Site news and announcements

• 16/10/09: Updated various Farnell part numbers and web links which have recently changed.
  
  
• 15/10/09: Webserver intermittently unavailable due to a system disk failure, the disk has been replaced.
  
  
• 12/07/09: Updated and added a few photos to the the About Me page, so it's slightly more appealing now.
  
  
• 22/04/09: Added a few notes to the Floppy Drive Conversion page to clarify the fact that the Panasonic JU257 drives are fairly hard to get these days. Refer to the other suggestions on the page to best resolve your floppy drive woes.
  
  
• 03/04/09: Oops, accidentally broke the webserver 4 days ago and only just noticed it now. I really must check these things more often....
  
  
• 25/10/08: Added notes on A3000 power supply repairs and common faults on A3000 Booting Problems page, A3000 hardware guide.
  
  
• 23/08/08: Added Cyberstorm mk3 socket replacement page.
  
  
• 23/07/08: Added information for sourcing replacement RP5C01 RTC on the RTC repair page, added additional detail and A3640 PAL upgrade information added to the A3640 reference page.
  Re-validated a majority of the HTML code on the site's main pages.
  
  
• 06/07/08: New Ricoh RP5C01/RP5C01A real time clocks for Amiga A4000 and A3000 are now available.
  Email me for more information, or to make a purchase of these parts.
  
  
• 16/11/07: Added some notes and JEDEC files for A3000 PAL/GAL programmable logic devices to the A3000 hardware guide.
  Cleaned up a few crappy old icon images.
  
  
• 27/9/07: This entire site is now mirrored at http://www.jdb78.de/amiga/amigatechnicalresource/ with many thanks to Josef Dean Butler for putting in the time and effort to set this up.
  Note that this mirror will only be current as of this date, it is not updated or maintained as part of the main site.
  
  
• 12/9/07: More internet connection interruptions over the past day or two. Appears the combined uselessness of ISPs/telecomms providers was much greater than I anticipated!
  
  
• 9/9/07: Webserver back online after internet connection outage for past four days. Haven't decided who is more hopeless, the ISP or the telecomms provider...
  
  
• 1/7/07: Wrote some documentation on A3000 non-booting problems which includes common problems/solutions, boot colour codes and a detailed boot procedure description from Harry 'Piru' Sintonen.
  
  
• 6/2/07: Moved house and finally finished setting up ethernet, telephone, etc. All web and FTP services should be back to normal now. Apologies for any downtime in the process.
  
  
• 31/12/06: Restructured the downloads page into sections as it was getting messy, added A500 technician training course notes.
  Also added the PDF MIME type to the webserver, can't believe no-one has complained about that yet!
  
  
• 4/6/06: Added replacing SIMM sockets page. Also cleaned up various HTML code.
  
  
• 20/5/06: Fixed various broken links to external web addresses.
  
  
• 30/4/06: Tidied all the HTML code on the site (at least the stuff that I've written). The site's main HTML code should be a bit more HTML 4.01 Transitional compliant now.
  If there is anything which doesn't look quite right, please let me know.
  
  
• 17/3/06: Updated various texts on the A3640 capacitor replacement page, thanks again to Tony for keeping me in line.
  
  
• 12/3/06: Added A3640 capacitor replacement info and link to Micro A1 motherboard jumper page.
  
  
• 5/3/06: Updated my ultra-blurry, ultra-crappy RTC photo with a decent one I found. Also fixed a wee typo on the audio repair page, thanks to Tony.
  
  
• 12/12/05: Finally back online after 6 weeks of ISP issues. Web and FTP server has been offline since 27/10/05.
  
  
• 3/12/05: Updated Testing Completed Job image in A3000 INT_2 modifications to clarify CPU connector pin numbering.
  
  
• 19/4/05: Fixed the A1000_schematics-IFF.LHA archive which was corrupted. Thanks to Jens Pesek for notifying me.
  
  
• 19/3/05: Fixed the way some of the internal site links are referenced for offline browsing.
  
  
• 12/2/05: Lots of new updates added to the webserver, including revised RTC repair, new A3000 hardware guide, HTML version of A3000 INT-2 modification, lots of SMD soldering guides, audio stage repair, new sub-menus to categorise things for easier site navigation and more!
  
  
• 30/10/04: Added some extra text to the RTC repair page to make fault tracing a bit easier.
  Also fixed a few typos and added a sketch of how to do open circuit via repairs.
  
  
• 9/10/04: Oops, I accidentally enabled some system wide Arexx debugging which meant the webserver was offline for 24 hrs. Should be working again now.
  
  
• 13/9/04: Added IFF Loader for download on schematics page. It's a Windows program to display Amiga IFF images. Thanks to the author, Steve B.
  
  
• 8/9/04: Fixed an error on the battery replacement page, correct battery part number is actually Varta 3/V80H and not a V80H. Thanks to Keith M for pointing this out.
  
  
• 1/9/04: Fixed a few broken links within site internal documents.
  Planning in place for expansion of technical guides, including SMD soldering, electrolytic capacitor problems and alterations to RTC battery replacement section to make it easier to follow.
  Don't expect too much before October! (this year)
  
  
• 25/4/04: Altered the ARexx webserver script to fix a few small problems at the server end.
  
  
• 27/3/04: Added scolling text to index page to test some Javascript usage.
  
  
• 25/1/04: Added the nice PCB style "back" arrows, thanks to my good friend Danny de Waal.
  
  
• 18/1/04: Upgraded server main disk, apologies for any slow connections/loss of service during upgrade.
  
  
• 10/1/04: Added disclaimer text to the RTC battery replacement section, just in case!
  
  
• 10/1/04: Completed the RTC fault finding/repair detail section for component level repair of the RTC.
  
  
• 7/12/03: Added the initial parts of the RTC battery replacement section. Fault finding/repair section still to come.
  
  
• 2/11/03: Planning in place for "how to" clock battery replacement guide.
  
  
• 2/11/03: Added acronym list and datasheet sections.
  
  
• 2/11/03: Finally allocated time to add some new schematics to the archives.
  New schematics include A1000, CDTV, A500+, A1060, updated A3000 and lots more monitor schematics.
  
  
• 1/10/03: Some icon image changes. The site now looks slightly less "1970s". Now more of an 80s look.
  
  
• 14/9/03: Intermittent connection problems were traced to a faulty RJ45 connector.
  Things appear to be running normally again.
  
  
• Gave up on Apache as it was being a total piece of crap.
  Online since 25/8/03 with the gW3S ARexx webserver ver 2.2.8!