Mastodawn

Excellent, thank you! Didn't notice the different screw, I'll keep an eye out for that. Fingers crossed for the switches, hope the replacements I ordered work fine. Then I'll have a bit more to go on.

Olem 3d ago

Restoring my Amiga 1000 keyboard, part 2: I've desoldered all the keyswitches and treated the rust on the top plate, sanded it and given it a few dustings of proper etching primer. It's looking better, but my borderline OCD says it needs more work. So I guess I'll sand and prime it, rinse and repeat, 'till my soul is at ease. I'll paint it black in the end, just like Stones said. The case is mostly fine, but it'll get a quick retrobrighting bath to remove a bit of yellowing on one side of the bezel.Then I'll need to open all the keyswitches and see if they can be saved - most of them didn't work. I guess the contacts are corroded. As far as I can tell these are Mitsumi Standard Mechanical type 2, quite different from the standard Cherry MX switches you mostly see nowadays. I've ordered a few replacements just in case. #amiga #Amiga1k #commodore #retrocomputing #keyboard

Olem 6d ago

Ingo Paschke Mar 12

The second installment in "Update all the orphaned ports!": Frotz for the Amiga.

This great Amiga port from 2007 now uses the newest Z-Code engine from Frotz 2.5.5 (2025).

Should be available soon on aminet.

#Amiga #interactivefiction #textadventure #retroComputing #infocom

Olem Mar 8

Only a few keys work on my Amiga 1000 keyboard, it turns out. The top plate is also a bit rusty, and everything is covered in 40 years worth of grime. After a bit of carefully applied rust remover it looks like this. Contact cleaner doesn't help the keyswitches much. Guess I have to tear it all the way down and open the switches. This'll take some time! No wonder why this machine was expensive back in the day - this keyboard is constructed just like a modern high-end mechanical keyboard, with proper switches secured in a rigid metal top plate. I've also got the top-end Amiga 2000 keyboard with Cherry MX blacks from 1988 or so, and it's a much simpler deal than this. No metal top plate on that one, the PCB and the plastic case is the only thing that supports it as you're typing away. #amiga #amiga1k #keyboard #retrocomputing #commodore

Olem Mar 7

Metin Seven 🎨Jul 23, 2025

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40 years ago, #Commodore introduced the revolutionary #Amiga (1000) computer. As a youngster, I had to have one. To finance it, I sold my C128 to my older brother, and made a pact with my mom to clean the toilets of her boarding house for several years. 💩

Once the Amiga had arrived in my youngster room, I was totally enchanted. It felt like owning a portal to the digital future. One of my first games was a near-perfect arcade conversion of Marble Madness. I once made this tribute to it…

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Olem Mar 7

It works, but the disk drive and keyboard have issues. A deep clean is much needed! It's got very little yellowing, and doesn't really seem to have seen a lot of use. Wow.

Olem Mar 7

Whoa! Didn't think it would ever happen, but I got hold of one of my grails, a 1986 Amiga 1000, the first model in this line of computers. It's a PAL machine, and the keyboard is made norwegian with a bunch of little stickers. I love it. Commodore had trouble bringing this thing to the market, and it was way too expensive. Very few was sold here. I remember it as a schoolyard myth - Commodore's Next Big Thing after the 64 and the 128, it was fantastic, but you couldn't get it yet. The kids were abuzz, and some scammer in the next town was claiming to have stock on order and was pre-selling them for a way too low price. I never saw one back in the day, but two years later I had my Amiga 500 instead. #amiga #amiga1k #commodore #retrocomputing

Olem Feb 27

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad Feb 27

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

Olem Feb 15

Project 3D-printed case for my Commodore 1541-II is mostly done. There was a bit of work needed to get the printed parts to fit nicely, but with a few blobs of UV resin and a file I got there in the end. Might reprint the lid, it's got a crack that I've repaired. It's fine for now tho. Inside is a spare drive mechanism I had lying around and a NOS mainboard from Retro8bitshop. It needs Jiffydos, but I'll make sure it works first! #Commodore #commodore1541 #retrocomputing #3dprinting

Olem Jan 31

I'm working on a 3D printed Commodore 1541-II case, time for the lid. Eventually found that printing this model upright got me the best result. The print's fine except a fracture on the right side, it was there even when the thing was on the printer bed. I guess the nicely modelled vents cause a structural issue right there. I'm not too worried, I'll get some clear UV resin and reinforce it from the inside. When the lid is in place, there'll be zero stress on that part. #commodore #commodore1541 #3dprinting #floppydrive