Holy crap! a mega rare 60/50 accelerator and a picasso II. On top of what would already be an absolutely amazing find for 20 $. This is the biggest ewaste bargain I have ever seen. that stuff is like 3000$ together.
While I can't beat $20, I did snag a boxed Amiga 500 (with HDD sidecar) a Commodore Monitor, and about 30 boxed games along with a mountain of floppies for $40 at a little computer shop back in Florida. Wonderful little setup. Passed it down to my kids and they love it.
~12-13:00, right before you open it: Before I watch any more, or read any spoiler comments, the 5.25" drive to me indicates a pc processor card, and even if the machine is toast, at $20, the case itself is a huge win - not to mention that even if the board is toast from an exploded battery or something, new replacement boards for these are under a hundred bucks. every one of those chipset chips is worth a fortune. Even if the machine was underwater, having been in a fire or whatever, chances are you can still build a brand new A2000 from the thing on the cheap and be the coolest dude on the block - or sell it for a massive profit. Makes the lobes tingle, but I'd be tempted to keep it, use it, and let it appreciate. I do a lot of salvage and this is such an amazing find. Great work and good eye man!
I am always envious of access like this. As far as I have been able to find, there is nothing like these 'people can look through the ewaste' centres in my region.
Dayum!!! That is a find of a lifetime! I've never come across anything even remotely close to that in awesomeness level at any of the e-waste/thrift/etc places I've gone to. Love the dramatic reenactment btw :)
Congrats on finding that treasure-chest of an Amiga! She may need some work, but that's one of the fun parts of this hobby. Can't wait to see what you find with the power supply - good luck!
Wow. Thanks for taking us along in this process. Everyone else has said, but his is really a special find. I'm so exited to see if you can make it smurf again!
Hey thanks for saving this A2000 from oblivion! If there is any dark green acid remaining under the mask (I saw some) , it will probably continue to spread across the motherboard over time. Recommend removing all the mask, cleaning and applying new mask. Compare photos over time to confirm it is spreading. Great machine!
Dude you bought a gold mine for $20 completely awesome deal from your e-waste facility. I have an e-waste facility about a mile from where I live, but I'm not sure if they resell any of the items. I love the Retro PCs and I'm looking for a vintage Windows 95 PC to play all my old PC games without having to use emulation. I want a true DOS machine.
Here I was thinking the amazing deal you got on that Amiga was the best part of the video and Penny shows up. What a beautiful doggo! I think you should feature more of her in your videos. :)
What an amazing find! As soon as I saw it I thought "I bet the battery has let go". In that circumstance, I would cut my losses and get a replica Amiga 2000 PCB and build a new replacement. Having all of the custom chips on hand makes sourcing parts easy.
Great find! About that mod... Think if Chip RAM as almost like graphics RAM. The Amiga custom chips, like the graphics chip and the sound chip, have direct priority access to the chip RAM. Unlike graphics RAM in most computers, the CPU can also access it and use it to run apps. But the custom chips always have priority access, and the CPU must wait it's turn. This makes it much slower for apps to run in chip RAM. And it's why adding additional RAM (sometimes called "fast RAM") provides a big performance boost, on the entry level Amiga models that only came with chip RAM. That mod gives you a bigger Agnus (graphics) chip - sometimes known as "fatter Agnus" - that can access more Chip RAM. This allows higher resolutions with more colours, and higher refresh rates. Although the Picasso II graphics card largely replaces the onboard graphics in Workbench (the desktop environment), you would still end up using Agnus for most classic Amiga games. A small number of newer games support Retargetable Graphics (RTG) and may be able to make use of the Picasso II. But most of your gaming graphics will be from the Agnus chip. A few older games may not like or work with the additional Chip RAM. There may be way to disable it in software, for such games.
A standard 5.25" HD floppy does not work on Amiga floppy controller (Paula). You can run a DD floppy off of it. That said, almost all 5.25" floppy drives that you find in Amigas came packed in with a bridgeboard, and was hooked to the bridgeboard's floppy controller (which the Amiga could access through the zorro slot interface to the bridgeboard, or the x86 on the bridgeboard could access directly to run MS-DOS/Windows.) While the Amiga did not come with a MIDI port, MIDI is basically just a serial port running at 31250bps with some extra simple bus electronics. If your serial interface can do 31250bps (which the Amiga specifically supported), you can build a relatively simple dongle to add a MIDI port. Also holy crap did you get a goldmine of a system for $20. With the add-in cards that's worth THOUSANDS.
Like that 060 card is solid gold. That's like finding a vintage limited-run McLaren or Ferrari in your dad's garage. Also regarding the Megachip, since you're new to the Amiga... "Chip RAM" refers to memory that the Amiga's native chipset can use as video and audio memory (as well as the floppy track buffer, and other various chip stuff). If you have other memory, like the memory on your accelerator, the CPU can access it much faster since it doesn't have to share the bus with the chipset. Think of it like on cheap PCs that have shared memory with the CPU and VGA instead of a discrete card, but in this case if you add "fast" memory expansion you can leave the chip memory dedicated for graphics and sound. Regarding the power supply, check the label to see if it was made by Skynet. You might have a terminator sent after you.
Some of the worst of the damage from NiCd batteries is not from the alkalinity or other pH imbalance per se, but potassium hydroxide (KOH) that reacts with both tin and copper. It leeches into the metals and generally messes them up. It can also greatly increase the melting point of the solder, making desoldering more difficult and more risky. So in addition to neutralizing the pH, I think it's also important to remove and replace any and all afflicted solder, and cleaning pin legs, traces and everything else that has been in contact with the KOH, using both chemical and mechanical means.
What a coincidence this appeared on my feed (or perhaps intentional..algos!) I also just rescued a fully populated Amiga 2000 motherboard from the Ewaste pile. Full disclosure, I run an Ewaste recycling center so I save vintage items on a daily basis but this was my first Amiga 2000. I have had several 1000's come through, one complete and fully functional. 8 bit scrap is becoming rarer and rarer. I used to pull at least 4-5 8 bit units a week. Now it's a few per year. They are getting rare.
Use Vinegar to neutralize the corrosion. the black on the CPU is corrosion. A fiberglass pen works really well. also a high grit (2000) or so sand paper. lightly sand the solder mask off to remove the corrosion. you MUST remove all the corrosion to prevent its spread. Use 100% IPA to disperse the water. You should remove all components to get at the corrosion under the component. Anywhere you see green you gotta clean it out.
Impressive find for that money. I feel like it's a "brag video" LOL. Can you believe what Amiga stuff is fetching these days? I once bought an Amiga 4000D (040-25) at a ham radio flea market for $100 with a Toaster 4000 and TBC IV in it. Still works. My best find (2018) was a Craigslist ad for a 4000-T which the seller was asking $500. When I got to his house and we were talking Amiga nostalgia for an hour, he said, just give me $100. I want to send those email scammers a message. You're an Amiga fan and I want you to be stoked. (I am still). Came with a Warp Engine 040 CPU card, KB, Mouse, 1084S and a ton of extra stuff.
Cool Find!!! The power supply needs more load!!!! The 12 volt line is dependant on the 5Volt rail, an that needs 1 Amp at least to regulate properly. This is really cool. You may find some Help on EAB When you go with Workbench / OS 3.2 a lot of the problems with the 060 are gone. Using an 68060 with 3.1 would require special libs and care in the startup-sequence. Write me if you need help
You can pretty much make any contemporary peripheral work on an Amiga. I must have made dozens of cables and downloaded squillions of drivers to make 51/4 SCSI HD, SCSI DAT drives, ZIp drives, CD|ROM drives (IDE & SCSI) i spent a lot of time in the 90's trawling classified and car boots for kit that PC owners wanted rid of , just to "see" if i could get them working on my A500 or A1200.
There should really be a filter on all eWaste streams for vintage electronics to divert particularly rare things to museum, auction, etc.. Too many things get destroyed which really shouldn't. Maybe anything >15yo should at least have a shot at an auction..
The accelerator and the A3000 Agnus chip, is two very nice find, only those tho in Europe between 1200-1500USD and then a Picasso II card up on that... Man that's a find of the year .. btw I'm an Amiga collector and have about 50 Amigas in my collection..
What a score, that is a similar system to the Amiga 2000 I have and back in the day it cost me about $10,000. That CPU has a fair bit of corrosion on the pins, though it doesn't mean that it has damaged the system and it won't work. One side note even though you have an accalarator card in the system if the 68000 CPU doesn't work I believe that it still won't work with the 060.
The broken traces are a very good sign, as they are certainly the reason the Amiga failed - and had gone to trash. So you have a very high chance the other components being still functional. I have actually 3 A2000 damaged mainboards (2 Revision 6.2, one Revision 4.x). Exept for the Buster Chip controlling Zorro II bus, all custom chips are the same as on the A500, so I checkted them all - everything O.K. So it is a good idea if you have a friend with working A500 or A2000 to check your custom chips.There is a replacement PCB available, so if you can not find all bad traces, you can rebuild the board completly. As you have 4.x and replacement board is 6.2, diferent RAM is used - but you do not need it, as the Fat Agnus upgrade replaces the onboard RAM anyway. Just consider it as a last chance if you can not repair the PCB.
What a bargain, so jealous. ;) Appreciate the timeline, the Amiga model naming system still confuses me heh. Looking back you could spend a lot of money on Amiga expansion, still I can't fault those high memory potentials. Seen worse but always sad to see battery corrosion eat a board, so easy to forget to remove batteries in a lot of things.
The module on the motherboard is memory expansion for chip ram so instead of 1 mb chip ram your Amiga 2000 got 2 mb chip ram, with Kickstart 3.1 and the 68060 50 Mhz cpu and the memory on the acclerator card you can run Amiga Os 3.5 or Amiga Os 3.9, nice find I one time found an Amiga 500 it's allmost like a Amiga 2000 but harder to expand, the video port can be used with a Scandoubler flicker fixer card it converts the 15 Khz Rgb signal to 31,5 khz Svga signal so you can use a svga monitor or flat panel lcd monitor
Nice find. Just for a stock 2000 much less the goodies inside! I still have my original 2000 from 1988. Unfortunately even though I removed the battery years ago one of the slot covers on the back fell off and mice got inside!!!! Pee and poop everywhere!!! I originally bought mine for its expandability, especially adding a PC card. However reality showed it to be an incredibly expensive thing to do. It didnt take long though before one could build a nice PC clone for about what a bridge card and accessories would cost with the bonus of having a second PC!!!
If you cannot get that power supply to work you do have other options, look into adapters that allow you to use an ATX power supply with the Amiga 2000.
I want to put into perspective your find compared to my experiences with thrifters. A few months back I was talking to a local thrifter, who would buy out old storage lockers, and she straight up told me she just threw away old computers, and I showed her some prices that people pay for these things, and said "Hey keep an eye out for me, if you get one, give me a good deal on one" - she found an old 486/33 4mb that was something I'd enjoy playing wtih, and then proceeded to tell me it was $300, and I'm like "wtf, you payed 200 for the whole storage unit, and you have dvd players and all this other stuff, heck you'd have thrown this away if not for me, how about $100" (which imho was still a bit pricey but I figured I could hang on to it for a bit, restore it have my fun - and break even. Nope, dead set on the $300, so um... yeah... last time I tell someone to look out for something for me... sheesh. I guess you don't make money being nice to people, ha! ... wait now I'm just jealous of your find ... :P
An Amiga dealer on the east coast named "Mr. Hardware" still has my 060 Wildfire board and I would like it back, as it cost me quite a bit of money. Look and see if it has my name written on it. 🤯
I'm so so so jealous! Specially with that accelerator card. Once you're done with it (*the whole system*) can I get it as a Christmas gift? I care not if needs repairs! I'll do it and them some!
I've used amigas but it was past their prime, I was only 9/10 when win98 came out so take that into perspective but we did use Apple 2s, IBM Pcs, and yes even some Amigas. But around 98 everything went windows or mac os.
You got a ‘060 Wildfire, Picasso2, Megachip, and 2000 for $20 at E-Cycling??? GAAAHHHHH!!! I’m going to make a video on my channel about your video out of frustration. ;) (I kid)
I'm so jelly right now, on the verge of being mad about it, Thanks lol. Still. Amazing find, hope it brings you years of pleasure of ownership. Just finding someone to part with one is hard enough usually, never mind the expense. #dreammachine
Any chance of an update to this A2000 system? I ask, as its an Amiga gold mine just itching to be booted if you can get it working. If not, Chris Edwards is someone who could fix it for you, and he'd have a blast doing it!
You know, it's a shame that anyone should throw one of those away. I once e-wasted a big CRT monitor, under pressure from my mum. I sure wish that I didn't.
Hope you can repair the psu :) if not I think you can find one on ebay ;) if all the cards works it's a Great find the prices on cards for Amiga today has gone sky high, I sold all my Amiga's and Commodore 64ers back in 2010
Excellent find. Hurts my eyes and hearts seeing the way you flex this card though. It's quite easy to break traces this way and ruing the device. Also you really need to test these PSUs while connected to the motherboard. Some of them won't even start giving off crackling noises, some will give improper voltages. CPU socket with that much corrosion will surely call for replacement. I have 4 Amiga 2000s at the moment, had 11 during the last year and a half and I did all the repair like you show here on these machines (only 2 had GP batteries so the boards are pristine as those don't really leak) so I'm talking from experience here...
@@RetroHackShack ALL Amiga hardware is rare these days, aside from basic A500 setups. Amiga expansions were just not mass produced the same way ISA cards were for the IBM Compatible market. The only Amiga expansion card that had more than half a million examples made was probably the A501 (which almost every A500 got or got a clone of eventually). Other than that, you'll find some A2091 SCSI controllers as they shipped with a lot of A2000s, and a fair number of A2088XT bridgeboards. Literally everything else is rare.
@@oleurgast730 I mean rare in that you almost never encounter them randomly in the wild, not rare as in you can't find them at specialized vintage online stores/ebay.
8:47 This is incorrect. The 5.25" drive in the 2000 was for IBM PC/XT emulation. The drive does not work on the Amiga at all. The Bridgeboard was a PC/XT Emulator card that the drive could connect to so you could use IBM software. What you are describing was the external 1020 5.25" drive for the Amiga 1000. You could use this drive on the Amiga side for up to 360k on a disk. That was Amiga or PC format.
@@RetroHackShack cool. I have a 1020 drive that I used to do as you said, use on the Amiga. But we were not able to backup games to it. Just used it mostly to transfer IBM software on the Amiga.
the ewaste/"recycling" places I know about wouldn't dream of letting anything go once it gets there, for any amount of money no matter how rare or useful. I think they'd rather force you watch while they destroy it in front of you.
Instead of looking for ewaste places (they are few and far between) consider building a relationship with your local scrap yards. They see them all of the time and they often toss them into the steel pile for shredding, or your more savy yards will break them down for the boards. Often $10 or $20 can get just about any single item if the yard is willing. Use common sense and be respectful and polite. Some places are run by junk yard dogs and other just want the money. This is what I do for a living. Good luck!
Whaaaaa? The only thing missing is a VideoToaster with Genlock. This is a maxed out Amiga 2000 !!! Its like some clueless bozo threw away a Ferrari because it needed an oil change. No, I'm not jealous AF at all. LOL
'Innocent'? It is never 'innocent' if someone trashes something without even knowing what it is. For the battery, I highly suggest you don't put it in the trash, because it can be recycled.
I too enjoy fake "ewaste finds" videos. Especially with a computer in such a "clean" state and modern parts on it (like the heatsinks). Makes me wonder how much you really paid ;-)
Holy crap! a mega rare 60/50 accelerator and a picasso II. On top of what would already be an absolutely amazing find for 20 $. This is the biggest ewaste bargain I have ever seen. that stuff is like 3000$ together.
exactly what I was going to say lol
Seriously. I'm crazy jealous Aaron found this. I never find anything like this out in the wild.
I once had A3000 with 060 in it
Nice
Yep, same here, nearly spit my tea out when I saw that!
While I can't beat $20, I did snag a boxed Amiga 500 (with HDD sidecar) a Commodore Monitor, and about 30 boxed games along with a mountain of floppies for $40 at a little computer shop back in Florida. Wonderful little setup. Passed it down to my kids and they love it.
Vry nice!
~12-13:00, right before you open it: Before I watch any more, or read any spoiler comments, the 5.25" drive to me indicates a pc processor card, and even if the machine is toast, at $20, the case itself is a huge win - not to mention that even if the board is toast from an exploded battery or something, new replacement boards for these are under a hundred bucks. every one of those chipset chips is worth a fortune. Even if the machine was underwater, having been in a fire or whatever, chances are you can still build a brand new A2000 from the thing on the cheap and be the coolest dude on the block - or sell it for a massive profit. Makes the lobes tingle, but I'd be tempted to keep it, use it, and let it appreciate. I do a lot of salvage and this is such an amazing find. Great work and good eye man!
Love the reenactment
Retro Hack Shack finding gold in others trash. Awesome. Commodore is/was the best. Thanks for the vid, keep em coming.
I am always envious of access like this. As far as I have been able to find, there is nothing like these 'people can look through the ewaste' centres in my region.
A 68060 for 20$ alone is amazing. Damn neat find!
Dayum!!! That is a find of a lifetime! I've never come across anything even remotely close to that in awesomeness level at any of the e-waste/thrift/etc places I've gone to.
Love the dramatic reenactment btw :)
For sure! Glad you liked that little intro. It took a lot of extra time, but I got a kick out of it. I have a unique sense of humor I think.
Some people have a lot of luck, happy jt went to someone who really appreciates it and shows it off!
Thanks! 🙏
That is just about a perfect Amiga 2000. The 68060 board would easily sell for about $800 to $1000 on it's own.
What a lovely and expandable machine!
Thanks!
Congrats on finding that treasure-chest of an Amiga! She may need some work, but that's one of the fun parts of this hobby. Can't wait to see what you find with the power supply - good luck!
Thanks!
Such a good find! You’re keeping the dream alive for the rest of us.
Ha ha. Thanks!
Wow. Thanks for taking us along in this process. Everyone else has said, but his is really a special find. I'm so exited to see if you can make it smurf again!
Thank you!
Hey thanks for saving this A2000 from oblivion! If there is any dark green acid remaining under the mask (I saw some) , it will probably continue to spread across the motherboard over time. Recommend removing all the mask, cleaning and applying new mask. Compare photos over time to confirm it is spreading. Great machine!
Man, now I miss my old Amiga 2000 and the late friend who helped me tinker with it.
Amazing find! I got an Amiga 2000 recently, with worse battery damage. Mine is still a "work in progress".
Dude you bought a gold mine for $20 completely awesome deal from your e-waste facility. I have an e-waste facility about a mile from where I live, but I'm not sure if they resell any of the items. I love the Retro PCs and I'm looking for a vintage Windows 95 PC to play all my old PC games without having to use emulation. I want a true DOS machine.
Yeah. I love my 486.
Here I was thinking the amazing deal you got on that Amiga was the best part of the video and Penny shows up. What a beautiful doggo! I think you should feature more of her in your videos. :)
Since I recorded that she has become quite comfortable in the garage.
Congratulations. This is a crazy find!
Thanks
What an amazing find! As soon as I saw it I thought "I bet the battery has let go".
In that circumstance, I would cut my losses and get a replica Amiga 2000 PCB and build a new replacement. Having all of the custom chips on hand makes sourcing parts easy.
Amazing find and great video!!
I am so happy for you! This is incredible!!!
Thank you so much!!
You are super lucky :D What a great find, and a very nice video you made also :)
Thanks
wow! that is a beautiful find!! look at the condition!! great video by the way!
Thanks!
Great find! About that mod... Think if Chip RAM as almost like graphics RAM. The Amiga custom chips, like the graphics chip and the sound chip, have direct priority access to the chip RAM. Unlike graphics RAM in most computers, the CPU can also access it and use it to run apps. But the custom chips always have priority access, and the CPU must wait it's turn. This makes it much slower for apps to run in chip RAM. And it's why adding additional RAM (sometimes called "fast RAM") provides a big performance boost, on the entry level Amiga models that only came with chip RAM.
That mod gives you a bigger Agnus (graphics) chip - sometimes known as "fatter Agnus" - that can access more Chip RAM. This allows higher resolutions with more colours, and higher refresh rates.
Although the Picasso II graphics card largely replaces the onboard graphics in Workbench (the desktop environment), you would still end up using Agnus for most classic Amiga games.
A small number of newer games support Retargetable Graphics (RTG) and may be able to make use of the Picasso II. But most of your gaming graphics will be from the Agnus chip.
A few older games may not like or work with the additional Chip RAM. There may be way to disable it in software, for such games.
Thanks for the great info!
You hit the nerd lottery
LOL. I am going to use that now when I get lucky at ewaste.
A standard 5.25" HD floppy does not work on Amiga floppy controller (Paula). You can run a DD floppy off of it. That said, almost all 5.25" floppy drives that you find in Amigas came packed in with a bridgeboard, and was hooked to the bridgeboard's floppy controller (which the Amiga could access through the zorro slot interface to the bridgeboard, or the x86 on the bridgeboard could access directly to run MS-DOS/Windows.)
While the Amiga did not come with a MIDI port, MIDI is basically just a serial port running at 31250bps with some extra simple bus electronics. If your serial interface can do 31250bps (which the Amiga specifically supported), you can build a relatively simple dongle to add a MIDI port.
Also holy crap did you get a goldmine of a system for $20. With the add-in cards that's worth THOUSANDS.
Like that 060 card is solid gold. That's like finding a vintage limited-run McLaren or Ferrari in your dad's garage.
Also regarding the Megachip, since you're new to the Amiga... "Chip RAM" refers to memory that the Amiga's native chipset can use as video and audio memory (as well as the floppy track buffer, and other various chip stuff). If you have other memory, like the memory on your accelerator, the CPU can access it much faster since it doesn't have to share the bus with the chipset. Think of it like on cheap PCs that have shared memory with the CPU and VGA instead of a discrete card, but in this case if you add "fast" memory expansion you can leave the chip memory dedicated for graphics and sound.
Regarding the power supply, check the label to see if it was made by Skynet. You might have a terminator sent after you.
I'll be back! Thanks for the info!
Some of the worst of the damage from NiCd batteries is not from the alkalinity or other pH imbalance per se, but potassium hydroxide (KOH) that reacts with both tin and copper. It leeches into the metals and generally messes them up. It can also greatly increase the melting point of the solder, making desoldering more difficult and more risky. So in addition to neutralizing the pH, I think it's also important to remove and replace any and all afflicted solder, and cleaning pin legs, traces and everything else that has been in contact with the KOH, using both chemical and mechanical means.
Yes. My findings exactly. Thanks for sharing this.
What a coincidence this appeared on my feed (or perhaps intentional..algos!) I also just rescued a fully populated Amiga 2000 motherboard from the Ewaste pile. Full disclosure, I run an Ewaste recycling center so I save vintage items on a daily basis but this was my first Amiga 2000. I have had several 1000's come through, one complete and fully functional. 8 bit scrap is becoming rarer and rarer. I used to pull at least 4-5 8 bit units a week. Now it's a few per year. They are getting rare.
Varta also made NiMH batteries for laptops that also leak like crazy and cause mass destruction, because of course they did.
Alkaline, NiCad, and NiMH all have an alkaline base so they will all leak eventually.
Use Vinegar to neutralize the corrosion. the black on the CPU is corrosion. A fiberglass pen works really well. also a high grit (2000) or so sand paper. lightly sand the solder mask off to remove the corrosion. you MUST remove all the corrosion to prevent its spread. Use 100% IPA to disperse the water. You should remove all components to get at the corrosion under the component. Anywhere you see green you gotta clean it out.
The Video Toaster was used to create visual effects for the TV show "Babylon 5".
Nice find and have fun fixing it.
Thanks
Impressive find for that money. I feel like it's a "brag video" LOL. Can you believe what Amiga stuff is fetching these days?
I once bought an Amiga 4000D (040-25) at a ham radio flea market for $100 with a Toaster 4000 and TBC IV in it. Still works.
My best find (2018) was a Craigslist ad for a 4000-T which the seller was asking $500. When I got to his house and we were talking Amiga nostalgia for an hour, he said, just give me $100. I want to send those email scammers a message. You're an Amiga fan and I want you to be stoked. (I am still). Came with a Warp Engine 040 CPU card, KB, Mouse, 1084S and a ton of extra stuff.
Wow. Nice finds!
Excellent video, thanks. Surely the fly(?) at 1:53 suggested the price to the guy up front... 🤣 👍🏻
Say hello to my little friend 😊
@@RetroHackShack 😁
I look forward to the next episodes.
That mod is the CHIP RAM 2Mb Mod. No need to wait for confirmation hehe
Cool Find!!!
The power supply needs more load!!!!
The 12 volt line is dependant on the 5Volt rail, an that needs 1 Amp at least to regulate properly.
This is really cool.
You may find some Help on EAB
When you go with Workbench / OS 3.2 a lot of the problems with the 060 are gone.
Using an 68060 with 3.1 would require special libs and care in the startup-sequence.
Write me if you need help
Thanks for the tips! I didn't know that so this is quite helpful.
You can pretty much make any contemporary peripheral work on an Amiga. I must have made dozens of cables and downloaded squillions of drivers to make 51/4 SCSI HD, SCSI DAT drives, ZIp drives, CD|ROM drives (IDE & SCSI) i spent a lot of time in the 90's trawling classified and car boots for kit that PC owners wanted rid of , just to "see" if i could get them working on my A500 or A1200.
The more I research the more surprised I am at the capabilities.
There should really be a filter on all eWaste streams for vintage electronics to divert particularly rare things to museum, auction, etc.. Too many things get destroyed which really shouldn't. Maybe anything >15yo should at least have a shot at an auction..
The accelerator and the A3000 Agnus chip, is two very nice find, only those tho in Europe between 1200-1500USD and then a Picasso II card up on that... Man that's a find of the year .. btw I'm an Amiga collector and have about 50 Amigas in my collection..
WOW. I just have these two. Perhaps they are easier to find in EU?
What a score, that is a similar system to the Amiga 2000 I have and back in the day it cost me about $10,000. That CPU has a fair bit of corrosion on the pins, though it doesn't mean that it has damaged the system and it won't work. One side note even though you have an accalarator card in the system if the 68000 CPU doesn't work I believe that it still won't work with the 060.
Thanks for the heads up
20 bucks... man, I wanna be you! xD YOU BETTER LEARN AMIGA AND LOVE IT!! Lol
The broken traces are a very good sign, as they are certainly the reason the Amiga failed - and had gone to trash. So you have a very high chance the other components being still functional.
I have actually 3 A2000 damaged mainboards (2 Revision 6.2, one Revision 4.x). Exept for the Buster Chip controlling Zorro II bus, all custom chips are the same as on the A500, so I checkted them all - everything O.K. So it is a good idea if you have a friend with working A500 or A2000 to check your custom chips.There is a replacement PCB available, so if you can not find all bad traces, you can rebuild the board completly. As you have 4.x and replacement board is 6.2, diferent RAM is used - but you do not need it, as the Fat Agnus upgrade replaces the onboard RAM anyway.
Just consider it as a last chance if you can not repair the PCB.
Thanks for the info
What a bargain, so jealous. ;) Appreciate the timeline, the Amiga model naming system still confuses me heh. Looking back you could spend a lot of money on Amiga expansion, still I can't fault those high memory potentials. Seen worse but always sad to see battery corrosion eat a board, so easy to forget to remove batteries in a lot of things.
Agreed
28:22 normal, was done by Commodore. I freaked out when I saw mine like that years ago.
Thanks for confirming
The module on the motherboard is memory expansion for chip ram so instead of 1 mb chip ram your Amiga 2000 got 2 mb chip ram, with Kickstart 3.1 and the 68060 50 Mhz cpu and the memory on the acclerator card you can run Amiga Os 3.5 or Amiga Os 3.9, nice find I one time found an Amiga 500 it's allmost like a Amiga 2000 but harder to expand, the video port can be used with a Scandoubler flicker fixer card it converts the 15 Khz Rgb signal to 31,5 khz Svga signal so you can use a svga monitor or flat panel lcd monitor
Nice find. Just for a stock 2000 much less the goodies inside! I still have my original 2000 from 1988. Unfortunately even though I removed the battery years ago one of the slot covers on the back fell off and mice got inside!!!! Pee and poop everywhere!!! I originally bought mine for its expandability, especially adding a PC card. However reality showed it to be an incredibly expensive thing to do. It didnt take long though before one could build a nice PC clone for about what a bridge card and accessories would cost with the bonus of having a second PC!!!
If you cannot get that power supply to work you do have other options, look into adapters that allow you to use an ATX power supply with the Amiga 2000.
Yup. See part 2 when it comes out :)
I want to put into perspective your find compared to my experiences with thrifters. A few months back I was talking to a local thrifter, who would buy out old storage lockers, and she straight up told me she just threw away old computers, and I showed her some prices that people pay for these things, and said "Hey keep an eye out for me, if you get one, give me a good deal on one" - she found an old 486/33 4mb that was something I'd enjoy playing wtih, and then proceeded to tell me it was $300, and I'm like "wtf, you payed 200 for the whole storage unit, and you have dvd players and all this other stuff, heck you'd have thrown this away if not for me, how about $100" (which imho was still a bit pricey but I figured I could hang on to it for a bit, restore it have my fun - and break even.
Nope, dead set on the $300, so um... yeah... last time I tell someone to look out for something for me... sheesh. I guess you don't make money being nice to people, ha!
... wait now I'm just jealous of your find ... :P
Yikes
Great video and one new subscriber 😁
I had a 500 then a 1200 . remember buying a 60mb HD for the 1200 .. I thought I was King of the hill lol
your dog is cool too!!
An Amiga dealer on the east coast named "Mr. Hardware" still has my 060 Wildfire board and I would like it back, as it cost me quite a bit of money. Look and see if it has my name written on it. 🤯
I'm so so so jealous! Specially with that accelerator card.
Once you're done with it (*the whole system*) can I get it as a Christmas gift? I care not if needs repairs! I'll do it and them some!
It was certainly a nice Christmas gift for me. Unbelievable find!
Nice find! 👍😍
Thanks! 😊
I've used amigas but it was past their prime, I was only 9/10 when win98 came out so take that into perspective but we did use Apple 2s, IBM Pcs, and yes even some Amigas. But around 98 everything went windows or mac os.
What an incredible find! Congrats!
Thanks!
You got a ‘060 Wildfire, Picasso2, Megachip, and 2000 for $20 at E-Cycling??? GAAAHHHHH!!! I’m going to make a video on my channel about your video out of frustration. ;) (I kid)
Ha ha. Yeah. I was so lucky.
Well, might as well start at the top. Congrats!
Thanks
I'm so jelly right now, on the verge of being mad about it, Thanks lol.
Still. Amazing find, hope it brings you years of pleasure of ownership. Just finding someone to part with one is hard enough usually, never mind the expense.
#dreammachine
For sure!
L'AMIGA A2000 e' un computer LEGGENDARIO,ripristinalo bene,mi raccomando
Any chance of an update to this A2000 system? I ask, as its an Amiga gold mine just itching to be booted if you can get it working. If not, Chris Edwards is someone who could fix it for you, and he'd have a blast doing it!
You know, it's a shame that anyone should throw one of those away. I once e-wasted a big CRT monitor, under pressure from my mum. I sure wish that I didn't.
nice find!
Hope you can repair the psu :) if not I think you can find one on ebay ;) if all the cards works it's a Great find the prices on cards for Amiga today has gone sky high, I sold all my Amiga's and Commodore 64ers back in 2010
Excellent find. Hurts my eyes and hearts seeing the way you flex this card though. It's quite easy to break traces this way and ruing the device. Also you really need to test these PSUs while connected to the motherboard. Some of them won't even start giving off crackling noises, some will give improper voltages. CPU socket with that much corrosion will surely call for replacement. I have 4 Amiga 2000s at the moment, had 11 during the last year and a half and I did all the repair like you show here on these machines (only 2 had GP batteries so the boards are pristine as those don't really leak) so I'm talking from experience here...
Glad to know that I am doing some of this right.
Also, if I had known how rare that card was I would have been treating it like an art restorer treats a van gogh. :)
@@RetroHackShack ALL Amiga hardware is rare these days, aside from basic A500 setups. Amiga expansions were just not mass produced the same way ISA cards were for the IBM Compatible market.
The only Amiga expansion card that had more than half a million examples made was probably the A501 (which almost every A500 got or got a clone of eventually).
Other than that, you'll find some A2091 SCSI controllers as they shipped with a lot of A2000s, and a fair number of A2088XT bridgeboards.
Literally everything else is rare.
@@NozomuYume Actually a 68030 card also is quite often found. But the 68060 is extremly rare.
@@oleurgast730 I mean rare in that you almost never encounter them randomly in the wild, not rare as in you can't find them at specialized vintage online stores/ebay.
Deals like this never come to my town....time to move!
Ha ha
8:47 This is incorrect. The 5.25" drive in the 2000 was for IBM PC/XT emulation. The drive does not work on the Amiga at all. The Bridgeboard was a PC/XT Emulator card that the drive could connect to so you could use IBM software. What you are describing was the external 1020 5.25" drive for the Amiga 1000. You could use this drive on the Amiga side for up to 360k on a disk. That was Amiga or PC format.
Yeah. I will talk about this in the next episode.
@@RetroHackShack cool. I have a 1020 drive that I used to do as you said, use on the Amiga. But we were not able to backup games to it. Just used it mostly to transfer IBM software on the Amiga.
the ewaste/"recycling" places I know about wouldn't dream of letting anything go once it gets there, for any amount of money no matter how rare or useful. I think they'd rather force you watch while they destroy it in front of you.
😢
How does one go about finding local e-waste places?
Google maps search
Instead of looking for ewaste places (they are few and far between) consider building a relationship with your local scrap yards. They see them all of the time and they often toss them into the steel pile for shredding, or your more savy yards will break them down for the boards. Often $10 or $20 can get just about any single item if the yard is willing. Use common sense and be respectful and polite. Some places are run by junk yard dogs and other just want the money. This is what I do for a living. Good luck!
Please don’t throw the battery in the trash….recycle it as you mentioned.
2MB chip mod, over 3k worth in cards... some people are too lucky.
Very lucky!
An Amiga shouldn't ever be considered E-waste.
Why he repaired the clock chip traces without putting in a battery LOL
Absolute bargain the cards alone are worth a fair bit superb find .
For sure
Wait, all those guys in the video look kinda like you. Do you have 4 or 5 twin brothers?
Lol
You must be kidding!
Whaaaaa? The only thing missing is a VideoToaster with Genlock. This is a maxed out Amiga 2000 !!!
Its like some clueless bozo threw away a Ferrari because it needed an oil change. No, I'm not jealous AF at all. LOL
Ha. Yes. I was super lucky. This is why I go back there every week now.
#JACKPOT
that is same ass origanals amiga 4000 looks extara memmory to nice.3.1 kickstar=40.63ver
The luck wasn't the price. It was how little corrosion you had. I had loads of traces, and a number of destroyed vias.
I mean worst case he could get a repro PCB and transfer all the chips. You can make a new A2000 motherboard, you can't make a new Super Agnus.
Yeah. I have seen some really nasty pictures.
'Innocent'? It is never 'innocent' if someone trashes something without even knowing what it is. For the battery, I highly suggest you don't put it in the trash, because it can be recycled.
I too enjoy fake "ewaste finds" videos. Especially with a computer in such a "clean" state and modern parts on it (like the heatsinks). Makes me wonder how much you really paid ;-)
I run an ewaste facility and I find pristine scrap all of the time. My high tech office is built on scrap and you would never know it.
Nice
that giant wart on your hand... ugh
Actually, I had surgery. It takes a while for the incision to heal.
Amiga's are still sought-after machines.. they are simply so much fun and all the memories..