ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2024 Entry 20th July 2024: Post 1: Amiga 1200 - Tumoon responds to server closure. Amiga 1200 - Tumoon responds to server closure. Tumoon has always been high maintenance even from the days she was known as Sue. I better not go there. Anyway, to today and surprise surprise she refused to boot or even show any life from the drive system. Seems Tumoon has responded to the Archeage game servers being closed for good end of June. There was a time post 2014 I played little else than Archeage. Tumoon was one of my characters in the game. What I enjoyed about Archeage was the ability to dedicate yourself to simply farming, skills and building structures, plus trading. Sadly the game was bounced from one owner to another until it finally closed its doors for the last time last month. With it I lost all my collected worth in the game. Which was a lot. Turning back to the Amiga there was nothing to do but open her up. I had been busy on the bench all morning and it was getting late and the 'Death Star' was starting to burn a hole in my head. The computer has the Apollo 060, which can be a little fickle. I flipped the hard drive on its back and it sprung into life. The machine was still flickering power and so I fiddled with the metal shielding. No change. I closed up. I then pressed the space bar and she sprung to life. The machine booted and the Apollo worked. Unfortunately I had some how lost half the keyboard and then all the keyboard. I switched off and returned the next day. This machine was a mess when it arrived. Over the time of having her I have struggled with this strange earthing issue. The machine just flickers on the power light. I'll circle back to that. So my list of repairs include fixing the floppy drive, which in doing fixed a strange case issue that prevented the disk ejecting. I repaired the keyboard, and noted the strange crease in the ribbon. I traced one of the shorts to an odd couple of pins soldered to the motherboard in the corner. This I simply isolated with tape. Sadly the thing still shorts, and I am forced to wiggle around until it clears. The Apollo 060 is a touch flaky also, she is fine when working, it just struggles when I have this shorting issue. Anyhoo ... I decided to remove the card and deal with the keyboard ribbon. This turned out to be the connector coming loose. Having reseated the ribbon all was fine. I then had a good go of screwing down the shielding and making sure it was not touching the Apollo or the keyboard. Remarkably she booted first time and after a good soak was still working. She can be so moody this girl. So with the Apollo now working and the hard drive running, and no flickering power lights I marked that down as a win and got out the way of the Death Star. Happy that all was fine I noted the success on the case and put her back into store. Note the DIY trapdoor vent, cool or what ! I have included a few pictures from my previous endeavours to get her working which can be found in a two part blog about my efforts to fix the hard and the floppy on an Amiga 1200. Just as an aside the Apollo was purchased through Amibench prior to 2003 for use with a brand new Amiga I had purchased from Analogic. Problem is she refuses to work with the PCMCIA and so I had to get a Blizzard 1230IV to do the job. Thing was that the Apollo cost me a small fortune and I've never really used it. Shame really. I made the mistake of touching the power converter whilst in use and nearly burnt the end of my finger off. PS Just the one Veiga spotting item today as she was the icon of the Work disk for 17th October 2020. How time flies. Amiga 1200 - Tumoon responds to server closure. And with the Apollo working Some images from a previous repair

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