After an invite, I made the spur of the moment decision to visit an Amiga centric event at SWAG’s February 2024 event in Chipping Sodbury, just a few miles away from Bristol on South West England. I arrived pretty early and headed in, to see what I could see…
Author: Retronaut
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Amiga 4000 CH06: The Reassembly
It’s time to put my rescued Amiga 4000 back together! After a complex repair, that spanned over a year and a case front fascia restoration. Its time to put it all back together, so I can use it as my own machine for gaming, and productivity (I’m looking at you Real 3D).
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Can I Repair this Amiga’s RAM and bring it back to life?
In the previous video we looked at the damage caused by a leaking Varta battery to my Amiga 4000. This was once a working computer, used at a large TV station. Now it would not even show any video, and the battery had done some serious damage to various traces and chips near it. Now, we will see if we can get this machine to work again…
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Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453 PC – CH03: The Repair
During the cleaning process, the Ergo Pro developed a fault. In this video, we are going to try and repair a machine, with almost no signs of life, no video and with an architecture I am unfamiliar with, with no schematic to help. I know, when it failed to boot, my head sank, as pre-cleaning it was working.
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Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453 PC – CH02: Post Code Analyser
Sadly, during the first chapters cleaning, something went south on the Ergo Pros logic board. During its repair, one piece of equipment, a Post Code Analyser card, really proved to be pivotal in diagnosing the problem and ultimately repairing the machine.
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Spectrum Next, Issue 2 CH01: Unboxing & First Impressions
If you are aware of the Spectrum Next, Issue 2 saga, then you’ll know how long I have waited to get my itchy mits on this machine. Paid for in August 2020, it took until later December 2023 before a box was dropped (a little too hard…) at my front door, with the Spectrum Next inside.
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Is My Amiga 4000 Battery Damage Too Severe To Repair?
The rescued Amiga 4000 was cleaned, now we had to evaluate just how bad the battery damage was. Amiga 4000’s nearly always feature battery damage and its located RIGHT next to the main system memory. Would this Amiga live again, or would be be doomed to be a “for parts” machine….
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How To Use The Excellent Amiga PCB Explorer!
In this series, we will need to undertake some serious analysis of the Amiga 4000, rescued from Worcester and the damage it took from battery leakage. Thats where PCB Explorer steps in, a free logic board inspection tool that is pretty much vital for most Amiga computer repairs
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Review of 2023 Reviews #retrocomputer #retroconsoles #retro #retrogaming #retropc
The 8-Bit Guys 2023 end of year review has caused some controversy, whilst Retro Man Cave’s view on the year past and ahead had a more positive feel. In this video I discuss why CTRL-ALT-Ress got miffed at David Murrays comments, and on how I feel about everyones comments. And I toss in a few more points along the way, for good measure. Enjoy….
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Can I Refurbish a Very Badly Yellowed Amiga 4000
In Chapter One of this series we looked at how I made a mad dash across England, to rescue an Amiga 4000, possibly boiling in its own battery juices. In this chapter, we look at the physical state of the machine, and what is required to get it back to its previous glory.