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New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition"
« on: October 25, 2017, 07:17:07 PM »
I got a really interesting scoop from Jens Schoenfeld today: a New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition" is coming (very) soon from Individual Computers, and will be officially announced this weekend at Amiga32 in Neuss, Germany. The card has been redesigned to be more modern and RoHC compliant. It will be based on the 1997 original version, not the more recent "Phoenix" version.

More info here.
 

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Re: New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition"
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2017, 10:32:31 PM »
My understanding is that Jen's schedule got completely slammed by the production of the C64 Reloaded MK2 and most other projects were put on hold as a result.

His goal is to get the new Buddha Flash cards out into the market before Dec. 25.

Personally I'm looking forward to it. I've got a scsi2sd card working beautifully in my 2000 under 1.3, but IDE options with no GB cap would be pretty sick.
 

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Re: New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition"
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2018, 05:57:56 PM »
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Is this card available for purchase now?

Yes. It is on the IC site.

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Does anyone know if it will still work with a stock 1000?
It's intended for machines with Zorro slots (A2000, A3000, A4000). In theory, if you had some sort of Zorro expansion out the sidecar, maybe? But I'd probably look to do an internal IDE solution before having all that stuff hang out the side of the machine. Assuming you're running KS 1.3 floppies, it would be a rather janky looking external drive if you got it to work. Be cool to hide one in an old metal external drive enclosure, though...

In theory it would work in a Phoenix model, but you wouldn't be able to close the case. Back in the day Jens made a Buddha Phoenix version, too, but those are probably as rare as unicorn horns these days (and not really applicable to your questions).