Petro: 500 units new Amiga 1200 Magic Pac

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can someone ask petro if he can make New batches, the way he did last time for Escom ?

Does he have the AGA chipset diagrams to make new models ?

If anyone has the diagrams it would be Petro

The problem with the old chips, is that even I you have the die masks... There aren't any fabs that could make them anymore... Best just to recreate them with FPGAs... Jens did that for each of the chips in turn. But 5v FPGs are old, expensive and difficult to source now

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Do new team members have to be located in Australia/Oceania?

As soon (or even while I'm still on it) as I've wrapped up my current Sega Dreamcast/PC productions, I'd be happy to assist you guys.

I actually dream of coding a claymation point and click adventure ever since I read about Douglas TenNapel's new book, so perhaps my first Amiga game could be just that (utilizing INGA or Graal)


EDIT: Concerning the Amiga 1200's expandability. Do all Amiga 1200s come with an ATA interface already installed? If I acquire Amiga OS 3.9, is there any upper limit as to the size of an HDD? E. g. could I install a 300GB HDD and get it initialized without doing any changes to the underlying hardware or software?

Yeah, IDE already there, but it is the larger 44pin interface, not the 40pin one.... A simple cable adaptor is used to ignore the extra pins (which are just power lines).

AmigaOS 3.1 wasn't happy with partitions over 2gig... But that is a simple software fix.

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Ok. Thanks.

I guess I'll need to read up on the subject.
I was going to buy Amiga OS 3.9 ASAP. This and a fast turbo card (wish PPC was more common or, at the very least, Jens was producing 040 or 060 turbo cards).

In all honesty, I find doing Amiga dev work easier using UAE than real hardware. Obviously, you should have a real machine to test it on though.

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I'm sure the commodore units were very slightly darker too, a Mongolia rather than the stark white of the AT units... Though it could be my imagination :-/

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Nah, I'm sure most of the cases were actually stock just left over in the Commodore warehouses, the Commodore ones are just older so probably more yellowed.

Yeah, it's been so long, my memory is probably flawed :-/