So I purchased a mini-box picoPSU-120 kit which is in essence a very very small power supply that provides multiple regulated voltages. I want to power my Commodore Amiga 500 with the tiny power supply but there’s...
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Armiga Project
Here’s a cool project that I have some involvement with, the Armiga Project. This is basically an ARM-based emulation platform for the Amiga 500 that uses normal Commodore Amiga floppy disks! Pretty cool, and I...
Added some new photos for A501 replacement
Added some new photos of the populated PCB for the Commodore Amiga A501 memory replacement card.
Find them on the main project page here.
Sweet success, card works 100% in different DUT(Amiga)
So I think the Amiga 500 I was testing with has problems. I’m not sure precisely what or why but Today, I dropped my new A501 replacement card into a known-working Commodore Amiga 500. It fired up immediately no...
Stress testing the memory board
So I’ve written some assembly in the monitor software I’ve been using, and I’ve just created a large loop to see if I can get the card to fail. I’m still having plenty of problems on bootup, but...
RTC Progress
RTC appears to be working and keeping the date and time across cold-starts. I picked the Epson RTC-72423 which is about a $6 chip, but is obviously directly compatible with the OKI Semiconductor MSM6242B. The design...
