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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #44 from previous page: April 22, 2010, 09:10:43 PM »
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Dale Luck is the actual owner of the Lorraine prototype (he still has it). The one in ebay is an early developer kit.


Do you know if it's intact?
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #45 on: April 22, 2010, 09:15:22 PM »
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It had all the breadboards, and panels. :)
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #46 on: April 22, 2010, 09:28:53 PM »
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It had all the breadboards, and panels. :)


Thanks for answering, it's appriciated :D
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #47 on: April 24, 2010, 06:07:04 AM »


8520 CIA -> 6526 (C=64)
Sometimes you can read something about the 6526 "CIAs" in very old early dev.-documents.
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #48 on: April 26, 2010, 08:07:44 AM »
Quote from: Gulliver;554961
Dale Luck is the actual owner of the Lorraine prototype (he still has it). The one in ebay is an early developer kit.

I can verify this claim. Dale has the Lorraine prototype. This item on Ebay is not THE Lorraine prototype for sure, but seems genuine.
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #49 on: April 26, 2010, 09:23:10 AM »
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I can verify this claim. Dale has the Lorraine prototype. This item on Ebay is not THE Lorraine prototype for sure, but seems genuine.

This is a pre-release developer box, a so called "black box" Amiga.. I hope that is clear by now.

What I'd like to know is, does this require a SAGE machine as a companion to be usable or will it boot up from an Amiga formatted disk.

The kickstart EPROMs look like quite an early revision, so they might contain only a bootstrap that can load stuff over the serial port.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2010, 09:26:58 AM by Jope »
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #50 on: April 26, 2010, 10:13:57 AM »
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I hope that is clear by now.

Yeah, but you know some people don't read all comments and one poster earlier was calling it a Lorraine, so I just wanted to make it crystal clear that it's not.

As for the need for a SAGE (IV?), my guess is as yours for the early versions of the dev. system at least. This one comes with a floppy drive so perhaps not? Who knows?
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #51 on: April 26, 2010, 10:18:36 AM »
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Do you know if it's intact?



I misread your previous comment for "do you know this for a fact?" Tired. Sigh...

So to answer your comment, as far as I know all the parts are the there, but it's in non-working shape. :-( As you can see from the various photos, it is a nightmare of wire-wraps which easily disconnect and would pretty much force someone to reverse engineer it to reconnect them properly...
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #52 on: April 26, 2010, 10:30:39 AM »
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Sometimes you can read something about the 6526 "CIAs" in very old early dev.-documents.


Check the comment for gb_cia in gfxbase.i of V40 includes release :)
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #53 on: April 27, 2010, 01:59:32 PM »
Interesting indeed.
:-o But I always liked apple butter on my hamburgers!!! :roll: and somtimes they think they have it when they don\\\'t, even when it is there  :lol:
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #54 on: April 29, 2010, 04:34:02 AM »
So who was the lucky winner?
A3000D (16mhz, 2MB Chip, 4MB Fast, SCSI (300+MB), SuperGen Genlock, Kick 3.1)
Back in my day, we didn\'t have water. We only had Oxygen and Hydrogen, and we\'d just have to shove them together.
 

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Re: Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay
« Reply #55 on: April 29, 2010, 04:54:37 AM »
Not I. A bit high for my tastes.

Lucky dog, speak up! ;-) (and please take better photos)