DCE A5000 zip file

[CD32Freak]

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! :-)

[CD32Freak]

While other people are waiting for a picture of a new Amiga motherboard, I'm still looking for this classic clone :-D

[CD32Freak]

@CD32freak

Did you find it, CD32freak? No, not yet :-D

[CD32Freak]

I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Hey, that's a U2 song, maybe they were looking for the same file? :-P :-D

[djbase]

Seesm to be an endless story.

[Oli_hd]

Cant say I saw the A5000 at the Benelux show, there was a Draco, CDTV CR, Walker and then just normal Amiga's (A600HD, A1K XT emulator, etc)

[AmiDelf]

I am so sorry for beeing one of the peoples making him leave the Amiga scene. But I was the one going to DCE telling him about how bad his service have been towards CyberstormPPC and BlizzardPPC users.

Genesi had to come in the end. People have waited for over 2 years to get their PPC cards repaired etc.

I also wrote a very negative article about DCE which DCE didnt like at all. But it was the truth and he didnt want the truth to come out I guess.

He might be clever in designing Amiga hardware, but terrible at support. A5000 could be nice, but then again with DCE customer support, I cant think of supporting them.

[pierre]

can't/should not blame one guy for the faults of DCE....
Sometimes a good hardware designer is a bad guy to have answering the phones.... Shame he left the scene.  It hard when you see your dream go down .... ti was realy CBM's fault for lettingthe amiga die.....

[Radov]

Jose wrote:
Found info on it...

.... and following:
http://www.blazemonger.com/BM/Articles/80_A5000Facts
you can find the "TRUE A5000 TRUE FACTS"
 :lol:

[amesie2]

I found a zip archive with this information in it.

***************************************************************************
******************   First reports of the A5000   *************************
***************************************************************************


Commodore have gone for much like the A2000 large case to contain the power
of this new machine. on the front panel it supports two 3.5" drive (one as
standard) and two 5.25" (one holding a CD-Drive). This is the first machine
to really support multi-tasking with it's three processors on board.

Processors
----------

The A5000 will incorperate the new motorola 68060 + two 68EC040 processors,
the '060' is clocked at over 35MHz and the two '040' clocked at 25Mhz
will give the A5000 a total speed at over 60MHz. The '060' with sit on a
seperate card in the cpu slot (as in the A4000) and both the '040' will
sit on the motherboard. The '040' have been design to help the '060' ,this
will be most evident at times of heavy multi-tasking. As a result of this
configuration the A5000 will have a new kickstart.

Kickstart/Workbench
-------------------

The A5000 will have kickstart/workbench 4.0 (beta version has 3.2). This
kickstart is required to control the three processors , earlier kickstarts
will not be able to access the '040' (but the '060' can). This kickstart
will not be released for the older machines although 4.1 will. This
kickstart/workbench will enable the '040' to be assigned to different tasks
and as shiped one will handle all screen and sound processing and the other
will handle all of the I/O devices. This kickstart is a 1Mb chip and will
be shipped on the hard drive (to be confirmed). If it is released in chip
form then the chip will be placed on it's own card. This kickstart will have
a user-selectable kickstart screen so the user can select which kickstart to
load (either in slot or on harddrive) and the A5000 has been tested with
kickstart 1.2 upwards so there will be no more compatability problems.

Chipset
-------

Commodore have done it again in changing the chipset as there are several
new chips. The A5000 with workbench 4 is now capable of operating in all
modes with a 512 colour pallet. To maintain the speed require to operate
in this mode one of the '040' can be assigned to the screen display (as
it is shipped). The maximum screen resolution is 4096 x 4096 with over
32 million colours on screen. This new chipset will be able to detect which
chipset it should use (orig. ,ECS ,super-ECS or AGA , super AGA ) by
detecting which kickstart is currently running or which is selected at a
cold boot.

Ram
---

As the new chipset has a higher resolution and more colours more chip ram is
required and commodore have responded by having 16Mb of chip ram on the
motherboard (expandable to 64Mb) and 16Mb of fast ram (theoretically
expandable to 1024Mb, tested to 256Mb). The chip and fast ram have been
organised on a 32-bit wide structure as in the A3000 + A4000.

Drives
------

The harddrive interface is the new scsi2 standard with a 210Mb slimline
hardrive mounted as standard. The floppy drive is a high density type and
the CD-drive is a standard A2000 internal drive.

Sound
-----

The sound is now 16-bit as the A4000 was supposed to have.

Internal Connectors
-------------------

There are eight zorro III expansion slots with three IBM slots in parallel
with three zorro slots. There is no cpu slot as the '060' is on it's own
board and thus can easily replaced. If the kickstart is to be shipped on
the harddrive there will be an empty slot to place a new kickstart.

External Connectors
-------------------

It has all the standard ports (disk drive, serial, etc.) and the keyboard
connector (same pins as the A4000) at the back, the mouse ports are on the
right side towards the back.

Price
-----

Well that depends on what pack you want as as of this moment there are two

1 all above  =  $3499 (Appox.)

2 all above plus

    Amax v3.0 Mac emulator (100% compatable with all known software) +

    Golden gate IBM emulator  =  $3999 (Approx.)(uses two zorro III slots)




This information has been confirmed by Commodore.
 
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[Matt_H]

@ amesie2

The difference being that the "Commodore" A5000 is a work of complete fiction while the DCE A5000 is a never-released prototype.

[Hodgkinson]

Whaaaaaaat??? THREE processors? Now thats somthing I haven't heard of in a Amiga type system before...

[HammerD]

I was at Computer '97 and saw the Prototype.  I still have the full A4 size flyer (double sided) of the A5000.  Would you like me to scan it and put it online?  It gives you all the specs and says the A6000 will be available Spring '98  If only... .sigh.

[Hodgkinson]

Errrm...Yes please  :-D

[CD32Freak]

So..uhm..after more than a year, is there a living soul in this universe who has the higher resolution image of the DCE A5000 motherboard? :-?

[HammerD]

Ok here are the scans...




And high-resolution photos are here:

http://www.hd-zone.com/amiga/A5000-1.jpg
http://www.hd-zone.com/amiga/A5000-2.jpg

Enjoy  Also check out my A4000-060 XP Rev. 2 accelerator photos here:

http://www.hd-zone.com/amiga/A4000T.html

Enjoy