====== About ======
The Amiga can be conveniently controlled via a WeMoS D1 Mini board in order to either pull data from the Amiga (such as CPU temperature) or turn the Amiga on or off via triggers such as Amazon Alexa.
The [[iot/desi... tself.
The following modification to a towerized Amiga 1200 will consist in the following steps:
* mod
====== About ======
One of the more difficult Amiga 1200 modifications to perform is to get a [[http://w... MK-II Cr2 graphics card]] inside the traditional Amiga wedge case. The problem stems from the fact that ... top of Alice but extends to the RAM chips on the Amiga 1200 board.
Elbox, the producer of FastATA, offi... you to keep the original wedge-shaped case of the Amiga 1200.
====== Alternative Modifications ======
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====== About ======
The Amiga Mediator produced by Elbox accepts diverse PCI cards except for the USB ca... ows you to spare USD60 and add an USB card to the Amiga Mediator.
* An USB 2.0 PCI card - a NEC based ... the Spider USB card. These go for about USD5.
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* ''CH341A'' EPROM programmer - can be
====== About ======
All Amiga models have two ports running along the back of the machine that allow plu... e a second controller to be plugged in. Since the Amiga has just two ports, a mouse port and a joystick p... of mouse and joystick switchers available for the Amiga but they all have flaws that are sometimes a show... switchers are external devices and connect to the Amiga with a short wire running to the mouse port and a
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Even with the new Mediator 1200 TX, the Amiga still does not receive the correct amount of powe... er to the motherboard instead. Unfortunately, the Amiga motherboard does need the $-12V$ line to be power... a P9 for which we have the following pinouts:
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Since the P9 AT connector does n
ckstart ROMs can be burnt in order to replace the Amiga chips. One reason to do this is to upgrade a classic Amiga to newer AmigaOS versions without having to patch... d how to operate a TL866 Pro in order to burn two Amiga ROM chips with kickstart 3.1.4.
====== Requireme... grammer - the adapter board is needed because the Amiga kickstart ROMs have more physical pins than the M
The clockport expander my Matthias Münch for the Amiga is designed to fit over the clockport port but this will not work if the Amiga is expanded with a Mediator board since the Media... t the clockport expander to the IDC header on the Amiga motherboard.
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The power supply unit (PSU) shipped with the Amiga is said to be underpowered (rated at $\approx 25W$) and it is common knowledge that the Amiga requests more power to be drawn out. The commerci... n ATX power supply that has been coupled with the Amiga power cable. If you have an ATX power supply, it can be easily converted to be used with the Amiga.
====== Pinout ======
The pinouts can be seen o
uipment.
====== Downloads ======
* {{hardware:amiga:blizzard_1230_scsi_iv_8.5.rom|Blizzard 1230 SCSI ... mean punch is the "MiniPro TL866II+":
{{hardware:amiga:programming_the_blizzard_scsi_kit_iv_eeprom_progr... C32'' to ''DIP32'' adapter is needed.
{{hardware:amiga:programming_the_blizzard_scsi_kit_iv_plcc32_to_di... and fully supported by the TL866II+.
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ducer's website or mirrored here:
* {{hardware:amiga:hardware_amiga_using_scsi2sd_drives_scsi2sd.zip|scsi2sd.zip}}
To configure the SCSI2SD drive, plug in ... e is to be placed in the SCSI chain).
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The following settings will have to be mad
ems to not be designed in any way specific to the Amiga 1200. One of its major flaws is the weird design decision to not provide a way to display the Amiga 1200 activity LEDs because, traditionally, the st... ing information. In order to overcome the lack of Amiga-speficic design, the following guide illustrates ... cuit Design ======
Measuring the output from the Amiga 1200 status LED connectors it is observed that th
====== About ======
Amiga accelerators have the tendency to get extremely hot while running. Unfortunate... that it is impossible for the heat to escape the Amiga while it runs.
====== Requirements ======
* S... r heat transfer.
====== Explanation ======
The Amiga trap-door has to be cut just above the CPU - one ... nt type of glue.
====== Result ======
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o expand the number of clockport ports inside the Amiga. Unfortunately, many devices that connect to the ... e main 5V rail from the power supply.
{{hardware_amiga_bootsting_power_to_clockport_expander_mount.png?5... the clockport expander has been mounted into the Amiga and attached directly to the power-source - this can involve either soldering the cable to the Amiga main power socket or otherwise depending on your
a cool blue display which blends nicely with the Amiga. The sensor is a flat-type sensor that can be eas... s rated at 5V which can be drawn directly off the Amiga's power plug.
====== Gallery ======
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ommonly used in retrocomputing such as [[hardware/amiga/using_scsi2sd_drives|being used with Commodore Amiga computers]] or Macs. Even though the hardware is qu
