Great, you’ve seen part 1 of the KickstartSwitch story, and are now wondering what it takes to actually build a Kickstartswitch into your Amiga 500 / 600 / 2000. Note 1: This description is based on an Amiga 500, the Amiga 600 and 2000 are functionally similar, differences are in the way…
Amiga IDE interface functionality Further explored The weather has been so bad the past few days that I finally had the time to put the IDE interface to the test and to test the extensive possibilities myself. Of course the interface already worked fine in the basic setup, but theoretically…
Suppose you want to install an Amiga 2000 Internal IDE Interface in your A2000, what are the possibilities? I spent a lot of time designing and determining the best footprint for a Gotek.nl IDE interface for your Amiga 2000. The reason for this is that there are several revisions of…
Inleiding Amiga IDE FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Over time, The IDE interface has gone through quite a number of revisions, but the questions about the IDE interface have generally remained the same. I’m going to try to cover some of those frequently asked questions in this Amiga IDE FAQ. But…
Pistorm with a CD-ROM drive Recently one of the people that bought an IDE interface for his Amiga 500+ contacted me because he couldn’t get his Pistorm with a CD-ROM drive setup, up and running. From experience i knew that i had it working at some time, but did not…
Oled Display for Gotek Floppydrive : A while ago I thought I had the deal of my life when I ordered some cheap Gotek drives. When they came in, it suddenly turned out to be cheap, expensive, the drives had no up / down buttons and no numeric display. So…
Adding a CD-ROM / DVD-ROM to your Amiga 500 / 500+ has never been easier. It has never been easier to make use of a CD-ROM / DVD-ROM with your amiga 500. Upto now it was so much easier to hook up a CD-ROM drive to a bigbox amiga, with…
Adding a Reset Switch to your Amiga 500 / 500+ Reset functionality Amiga 500. The amiga 500 / 500+ has a reset function that is triggered by pressing the Control – Left Amiga – Right Amiga keys. Although it is a software-initiated reset call, it results in a hard reset performed immediately….
A500 External IDE Interface is ready and released. For those people who prefer not to open their Amiga 500, or who want to use a CD-ROM externally, there is now also an external version of the IDE interface for the Amiga 500 / 500+. I have been testing this interface…