[2017-11-11]

About a year ago I had this idea of completely revamping an old Amiga 500+ that originally belonged to Zelest. He gave it to me like 15 years ago as he didn't have any use for it. For about 14 years it collected dust in my self-storage unit. When I eventually went to get it, amazingly the battery had not been running out over the entire motherboard as in so many other cases. It seems that when I put it away I didn't store it vertically, but horizontally - just pure luck there.

I know some people think some of this is a sacrelige, modding an Amiga this much. However, there's a whole load of original untouched Amiga's out there, and this one is mine so I'll just do what I want with it ;D

When it comes to soldering, hardware recapping, broken hardware troubleshooting etc, I'm completely shit. My thing is OS'es, tweaks, fixing with software problems and, most importantly, Protracker (since 1992). Doing things like this on my own is a complete no-no; So, I went on to the Facebook group Retrodatorer säljes/köpes/bytes (C64, ZX, MSX, ATARI, AMIGA mfl) and called out for help. Here's what happened:

Magnus Carlsson offered to recap the whole thing. Motherboard cleaning, new capacitors, the whole shebang.
Amazing job there!


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