Author: garyhucker

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Amiga 2000 Weird Booting Issue – What Could the Problem Be?

February 14, 2019 garyhucker 0 Comments 2000, 68040, Amiga, fan, Gary Hucker, Gotek, GVP-A2000 040, Motorola, not booting, picasso ii, solved

  Check out this weird issue I found with my Amiga 2000.

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The Amiga 2000 gets a brand new CPU socket.

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 garyhucker 0 Comments 2000, Amiga, Corrosion, CPU, Gary Hucker, Replace, socket

  I remove the old crusty CPU socket and install a brand new one. This Amiga 2000 now lives!

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The Amiga 2000 Receives a New Hard Drive Controller and more.

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 garyhucker 0 Comments 2000, 30 pin, Amiga, Commodore, Controller, Elite, FPS, Frame Rate, Frontier, Gary Hucker, Hard Drive, IDE, Keyboard, RAM, SCSI, SIMMS, Supra Drive, Syquest, ZIP

In this installment a new hard drive controller is installed. I run Frontier Elite to test performance and the keyboard

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Amiga 2000 Hard Drive Failure. Where to from here…

February 1, 2019 garyhucker 0 Comments 2000, 68000, 68030, Alpha Data, Amiga, Gary Hucker, Hard Drive, IDE, Motorola, SCSI, Supra

The A2000’s hard drive has all but failed. Some contemporary options are available for this machine.

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Beige Beasts – Amiga 2000 Upgrades

January 30, 2019 garyhucker 0 Comments 2000, 68030, Amiga, Beasts, Beige, CD ROM, Controller, Flicker Fixer, Gary Hucker, Hard Drive, IDE, Motorolla, RAM expansion, Upgrades

As a follow on from my previous Amiga 2000 video, I install some upgrades and have some challenges on the

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Amiga 2000 Resurrection.

January 29, 2019 garyhucker 0 Comments 2000, 68000, Amiga, Corrosion, CPU, Gary Hucker, Motorola, socket

This Amiga 2000 is not a happy camper. Let’s see if it can be resurrected.

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Tricking out the Amiga 2500 Part 6 – Bridgeboard

October 2, 2018 garyhucker 0 Comments 286, 8bit, A2286, A2500, Amiga, Bridgeboard, Dual Screen, Gary Hucker, RS232, Serial, Trident VGA, Windows, Wolfenstein 3D

Part 6 in the series where I take my trusty old Amiga 2500 and continue tricking it out. In this

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Mountain CD7 Multi Disk CD ROM Drive on an Amiga 500

September 25, 2018 garyhucker 0 Comments A590, Amiga 500, CD ROM, CD7, Gary Hucker, Mountain, SCSI

I install a Mountain multi disk CD ROM drive on my Amiga 500 via the A590 and Zip drive. The

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Tricking out the Amiga 2500 Part 5 – CD ROM

March 28, 2018March 31, 2018 garyhucker 0 Comments 2500, Amiga, CD ROM, Gary Hucker, IDE, IDE +CD, Super Frog, Tandem

Part 5 in the series where I take my trusty old Amiga 2500 and continue tricking it out. In this

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Tricking out the Amiga 2500 Part 4 – GVP A2000 Accelerator

March 15, 2018 garyhucker 1 Comment 1.44Mb, 16Mb, 2500, 33MHz, 68040, 880Kb, A2000-040, Amiga, Gary Hucker, GVP, Motorola, SCSI 2, SCSI II

Part 4 in the series where I take my trusty old Amiga 2500 and continue tricking it out. The need

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