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DCE A5000 zip file
« on: May 29, 2006, 10:33:41 AM »
A few days ago I started this thread over at AW, but I thought maybe some AO members don't go there and could help me :-)

I was wondering if anyone ever has downloaded the 12 MB zip file with a high resolution image of the A5000 motherboard. Back in 1998 it was on the DCE download page, but now of course it's gone. However, you can still read the page at the Internet Archive. If you have this A5000.zip file, please share it with the Amiga community. Thanks in advance :-D

By the way, here is the low resolution version:


Some are also looking for the Computer '97 A5000 mpeg animation on that page :-)
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2006, 12:25:34 PM »
It has to be somewhere, but the question is: where? * little bump* :-D
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2006, 12:48:50 PM »
I can't remember why this clone didn't appear... was it due to the lack of available AGA chips?
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2006, 01:18:52 PM »
I've send an e-mail to Thomas Dellert of DCE, so I'm curious if he will reply :-)
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2006, 05:52:23 PM »
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I can't remember why this clone didn't appear... was it due to the lack of available AGA chips?

Nope DCE thought they could not make any profit with the board due to the high price per board due to the low volume. Kinda ironic if you look a th AOne situation today. Back then you could have sold a few thousand of those boards. DCE decided it wasn`t worth the trouble.

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I've send an e-mail to Thomas Dellert of DCE, so I'm curious if he will reply

If something even remotely amigarelated is in the subjectline your mails is likely to be deleted automatically. Thomas Dellert really does not want to hear a single question about Amiga anymore. There have been to much freaks (in the negative sense) bugging hin in the last years, so he got fed up with that.
I have heard that he even gave all leftover Amigaparts to the recycler / citydump rather then selling it and having the buyer bugging him about something.
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2006, 07:30:04 PM »
@Lemmink

Thanks for the information :-)
Well, a few years ago he sold a lot of Amiga stuff on eBay. I know because I bought an CD32 MPEG module from him for 25 Euro's! :-D Okay, it had no ROM and loopback adaptor, but who cares?! :-P
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2006, 10:48:13 PM »
What were the specs of the motherboard ?
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2006, 10:49:35 PM »
Yeah I got my PowerUP Developerboard from those sales and one of those 10x A600 Mobos in a Box. (I was only interested in teh original Commodore transportbox but in the end there was even one working A600 board among the bunch ). I was told back then that the A5000 prototypes would go on sale on ebay the next days too, but I guess he decided not to do it to avoid the buyer bugging him about documentation and "how great it would be if the boards would go into production after all those years"
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2006, 10:54:59 PM »
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2006, 10:59:11 PM »
@ Jose

The A5000 was basically a mix between an A1200 and an A4000 with a general overhaul. Scandoubler and 4way IDE-Adapter onboard, could take up to 64 MB FastRAM onboard. CPU 68030/68882 @ 50 MHz The rest would be the standard AGA Amiga stuff.
Bus would have been Zorro II/III on a custom daughtercard.

There was an A6000 planed that had an 68060 instead of the 68030/68882 combo.
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2006, 11:01:43 PM »
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I have heard that he even gave all leftover Amigaparts to the recycler / citydump rather then selling it and having the buyer bugging him about something.

ah! interesting!

Framiga (one of the "freaks")
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2006, 11:44:35 PM »
There is no doubt about the fact that Thomas Dellert was one of the most talented Amiga hardware developers. He personally designed so many crafty little expansions.
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2006, 05:12:16 PM »
Yes, he was, look at the clever design of the SX32 Pro for example.

Apparently the A5000 was on display at the Benelux Amiga Show of 2003: http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2003-08-00009-EN.html
I guess someone has saved at least one A5000 motherboard, the question is: who? Come out, come out, wherever you are! :lol:
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2006, 05:21:36 PM »
You might want to search for it under the name Power Computing A5000 as well - they were to be the UK distributors and might yeild a few more hits.
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Re: DCE A5000 zip file
« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2006, 08:59:13 AM »
Thanks, but there were no links to the A5000 motherboard image.

I found the smaller gif image also in the AmigaScene 0x00 archive on Aminet as part of the Computer 97 Special: http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=docs/mags/ascene00.lha

Still no sign of the high resolution image. However, I'm not giving up, it has to be somewhere! :-)
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