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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 12:37:15 AM

Title: Amiga Revival
Post by: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 12:37:15 AM

Looks like things are picking up.
New software and new hardware circulating.
Ebay sales appear to be up.

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: giZmo350 on September 05, 2019, 12:49:59 AM

@trekiej

You win the lottery or something?   ;D

At least your spending your money on the right stuff!

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 01:11:36 AM

Uh, I can not explain that here.
I bought some stuff off ebay and then went back and was watching some hardware.
Then, I noticed how much people were buying.

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 01:12:23 AM

Also, people have been making a lot new blank circuit boards.

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: thebajaguy on September 05, 2019, 04:04:43 AM

We had seen an early A1000 project with an A3000-like redesign (GBA) several years back.  The A500+ and A500, the A4000 in a few different source formats (Rev B, Rev D/CR, and a modified version for ATX) more recently, and the A1200 last year.  We also had the A3640 cloned and merged with the 68060 adapter to make it an A3660.

The A500 family systems were plentiful, and a more simple/cheaper project, with the batteries on the 500+ took their toll on the otherwise prized 2MB ChipRAM ECS system.

The A4000D, particularly the Rev B, had both caps and battery killing them left and right, plus a few good hacks can be done to enhance them with more FastRAM in a few cases (spare chips were also in the wild). 

The A1200 was another cap-killed PCB, but otherwise was a simple board for the SMD hot-air solderers to resurrect.

This year the A3000 and A2000, both heavily through-hole and larger/multi-component (more expensive electronics parts list) and/or multi-layer, finally got the effort from those that wanted to be able to save battery-damaged systems with new boards.

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: hese7 on September 05, 2019, 05:08:32 AM

Wasn't there also an AGA A3000 motherboard (AA3000+) with PCI support released this year? Can't recall..

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 05:46:13 AM

A3000 with AGA, I believe.
We also have OS updates like 3.2 coming.
I am not for sure about AOS 4.X. I need to get the latest Amiga Future.
People are making video games, still.

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: kolla on September 05, 2019, 03:31:04 PM

No mention of the TF360 - 68060 board for the CD32?

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 03:36:41 PM

I did not know that there was one.  :(

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: Rotzloeffel on September 06, 2019, 10:22:22 AM

Quote from: trekiej on September 05, 2019, 05:46:13 AM

A3000 with AGA, I believe.

No, revesered from the original, never released AA3000

sie Post No. 14

https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=74247.msg844808#msg844808

Title: Re: Amiga Revival
Post by: trekiej on September 07, 2019, 04:06:22 AM

Awesome.