More Amiga

While I am posting about my e-waste collection check out this rarity.  Old Apple computers and Amigas had some similarities about them (same Motorola 68000 CPU for example).  Some bright sparks put Apple ROMs on a card that the Amiga could throw over too.  There is no changing between the two though without a restart.

I had the Amiga apart to replace a mouse port fuse (don’t ask) and took a picture of this esoterica.

I am told that, back in the day, one of these cards and a fully tricked out Amiga was faster than most (if not all) available Apples.  It’s just a curiosity to me though, I occasionally head over to Apple mode but I never have much liked using them.

VGA cable for an Amiga

Amiga’s horizontal and vertical sync signals are pretty rubbish.  This board holds some AND gates that serve to make it into a nice clean on/off signal.  A schmitt trigger as I understand it.  Too bad none of my monitors (yet) sync to 15.6khz…  Fun making it though.