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A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« on: March 27, 2018, 08:27:27 AM »
Let me introduce you to the A4000+ Alice rev1 motherboard.
A4000+ motherboard is based on the Amiga 4000cr motherboard designed by Commodore.

I have been thinking for a while to do some Amiga hardware and decided to start with a relatively easy but laborious task, an Amiga 4000cr motherboard.
I didn't have a blank A4000cr motherboard PCB nor any high-resolution pictures of a blank PCB, so I had to layout the A4000+ PCB completely manually.
I used a fully working A4000cr motherboard as a reference.
The PCB dimensions and all component locations, hole locations, hole diameters, solder pad dimensions, component silkscreens, etc. of the A4000cr motherboard were manually measured and transferred to the PCB design software.
I draw the line at the PCB traces, those I didn't attempt to mimic from the original A4000cr board.
The PCB traces of the A4000+ were fully manually routed (which too ages).
The result is a quite close replica of the original A4000cr motherboard.

Here are a few pictures of the blank PCB.




A few pictures of the board being assembled.




Pictures of the finished board.



A4000+ motherboard being mounted in the Amiga 4000D case.


A4000+ motherboard fully working.


A screenshot of the designed PCB.


Link to the photo gallery:
A4000+ Alice motherboard

The next motherboard that I'm working on will be something completely different.
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2018, 10:59:46 AM »
Awesome!
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2018, 11:04:28 AM »
Wow, awesome work, unbelievable!! What are the plans with the design ?
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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2018, 12:31:49 PM »
@hese7

Very cool project!
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2018, 12:53:44 PM »
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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2018, 01:37:26 PM »
Impressive.
Are you going to do anything with the design files?
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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2018, 02:08:34 PM »
Quote from: hese7;837911

The next motherboard that I'm working on will be something completely different.


WOW!!! Very impressive!  

Can't wait to find out what the next board is...

I assume the 4000+ board would work with Chucky's A3660 accelerator board?
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2018, 02:23:30 PM »
Wow! It's amazing when something as complex as this pops up seemingly out of nowhere. Much better than boards that get talked about for years but never happen, haha. ;)

This should certainly help resurrect a few A4000's that have suffered battery damage (assuming you decide to sell or otherwise produce additional boards).

How about for a "phase 2", incorporating some of the more common A4000 motherboard mods, such as PIO2 and 64MB of RAM mod? :)
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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2018, 02:38:06 PM »
Now what?
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2018, 02:44:00 PM »
Quote from: Vlabguy1;837929
Now what?


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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2018, 03:20:57 PM »
Thats great work hese! How long did it take to do all your work?

Thats dedication on a highest level possible. Hats off.:laugh1:
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2018, 04:36:48 PM »
Wow!  So, what are the plans for it?  Selling them in the fashion of A1K's RED 500+?
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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2018, 04:46:50 PM »
This is AWESOME!!! How can one person manage to accompish such a beautiful thing and like no one even knew about it? You should maybe consider massproduction of these babies? Maybe Individual computers will be interested?
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2018, 04:48:29 PM »
Great modified version that is ATX layout would be cool A4000 are so dam expensive to buy. If one could buy a board fully assembled ready to fit in standard ATX case that would be wicked. Or even the new A1500 checkmate case
 

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Re: A4000+ Alice motherboard DIY
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2018, 04:49:34 PM »
Whats the Alice reference ?