you are always the definition of professionalism and quality in the retro scene. *and* without the bullshit.. so what did i think? i think you have done a great job, and terriblefire is too under-appreciated. cheers. : )

That was some top pimping and is now a sweet A500.

Excellent video. The information you provide here is literally gold for every Amiga fan out there.

Awesome video! I love seeing modern support for older computers. :)

Sensational. Love what you have done with the magnificent A500. Keep up the great work

I say Hurrah for Stephen Leary and a big thanks for his researching and designing a so very nice accelerator card. Great video, as usual, for you 😀 !!

Millenium 2.2 ; Deuteros ; Shadow of the Beast ; Elite ; Alien Breed ; LightWave = tons of fun and memories.

Great and informative video as always! Keep up the good work!

Glad someone (terriblefire) has produced these accelerators - everything else is so over the top in the price. Great video mate - excellent presentation and plenty of tips for n00bs when it comes to burning eeproms. Subbed :)

Stephen is a genius. Great video. Thanks for the upload.

Loved the boss music when you started the patching wire work.

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Those expansions you got are drool-worthy! :)

Regrettably, I never knew much about the Amiga. Also, you're electronics skills are above mine. However this video was absolutely amazing and also intimidating. It's serious how much work has to be done to attach that enhancement.

Great video. I've been working on the TF boards myself and they're a great design for the price. People should keep in mind that TerribleFire has a whole series of accelerator boards either complete or in progress so be sure to follow him. One thing that's cool is that you can upgrade that TF530 rev 2 board down the road and migrate to a 40-50 MHz 030 and add a 68882 FPU as well. The next revision will have 4MB of RAM and SATA instead of PATA IDE. Given how cheaply you can get pulled M.SATA boards and M.SATA to SATA carrier boards, this could make for a pretty awesome Amiga setup. In the pipeline is an 040 board and ultimately TerribleFire plans to do an 060 board as well. Something you forgot to mention was the relocator board that's necessary to mount the TF530 inside the A500 and still be able to install the keyboard and close the case. You used one in the video, where did you get it?

Amazing. I'm glad thera are still some people that loves old things we all loved in our childhood.

I am just 5 years late. Kickstart 1.3 already allowed to boot off SCSI (e.g. my Supra 43Mb was working great). What is missing from 1.3 is the capability to boot off IDE drivers. Cheers and congrats, great channel!

Personally, I will always leave my A500 stock. But, man.. It's amazing with all this new Amiga hardware. Very nice video, and all so well explained!!

Hoo boy, great musical selections throughout.

Another great Amiga video MVG! That's a lot of expense and work to 'pimp' an Amiga 500, especially if you want all the component inside the case! I'm glad I have an Amiga 600!

Soooo awesome! I still have my old Amiga "Somewhere" in my garage.

Wow this is an awesome expansion for the A500. Thanks for sharing this, it seems feasible to do - also for me. :)

Fantastic, I've always used my A600 over my A500 due to the upgrade options (Those two were the ones I used to own so no chance of using an A1200 or anything else). But now thanks to this, the A500 might take over the desk space.

Flashback 😀 Love that people are still using these machines. I was the kid with the bad ass gaming computer growing up 😀

Back around ‘93 I found a 68040 33 accelerator for my Amiga 500. After it was added I had over 7mb memory and crazy fast card. Used to use it for Vista Pro to render scenery. It was a beast. Wish I still had it.

Great video! Great music! Very professional and informative! Even for non-Amiga fans :) Thumbs up!

Awesome hacking and pimping, you got yourself a hot little 500 there! As much as I love the 500 I prefer the 1200 though, with its AGA chipset. Running a 50mhz Blizzard 1230 with 64mb and a 16gb CF in mine, with ClassicWB 3.9... it's an absolute joy to use.

Amiga enthusiast with a megadrive on his desk.... That's a sub right there! Good vid

My Amiga500 TF-530 machine is finished as well. 2mb Chip, 2mb Fast, Scandoubler, kickstart switcher and boot selector. 🤘

Great video and tips. Thanks!

Man that 8bit tune is a banger bro!

A decked out Amiga 500. I dreamed of having one of these as a kid. It's still a nice looking, compact machine.

Excellent video!

In 1991 I had a rev 6 A500 with a GVP SCSI harddisk sidecar, it booted from 1.3 as did my mate's rev 6 with his Commodore a590, both were SCSI. no motherboard jumpers or rom changes were required

simply great ! very well explained , love it ! i will check more of yours vidéos, yes, me to i think steve Leary is a Hero !

Absolute class with this one.

Great Video! Ive got my fingers crossed for some A1000 firmware.

Beside Anders Enger Jensen, you have the best B-roll and channel music. I sometimes rewind back to hear it again just cause it's very nice to hear.

10:50 - I knew it would boot 'cause you put happy music on.

hi i think your a trully good bloke you always tell the facts and no bullshit thats why i follow you keep up the good work mate

good video. also note for the TF530 when installed in an a500 - you need to connect the INT2 header and OVR ot the motherboard. thats the blue and white cable that goes to the expansion header. these also work in the CPU slot of an a2000 on an adapter board.

awesome work. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent video

Wauw, like you video. I have serveral commodore models (collected over the years) But never had the time for doing it.(Maybe when I’m retired) ;) Thank you for sharing the information.

1:08 - Damn, $1575 for a 030 accelerator card. That's crazy.

Great to see you making Amiga videos again, they are my favourites. Any chance for an update on Vampire?

Great video

Wow, great looking machine. Totally digging they TF 030 accelerator. I didn't see it mentioned in the video, but what kind of disk speed are you getting from the Compact flash card on the IDE bus?

Now that’s pimping done right. Awesome job.

Awesome! Thanks for the vid! Amiga forever.... :)

A500 forever! ;-) I simply love it.

Great video. Thanks

This is beyond my skillset but well done on an excellent project and presentation of it. Stehen Leary has given us a huge gift by open sourcing his designs. PS: Can you do a video on how to have a desk as tidy as yours? :D I seem to have way more cables than you and they drive me crazy.

Is nice video. There's Flash version of chips work well with kickstart roms and easy to erase with willem or better. Good!

Great Video! Thx.

Great video :)

Siiick. Looking to do similar with my A1000 and a Wicher. I want to keep 1.3 with option to run 3.1.4. Yes i have a rom switcher

you should of showed how fast was the machine while loading stuff after the mod. Great video :)

These 80's computers should have been part of Mr. Robot of the fathers origin story during the eighties. Like the Cold War situation when Reagan was in office. Love the music and this tutorial is awesome.

Was able to do this easily on the Amiga 2000 like the one I had since they offered a few accelerator cards for it. That was the main reason I got rid of the Amiga 500 and upgraded to the Amiga 2000 for expandability. Loved the Amiga line of computers. I thought it was funny back in the days when Pixar was getting mad at Amiga for being able to duplicate there animations on a computer that was just a fraction of the cost of their computers. The Amiga 2000 and 3000 were powerful graphics workstations when equipped with the Video Toaster graphics add on hardware.

great work... thanks

I wanted an A500 so bad as a kid... And in retrospect I really wish I'd made it happen somehow. I think it would have been far more fun and interesting than the C-128 I was running in those days.

Cool Video .

I wouldn't have done that soldering to the main board like that. You could have just used a bit of strip board, some header pins and a chip socket to make an adapter.

Hehe you've opened the A500 so many times you forgot to mention the RF shield ;)

And excellent video, although I often get worried seeing these How To guides that people without too much technical knowledge will not know enough and may ruin their machine. I would not at all be comfortable flashing the rom chips, and back in the day I just bought a ROM switcher, 1.3 for disk based games, and 2.04 for HDD stuff. I think a real ROM is safer than flashing the roms, and cheaper, and as a bonus you get KS 2.04. There are purists out there who would argue that hacking the motherboard and changing the rom means you no longer have a stock A500. Back in the day I used a big box A500 side-port expansion (called Bodega Bay) which auto-booted IDE drives but I had SCSI, so I had to boot with the IDE and then use that to boot the SCSI. I also bought a Derringer 030 for £250 which is pretty similar to the new device in the video, and by swapping the clock crystal to a 50mhz one, the board ran at 50mhz without issues for 5 years. I eventually sold all my A500 kit and just bought an A1200.

Absolutely love this guy and his videos especially the piracy videos buuuut, what's even better is this, I want more of him tinkering with old retro computers, why I don't know but it love it

I want one of these for my 500, but I'm wondering if I should grab an aca500+ for the extra fast ram or if 2mb is enough for whdload.

I noticed your Amiga is running on a LCD screen? Is there a video of how this is achieved and/or the cabling to do the same? and great video by the way............and obviously a great card addon as well............Cheers

same yamaha Hp monitor, Same Roland MK2, same Agmiga 500... Even same Mixer table... dude don't tell me you use Soundtracker (8track version) ?? I forgot the Sampler extension plugged on my A500 :) sweet toy !!!! all that in my bedroom when i was 18 :) Man, you make me feel terribly old tonight !

Wow. I haven't looked at an Amiga 500 in decades. I know it was hot in EU but I was an American with one back in the day.

Soooooooo this means your ACA 500+ is for sale??? ;-) If so, I will buy that baby! They have been out of stock for a while. Top notch video as always MVG. Man, there is so much great info in it, I don't know where to start. This is a properly PIMPed A500! You put a lot of effort into it and it shows. And you gave so much great info along the way. I learned so much. Thank you! One question, you say the A500 can't boot to a HD with Kickstart 1.3. I had an A590 external HD that plugged into the expansion port and I booted to Workbench 1.3 with Kickstart 1.3 all day every day. Was this some crazy voo-doo magic? I never had to mod my Kickstart ROM or anything of that sort. Also kudos to TerribleFire. That guy is a legend with all he is doing for Amiga!

It would've been nice to be able to see and hear much more of what that machine can now do, other than just a couple of short clips from games and benchmark software with no commentary. =( Oh, and what about the A2000? Would this fit onto it's CPU socket, or is there perhaps a CPU slot version?

Great work guy! Finally a board that should fit into a CDTV?

I've probably watched this video 3 times ^^

Great video , thanks !! How is it you are using an LCD with an Amiga system ??? Can you tell me

just totted up the costs - The TF board is great value, - pimping the rom was expensive for a one off ;)

Wow, got here 30 seconds after posting. :D

Is my imagination or it is the eye of judgment soundtrack near the beginning?

Your spare laptop is exactly one generation newer than my best computer. Latitude E4300 here

Could one use an sd card array (like one of those SATA/PCI cards) as virtual RAM and a solid state drive? would that be faster than the relatively slow ram on the amiga?

Stupid question: what lamp is that on the desk when he's flashing the eeprom?

I liked it👍👍

Am I right in thinking you were moving a chip select line down to an address line to double the ROM read address space?

after a500 motherboard modifications. will original kick rom 1.3 work?if so why this not allready done on factory lol

Nice moddification.

Very interesting.

Hmm, I like this video but on my A2000HD, it booted off the hard drive with no issue, is this because of the 2091 SCSI card?

hi it is wonderfull work. and can you tell for us in another amiga500 video how to use it to build a different paula sound. whitch programm to musicians is better to load on amiga to make a chip tuned music. and how to tune the paulachip waveforms without ensoniq programm. or another best way to use amiga500 like a music laboratory.

Best ever ever computer 500 ;)).... that amiga in video looks bran new..no yellowing with looks

Nice video, curious were the blue CPU relocator board is from?

This turned into a rather expensive project. I bought an A1200 with a 50mhz 030, IDE and external SCSI with an MMU and a math co-pro for about the same price as this card and the EPROM burner. I bought this many yeaars ago, so maybe it's gone up in price, but still, that's a lot of money for an A500. Then there is the new FPGA based card which gives 060 level performance. I think it's called the Viper or something and it also has modern video abilities so you can use a modern monitor with 16 or 32 bit color.

Fantastic!!! Out of interest, what adapter board did you use with the GQ-4X there? I have other ways to program the 27C400 but really want an adapter for that programmer too.

still waiting for that Warp560 vid :)

Where did you find someone to put the board together for you? Also, your Amiga info is always so damn good.

The pioneering years : ) I remember trading my A500 for an A2000 which I still have with a 28mhz accelerator in it. And probably 1200 floppies...of...umm...copied software... I wonder if they're worth anything?

How would you compare TF and ACA500+ ? Does Action replay cart works with Terrible Fire in Amiga?

Just out of curiosity, if I wanted to add a TF530 to my A500 without adding an internal IDE and card, would I need to make changes with the kickstart rom chip? I have a CD32 with a TF328 and card packed with games so I don't need that, but would still love to give my 500 a little more power. Assuming I can find the thing that is. Thanks for posting

I always preferred 1.3 myself, mainly for nostalgia reasons but just a shame more software isn't available for 1.3 like it is for 2.0 or above. I definitely understand why this is but still. It looks like you have Lemmings installed on the harddrive there, is that using JST by any chance? Liking your video's too, they are awesome!

Many years ago, I gave my few valued possessions over to safe keeping to go on a brief adventure working in the United States. Now it's beginning to look like a return is in order to reclaim my 5.25" floppies of Borland DOS V3.1 and an original A1000 with Kickstart on disk and 512Mb of memory. Not at all bothered by exploded computer innards but I loved coding on that thing. Any idea if this would work or is there something better given all the bits I'll have to expand?