My Amiga 500 diy Hardware (2017/2021)

All started with an old Commodore Amiga A500 for 10€

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Amiga A500
Amiga A500

Found an old Commodore Amiga A500 with Power supply only.

After this thing arrived at home,

i opened the chassis.

Sadly i must broken the seals :( and surprise,

a lot of retro dust inside.

Look, a Rev 6A Rock Lobster Board, nice.
Look, a Rev 6A Rock Lobster Board, nice.
An ECS Agnus, nice too.
An ECS Agnus, nice too.
Sadly no ECS Denise. Ok, it is a normal A500 Rev 6A.
Sadly no ECS Denise. Ok, it is a normal A500 Rev 6A.

Some PCB cleaning done.

Connected all together (Amiga, Composite and Power).


Greetings from Kickstart 1.3 :-)

Composite Video is Grayscale only
Composite Video is Grayscale only
N Scale model railtrain on Amiga cooling slots
N Scale model railtrain on Amiga cooling slots

Fun Fact: The cooling slots distance matches the Scale N railroad model.

Now my next things i want to build are....


- Arduino Floppy Disk reader/writer -

Amiga disk ADF image Reader/Writer for PC

with Arduino controlled PC Floppy drive


- File Transfer PC<>Amiga -

Transfer files and ADF images from Linux NAS<>Amiga


- RGB to Scart-AV cable -


- Arduino PS/2 mouse converter -

PS/2 Mouse to Amiga converter

with Joystick mode


- Slow/Ranger/Trapdoor RAM -

Expansion RAM with 30Pin SIMM modules


- IDE/Compact Flash Interface -

IDE Interface based on A500ide


- Kickstart Update / Flash -

Flashable Kickrom


- Mouse Replacement (w/o Arduino) -

Optical mouse to Amiga Conversion



UPDATE JAN 2018

- Vortex ATonce Rev.2 -

AT 286 Emulator/Bridge Board


UPDATE JAN 2021

- Terriblefire 530 Accelerator -

Homebrew accelerator card with 68040 cpu, 2MB fast ram and IDE connector

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