Help Fund The A4000 Replica Project

[AmigaGTI]

Great Idea. I think it is a good to make replacement boards. I have 3 brocken A4000D Boards here and it  would be great to make some new Amiga Boards with the parts.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

but aren't there enough A4000's out there?

I have 3 broken A4000D Boards here and it would be great to make some new Amiga Boards with the parts.

Sounds to me like you guys need to meet up.  :laughing:

[Acill]

What do you think the production cost of the boards will be?

Depends on where you go, how many you get and the quantity you get. Once this is completed I fully plan to order several of them. I will make the option to do a group buy before I do it though so those wanting only a single board will be able to get one at a fair price. I expect from $50-100 each.

[adonay]

Depends on where you go, how many you get and the quantity you get. Once this is completed I fully plan to order several of them. I will make the option to do a group buy before I do it though so those wanting only a single board will be able to get one at a fair price. I expect from $50-100 each.

Are we still able to source all the surface components these days and even if we could i guess building one from scratch would be a difficult rask .

[Acill]

Are we still able to source all the surface components these days and even if we could i guess building one from scratch would be a difficult rask .

I have help getting a BOM together, and yes its all available still. Some of it is a bit tricky to get, but not impossible.

[Acill]

Amiga on the Lake has generously agreed to help us get this last bit of funding a bit easier for those that want to use PayPal for a donation. If you would like to donate but only have PayPal to use you can donate here and they will in return donate on your behalf to the campaign. Thanks so much to Aaron Smith for helping to offer this!

The donation link is here: http://amigaonthelake.com/aotl-donations/

[Vlabguy1]

Sounds to me like you guys need to meet up.  :laughing:

I agree.  I’ll be glad to take the “broken” boards...

[Acill]

Good news! I will be going to the shop on Wednesday to make the initial payment and have work started! The goal is to have the board work done and complete in 4 to 6 weeks. The goal is to recreate the entire design. They will provide everything they create, including the PADS and Altium design databases.

The donate page can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/amiga-4000-replica-with-schematics

Also dont forget you can have Amiga on the Lake donate for you if you want to use paypal and dont have a card supported here. http://amigaonthelake.com/aotl-donations/

[RobertB]

Good news! I will be going to the shop on Wednesday to make the initial payment and have work started!

Nice!

The donate page can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/amiga-4000-replica-with-schematics

I see that you are at 75% of your goal.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
June 9-19 Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2018 - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex
Aug. 11-12 Commodore Vegas Expo v14 2018 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

[Acill]

https://www.gofundme.com/amiga-4000-replica-with-schematics



Today is a amazing update day for this project! I am happy to say that I put in the remaining balance myself to get things moving at the PCB design house. They have the original board to use, all the required information and the most important thing, they got paid! What this means is things have STARTED!!!!!!

The delivery items to us are even better now thanks to the significant speed at which we paid them, and the extra work I did to supply as much as possible to help with the creation of everything. So what will we get you may ask? Well EVERYTHING!!! The project databases in Altium, PADs and hold on......EAGLE!!!! All Gerber's, new matching schematics that go with the new layout done in tandem, BOM sheets, manufacturing guides, and things I missed I am sure. So this will allow us to not only get NEW BOARDS, but once I ahve it all organized and hosted someone can take these design files and improve on it or whatever you need!

I want to thank everyone that helped make this possible. It has been a lot of stress, work and back and forth communication with the design house, but I think in the end it will be an amazing achievement! This is a real first at this level for ANY Amiga community project and you should all be very proud! I know I am.

[SACC-guy]

Excellent!
Great job.
I had wanted a NEW 4000D motherboard for so long.

Thanks for working so hard to achieve this!

[jagoche]

Thanks Acill for starting this project. Donation sent!

My A4000 is still running well. Recently I was advised to recap the board to avoid possible leaking risk.

I wonder...

Does it make sense (financially) to recap my old A4000 board? Or is it better to wait that new A4000 boards are produced at some point?

If I understand well these will be empty boards... In this case would it be possible to "move" all chips from an old to new board?

Thanks for your replies.

[amiadudeorwat]

If your board is running well you should just recap it at a cost of something like $50USD.  I can't imagine that someone would move all the chips from an old board to a new one at less than $150.  But why would you do this if your old board is working fine?  If anything the act of moving the chips is more likely to damage a component and incur further costs of replacement.  

There are not that many Amiga custom chips left in the world and I imagine a newly produced A4000 motherboard with Acill's reproduction would cost at least $300USD.  

If later some improvements whatever-they-might-be are integrated into the design then perhaps then you would consider moving the components from an old board to a new one.  

 

Thanks Acill for starting this project. Donation sent!

My A4000 is still running well. Recently I was advised to recap the board to avoid possible leaking risk.

I wonder...

Does it make sense (financially) to recap my old A4000 board? Or is it better to wait that new A4000 boards are produced at some point?

If I understand well these will be empty boards... In this case would it be possible to "move" all chips from an old to new board?

Thanks for your replies.

[Chucky]

Thanks Acill for starting this project. Donation sent!

My A4000 is still running well. Recently I was advised to recap the board to avoid possible leaking risk.

I wonder...

Does it make sense (financially) to recap my old A4000 board? Or is it better to wait that new A4000 boards are produced at some point?

If I understand well these will be empty boards... In this case would it be possible to "move" all chips from an old to new board?

Thanks for your replies.

recap of an amiga aprox $50    moving components from an old board to a new and new passive components (like caps) will be like $200-300 as it will be hours of work

so:  recap

[jagoche]

Many thanks to both for your advice.

Which recap service in Europe do you recommend?

[Chucky]

Many thanks to both for your advice.

Which recap service in Europe do you recommend?

I do it for 45eur..
there are others aswell