The new Checkmate 1500

[Motormouth]

It looks like the Checkmate A1500 Plus is getting close to production.

Can be found at
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/483774293/amiga-3000-inspired-modular-amiga-pc-desktop-compu
and
https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/Newsroom.aspx

What type of configuration are you going to do with yours?

I was going to do a black case with an A500+ and the zorro II backboard and use with a vampire A500

but I was thinking maybe leaving the vampire in an A2000 and use the checkmate A500 with ACA500 and ACA1233 as the back board has a 86 pin passthrough which ends up with a nice completely enclosed A500 ACA solution.

What do you think is a better use for the case?

[Motormouth]

I am putting my A500 and ACA500 in there with one of Stephens adapters that extends the bus and adds a ZORRO II slot . My A500 already has a 2 MB Agnus chip, so this will be a pretty robust solution. I have not decided what I will do for a keyboard, yet. Maybe I should just add a RapidRoad USB to my ACA500 and use a USB keyboard and mouse with it.

You may want to check out the checkmate's bus board (on the checkmate's ordering sight) as it handle the a500 power, has a 86 pin passthrough and a Zorro II slot.  There are also keyboard solutions with both a A500 and A2000 keyboard (also on the ordering sight).