Amiga 1000 Rejuvenator Project: The Finale
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- In this video I officially declare the project to reverse-engineer the Amiga 1000 Rejuvenator, invented by Greg Tibbs, a bonafide success. I explain the key roadblock the team faced for the past 2 years, and how one new member got us across the finish line. Article Version: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.p...
Joe Carter's complete Github with all of the files necessary for others to build their own Rejuvenator boards. github.com/joethezombie/Amiga...
00:00 - 02:19 INTRO
02:20 - 07:50 REJUVE OVERVIEW
07:51 - 10:20 ABBREVIATED HISTORY - AMIEXPO 1990
10:21 - 11:01 TO GERMANY!
11:02 - 12:28 MATZE'S PROCESS
12:29 - 13:11 CONFIRMED SUCCESS!!
13:12 - 14:46 THE FUTURE EVOLUTION...
14:47 - 15:30 TO the TIBBS FAMILY
15:31 - 16:25 WORDS for GREG
16:26 - 17:41 CLOSED for BUSINESS
17:42 - 18:19 JOE on GREG TIBBS' PASSING
18:20 - 18:29 THE TEAM
18:30 - 18:51 FIN
The Rejuvenator 2 Team:
Joe Carter
Matthias Heinrichs
Christian Stich
Matt Martin
Adrian Garay
Marco Both
and Eric Hill
© All photos used in the section for Matze's amazing process to ultimately read the original PAL chips are owned/copyright Matthias Heinrichs, used with permission.
AmiExpo 1990 Footage used with permission from Amiga Bill of The Guru Meditation
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Original AmiExpo Footage: • AmiEXPO 1990 - Commodo...
Intro Music by the SUPREMELY talented musician Waveshaper, with permission [Sweden].
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Video Soundtrack music by the SYNTH LORD Android Automatic, with permission [Detroit, USA].
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can’t thank you enough for this effort and the loving memory of Greg- looking forward to venture into assembling one with help in the coming months- much gratitude!
That's so fantastic!!! Good luck with your project and if you run into any questions the community at amigalove.com is always there. When you are successful, I'd love to see a photo of your new Rejuvenated Amiga! Cheers
Thanks to all who gave new life to Greg’s work. He gave me the basic working knowledge of computing starting back in the days of BASIC and into the Exidy Sorcerer and always had the answers even to the end. Rest in pease cuz.
Hey Herman - good to see you. Hope all's well. Happy New Year!
Just outstanding by all involved. Folks determined and didn’t give up! What a great time for A1k enthusiasts. I tip my hat..
Thanks Mike! I'm so glad and proud to have achieved our goal. I stood on the shoulders of mental giants to get there, that's for sure. Glad you were able to follow along, too.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
Thank you so much, OldBull. I appreciate the sentiments and I know the team does as well.
you ROCK Eric and all involved and of course much love and respect to Greg Tibbs a TRUE Amiga legend to us Amiga 1000 owners and fans❤️👍🤟
Thanks, f1lupo. There's something to be said for stubbornness, and never giving up hope!
OMG you did it! All hail the stubborn, dedicated team. Congrats
I don't know what to say really. I just want to say thanks Eric. People like you keep the Amiga alive and it's why we have such a unique community still to this day. Greg RIP. And thanks to all involved. We have a special community with very smart people.
Thank you so much for the kind words. It really means a lot to me and the fellas on the team. Happy Holidays, rjd
Great Video and tribute to Greg Tibbs... Great work to all involved on this amazing project. Keep the Amiga Alive.
Thank you everyone for the outstanding work you do. The video is amazing. I never heard before your videos about Rejuvenator, possibly because I never owned an Amiga 1000. Is great learning new interesting stuff about our beloved computers. Thanks
Hello, George! Thank you for your kind remarks. I'm so glad we got it done (and I'm rather glad to take a break thinking about it and simply enjoying the fruits of our success for now). There were times I thought I was going to have to hang things up, but wow - still hard to believe we did it. Very rewarding from end to end.
Thank you!
Great job! Everyone on the team just did fantastic work getting this little guy working! I hope to have one early next year. I look forward to seeing if I can get it working with my Vampire
Thanks, Doug. And I imagine it should work with your vampire if you can get all that to fit in there. They cost ~$150 in parts at the moment. I bet you have a pile of Agnus chips. The hardest thing to find seems to be (if you want the 2MB version) the proper A3000 Agnus and the RAM. I know some folks have had to use more than one parts supplier to get all of the other little doodads. My new board is sans video port and sans RTC (no need for either). Keep in mind, there may be an update in the first half of 2022 that'll allow for much more plentiful 2mb Agnus chips, a coin cell battery replacements and potentially some other upgrades. To infinity, and beyond! ;) Merry Christmas, Doug. Hope you're doing well down in AZ.
A very exciting and wonderful adventure! Thanks to the team and Greg! Amiga lives forever! ❤️
This was an amazing saga and you are a tremendous storyteller. Thanks for the video!
Only Amiga makes it possible, because it's the computer for the creative mind. ;) I know I've said it before, but it's * still * mind blowing to have amazing new (or new reproduction) hardware for these incredible machines. Thank you Greg, thank you Eric, and thank you to the Rejuvenator team members for never giving up.
Thank you so much, LBC. The team and I really appreciate all of the kind words. I actually heard from Greg's brother today after this went out and it made my day/week/month/year. It blows me away how many driven, passionate and smart folks wrap their arms around Commodore Culture. We all shared something amazing back in the day growing up with these magical machines, and I don't think many of us will ever let go.
A great accomplishment, and a great story! Fantastic dedication from you and eveybody else involved. Congrats! Cheers, Olem.
Fantastic! Thanks for everyone's hard work. Perfect timing for me as I finally got my hands on an A1000. RIP Greg Tibbs, thank you for the original!
Amazing work! thank you to you and the whole team!
It was a crazy journey from start to finish. To be honest it's still kind of hard for my brain to accept that we got to the finish line (and the line keeps moving!). Thanks, 32 Bits!
Amazing project! Thank you for sharing!
😎👍🏻 Totally Awesome Accomplishment! 😀
I assembled the rejuvenator and I am very grateful and happy about it !!! It really works perfectly! I only have to make one comment, namely the wrong values are given on C21 and C30, with which the clock does not run. A 0.1uf capacitor belongs on C21 and a 20pf capacitor on C30, both 10uf.
Thank you for this information. I'm not using the clock on my Rejuvenator - I use a Parceiro for that. Thanks for this, though. I will pass it along. Cheers!
@Robert Schlämmer I sent your comments to Joe. Here is what he said: "Thank you so much for letting me know the issue. These capacitors were omitted from the BOM completely. The schematics had default placeholder values. I’ve updated the BOM. The schematics will update in time, I’m working with some issues after the KiCad 6 upgrade.
"But I think the fella mixed his positions, .1uF should be on C30 and 20pf should be on C21. The circuit is nearly identical to the A500’s memory/RTC upgrade card."
@@AmigaLove Thank you for correcting the list!
Is there actually also a Gerber file for the small circuit board for the video slot?
@@BigRob203 No, the video slot used cards from back in the day. At least, that's all it is good for these days (like, the A2000 flicker fixer, for example). But I've heard murmurs of people trying to exploit that connection for more modern applications. I've never used it myself.
Even though I have never owned or used an Amiga 1000, I have always loved that machine.. And I appreciate what you guys have done to keep it going... Kudos to you all...
Thanks, @Mete Sev. On behalf of the team, I can tell you we very much appreciate your sentiments and kind comments. Cheers
Wow, this is awesome story. Thank you for all the effort put in this project.
Thank you, Adam. It was a wild ride! Glad we were able to get it to the finish line. A lot of people have benefitted from it since then, which is what it was all about in the first place.
Thanks to you and the entire team for your resilience and dedication, Eric. I have a spare A1000 with rev. A mainboard ready to be rejuvenated and I can't wait to have the bare PCB manufactured. I will use the 318069-18 Agnus from a GBA1000 rev. 1 until the more common 390544-01 can be used.
Your A1000 and A1080 have both been blessed with rare boingball badges. Are they original?
The boing ball badges are indeed original in the sense the badges are original. I removed the checkmarks and applied the badges very carefully in honor of Dave Needle. In fact, I made a short video about it this year after finally finding a 1080 monitor badge, which I'd been hunting for for years. czcams.com/video/KsK3gry9ZfQ/video.html
Wow. You did a fantastic job.
Thank you, @Amitopia TV
My man! I see some D&D swag there. You a classic AD&D guy?
I am indeed - I grew up playing that with my brother back in the 80s and 90s. He was always the storyteller/DM. I know everybody’s into fifth edition these days or well beyond (My brother plays Monte games) but it’s hard for me to let go of the classics even if they can be my numbingly tedious at times just to get anything done during a campaign! :D I also really love the TSR/Tolkien inspired art from the times. Like my beloved old computers it’s a fountain of youth for me.
awesome video!
I hope to purchase a new board soon for my A1000.
Congratulations on a historical project. There are three A1000’s here waiting for a rejuvenator; a us version and at least one early european version ( the ones with a daughtercard). Looking very much forward to all those wonderfully feature rich variations of boards to keep the most iconic of computers alive. Am getting bored of all these slabs of aluminium. Computers need more character like the Amiga and Mac used to have.
Are you going to try and build one (or two) yourself, Raymond?
@@AmigaLove Hi Eric, I am a bit pressed for time. Although I have the equipment, I am looking for an expert to provide perhaps three boards. I have one US and TWO early PAL models.
Wonderful achievement.
Thanks, @jdryyz. Feels so good to have finally made it to the top of the mountain.
What a great job you did Eric ♥️What an achievement, you guys did a hell of great Job 👏will try to build it with help of the AmigaSwiss community
Woohoo! If you need any help there are guys on AmigaLove.com that have built them. Don't be shy. If you get it done be sure to shoot me a photo! Would love to see it all put together. Your biggest challenge will be simply sourcing parts at this time. Good luck!
Mega!
Hiii! Where can I buy this plz? :p
Congrats, mate.
One question: is there a reason you exchanged the checkmarks with boing balls on your A1000? :)
Yes - it's a tribute to Dave Needle. See: czcams.com/video/KsK3gry9ZfQ/video.html
was the design work for the rejuvinator done on Proboard and Pronet??
Do you mean the original design of the circuit board? That was done using Board Master from Black Belt Systems. You can still download it to this very day. www.datapipe-blackbeltsystems.com/amiga.html
Wow!
Looking forward for developments!
An awesome addition it would be to my A1000 with PiStorm (and RGBtoHDMI in the video slot?)
Or could RGBtoHDMI could be integrated to a Rejuvenator 2.5?
@@Breeffeehey Hi Lou - that all depends on the community taking what's now out there and running with it. I know more than one person has taken the work and started to expand upon it (making it easier to use different more common Agnus chips, for example). Updating the limited video port to future advancements seems very realistic of a goal, too. I personally have no desire to go down that road - I love it just the way it is - but I guarantee there will be more innovation around the Rejuvenator now that all mysteries of the original board have been unlocked and shared.
@@AmigaLove I love it the way it is!
I saw on Facebook someone who had problem running his Rejuvenator along PiStorm... So, that's why I said I was looking forward for development...
In those times I wish I was better at hardware development, but I have to rely on people who knows how things works deeper...
I bought my stock Amiga back in 1986 and almost sold it in 1992 due to loosing my job and couldn't afford to pay my rent and utilities but something inside of me told to me hang onto to this dear machine, my heart said no my pockets were trying to say yes. now its been 37 years and still original owner of my Raw Stock built Amiga. Am a true vintage guy who hates modding machines and this is a truly noninvasive and non-destructive way to bring extra life into the Amiga. I really don't have time to build or chase parts up but if anyone has one built and available I would like to purchase one of them or how to get my hands on one, any tips appreciated.
Hey there,
There is a guy on Amibay who builds these and sells them in batches. You’d have to create an account over there and “learn the culture” of how to declare interest for one, pay the guy, and then wait a while for it to arrive. Also know that if you decide to go that route the installation is non-trivial. It requires the removal of the motherboard from the case (pretty easy to do as the computer is pretty simple in design) and special 3D-printed guides are required to install the Rejuvenator without damaging things.
www.amibay.com/threads/rejuvenator-clones-for-amiga-1000-batch-4-available-now-jokersad.2441222/
Finally, the boards are being sold but you’d need to source the 1mb (easy to find) or 2mb (hard to find) Fat Agnus and associated RAM chips to complete things.
@@AmigaLove Thankyou so much for the Help and Tips, Your content is Fantastic, Keep up the Good work!
Yes the 2MB agnus is more easy to find but very expansive already. Yet another project that uses the 8375, prices will skyrocket and within a few months they become as rare as the A3000 version.
This is really inspiring stuff. Well done and congratulations.
Thank you. It was a very long adventure with a very happy ending. Really nice when that happens!