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  1. It's a long while ago that I posted about #RetroComputer stuff. Time to change that. 😀

    I got myself an #Amiga4000 for restauration. And I can tell you this much: there'll be a fair few things to get done.

    I will post updates in this 🧵 in the next couple of months.

    (And guess who was so excited that he forgot to take good "before" photos. 🙈)

    #Amiga #Commodore

  2. Hey guys, new album just dropped today! "Tyranny Falls" is my first album release! Composed on an #Amiga4000 , Tyranny Falls brings a vintage, chip tuned, and sampled look at how things are, what our leaders are pushing for, and some ways to stop it. Break out your floppies, #resist #fascism and watch the #ice melt!

    drivenotfound.bandcamp.com/alb

    #commodore #Amiga #ice #iceout #icemelts #iot #vintage #techno #chiptune #music #trump #nokings #NoKingsDayOfAction #israel #iran #BandcampFriday

  3. In two articles, John 'Chucky' Hertell describes the assembly of newly produced circuit boards for the daughterboards of an A4000T and the actual A4000T motherboard.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

  4. As CS-Lab announced in early December already, their turbo board for upgrading the Amiga 3000 + 4000 with an 68060 CPU, the Warp 7060, will be available this quarter.

    At the time of writing, delivery of the customized pre-production boards was expected. The first prototype was already up and running, and the firmware being revised to support the new L2 cache, as with the other Warp models.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

  5. RE: hachyderm.io/@pilloledibit/115

    Vallo a spiegare a chi installa ed usa #Linux su un #Amiga nello specifico un #Amiga4000.
    I sistemi proprietari vanno in end of support. Nei sistemi liberi il concetto praticamente non esiste e mette a nudo il fatto che sia viepiù #obsolescenzaProgrammata

  6. Bit of #retrocomputing here.

    I finally decided to do something I'd been meaning to do for years - nudged by watching @janbeta starting the restoration of an #Amiga 3000T .

    What I needed to do was remove the real-time clock battery from the mainboard in my Amiga 4000. I haven't used it in - literally - decades, and those soldered-to-the-board NiCd batteries (they're three small cells attached end-to-end) all leak, eventually. They can do a lot of damage to the board.

    I think that I had been putting it off for years because I figured it had been so long there wouldn't be anything to salvage - that, plus it was tucked in an inconvenient place in storage.

    Today I pulled the box out and looked at it. It's basically in mint shape, even stored in the original factory packaging, which is not bad for a machine from 1993. I hadn't even seen the machine since 1998 - the box was sealed when I moved that year, and I never unpacked it. I moved a couple more times since then.

    It wasn't even dusty inside. It looks like it came out of the factory last week. It's the #68040 model and has some upgrades - RAM maxed out, a Video Toaster 4000 and a second hard drive added.

    The battery did leak, but there's no significant damage to the board. The lacquer where it oozed has lost its shine, but that's about it. Removed it and cleaned the board.

    I gather this might actually be worth something today? Last time I checked (20 years ago...) it wasn't.

    #A4000 #Amiga4000 #VideoToaster

  7. Bit of #retrocomputing here.

    I finally decided to do something I'd been meaning to do for years - nudged by watching @janbeta starting the restoration of an #Amiga 3000T .

    What I needed to do was remove the real-time clock battery from the mainboard in my Amiga 4000. I haven't used it in - literally - decades, and those soldered-to-the-board NiCd batteries (they're three small cells attached end-to-end) all leak, eventually. They can do a lot of damage to the board.

    I think that I had been putting it off for years because I figured it had been so long there wouldn't be anything to salvage - that, plus it was tucked in an inconvenient place in storage.

    Today I pulled the box out and looked at it. It's basically in mint shape, even stored in the original factory packaging, which is not bad for a machine from 1993. I hadn't even seen the machine since 1998 - the box was sealed when I moved that year, and I never unpacked it. I moved a couple more times since then.

    It wasn't even dusty inside. It looks like it came out of the factory last week. It's the #68040 model and has some upgrades - RAM maxed out, a Video Toaster 4000 and a second hard drive added.

    The battery did leak, but there's no significant damage to the board. The lacquer where it oozed has lost its shine, but that's about it. Removed it and cleaned the board.

    I gather this might actually be worth something today? Last time I checked (20 years ago...) it wasn't.

    #A4000 #Amiga4000 #VideoToaster

  8. Bit of #retrocomputing here.

    I finally decided to do something I'd been meaning to do for years - nudged by watching @janbeta starting the restoration of an #Amiga 3000T .

    What I needed to do was remove the real-time clock battery from the mainboard in my Amiga 4000. I haven't used it in - literally - decades, and those soldered-to-the-board NiCd batteries (they're three small cells attached end-to-end) all leak, eventually. They can do a lot of damage to the board.

    I think that I had been putting it off for years because I figured it had been so long there wouldn't be anything to salvage - that, plus it was tucked in an inconvenient place in storage.

    Today I pulled the box out and looked at it. It's basically in mint shape, even stored in the original factory packaging, which is not bad for a machine from 1993. I hadn't even seen the machine since 1998 - the box was sealed when I moved that year, and I never unpacked it. I moved a couple more times since then.

    It wasn't even dusty inside. It looks like it came out of the factory last week. It's the #68040 model and has some upgrades - RAM maxed out, a Video Toaster 4000 and a second hard drive added.

    The battery did leak, but there's no significant damage to the board. The lacquer where it oozed has lost its shine, but that's about it. Removed it and cleaned the board.

    I gather this might actually be worth something today? Last time I checked (20 years ago...) it wasn't.

    #A4000 #Amiga4000 #VideoToaster