What a beautiful machine! 😍 I always wanted to have an Amiga 1000 in my Amiga collection, and I'm happy that this wish came true. There are a few smaller cosmetical issues left open for later. In the next days, I will post a blog article about the restauration.

Yay! The Amiga first asked for a Kickstart disk, and after that it dutifully loaded the RSI Mega Demo! 😀 The green OSD of the GOEX drive adds a lot to the 1980s retro feeling! 😂 (Of course the OSD disappears after a few seconds of floppy inactivity.)

No smoke, no smell of burnt electronics, that's a good sign. 😉 The original drive LED was red, but I just had to use a green one here.

We're ready for putting it all together again, and for a first test run. 😁

I got a "GOEX on Pills" drive simulator, which uses OSD for showing the selected floppy disk file, so I won't need an external display that would spoil the original look. The CSYNC signal is taken from U6A pin 12. The RGB signal is connected to R24 (the end that is closer to the monitor connector). I'm curious how this will look like!

One problem is that the floppy LED was connected to the original floppy, but the GOEX drive has no such LED connector. I used the MTR0 signal and a PNP transistor to drive the LED, and soldered it straight to the GOEX drive. (Schematics will be published in an upcoming blog article.)

I've designed a frame for a "GOEX on pills" drive that fits perfectly into the Amiga 1000 case, and also keeps the original eject button at its correct place. I will release the print design later.

Yes… It looks much better without the film! 😀