Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay

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I'd love to get a dump of those ROMs...

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I reckon by the time Commodore was sending out dev units, they'd have some actual chips rather than breadboards. Breadboards are too flakey to ship out to developers.

[xeron]

Well, I emailed Carl Sassenrath to see what he makes of it...

[xeron]

Yeah, I don't think its lorraine at all. The one in that photo set doesn't mention Commodore, and has a serial number ending in -002. It seems that between 002 and 115, commodore came along :-)

You can also see a prototype paula (portia) chip in the -002 model (Init OK, Disk Good?, Audio Good?), so there were definately custom chips before -115 came along.

[xeron]

Well, its pretty clear to me that this is a genuine Amiga developer system, with custom chips (no breadboards).

It is *NOT* the Lorraine prototype at all. But still very cool.