This is an earlyish Amiga 500 produced in late '87 or early '88. It has a Rev 3 motherboard, the Chickenlips, the Hi-Tek/Space Invaders keyboard and a RevA floppy drive with the soft eject.
After a wash it didn't look too bad, the case is nowhere near as yellowed as my other 500's.
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It took a bit of work to clean up, there was a fair amount of grime, and it looks like it's had a drink at some point during its life too
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Worse bit was testing, I noticed one of the mem chips looks to have been replaced and the green screen suggested another had possibily gone.
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However following advice posted on this forum by Steve in the past, I removed Agnus and put her back in, and...
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Nice
After reassembly I tested the joystick port with a few games of Buggy Boy and F/A-18. All seems to be working, a few sticky keys just needed a bit of encouragement to engage but all good there too. I now need to clean up the RF Shields, I'll probably just sand and paint them. There's also a small bit of damage to the back of the case that shouldn't be too hard to repair - looks like a switch was installed at some point.
No idea what I'll do with her long-term, I've another two A500's that are better to use due to expansions and I don't think I want to mess with this one too much as I don't think there's a huge number of A500's this age out there.
