Anyone living in the Lansing, MI area with an Amiga 1000 and A1050 memory board?
A couple of years ago my basement flooded and my Amiga 1000 was underwater for a few days before I realized the basement was filling with water.
I recently decided to see if it could be made to work. It has the piggy back ram hack.
I opened it up and it looks pretty clean. There was rust on the front memory expansion shield but the board looks clean. The guide rail for the head in the floppy drive had some rust but it was in a spot that it appeared the head never reaches. That drive is a beast. I decided not to try to clean the rust because I'd have to disassemble it and I'd never get the heads aligned again.
The first time I powered it up nothing happened. There was an NTSC signal for a raster, but no other activity. After reseating the socketed chips It booted up.
The problem is that it only shows 256K of chip ram and 512K of fast ram. The front memory isn't there.
The card edge for the front ram looks ok as does the connector.
I'm not sure if the problem is with the A1050 ram or if it's on the mother board.
If someone lives in the Lansing Mi area that I could try either testing the A1050 in their A1000 or borrow theirs to test in mine it would help to identify which is at fault.
John