go to Computer Care South all the time. Many weekends spent there as a child looking at all the kit I couldn't afford...!

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

jimbobsquelchy According to another commenter they are still open!

@ilkkakoski82 6 лет назад

That is one solid memory expansion, I think we only had bare circuit boards, and few wires running to on/off switch, wich never worked so it was just wires tied together. We also took apart my friends A500 in order to mod it to for 1Mb Chip mem I think? We had to saw one circuit from the board and maybe did a jump wire for the processor? Can't remember, but we did something.. and it did work.

@ThemeParkWorldTour 6 лет назад

Loving the nostalgia! Have subscribed!

@allanfortytwo 6 лет назад

Great channel. I still have my amiga 500 set up and running. Look forward to seeing more videos.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

allanfortytwo thanks for watching. If you check the description this series of videos is available in an updated link with a few improvements to sound levels and things. You may enjoy it better

@henrygod514 3 года назад

Oh my god I used to own a 500 and then a 1200!! Thanks for the souvenir!!

@rodc2678 5 лет назад

4:35 the gaps in the fins where the perfect size to slot in and firmly hold a collection of floppy drives for very convenient access...almost like they where designed for it.

@mikefoster6018 4 года назад

Loved so many games on my Amiga 500. I'm 45 now and, back when I was 15, mum told me I could only have an Amiga 500 (as an upgrade from our spectrum!) if I saved up half the cost. So I worked at Spa every Saturday for 9 months, and more overtime, to pay it off and keep earning some more spare cash for my boardgaming hobby too. I think back then the Amiga 500 cost £500 even without a monitor (we never got a proper monitor for it - just a telly), and I think the 0.5meg RAM upgrade for it was another £50 XD. Happy days. I think we all knew someone in those days who was pirating games, which helped, but I also poured a ton of cash into the machine and games too. It's strange - I still felt like a bit of a hacker having a computer, even though I only actually (briefly) experimented with simple coding on my Spectrum and never on the Amiga. Computers were just overwhelmingly cool at the time. And it felt good having it not the Atari ST, which I was always conscious had a marginally lower spec. Great days.

@Chris-Kay 6 лет назад

Brilliaaaaaaaaaant! Took me back 30+ years to the day I opened my brand new Amiga 500

@ThePlugSeeker 6 лет назад

I loved this computer as a kid. Ah the memories. I eventually moved on to a Mega Drive.

@neonlife84 6 лет назад

2:01 Unreal title music - one of my favorite game soundtracks on the amiga!

@Beer_Dad1975 6 лет назад

Ah, nostalgia... I had an A500 (even got a 20GB HDD to plug into that side expansion), then an A1200 and briefly an A4000 too - then Commodore went down in a smoldering ruin and I had to move on. Still, I learned a lot of skills on those machines that I still use to this day - primarily Perl. I remember my A500 used to go through PSU's fairly regularly - I think I had 3 of them over about 5 years, never had the same issue with the 1200.

@robmuzz 6 лет назад

I loved my Amiga500. This brings back so many memories!

@eviltwin2322 6 лет назад

How nostalgic to hear that SOTB2 guitar riff at the end! I was thrown right back to the early 90s!

@hawleygriffon9290 6 лет назад

The Amiga, The ST, C64, TRS-80, etc. have all turned up in boxes at the Sally Ann or Value Village around here or else I got given some or never sold mine (like my Atari ST). Nice to see old hardware still has a place in the modern world...

@edtheluck 6 лет назад

WOW! Computer Care South!! There's a blast from the past and it's actually still there at that exact address, albeit a truncated version of the huge store that it would've been when that Amiga visited, I would imagine. I bought RoboCop & Batman The Movie from there in 1989 for my CPC6128 :) Excellent video Sir.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Don't tell them I opened it, it might void the warranty

@ThePressurizer 6 лет назад

Great, great video. Makes me miss my old A500. I've always considered the A500 the most aesthetically pleasing of the computer-in-the-keyboard products. Oh, and I love the background tunes :)

@ProjectGeek1 6 лет назад

Its like LGR meets This Is Dan Bell. I'm in heaven. PS I know this guy!

@darkpoethd9913 6 лет назад

Thanks for this I had this exact model with the commodore key. I'm 50 now and got mine age 21. Crazy! I'm still a gamer and always will be, but this was the pinicle for me, no period in gaming has ever surpassed it for pure awe and excitement. I bought mine from Laskys in Manchester and I also got the official Amiga monitor to go with it. One thing I do remember was having to wait about a month before I got the 500, it was mad as I took home the monitor on the very day I paid but had to wait weeks for the bloody computer to come in stock. I used to just stare at my monitor Sat on my desk with no 500 lol. Torture

@paulhaynes8491 6 лет назад

A common problem with the earlier A500 models was that the AGNUS chip would get warm and pop up out of the socket. Commodore released a kit which was basically a bracket that clipped across the socket and kept pressure on the chip to keep it from popping up.

@hodeyfu7617 3 года назад

I bought one from a guy at a community sale for $20. No power supply. I cleaned it, and it sat around 10 years. I finally got a power supply, and it fired right up.

@scottfirman 6 лет назад

A good shot of contact cleaner always starts the process of getting these old units going again. A blast of air blows out the spider carcasses and who knows what. A clean contact will bring back any dead subject.

@jublywubly 6 лет назад

Cover disks were awesome! I had a Commodore64. I regularly bought a couple of C64 magazines, that came with cover disks or cover tapes. Every issue came with at least two or three full-version computer games and a bunch of demos!

@mnieuwhof 6 лет назад

The best homecomputer ever made, had one myself.... nice vid, thanx!

@brianbagnall3029 6 лет назад

Trash to Treasure is an amazing series. Thanks!

@retronostalgic 6 лет назад

Awesome attention to detail in repairing this.

@kevhu4064 6 лет назад

Thank You so much for the trip down memory lane! , i had to watch twice, the first time after 2mins my mind had drifted and serving me so many memories from this era, all based around the amiga, i even used mine to do a live p.a. at an organised event, i belive that would be the correct term lol, ive liked & subscibed and will be checking out your other videos for sure...LONG LIVE RETRO GAMING!!

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

+Kev Hu welcome aboard Kev, keep it retro

@74HC138 6 лет назад

Good grief, I used to go to Computer Care South (I think) to pick up components for my first IBM compatible PC!

@ChantingInTheDark Год назад

I DREAMED of having that monitor back when I had my Amiga 500 / 1200.

@airjuri 6 лет назад

Holy uujeah! I had that monitor on my first Amiga setup.

@marvin7950 6 лет назад

I remember buying one of these in Dixon's, 1992 Cartoon Classics.

@paul.mcallister 3 года назад

That was an awesome computer, way ahead of its time. I ran a "Hack & Slash" BBS on mine.

@Dunk1970 6 лет назад

I watch this sitting next to my deceased A500 in box (it lives next to my PC) and the still working A600 I bought off a friend to replace it with. I got the A500 during the final year of my A Levels and it was light years ahead of the opposition. After about 9 years of giving me joy, I came home one day from work to find that it had died at the hands of one of my housemates. I'll never know if it just died or got a whack, but I'm now intrigued to know if I can revive it 20 years after it died.

@wardarklord1974 6 лет назад

I absolutely love that Commodore 500 Windows 3.1 M1 Tank Platoon

@mikeyoung9810 6 лет назад

I lost a 500 and a 1200 in a flood a few years ago. Now I wonder if they could of been saved. Thanks for the video, here's a like.

@Shundi12 5 лет назад

Loving the Jaguar XJ220 music! I always wanted an Amiga when I was younger, but I only had a C64 and a Master System at the time. I think I might buy one on eBay now I've seen this video :)

@Preview43 6 лет назад

I have about 15 of these bad boys stored out in a garage cupboard. Could never walk past an orphan without taking it home. Since the event of emulators, I kind of moved on to virtual Amigas. This series is making think I should dig them out again and check them all over to discover their inner secrets.

@igotes 6 лет назад

Ah the Action Replay. If only I knew then what I know now.. Though I did have a book on 68000 assembly language, it was too much for my young BASIC programmer brain to understand. It was such a powerful piece of kit, I just used it to rip music from games and give myself extra lives.

@jameswebb5080 6 лет назад

The 500 does have "electrolytic" capacitors, they just aren't surface mounted as they are in the 600, 1200 etc. The through hole type used are more robust and when they fail they most often don't spew their guts all over the board. Waiting for part 2 :-). Check your PS, I've had a few go bad.

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

+James Webb Thanks James, these series are greatly improved by insights, corrections and tips from comments like this to help me improve the content and accuracy as I progress through them.

@CP200S 6 лет назад

Maybe testing each of the main ICs on a known-to-be-good board would be a good start! By the appearance of that tracks, some corrosion has damaged the board. Good luck restoring this baby!

@windwalkerrangerdm 6 лет назад

You have choosen the correct music and thus have earned a like and a sub in the first 10 seconds, sir.

@timjamesvella 4 года назад

Love the box. Remember wanting one as a kid!!

@JenniferinIllinois 3 года назад

I had an Amiga 500 from 1989 to 1992ish. It took many years later to finally get an x86 based system that was as good as that Amiga (my first PC was an 8088 with CGA graphics which was such a disappointment).

@mattlamb 6 лет назад

I grew up in Reading and remember Computer Care South well! They fixed my A600 once!

@ZedBeeblebrox 6 лет назад

Nice video and an even nicer Amiga 500 you got yourself there. I hope you'll succeed in bringing it back to life and glory. :)

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

Zed Beeblebrox thanks, part 2 is underway and it's looking positive so far

@alloneword7427 5 лет назад

I remember coming home from school one day in the late 80's and this was setup on the dinning room table. There was a golf game that I think came with it? Ended up with a second disk drive a while later. So many hours spent on that machine playing some great and some god damn awful games.

@stage3muppet 6 лет назад

Have early working one of these myself boxed hahaha stumbled across this video and instantly took me back to being 15 again haha Excellent went from spectrum 48k to Commodore 64 then the 500 :) Mind blowing at the time haha

@jonnydarke 6 лет назад

Go go Speedball Brutal Delux! and Battle Isle, so many great games played on this Bad boy. Cannon fodder, Meglomania the list is endless, my first proper PC. Great vid!

@Waltkat 6 лет назад

Thanks for this look-back at a great machine. I still have mine stashed away somewhere in the house. I may have to find it and fire her up again and play some retro games. Ah, I miss those exciting and simpler days of computing!