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Deimoxx

Posted Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:55 pm

I have owned this since the mid 90's. Swapped it for a Pentium II 233 CPU :). With all the interest lately I thought I would drag it out and maybe give it a few upgrades. It only has single kickstart roms but I have plenty of spares and I am looking at adding VGA output as my old CRT is getting a little noisy, I think its going to die soon.

Here are some pics.
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McTrinsic

Posted Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:29 pm

Awesome!
That Pentium sure wouldn't be as great a machine as this one :) .
With some love and patience, this beauty can really shine.
You're from Europe I guess?

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intric8
Seattle, WA, USA

Posted Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:37 pm

Very cool indeed!

This is the first time I've seen pictures (that I remember) of the actual heat shield cut out using the supplied paper pattern for an original mechanical HDD. Which size is your HDD?

I assume you're auto-booting WB 1.3 off that internal drive?

Have to say - I'm pretty impressed with how clean that motherboard is, and how pristine the case appears in the photos. quite a gem.

Does your original floppy drive make contact with your ROM chip?

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Deimoxx

Posted Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:42 pm

I am from Australia. The unit is booting from the SCSI HDD, WB 1.3 . The drive is 105MB I believe. The floppy doesn't touch the chips but I
think if I added more it would. looks super close.

If anyone has suggestions for adding VGA I would love to hear them.

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McTrinsic

Posted Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:54 am

You should get a Flickerfixer/Scandoubler for internal
mounting. Best option in my view is an Indivision ECS. They are currently out of stock at icomp, but expected to get a new production run.
An older alternative would be the ICD Flickerfree Video 2.

There is a DIY-graphics card available that might be sourced on Amibay every once in a while.

The graphics card would not solve the issue of getting native screen modes to VGA anyways.

I asked about 'Europe' because the American A1k cases didn't have 'Commodore' on them...

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Deimoxx

Posted Tue Feb 20, 2018 4:16 am

Thanks for the advice. My monitor blew up about 20 mins after I posted that it was sounding funny. Sadly I’m using a A520 now which looks horrible.

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Bulletdust

Posted Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:42 pm

The monitor's most likely a failed flyback transformer and HOT power transistor, a fairly easy fix - Just respect the very high voltages generated by the flyback and be sure to discharge it correctly.

There's an electronics supplier in Sydney that sells everything you need.





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