Broken and filthy Amiga 600 Needs Help

Подписаться 9 тыс.

Просмотров 4 тыс.

50% 1

I was kindly given this Amiga 600 by Neildo to repair and restore. The motherboard is in reasonable condition, apart from a couple of holes burned into it where some caps melted.
Join me as I repair, restore and finally upgrade the worst Amiga Commodore ever released (also the best).
Donate here!
www.justgiving.com/page/mfmi2024
Open Amiga 600 Ram Expansion by Sukko Pera
github.com/SukkoPera/OpenAmig...
With thanks to:
Colcuz
Neildo
‪@TechMadeEasyUK‬
‪@CRG‬
SECOND CHANNEL!
/ @morefunmakingit2
Ko-fi page
ko-fi.com/morefunmakingit
Amazon Wishlist
www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...
Discord Channel
/ discord
More Fun Website
www.morefunmakingit.co.uk/
My Twitterings can be found here
/ morefunmakingit
Facebook
/ morefunmakingit
BlueSky
bsky.app/profile/morefunmakin...
00:00 Ugly Micro
01:08 Charity Amiga 600
02:40 A500 Comparison
03:45 A 600 For My Own
04:00 The Chisel Method
04:44 Burned Ceramic Caps
05:35 Hunting for the Bad Caps
05:57 Voltage Injection
06:25 Removing The Caps
07:45 I Made a Mistake
09:12 Dead Caps
10:22 Replacing the Electrolytics
11:29 Does it Work?
12:06 Dyna Blaster
12:25 Cleaning and Restoring
12:48 Building a RAM Expansion
16:38 ‪@CRG‬
18:21 Fast RAM
19:12 ‪@TechMadeEasyUK‬
19:34 What I Think of the A600
#amiga600 #amiga #computerrepair

Наука

Опубликовано:

5 июл 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 74

@albert_vds 8 дней назад

I'm simultaneously relieved and disappointed that the hammer and chisel method wasn't used, and by disappointed I mean extremely relieved.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Got to build up to it. One for a future episode!

@SofaKingWhatA 8 дней назад

ChuckyGang showed how to dislodge pesky Amiga 4000 caps with a hammer and pliers, albeit with some minor pad loss.

@Larry 8 дней назад

I had an A600 back in the day, all my A500 owning friends were fascinated by it, especially how light the AC box was compared to theirs. But the only thing I didn't like about it was that I couldn't play Robocop 3 on it >.>

@WhatHoSnorkers 9 дней назад

Or you can use the peroxide and do your hair like Billy Idol! Great work, Lee! (MoreFunBlondeingIt)

@TheGunnarRoxen 8 дней назад

I dunno... it might be a Shock To The System. Lee might be forced to give a Rebel Yell 😉

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

@TheGunnarRoxen got to be careful with harsh chemicals, I could end up with eyes without a face!

@TheGunnarRoxen 7 дней назад

@@MoreFunMakingIt 🤣

@Sozzled39 8 дней назад

Ah the A600, a misunderstood machine, but a great little portable gamer now. Great video Lee, I've never seen the A600 need all those underside caps replacing before.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

It was very strange! Wasnt just the ones on the bottom, there were a load on the top too! Does make me worry that others on different parts of the circuit are going to go faulty too.

@JamiesHackShack 8 дней назад

Great vid! Always thought these 600s looked pretty cool. Bonus points for personalized components! 😂

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Its a neat and tidy little machine!

@JohnDoe-qg6hm 8 дней назад

I LOVED the A600 ! Still DO ! Not 70s or early 80's Retro but my First computer with a Floppy Disk Drive ! :) The Excitement, The FUN ! How can anyone HATE this beautiful little computer. They must be INSANE !

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

I love it now! Does that count?

@MikkyTee 7 дней назад

A600's are a great wee machine, at least it doesn't take up a whole desk like the huge a500.. Also a nice option for clearing out the inside and putting a mister in ;)

@mikeh_nz 7 дней назад

Good job Lee I appreciate that life is competing with these videos, but your still turning out good content :)

@hyzenthlay7151 8 дней назад

I loved my A600, and I really miss it!!

@bobingabout 7 дней назад

13:30 I remember I had a whole box of graphics cards like that. when I wanted some chips off one of them, I literally just took some sort of pliers, and wiggled the chips off. It ripped a whole bunch of tracks off the board too, but the chips were in otherwise perfect condition to use in their new home. I mean, I had an entire box of about 50 of them, they were going into E-Waste.

@Rockythefishman 9 дней назад

The 600 was my first Amiga, everyone else had gotten 500/500+s the years before so for Christmas I got a A600. I loved it very much and took up a lot less desk space then my mates beast of a 500+ I upgraded the RAM, and added a second floppy. By the time 94 came around their was no point in upgrading it any more Commodore was done and it was clear the PC was going to take over. Nice repair mate, hope you enjoy many hours with it

@ClassicRetroByte 2 дня назад

Another cracking good video 👍 and great tip with the memory chips on the Graphics card that I also have laying around.👍

@geezerdiamond 8 дней назад

The first Amiga I ever saw was a 600 at a friend's house, and I pestered my parents for one the next Christmas. I've got lots of nostalgia for it, and I always like its cut-down A1200 looks.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

It really is a nice looking duck :D

@n13ldo 8 дней назад

Nice to see it working and clean. I wasn't responsible for it's manky state 😁

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

All that filth protected it 😆

@TheFuzzy70 4 дня назад

At least the graphics card I gave you has been put to good use in a proper computer 😂

@MoreFunMakingIt 4 дня назад

🤣

@TheRetroChannel 8 дней назад

Big fan of the hammer and chisel method but you should never do that on an Amiga, because reasons.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Because REASONS!

@LeftoverBeefcake 8 дней назад

The A600 was the Amiga Mini before the Amiga Mini.

@Grid56 7 дней назад

One of the main problems with the commodore machines was that upgrades often were incompatible with software (mainly games). Having progressed from ZX81 and BBC-B micro and master I got a 500+. Later I added a scsii hard drive on my 500+ but had to disable it to run many of my favourite games. I remember similar complaints from "lucky" people who had the money to upgrade to 1200s then found difficulties. Happily I had many years of Pinball Dreams / fantasies and Lemmings before I moved to P.C. (mainly due to demise of commodore leading to lack of new support and software). Good Times nevertheless

@marjon1703 5 дней назад

My computer history is the same although after the 500 I progressed to the 2000 for the expendability.

@spencerdavies4666 5 дней назад

Never owned an Amiga (ST Rulez... ;) ) but always liked the look of the A600. More a spiritual successor to the C64.

@DaveVelociraptor 7 дней назад

I really enjoyed seeing your name on the smd component

@colincurrie9151 8 дней назад

I can't wait to see what all the auction items end up going for. Hopefully make loads for charity.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Going to be a hell of a day! Even if we dont make 15k it will be a huge amount just with everything I have here to sell.

@originalbrucesmith 8 дней назад

Love the A600, had to buy it again after it was soled. Sad times, True story..

@originalbrucesmith 8 дней назад

i had that ram cost me £25, when i was 14.

@FixTechStuff 8 дней назад

I enjoyed that, a bit of Amiga nostalgia.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Thanks!

@synchro62 7 дней назад

I never thought it was ugly but just considered it a poor mans A1200 :)

@gingerhippygaming7962 8 дней назад

My first amiga I loved it

@Retroguyuk75 8 дней назад

I love my A600, it has the 3.2 rom and card hard drive too. I have an A500 as well, not by choice I put a bid on Fleabay for £30 thinking it would never go for that and it did 🤣

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Bargain! But also you now have to store a 500 :D

@Momentvm 7 дней назад

an excellent video, Lee! Another (checkmark) icon saved from the bin. I wonder what's the problem with losing the red signal?

@hollybrereton3140 8 дней назад

I was so looking forward to the hammer action ;(

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

I'm still refining the method...

@leonkiriliuk 8 дней назад

"causing high resistance" -> "causing low resistance". :)

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

I always get that the wrong way round 🤣

@vertigoz 5 дней назад

Had it AGA it would have become a beautiful swan

@keyboard_g 7 дней назад

Added fast ram only blocks the PCMCIA port functionality if you go over 8MB. You'll need some to run whdload games. Some cards even come with jumpers to downscale the fast mem so you can pick and choose how it works.

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit 8 дней назад

fantastic video Lee.

@Retroguyuk75 8 дней назад

You can use the PCMCIA card with the memory expansion you just need to set it to a bit lower on the jumpers can't remember now either 4 or 6 mb...

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

That works on my 1200, but this expansion is 4mb only. No jumpers to set. And since I made the video the ram has gone faulty! Will need to think again with that one

@NathanOZlegend 8 дней назад

turned out to be the best amiga for transfer of adf at the time

@keyboard_g 7 дней назад

I'm torn, I love the A600 and that another Amiga was brought back. Disappointed that a retro GPU had to die to get those memory chips when chip memory upgrades with new hardware are readily available. Glad that the hot air delamination didn't totally destroy the board but, could that be the source of the flickering video?

@panagiotisandrikopoulos6853 6 дней назад

i still have it, an A600 and works perfect ! after 20+ years ? (somewhere there :D )

@retrowedugmiksola1810 8 дней назад

You can switch off half of fast memory (software script or hardware jumper), and PCMCIA will work properly :)

@robertjones3223 8 дней назад

What about the fire and gunpowder method to remove caps?

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

I need to experiment!

@originalbrucesmith 7 дней назад

Just to point out some times there a key combo to disable some fast ram to enable the pcmcia, or as long as you do t go over 4/4.4 mg fast ram it may work still can I not remember the limit.

@MrClump 8 дней назад

Is the clock working on that expansion? I've built a few of them, and while the RTC is detected it never runs.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Ive not had a chance to check that yet! Sorry.

@bobingabout 7 дней назад

I honestly wouldn't say the Amiga 600 is "Worst" than an A500. It's basically an A500+ in hardware, with the addition of PCMCIA and a built in IDE hard drive controller. It was only an issue if you actually wanted to use some of the existing hardware expansions (that didn't plug into the back ports, like a floppy drive), so for the people it was aimed at (Like my Dad who didn't have an Amiga at the time), it was a brilliant starter model. The 1200 is a lot better though.

@ChadDoebelin 2 дня назад

hammer and chisel?!

@MoreFunMakingIt 2 дня назад

You heard it here first! (and possible last) :D

@tenminutetokyo2643 6 дней назад

It was awesome.

@mikeh_nz 7 дней назад

If it looks like a duck… and it sounds like a duck… …

@rossbennett5069 8 дней назад

I guarantee you’ll break £15000. I’ll be bidding at least £1000 and will definitely be outbid.

@MoreFunMakingIt 8 дней назад

Wow! I hope you get something in the auctions Ross! There are soooo many things. I will soon be making a video going through all the items.

@rossbennett5069 8 дней назад

There are at least two that I really want and they have been on my wish list for years. The bath full of ice is ready for the backstreet kidney donation

@mattloren9708 8 дней назад

Those caps look horrible to replace

@peteredwards2318 2 дня назад

Um, excuse me? Hated? I LOVED my Amiga 600. Words like "everyone" only have a valid use when there are no dissenting opinions, therefore your title card is incorrect.