Lookie what I got for free/ nostalgia trip perhaps? (amiga 1000) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2014, 10:02:25 pm
content: Well, I found an ad on kijiji that just said something along the lines of "free old commodore", I asked which one, not the 64, and I'm not really sure which one it was but hey, since I gutted my apple II e (a mistake I now regret, the parts are long strewn aroundthough I did kill the only disk I had for it so eeh) I figured hey, free is free and picked it up. It's in pretty fantastic shape actually, comes with loads of games and other disks, an expeeeensive arse word processing software lol ($154 at the time, yeesh) and a printer. as I was going to pull out the printer I noticed that it also has joysticks, a couple I recognize from a video where a guy went over a bunch of joystricks and talked about how some were good and some sucked (looking at the little red post one lol)But yeah, I figure you guys might find this interesting, I'll take loads more pictures later, maybe another day but for now here are a few.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2014, 10:04:44 pm
content: holy crap saw an ebay result looking up the model number, and some of the price for these things are insane lol

author: Anks
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2014, 11:07:42 pm
content: Awesome had a 1200 growing up and always wanted a 4000. The 1000 is one of the rarest and plays all games apart from the AGA ones as far as I remember.The video your on about was it not one of Dan Woods

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2014, 11:46:14 pm
content: Quote from: Anks on December 11, 2014, 11:07:42 pmactually I'm talking about an ashens video, but I'll have to check that out too.

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2014, 12:50:20 am
content: Ahh, I remember those. Good find. And that cabinet, you get with it as well? Looks just about as old.

author: BloodyCactus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2014, 02:09:03 am
content: Nice. I'm building a custom A1000, its basically the A1000 with A3000 parts, its based on the Phoenix A1000 motherboard design. Uses a1k + a3k chips.prices for a1k's are up on ebay mostly because people need the cases, the a1k itself is pretty poor (256k ram, 7mhz 68k, its expansion slot is reverse of the a500 expansion so makes a lot of things not work etc). but the cases are in demand.a2k, a3k are awesome OCS machines, then you get the super expenive A4k + A1200, ignore the A600 is a bastard child, better off with an A500 over an A600.A3000 is the bets of the bunch for the pre-AGA chipset stuff.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2014, 11:03:29 am
content: Quote from: mojo-chan on December 12, 2014, 10:47:55 amYeah I thought it was broken but it doesn't seem so, I'll be sure to test it out.Didn't get the cabinet with it lol.

author: Kevman
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2014, 03:01:16 pm
content: Aaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.Seriously Jealous. Amiga stuff is mad expensive. I want one, but after you get everything you need (especially if you want to run demos), you're talking serious cash.Did you get a monitor? Amigas are 15Khz, so you'll need either a scandoubler, true Amiga monitor or an arcade monitor...Fire up some desert dream if it can play it! Regardless, Should be able to play some seriously awesome tunes, though. 4-mat and Jereon Tel. And Hoffman. And....

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2014, 10:04:07 pm
content: Quote from: Kevman on December 12, 2014, 03:01:16 pmyup, guessing you can't see the pictures lol but it looks like the original monitor. I'm going to try and clear up some space to set everything up and take a video/better pictures, but don't expect lots of tech knowledge about this computer lol

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2014, 10:33:14 pm
content: Cast into the underside of the top lid of the case is the signatures of the design team :-)

author: magetoo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2014, 12:14:02 am
content: Quote from: mojo-chan on December 12, 2014, 10:47:55 amFriend of mine had one of those. It's not wired up, and it's not a feature - it's just rotates freely. They were cheap, and often came bundled as I remember it. The small one is probably the best of the bunch, I think they even had microswitches.The A1000 always had the best looks but every other model improves on the hardware. Ihadhave an A500 and an A3000 myself. If anyone has suggestions for reasonably priced SCSI adapters or hardware I could even get the A3K running again.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2014, 01:01:56 am
content: Well it runs, sadly most of the games (including double dragon) don't work, a few ask for diskdoctor, but quite a few are just wiped, and looking into it, it's basically impossible to write to these disks if I found images online, heck my pc won't even read them through the usb floppy drive, I figured it would show something at least lol.Also hooked it up to my netbook using a cable that actually goes from those RCA style outputs to 3.5mm, sound works, though on F/A 18 simulator there's a constant annoying background noise. Just tried the demo so far.Messed around with the text to speech thing and it's decently creepy lol, can't figure out how to make it change to female voice though.Anyways there's apparently some serial thing you can set up to get files over and other such things but I don't have the stuff to do that on hand I think.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2014, 01:05:45 am
content: you are right about the microswitched joystick, thinking about it maybe that was one he liked, I can't recall. the button on the side is sticking/broken, maybe I'll try and fix it.edit: that video