ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2020 Entry 25th May 2020: Post 1: Amiga 500Plus - Cartoon Classics final check. Amiga 500Plus - Cartoon Classics final check. Cartoon Classics is the last A500Plus I will be checking for some while .... Phew !! It's been a laugh a minute .. Not ! I do have three Cartoon Classics boxes. Only two have A500Plus and the other has the original A500. For those that don't know, Commodore never really celebrated the release of the A500Plus. Instead they apologetically replaced Amiga 500 computers in Cartoon Classics boxes over the Christmas period and without telling customers first simply explained the change with a simple note advising accordingly. I sense that the A500Plus featured here has had very little use given the action on the keyboard and the general good state of the box and contents. The computer has stood for a good period during its life on end probably sandwiched by the side of a table. The evidence of discolouration to just one end suggests this. The computer is fitted with the later crappy thinner floppy drives though on this machine it works perfectly. For now !! I spotted just two slight issues. There is a small amount of green corrosion to the one end of the trapdoor expansion pins. And also as with nearly every A500Plus in the collection there is a strange deposit / residue at C913 adjacent the removed battery. There doesn't appear to be anything there. Looks like a glue deposit holding two connectors together. Dunno. Anyhoo.. that is about it for my review of battery removals and status of A500Plus computers in the collection. I am happy to say that they are all working. I have one left to check but that can wait till the bad weather subsides and we get more pleasant cooler weather. Man I hate the summer. Be aware that no Amigas were damaged during this exercise though I was the victim of a virus attack. Fortunately the Amiga did recover. Onward. PS I did open up the Cartoon Classics with the 500 inside. It was the victim of a spider attack. The previous owner kept his boxes in a loft and sadly they were infested with spiders who made home in the cases. Little menaces. Amiga 500Plus - Cartoon Classics final check. An A500 Cartoon Classics Be afraid of spiders !!

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