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Amiga Restoration
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10-06-2021 02:56PM#1I decided to get the old Amiga's and other stuff out of storage and put them on display in the man cave so I bought some shelving units and stuck RGB in.
The only thing was looking at the grubby Amiga's didn't look right so decided I'd try my hand at Retrobriting them.
Thanks to the guys on here I bought the peroxide from Boots and made up the paste using Vanish as a drying agent and went to town on the A1200 first, unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of it before hand, only when I had the keyboard out and then at the end for the finished project
I made sure to take more photos when doing the A500
A1200 Keyboard before
A1200 Motherboard
A1200 after
A500 Before
A500 Keyboard (Ugh!, the A1200 was worse!)
A500 Motherboard
A500 after the initial clean
A500 covered in paste and left in sun for the day
A500 and A1200 Keys (did A1200 keys twice)
A500 after the retrobrite
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I wasn't as happy with how the A500 came out compared to the A1200 so decided I'd go a different route and spray paint the A500
A500 after spray paint
A500 underneath
Final product with spray painted keys and Amiga key sticker set
I have tested the A500 and it works and takes disks but it looks like the keyboard membrane is gone
I am going to mod the A1200 now so just have a few questions about it
I have bought a scart cable to test it and it works, luckily no leaky caps but I might send it off to get recapped
Based on it working I have just sent off for a mouse adapter as my original isn't great alongside an 8mb expansion and an IDE CF drive which comes with 3.1 installed
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/131657369433?hash=item1ea7640759:g:dA4AAOSw0vBUk029
My question is do I need to get the 3.1 ROMs in order for it to work or will it still work with stock ROMs?
https://amigastore.eu/en/16-rom-31-amiga-1200-two-chips.html
Also would I be able to upgrade to the newly released 3.2 from 3.1 without the ROMs?
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the plastic is still very sturdy, the only thing I did do which is my own fault which you can see on the under side of the A500 is the expansion door has a piece missing.
I dropped it into the bath too early when I was filling it and a bit broke off but I have glued it back and once I sprayed it it now looks seamless
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