Saving a Commodore Amiga A500 from the trash

It this video, I will be bringing back to life a Commodore Amiga 500 that was heading to the trash, through replacing it's broken floppy drive with a brand new Gotek (floppy drive emulator) drive, not from a kit bought online but from scratch using a bog standard drive bought from AliExpress.
🟣 I will be going through the whole process of finding the right Gotek USB drive, flashing it's firmware to the Amiga compatible FlashFloppy, showing how to wire and connect an OLED Screen and Rotary Encoder to the Gotek board. Plus, even designing and 3D printing a custom enclosure to house the screen, and specifically the type of encoder I bought that will sit on top of the Amiga.
🟣 Even get to show the famous boing ball Workbench demo and play the game "The Great Giana Sisters".

*LINKS*
🔵 FlashFloppy GitHub ⬇️
🔵 CrazyBob's Amiga 500 Gotek USB bracket ⬇️

*DISCLAIMER*
🟢 Please do not take this video as a tutorial / advice. I'm not an expert, this is just my hobby :)

*GEAR I USE IN/OR TO MAKE THE VIDEO* _(some may be affiliate links)_
🟡 Filament wise, I was using "eSun 1.75mm "Bone White" PLA+", which I found to be the perfect match, colour-wise to my Amiga. Links below ⬇️
🟡 8BitDo retro style keyboard ⌨️ I use in this video ⬇️
🟡 Andonstar, AD409-Pro with Endoscope Digital Microscope ⬇️

*SOCIALS*

🎶 *MUSIC & SFX* 🎶 _(affiliate link)_
🔴 _(and, if you sign up to Epidemic Sound through the playlist link, you'll get 7 days for free!)_

*CHAPTERS*
00:00 Introduction.
00:21 How I ended up with this broken Amiga
00:51 Parts I bought to do the Gotek mod
01:14 Find out the chipset in the Gotek
02:00 Tips to buying the right Gotek
02:39 Flashing the Gotek, with the FlashFloppy firmware
04:58 Preparing connections for OLED and Rotary Encoder
06:55 3D-Printing parts needed for installation
08:39 Installing the Gotek into the Amiga
09:28 How to wire the OLED and Rotary Encoder
10:27 Gotek Jumper settings, to work with the Amiga
10:49 Giving it a quick test, before reassembly
11:24 All back together
12:13 How good the filament matches the Amiga
12:29 How the Gotek works
11:44 Conclusion, and what I would maybe do different next time
13:22 Goodbyes, file links and questions to audience
13:58 Playing "The Great Giana Sisters"

#amiga500 #retrocomputer #prusa3d

[karilawler]

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[ExplainingComputers]

Very interesting content (I spent so many hours running Photon Paint on an A500), and really great production.

[stanleyyyyyyyyyyy]

It is so nice to see young people playing with machines we used to play with and love 30 years ago! Just brilliant

[JrgenFrderbergTvedt]

Loved my Amiga 500, it was so useful, it could help me make music, draw awesome pixel art, make my own boot sector intros and even full demos that loaded by themselves after inserting the floppy disk. It truly made us believe we could do anything we ever wanted.

[Zontar]

The Amiga 500 was the computer I grew up with, it's still the best computer I have ever owned

[worldgate]

its nice seeing the younger ones taking interest in keeping my childhood alive

[CoolDudeClem]

I feel so old, I remember when the Amiga was cutting edge and no other computer could top it.

[gerrygreenwood]

Thanks for keeping old tech alive. Love your Work.

[nblamer]

The A500 case is a piece of art, still holds up.. really beautiful design

[JeSuisUnePatate]

It's so amazing to see young people like Kari still interested by those computers I grew up with. Love that. :)

[Snuuches]

I love how youtube randomly feeds me great new content to watch. I am excited to share this with my daughter who is just starting to get interested in computers.

[googlehomemini]

It makes me so heartened to see younger people using our amazing computers of the past 😊

[Midwinter]

So amazing to see such a young person who even knows what an Amiga is - let alone be an expert on its inner workings!!!, the Amiga was an amazing computer - such fun to use. My family got the first Amiga - the Amiga 1000 - in 1986. It was the same as the A500, just in a different casing.

Bravo, in any case! Great work!!!

[harsanj]

I had a comodore 64 when I was 12, but I was crazy about Amiga 500, I was 14 when my dad bought me a full PC 486, with case-keyboard-monitor, the love of Amiga 500 was so profound, It was my first love. oh my god you took me to 1990s in Iran/Persia. thanks.

[woles]

Your knowledge of retro devices and also vast knowledge of the 3D software as well as coding astounds me. Thanks again for the content

[GregorWSky]

Amazing to see how some effort can revive an old and presumably broken Amiga! ❤ It truly was one of the best computers at that time ... Light-years ahead of all those ugly slow MS-DOS PCs. I went from Commodore 64 to Amiga 2000 and then 4000, which I later reconverted to a tower with upgraded graphics. Used it for all my work (and games) as long as it was able to keep up with technical progress. Hard drives... The Internet... 😊 I loved it.

[DarrenAu]

I do miss the Amiga 500, in a way, I regret selling it years ago.
Paradroid
North Vs South
Balderdash
There was a great space ship shooter game where you gained a code whenever you finished a level so you could go back to the game and continue.

This video bought back some good memories, I kind of regret selling my system years ago now. I had the 500, 2000HD and CD32 with a pile of games.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[CrashTestPilot]

Good Lord, I absolutely loved my Amiga back in the day. Had pretty much every Commodore machine from the Vic-20 on. We had Commodore PETs in high school before they replaced them with C-64s. They were pretty much ground zero for home computing in the 80s and then they were gone.

[darrens]

I used to have the Amiga A1200. I spent countless hours playing Flashback but it was such a versatile machine you could animate with Deluxe Paint IV or listen to and create sampled music with OctaMED. Great to see them getting a new lease of life and I'm sure that mod must speed things up, especially for multi-disk games.

[seileurt]

I miss my amiga. So much creativity in those machines with music making software.