Having got a hold of a GVP A500-HD8+ SCSI Hard disk sidecar, from 1991-92, I now need to update it to make it usable in my Amiga 500 refurb and upgrade. This device came with a ZuluSCSI, meaning I could use WinUAE, to modify its virtual hard disks. In this video I update it with a new install of Workbench 3.2, to work with a 3.2.1 ROM I had left spare from my Amiga 2000 refurb.
Category: Upgrade
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Next level Amiga500 with 1MB Chip RAM and a GVP hard drive!
My Commodore Amiga 500 really needs some Amiga upgrades! In this series I will take it from a stock A500, to a machine that I would have been proud to have back in 1997, by modifying its logic board, giving it 1MB of chip RAM and then installing a hard drive in the form of a GVP HD8+ sidecar. First, lets do an inspection and see what we have to work with…