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Title: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: yssing on January 21, 2009, 01:50:47 PM

Thinking about the A1000 Mobo rebuild, that was done so magnificently.

Is any one concidering doing the same thing with either the A500, A600 or A1200??

Please don't sugget that I can do it myself, because I can't.. :)

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: skurk on January 21, 2009, 02:08:48 PM

Minimig?  Clone-A?  Or are you thinking of a drop-in replacement?

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: bloodline on January 21, 2009, 02:27:46 PM

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yssing wrote:
Thinking about the A1000 Mobo rebuild, that was done so magnificently.

Is any one concidering doing the same thing with either the A500, A600 or A1200??

To what end? The A1000 mobo was quite limited, the A500/600/1200 motherboards on the other hand were well suited to their requirments... Access did build a custom mobo using A1200 parts, that was designed to fit in a 5.25" drive bay...

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: yssing on January 21, 2009, 04:50:52 PM

I was thinking of a drop-in replacement.
With 030/882 32 Meg ram like the A1000 rebuild, maybe even with GFX card.

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: darksun9210 on January 21, 2009, 04:59:56 PM

how about an A1200 mainboard? :lol:

i think the clone-a is supposed to be something like this, but i'm not sure it'll be amiga formfactor, or standard PC sizes like ITX etc.

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: toca180 on January 21, 2009, 07:00:56 PM

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yssing wrote:
I was thinking of a drop-in replacement.
With 030/882 32 Meg ram like the A1000 rebuild, maybe even with GFX card.

That would be amazing for the 500. Not sure how may other people would want one though as the 1200 seems more popular, but for me the 500 is my favourite.

Robert

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: yssing on January 21, 2009, 09:45:33 PM

well if it would be possible with an "up-to-date" A500 mobo replacement, with.. ahem... "modern" features, then , that would be the choice for me..  
There are so many old A500 out there, where the chips works perfectly. And with the Zorro slot its very easy to expand, more so than the A1200.
Also, the casing of the A500 have more room for extras, like build in CD-ROM, and so on... Give it a PCMCIA slot, and you could, in theory add just about anything..
Build in ide or sata controller.... would be nice.. :)

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: B00tDisk on January 21, 2009, 09:52:07 PM

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yssing wrote:
There are so many old A500 out there, where the chips works perfectly. And with the Zorro slot its very easy to expand, more so than the A1200.
:)

Yeah, but 7mhz bus...yowch...

Title: Re: Rebuilding A500 Mobo??
Post by: yssing on January 21, 2009, 09:55:08 PM

That is why you need to update a bit :)