Amiga Turnup After over 20 years - RGB to HDMI & ADF to Floppy Transfer via Serial

Continuing on from the power supply repair its time to turn up this computer and ensure that it is operating properly. This started with an inventory of the system as found, though not 100% familiar with the components I work my way through it along with some research. This includes a ram expansion, real time clock and 68030 accelerator.

The inter-operability challenge was the monitor going from RGB to HDMI, so I went with the RGB to SCART to HDMI converter which worked very nicely in the modes that I required. Luckily I have some disks to include workbench boot disks to get the computer going. This allowed for checking out aspect ratio and sharpness of the picture and clarity. An IFF close up also displayed the picture quality as well.

A further exercise was conducted to move disk images from the internet to the Amiga using the serial port and the process that I used to accomplish the task without any hardware purchases using Hombre, transwarp and a linux box.

[brostenen]

Does the accelerator card not have a harddrive controller? I think I saw two rows of gold pins. If so. Connect a harddrive, and use a means of reading PC floppy disks. Use the file splitter program and rewrite with adf2disk. A command line tool.

[MoonDragn]

I thought I was seeing an artifact when you were showing the Amiga 500, but then you went to the Apple IIe lol

[ttrep]

You didn't need any hardware purchases, but not many people will have a Linux or Apple computer around to use.

[systemchris]

Really useful video for a noob like me!

[Nighthawke]

Kill the autofocus whenever you do screen shots. The camera was going nuts trying to focus in and out.