Services - RetroPassion Ltd

Amiga 1200 Gotek Drive, CLEAR/TRANSPARENT Mount, OLED Display and FlashFloppy

Amiga 1200 Gotek drive is a great replacement for your failing Amiga 1200 floppy drive or you wish to simply replace it with a Gotek drive. These are plug and play in that you simply remove your existing floppy drive and replace it with this unit (you use your existing bracket). 3 new screws will also be supplied to secure the Gotek drive to your Amiga. You will need a USB memory stick (NOT included) with your loaded ADF files.

What are ADF files?

ADF files is the standard Amiga Disk Format for floppy disk images. no different to Sega or Nintendo roms, ADF's are images of Amiga floppy disk games. Not only could you have access to a huge back catalogue of retro Amiga games, but there are still brand new games being released today, for example: Raid over Moscow or Bridge Strike these are all available as ADF files. But you not limited to games or programs, but you have access to tons of Amiga demos (if your into that scene).

What are gotek drives in detail? Read here What is FlashFloppy check out this link Want to know even more about them, checkout retro32.com's review of them here Also checkout one of our favorite youtube streamers TheGebs24 and her views on the Gotek drive!

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Amiga A4000 Recapping Service (Standard)

Amiga A4000 recapping service, all board revisions, NOTE this is NOT a repair service.

Check of the board before recapping is begun.
Removal of existing capacitors.
Clean-up and preparation of area.
Replace using Panasonic/Wurth/KEMET capacitors.
Retest (Video, Audio, Floppy Boot, SCSI (if HDD is present).

Overseas recapping orders

Overseas orders are very welcome and we are able to provide you return shipping costs at the checkout. To do this add any of our recapping services to your shopping basket and then at the checkout simply fill in the billing and shipping form including your telephone and email address (important) and click the 'Request a quote' link. You will receive an email within 24hrs with the shipping cost and you can then proceed with the order by clicking on the 'Complete your order' within the email. There is no need to leave the checkout page open your web browser.

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ACA1221LC 16Mb 68EC020 26.67Mhz Accelerator Amiga A1200

ACA1221LC accelerator Amiga A1200 and ACA500Plus comes with the 68EC020 processor (guaranteed to run at 26.67MHz) and 16MBytes physical memory. 11.2MBytes of this physical memory can be used as fastmem, and 1 MByte is reserved for a fast copy of the Kickstart ROM. The CPU speed can be switched in four steps between 14MHz and 40MHz. Overclocking the card beyond 26.67MHz will require active cooling and a very good power supply like the A1200 Boost PSU or the highly specced CA-PSU ; operation at this high speed is not guaranteed. The ACA1221lc features iComps IDE speeder technology that accelerates reading from the internal IDE port, this IDE speeder does not require opening the computer or even removing chips from their socket. The IDE speedup to PIO mode 3 is activated with a software setting and reaches a raw data transfer rate of 10.2 MBytes per second, which results in every-day performance of 3.6MBytes/s with fast CF cards. Fast hard drives with cache may exceed 7MBytes/s performance. The IDE speeder feature is not available if connected to an ACA500 or ACA500plus. The ACA1221lc is prepared for use with our forthcoming ACA2000, where it will provide up to 11.9MBytes of fastmem. More memory configurations allow for using Zorro cards without conflicts. ACATool is required to unlock some of the features like:

MapROM - Load up other kickstart roms like AmigaOS 3.2 without the need of physical ROMS
Loading of the onboard Kickstart ROM file without losing valuable RAM
Control the IDE speeder,

And much more!

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X-Surf 100 Network card for Commodore Amiga

X-Surf 100 for all Commodore Amigas with Zorro Slots

X-Surf 100 is a networking card for all Amiga computers with Zorro slots. For the Amiga A2000 or Zorro-daughterboards for the A1200, it will run at Z2 speed. If installed in an Amiga A3000, A4000 or the respective tower versions, it will run at Z3 speeds, which is up to five times faster than Z2. Key features:

100MBit physical link rate
Sana-II device for use with OS2.0 up to OS3.9
Officially supported in the Linux-m68k kernel
Space- and power-saving design
Gold plated Zorro contacts and stainless steel metal bracket
Local expansion port for our high-speed USB module "RapidRoad"

Drivers can be downloaded from here. Manual here Wiki here Requirements:

TCP/IP stack such as Miami DX, AmiTCP, Genesis (included in OS3.9) or Roadshow
Sufficient RAM and 68020 CPU or higher
Kickstart/Workbench 2.0 or higher
File transfer method for drivers to be transferred to the Amiga

Transfer rates of over 1600kBytes/s have been measured with the X-Surf-100. Please note that the classic Amiga architecture and the current TCP/IP stacks for the Amiga don't allow saturating a 100MBit Ethernet link. Performance in your system may be slower due to CPU performance and programs running in multitasking. Please note that we cannot guarantee the X-Surf-100 to work in third-party Zorro boards as used in tower conversions, such as boards made by Eagle, Mikronik, RBM or Elbox. The X-Surf-100 may or may not work in these boards. Although the bus interface is designed to tolerate many mistakes that the vendors of those third-party boards have made, we can only guarantee proper operation in original Commodore daughter boards. Should the card fail to work in such a third-party board, you may have to close the Z2 jumper and downgrade to Z2 speed. For operation in Z3 computers, the Buster-11 chip is recommended. If there is only one DMA master in the Z3 system, a Buster-9 may also be used. Owners of the Merlin graphics card must have the latest hardware patches installed. Owners of the Mediator PCI/Zorro daughterboard must close the "swap" jumper. The X-Surf-100 is officially supported in the Linux-m68k kernel.

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Atari Mega STe PSU Recapping Service

Atari Mega STe 1000 PSU recapping service - NOTE this is NOT a repair service.

Removal of existing capacitors.
Cleanup and preparation of area.
Replace using quality capacitors.
Test output voltages (not under load)

Recapping the Atari STe PSU is a good preventive measure, the reason being these capacitors are under alot of stress (which they are designed to take of course) however with age they start getting tired which could lead to issues later on. All that needs to be sent is the Atari Mega STe PSU itself. [space_40]

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TF1260 TerribleFire A1200 Accelerator with LC060 50MHz CPU

TF1260 Terriblefire A1200 Accelerator with EC 50Mhz CPU which hosts 128Mb Fast Ram, IDE connector. The TF1260 is one of the best 060 accelerators you can purchase for the Amiga 1200 And is the next step up after the TF1230 A1200 Accelerator add-on we sell for those that want that large speed jump. Full specs:

MC68LC060 CPU (The CPU has no MMU or FPU)
128MByte of fast-ram.
IDE Interface - Driver required - ehide.device
Compatible with any A1200 motherboard revision.
Fits in your old/new stock A1200 case!!!

What is Terriblefire? Well it's not what it's who, and that person is Stephen Leary who has designed a whole host of accelerators and ram cards for the Amiga A500, A1200 and Amiga CD32. These include many but the most common ones are:

TF328 - 8Mb Fast Ram board and IDE socket for the Amiga CD32
TF330 - 68030 Processor, 64Mb Fast Ram and IDE socket for the Amiga CD32
TF536 - 68030 Processor, 64Mb Ram and IDE interface for the Amiga A500 and A500 Plus
TF360 - 68060 Processor other specs TBC for the Amiga CD32
TF1260 - 68060 Processor, 128Mb Ram and IDE Interface for the Amiga 1200
TF1230 - 68030 Processor 64Mb Ram and IDE interface for the Amiga 1200
TF4060 - 68060 Processor 128Mb Ram for the Amiga 4000
TF1200 - Buffee Adaptor + 5.5Mb/8Mb (you will need the new Buffee Processor

NOTES:

For every TF1260 sold we donate a percentage of the sale to Stephen Leary to support further TF card developments and we also support our builders.
Timing fix is recommended on your A1200 motherboard. We can do this free of charge if you send your board to us (return shipping does need to be covered).
At least Kickstart 3.1 is required - (Kickstart 3.0 is not supported)

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Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Recapping Service ALL VERSIONS

Sega Mega Drive & Genesis recapping service inc Sega Genesis inc all board revisions including Mega Drive, Mega Drive 2. This service is a maintenance service and not a repair service however recapping can bring back to life your Sega console if it shows the following symptoms:

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The service includes:

Testing of Sega Megadrive/Genesis
Removal of through hole capacitors.
Any leakage cleaned up and prepped.
Replacement Electrolytic capacitors soldered in place
Final testing and video taken of unit working.

Recapping can recover common issues however if it does not, the recapping service is still chargeable but will be reduced.

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FM Towns Marty Recapping Service

FM Towns Marty Recapping Service is where we replace all the electrolytic capacitors on the mainboard, PSU (both Tamura and Eastern PSU's are covered) and CD Drive. We would need the entire console and controller to be sent. We can also offer just the mainboard, PSU or CD Drive if needed, please by all means contact us. What's included:

Testing Video, Audio and CD Drive.
Full strip down of the unit.
Removal of all electrolytic capacitors on the Mainboard, PSU and CD Drive - Approx 53 capacitors.
Cleanup any capacitor leakage.
Replace with tier one brands of capacitors.
Test video, audio and CD Drive.
Reassemble and retest.

We are able to recap both models. Note: This is not a repair service

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Amiga 2000 Replica Motherboard FULLY BUILT

Amiga 2000 Replica Motherboard fully built with all custom chips including Buster with an option of an additional 1Mb Chip ram upgrade to take it to a total of 2Mb of chip ram which is perfect as a start for WHDLoad with a TF534 or TF536 Accelerator card. This board is a replica of the A2000 rev 6.2 motherboard reverse engineered by Floppy209. The unit was built from both new parts and recycled parts.

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Macintosh Colour Classic II Recapping Service (Standard)

Macintosh Colour Classic II recapping service (Standard), all board revisions, all electrolytic capacitors are replaced. The Macintosh Colour Classic logic board is recapped using high quality capacitors. NOTE this is NOT a repair service, the Macintosh Colour Classic needs to be in working order.

Removal of existing capacitors.
Clean-up and preparation of area.
Replace all surface mount capacitors.

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A1200 Case LED Board

A1200 Case LED board with power LED (green), floppy LED (yellow) and HDD LED (yellow). A simple replacement for your current Amiga 1200 LED board if its faulty or a great addition for the new A1200.net cases.

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Sega 32X for Megadrive Recapping Service

Sega 32X for Megadrive recapping service for all board revisions. This service is a maintenance service and not a repair service however recapping can bring back to life your Sega 32X if it shows the following symptoms:

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The service includes:

Testing of Sega 32X using a Sega Megadrive MK1 (AKA Sega Genesis)
Removal of through hole capacitors.
Any leakage cleaned up and prepped.
Replacement Electrolytic capacitors soldered in place
Final testing and video taken of unit working.

This service is only for a recapping service for the Sega 32X add-on only.

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