Found a bad flip/flip replaced it, and now I’m on my way.

The amiga appears to be getting past the initial boot stages including the ram memory checks! I see the blue screen, and the disk drives starts loading workbench but crashes soon.

If anyone can tell me the exact meaning of this guru, that would really help me.

I’m pretty sure this means address error at that address, but that isn’t horribly helpful.  I mean, does this mean a write failed, a read failed, something associated with that address, what?

So I finished cabling up the solderless breadboard, and after checking connections, and checking pwr and gnd, I plugged it into the amiga. The amiga boots, which is a good sign, but then it never recognizes the memory.  I’m not … Continue reading →

So I can’t believe how freakin’ tiny those pins are coming off the memory chip.  The pads on the surfboard were huge by comparison.  I actually thought there was a manufacturing defect on the memory chip and they forgot to include the pins or something.

I am totally lacking any type of magnification…..I’m gonna place a few orders and get some stuff in here for the future.  I’ve been looking for a good high quality 10x loupe and a lighted magnifier for a long time.  Most of what I see out there is total crap.