{"id":594,"date":"2018-03-08T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=594"},"modified":"2018-03-08T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:23:23","slug":"amiga-500-2018-uplift-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2018\/03\/08\/amiga-500-2018-uplift-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiga 500 2018 Uplift Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a project to pull my Amiga 500 out of the attic where it&#8217;s been for 18 years and try to use it again for fun (with the floppies that I&#8217;ve also saved for years) and to try and get it on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>To do that I&#8217;m willing to spend some money on accessories that will get the A500 up to speed for a better 2018 experience. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VGA output &#8211; use a VGA LCD Panel so I don&#8217;t have to find a 1080S monitor\n<li>Accelerator &#8211; the M68000 is too slow for most things so find a reasonable accelerator for the A500\n<li>Hard Disk &#8211; find a modern disk controller (most likely as a part of the accelerator) that will let me use some sort of flash disk for WorkBench &#8211; and WHDLoad for getting all my games off of floppies\n<li>MegaChip &#8211; I know I need 2Meg of Chip Ram for <a href=\"http:\/\/whdload.de\/\">WHDLoad<\/a>\n<li>Mouse &#8211; use a modern USB mouse\n<li>Keyboard &#8211; use a modern USB keyboard\n<li>NIC &#8211; Some sort of parallel or serial to Cat5 for network access\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is a lot to uplift on the A500 but there are a surprising amount of choices for these available today- much more than was available 10 or even 20 years ago for these machines. Many are from Europe where there were a ton more A500 sold in Commodore&#8217;s heydays.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/commodore-amiga-500.jpg?resize=320%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Commodore amiga 500\" title=\"commodore-amiga-500.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a project to pull my Amiga 500 out of the attic where it&#8217;s been for 18 years and try to use it again for fun (with the floppies that I&#8217;ve also saved for years) and to try and get it on the Internet. To do that I&#8217;m willing to spend some money on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,27,91,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-computing","category-cpu","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-9A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":602,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2018\/03\/08\/make-the-amiga-go-faster\/","url_meta":{"origin":594,"position":0},"title":"Amiga Uplift Part 1: Accelerator","author":"dillera","date":"March 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking around today in 2018 there are many choices for accelerating your Amiga 500. 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