The time has come!
Meet the 3000 500!
This is my most powerful original amiga!
It's rocking an a501 expension with working clock installed as chipmem exp.!
bringing this machine in par with a stock plus chipmem wise.
1MB Chip.
here a couple of shots, I've been lucky enough to save this a501 before the battery melted everything!
Desoldered the shield!
Cleaned the board and installed a new rechargable battery. (you can see some light damage done only to the protective coating, had to scrap it off.)
And here it is in all it's glory!
But let's check the heart of this Miggy!
Yeah the Chinon drive is a bit rusty, but as soon as the top case is removed you can see this is not the usual miggy!
So let's remove the keyboard to take a look at the real juice!
The HARDITAL BIGBANG
It's an awesome accellerator board.
It brings this Machine to the level of an Amiga 3000 with 2MB of 32bit Memory
a 68030 running at 25MHz coupled with it's FPU.
I decided to install a switch to be able to choose to run the card in 68000 mode...
On top of the floppy drive...
Using such an accellerator requires the use of an Hard Drive to be able to use it properly, but the Commodore A590 is not compatible with it, so I'm using a Multi Evolution 500!
Here it is, dismantled for your viewing pleasure!
Sporting a new Blue LED... Cause, why not?
A very useful external SCSI port! (Zip drive!)
Here the lovely SCSI 8GB HD itself
And the board with it's 2Mb of memory (look at those lovely roms! Sent to me by my great penfriend M!)
This is my 5Mb 25Mhz Commodore "Amiga 3000"
A 500.
I hope you enjoied taking a look under the clothes of this machine!
Cya in the next post!
And don't forget to take the ball to the beach!