Commodore Amiga Capacitor lists Amiga 1000 – Mainboard Type Specification Qty Positions THT 22µF / 16v 7 C48, C49, C50, C63, C64, C65, C66 THT 47µF / 16v 1 C92 THT 100µF / 16v 4 C78, C79, C80, C175 THT 220µF / 16v 1 C93 THT 470µF / 16v 1 C95 THT Empty 1 C94 […]
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A1200 Rev 1B & A600 Rev 2B – Audio too loud
If the audio of your Amiga 1200 Rev 1B, A600 Rev 2B or maybe other revisions is too loud (not distorted), that is caused by two resistors. Tristan Zondag confirmed the A600 Rev 2B is also affected. R331 & R321 are 1,5K Ohm, while they should be 680 Ohm. If I test the output voltage […]
Amiga 500,500+,2000,3000 drive selector switch
How does it work On the Amiga 500,500+,2000,3000 you can’t boot from the external (DF1) drive by default, so you need a switch so the external (DF1) drive will act as DF0: Switch position 1 (default) Internal Drive is DF0: External Drive is DF1: Switch position 2 External Drive will be acting as DF0: Internal […]
Compact Flash LED not working
Some Compact Flash (CF) to IDE adaptors fail to light up the drive activity LED, I was wondering why… I took a board and removed some components and did some measurements, and I discovered that the BOTH base pins of the NPN transistors are connected to ground. Huh?! That means that the transistors won’t switch […]
CDTV CDROM no data discs repair
This time a Commodore CDTV arrived on my workbench with the following symptoms: Plays audio cd fine Does not load CDROM (CDTV) discs After checking that the CD mechanism worked fine using an audio CD I tested with several CDTV discs both original and recordables. During loading the CD spins up OK and there is […]