Today we are going to bring a Commodore Amiga A600 Back to life. It has a broken Kickstart ROM, but my Minipro TL866 doesn’t support the 27C400 EPROM devices. We’re going to build an adapter, then copy and burn the data to a new EPROM. Finally we’ll test to see if the broken Amiga boots!
00:00, A Broken Amiga A600!
00:28, A Kickstart ROM with missing legs!
00:40, EPROM Programmer and EPROMs.
00:51, Incompatible TL866 EPROM problem.
00:59, The solution to burning an Amiga Kickstart Eprom
01:11, Mark Fixes Stuff Intro
01:16, Sponsor Thanks
01:30, About the Adapter and the Designer
01:43, Supported EPROMs, 27C160, 27C322, 27C400 and 27C800
01:54, How the EPROM adapter board works
02:13, Building the Board, Step-by-Step.
11:11, The EPROM adapter is complete
11:19, Testing the EPROM adapter with the TL866
11:26, Fixing the broken pins on the original Amiga A600 Kickstart ROM
11:41, Soldering temporary legs onto the ROM
12:37, Dumping an Amiga Kickstart ROM using the EPROM adapter on the TL866.
14:06, Writing the Amiga Kickstart ROM to a 27C400 EPROM.
16:41, Trying out the burned EPROM in a real Amiga A600
17:05, Installing the EPROM in an A600
17:17, Hooking up an Amiga Disk Drive
17:31, Power On.
17:37, Will an Amiga boot from a Kickstart ROM burned to an EPROM?
17:45, Burned EPROM Amiga Kickstart, Test result
17:49, Wrap up and further plans.
18:15, Viewer thanks and Further Watching!
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