11 Jun
2004
11 Jun
'04
10:34 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:05:55AM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Commodore was one of the last home computer companies to make schematics
available. The A500/A2000 tech reference has the schematics, and even
Indeed. I bought my A500 (the only Amiga I own, I think) at a charity
shop (what you'd call a thrift store) and it came with the user manual.
In the back was a somewhat poorly-printed schematic.
The hardware technical manual I have (another charity shop purchase...)
contains pinouts of all the custom chips, but no complete schematics.
Not a major pronlem, though.
However, I have never seen official schematics for the A520 modulator
(probably more important than the CPU board schematics for this problem),
and I can't remember if they were easily available for the monitor (or,
idndeed, if I have them, whioch is not the same thing at all!)
-tony
None of
this connects up in a way which gives me colour on the display.
_NOW_ do you know why I like to have schemaitcs to everything :-).