ScuzzBlog: Diaries February 2026 Entry 18th February 2026: Post 1: Amiga 500 - More battery perils. Why am I not surprised. Amiga 500 - More battery perils. Why am I not surprised. Since I moved the A1200 gaming computer up here to make some space on the hard drive I have had a vacant workstation in the workshop. Of late I seem to be spending a lot of time in the box room running A500 games and software. Seemed like a good idea to have an A500 with ready access to my other machines should I want to copy stuff. And so I went a venturing into the large room to snag me a suitable A500 for the job. First machine that came out when I stuck in my thumb was my fave' A500 from Christmas of 2015/16. Happy days. I spent a lot of time decrunching disks on the A4000 and testing them on this machine whilst I played Settlers and Sensible World of Soccer. She really was a workhorse and was well worn out by the time I had finished the exercise. Great A500 with only one issue and that was she would on very odd occasions read the floppy in the drive for no reason. Wasn't a problem. Basically just checked the disk in the drive. Anyhoo all golden brown from years of usage I snapped a few pics and pulled open the trap door. Was I not surprised to discover a RAM expansion complete with clock circuit and barrel battery. The battery had not gone into meltdown and only took seconds for me to rock it back and forth before snapping off the board. The thing then fell on the floor and in the darkness rolled out of sight. I think I spent more time finding the battery today than anything else. I checked over the drive and booted both a more classic 1.3 WB disk along with an A500/A2000 version. I have to remember that the A500/2000 disk has been customised to include a lot more stuff hence the long load time. I include two videos showing the boot time for respective disks. I'll clean the drive when set up. Anyhoo she is ready to be installed to the bench opposite to where she was in 2015/16. I already have a few challenges ready to test the machine. Should be fun after all these years. To be honest I had mothballed this machine, kinda retired, as she had seriously done her tour of duty. No rest for the Amiga. Onward. Booting with the two version of the WB disk. Amiga 500 - More battery perils. Why am I not surprised.

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