Amiga Reloaded

[kirk_m]

With the development speed of hobby hardware developers the Reloaded could become obsolute.

Probably not, because all the hobby developers offer their replacement mainboards unpopulated.  It doesn't seem like a lot of people are capable of doing all the SMD soldering (I am about 1/2 finished mine -- all done with the rice grain stuff, thank goodness!).  So, for those who can't solder, but, want original hardware (meaning, hw that uses the real chips instead of FPGA copies) this would be highly desirable. 

[kirk_m]

"350,- EUR ballpark"  I'm out!
Er, I don't know... maybe! If it ever gets done. 
If it's a plug and play board I'm probably in.... er, I don't know....  LOL
Geeeeeeeeze! Just get 'er done Jens!

350?  Sign me up... the Alice 4000+ PCB cost me 100 Euro.  The custom chips cost me over 100 Euro.  The Video DAC and a couple of other components from Hese cost another 25 Euro,  the SIMM sockets cost 16 Euros,  all the passive components cost me nearly $200 USD from Mouser.  And this is all not including shipping (most of it international -- read as "EXPENSIVE").  Couple that with the amount of time I am spending building it, 350 euro is a bargain.   

Where it gets hairy is that you'll have to provide an accelerator card, so, plunk down another $300 with Jens for an 030....so, hopefully, you have one already, since it doesn't have a CPU on board.

[kirk_m]

He will NOT sell you an alice unless you buy the entire chipset for the 4000 or 1200.    He is only now selling them because of all the community driven projects (ReAmiga 1200, A4000 replicas) have appeared, and people are willing to spend money to get the chips to build their own.  He is (according to him) still going to make the Reloaded...but he still hasn't designed the board.