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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: colinstu on February 11, 2007, 05:37:07 PM

Title: Recreate amigas?
Post by: colinstu on February 11, 2007, 05:37:07 PM

Has anyone ever recreated an amiga? Like make a complete duplicate motherboard of the a1200?

What is the chance of that happening? They only made so many of those computers, and I don't know how much longer they are all gonna last.

It'd be cool if someone re-mass produced them.

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: Tomas on February 11, 2007, 05:43:14 PM

I think the closest thing to that is the Draco*, which was mainly made for video tasks. Then you also have two projects being worked on currently, which is basically a a500 clone in very small factor with chipset, cpu and everything in one single chip.

There was also a a1200 clone that was of the size of a floppy disk station, but sadly only a very limited number of these were produced.

Edit: It was of course the Draco.. Thanks for pointing that out

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: colinstu on February 11, 2007, 05:45:28 PM

Has anyone recreated an a1200 identical to the old one? To be holding a brand spankin new a1200 board must be weird.

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: Tomas on February 11, 2007, 05:49:52 PM

I dont think there has been a new a1200 being produced since amiga technologies :( There are however still some never opened packages of a1200 magic bundle being sold here and there.

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: dammy on February 11, 2007, 06:11:09 PM

Question is, why bother?   :-?

Dammy

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: weirdami on February 11, 2007, 06:58:18 PM

@dammy

BLASPHEMY!

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: Kronos on February 11, 2007, 07:06:49 PM

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Tomas wrote:
I think the closest thing to that is the Dragon,

I really really hope you meant to write Draco their  :roll:

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: amiga_3k on February 11, 2007, 07:16:35 PM

No 'carbon-copies' have been (officially) made as far as I know. If you realy need it, get an A1200 and reverse engineer the PCB and get a few made ;-). You'd still have the problem of the missing custom chips and discontinued 'off-the-shelf' part. My bet would be on Minimig and what it could develop into.

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: dammy on February 11, 2007, 07:21:09 PM

by weirdami on 2007/2/11 13:58:18

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@dammy

BLASPHEMY!

Depends, I'd say there are folks saying that exact same thing about having some kludge system being made as a A1200.  IMO, if your going to do classic, a real Amiga is required.  If you want follow on, let's get into the modern world atleast with hardware, be it AMD/Intel, Genesi. or ARM based.


Dammy

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: Akiko on February 11, 2007, 07:22:54 PM

Wasn't there a PCI card before that was compatible with a lot of Amiga software? Can't remember the name  :-?

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: amiga_3k on February 11, 2007, 07:31:57 PM

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Akiko wrote:

Wasn't there a PCI card before that was compatible with a lot of Amiga software? Can't remember the name  :-?

That would be Mick Tinker's InsideOut. Can't recall it ever going into production.

Title: Re: Recreate amigas?
Post by: Tomas on February 11, 2007, 08:04:35 PM

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dammy wrote:
Question is, why bother?   :-?

Dammy

Because our old ones wont live forever? It is already hard to find a amiga in good condition unless you pay insane amounts for it.

I myself use my a1200 for classic gaming, as there is really not emulator available that does the trick properly.