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Yes we are very lucky to have people active in the community who are still supporting these machines

LOL, he did miss on the first take and I didn't even notice. I was editing super fast to try to finish the video before a 2 week work trip. Fortunately this is for demo purposes only. I will do the real install when I move the 1200 into the new case

Thank you Artstate! I agree, lots of passion in the community and that leads to success!

Agreed!

Oh yeah!

Aw, thanks AmigaLove! It was great to be back together again with Anthony and I have mad respect for your OCS love! If lovin' the 1000 is wrong, AmigaLove don't wanna be right!

Amiga Love recently watched your video on The Phoenix Board fantastic stuff. There is currently one on ebay in Germany wish I had the cash. 😕 Thanks again

@@TheGuruMeditation So true. I'm addicted to my early-model A3000 these days, but the A1000 get plenty of lovin' too. ;)

@@honkybear666 Hi Stuart! Glad you liked that. I shot a glance at the auction you're talking about and wow. Just wow. That setup is sweet (and $$$).

Thank you so much! We get a lot of requests for this type of stuff, so we will keep it coming!

Thanks Pete! We agree, so many great new hardware options and the generosity for Samia is incredible

Thanks Vickie ! That is a sweet little card

Aw, thank you James!

Ha ha thanks Andy. I toned themdown a bit in case Anthony every wants to work again, lol ;-)

Werd!

Agreed. Thanks for the kind words Richard. Glad you enjoyed the video

Aw thanks Brad. We'll bring the beers ;-)

I agree, it is amazing. And the quality of products are top notch. Thanks for checking in guys!

Ahhh ha ha ha! CNL appreoval is baller status! Thanks so much Vincent

Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun. Chuck Norris has counted to infinity. Twice. Chuck Norris shot 11 out of 10 targets. With 9 bullets. Chuck Norris doesn't turn on the shower. He just stares at it until it starts to cry. When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push himself up, but the Earth DOWN.

Thank you for the kind words. We really appreciate and love to hear this. Greetings from New York!

You are welcome. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Sledge!

Thanks Stuart! appreciate that!

Thanks Sin-Lau!

Fretter! Great to hear from you man! Hope all is well. Yeah, time to show that 500 some love!

Thanks Paul! I don't know Steve Amiga Passion personally, but I have heard lots of great things about him. Congrats on your newly re-capped 1200! May it serve you well for many years to come.

@@TheGuruMeditation Hes being having trouble with the board as the DAC chip died and a CIA chip but hes managed to recap the board.. Its still with him but hes working hard through orders and i watching your videos makes me cant wait to get it back on a desk running.

Aw, thanks Comatron! This means the world to us. Love you too man!

Yes! I can't wait to put this 1200 into it. It is going to be great!

Thanks Torque!

Awesome Kev! They are really cool goodies

Nice Zygma! Now is the perfect time to dust off your 1200 and get back into it. 25MhZ 040 is sweet!

Thanks Captain! They are sweet little upgrades

Thanks Mohamad! Always a pleasure to hear from you. I hope all is well!

Awesome! get an Amiga! And thanks for the tip!

Yeah, there is nothing like the real thing but the prices have gone through the roof. Perhaps you can score a 500. They seem to be the best priced these days, especially sincet hey were the most common

And it felt great!

Agreed! Yeeeee-HAAAaaaa!

Well said! I have an ACA1223n and absolutely love it. And agreed aboutthe power supply. There are some neat new ones being produced specifically for Amiga as well

Jens must update the ACA1233n.library for the ACA1233n-55. It’s now on my ACA500Plus V1 but on the A1200 the IDE speeder and the MAPROM don’t work. On the ACA500Plus it’s a great card but on the A1200 not so great to have. Maybe Jens update it. If not than is it the same issue as the ACA1233-55 from 2015 and the ACA1232-50.

Agreed. We love all the new hardware. But when you are a small operation and only selling in a limited quantity the price tends to be higher to justify all the hard work that goes into it.

Agreed!

Thanks Neo! Unfortunately the RAM is 1200 only. Those are some great suggestions for videos. We will keep them in mind. Thank you!

@@TheGuruMeditation Anytime, glad to help contribute to your great channel. What would be a cheap alternative ram to speed up the A1000 and A500? surely there is some kit out there or someone reverse engineered the originals?

@@neocairo7487 According to my man AmigaLove this is the one you want for the 1000 www.amibay.com/showthread.php?92912-8MB-RAM-to-68000-socket let MKL know it is intended for a (presumably) stock 1000 as he has a couple different options

Ha ha, oh man I wish he returned for good, but he was just visiting. He will be back though!

Yep, you can see Architect 1200 talk about it in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8jQeyvIGgnA.html

Very cool points OPC. Thanks for sharing these thoughts!

Ha ha! Aw thank you Fabien!

It is probably OK as long as it isn't a 500+ because the battery in on the motherboard on the 500+ and they usually leak

As Bill said, also if it's not a plus model and has extra ram in the trapdoor, check if it is a Commodore one. This has also a battery inside the shielding.

The capacitors on the 500 are a different type. They might fail, but they do so much less often than the ones in the 1200, and they generally don't leak as much when they do fail. Odds are your 500 is fine.

@@TheGuruMeditation If i remember correctly, it should not be a500+. Thank you for answering!

LOL I know. He did it like 3 times and of course I picked the take when he missed, ugh

Yep, contact Paul www.acill.com

I think it may be because so many people are already using them in their Amigas. But I agree, SD solutions like this would be wonderful

Great question. You are correct. You can leave a CF card in the 1200 formatted for Amiga acting just like a hard drive. Then you format the other CF card FAT and can use it to transfer files between PC/Mac and Amiga. The L-bracket is simply an extension of the PCMCIA port. You can do this with the CF-PCMCIA adapter only as well

@@TheGuruMeditation Thank you so VERY much for your in-depth and informative response! I've been so extremely busy of late with family that's it's taken up most of my time so it's fantastic to get your help. Just one more question, do you think it's better to use a CF-Card with the L-Bracket or to just bypass that option and use an Internet based solution to grab files? If so what hardware/solution would you recommend? btw - its amazing to see how the Amiga scene is growing again, it warms my heart 👍👍😎😎

@@perihelion7445 My pleasure! Personally I find it easiest to use the FAT formatted CF card, but another way that is very popular is to use a program called Amiga Explorer. If your PC and Amiga are on the same network the Amiga can show up on the PC as a drive and you can drag & drop. It is great. Especially great if you have an Amiga without the PCMCIA port. I have used Amiga Explorer on my 4000

@@TheGuruMeditation You certainly know your stuff, I looked into Amiga Explorer and realised I'd seen it before many years ago. I've ordered a null modem cable too that's up to the task 👍 Final question, I've used a RU-vid guide by Fitzsteve to setup my A1200's 4GGB CF-Card with ClassicWB and even though I follow it to a tee and the installation works the Card ends blanking itself after about 2 months of use and I lose the lot. I've tried this about 3 times and now I don't what to do? Do you know of anyone that can set this up for me or has a service doing it (I'm happy to pay them) or a proper guide that won't cause this issue? And thanks again, you guys are awesome 😎😎😎

@@perihelion7445 Our pleasure. Thanks for the kind words. I haven't experienced this issue. Perhaps you have a faulty CF card? Might be worth trying a different one. Also might be worth installing Workbench from floppy or GoTek on your real Amiga if you aren't already doing that

Ah, we need to do a video on that. The only one I have though is the ACA500+ - which is awesome

Ahhh ah ah ha! You nailed it Andy!

Understood. But when you are a small operation only selling in a limited quantity the price tends to be higher to justify all the hard work that goes into it.

LOL, no - well on take one he did and the first shot in the sequence is from Take 1. I honestly didn't even notice I was editing so fast trying to finish the video before a 2 week work trip. But if you look in the following shots you can see it is on correctly. Truth is, this was for demo purposes only. It will all be installed properly when I move it into the new case

Yes, Samia Halaby. Her A1000 is still in her studio rigjt where it has been since 1985!

You can't. The closest thing is a re-capped one like this from RetroBench

In theory you can get a mostly new 1200, if you get a new case from www.a1200.net/ then one of the new keyboards coming out that you can pre-order from amigaonthelake.com but then you also need to have a re1200 motherboard built which would contain many new parts (the board also being new), but have to source the custom chips which are not made anymore, so you either have to get them from a 1200 or stock someone might have to sell.

Yeah unfortunately RetroBench closed up. Check out RetroPassion

I have seen mid 1980s one that didn't leak. No bulging either.

@@andycraig7734 What brand? I'm guessing it's possible but more expensive, which is why only some applications use them. Too bad price always wins out over reliability and quality. :(

During the time period of the A1200/4000 the quality of the caps coming out of China was very poor. Caps in other times are much better, but all are prone to fail at some point

@@TheGuruMeditation It MUST be possible to make caps out of some hermetically sealed metal, I would think. Of course, this would drastically increase the cost (Well, they're not that expensive to begin with, but comparatively speaking) from maybe 50 cents to 75 cents (a 50% increase but still not really expensive). Unfortunately consumer electronics in general are made to a specific cost and longevity is not necessarily even in the game plan. :(

@@JustWasted3HoursHere To replace caps with a thing that last nearly forever, it would depend upon the task each capacitor existed for. Then one could go from capacitor to capacitor seeing if the job it did could be replaced by another device altogether. So for example, prevention of spikes in a square-wave signal (sort of like a buffer) can sometimes be acheived with a schmitt trigger instead of a capacitor. Capacitors are very varied depending upon their size and job. So for example, ceramics exist.

Oooooooh that would be really cool!

well I am still out on whether or not you get any advantage with SATA. If you intend to install a spinning platter hard drive then you might want to go SATA to IDE since those drives are newer and therefore will be more reliable than even new old stock IDE drives. But CF only really have wear on write cycles (so do SSD actually) and the Amiga is not like Windows or Mac where they constantly write to the drive. So on an Amiga I am not sure you'd have an issue with a CF card for a very long time meanwhile for far less cost you could easily make one or two backups doing straight copies to the PCMCIA port and always have a replacement ready to go, something more expensive to do with a SATA SSD drive. Still might be interesting to try one out, since SATA to IDE adapters are pretty cheap too.

@@MayhemMby Just want to point out that SSD writes are MUCH higher in TBW than flash cards. In fact I still have an old OCZ 240GB SSD that still works. Also the memory on SSDs is lot faster than even the fastest CF Card which may or may not be slightly noticeable on an Amiga.

@@dhowser2008 absolutely, but on the other hand, SSDs are more expensive than CF cards (4GB are almost at the point of a dime a dozen) and both are limited by the relatively slow IDE speed on the Amiga so you get a law of diminishing returns on faster drives. To keep in mind is the Amiga simply does not write to drives like Windows/Mac do unless you have installed some virtual memory software. We don't generate a ton of temp files just starting the OS and for a 4GB CF card you don't have to install other software or file systems to manage the larger size. Now, if you're doing a lot of content creation on the Amiga saving lots of image files and need larger storage space, you might start to lean more toward SSDs. Or if you just want something that fits properly in the drive caddy in the 1200/600. Or if you just want to try something different. I'll probably be installing one in my towered 4000 at some point since once its back up and running with its 060 it probably will be the machine I use most. You also have Disk On Module (I think they're called) as another option, I have one of those yet to install. One other thing to think about is, most decent SD cards when they fail will switch to read only instead of corrupting (I have had this happen on my phone) while an SSD that fails most often become unreadable as well as unwritable in my experience. I have to look into if CF cards do the same as SD, and if so that to me is actually better even if they have less of a write cycle since you could still get your data off if they do go bad. If not, SD cards are also usable with SD to IDE adapters. I have a few but I have not had much success trying to get SD cards that the Amiga is happy with. I think it's just cool we have all these options for people to choose depending on their use cases nowadays as opposed to mechanical devices that have many more points of failure.

Ahhh ha ha ha! I have known him since I was 12 and I still have my doubts

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