New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

[Radfoo]

The placement of the PCIe and PCI slots is rather strange. Much further from the edge of the PCB than on a standard motherboard. I wonder why.

Had not noticed that before, but yes they are lots further into the board than normal.  I guess its only going to fit properly in the A-EON case.

[Radfoo]

The problem with the whole situation back then is that Commodore needed a drop in replacement for the Commodre 64 for mass retail, that's what retailers wanted. Something that could hold up against PC's and Nintendo... A refresh item around 87-89. Commodore never delivered one... by then the Amiga was not marketed as a MASS item.

I don't know about that, they tried, I think it depends on what market you were in. In the UK at least the A500/A600/A1200 was sold as a mass market item (compared to other computers/consoles of its time).  I was not ever really aware of anyone owning a big box amiga as they were well out my price range.

[Radfoo]

In the UK you had David Pleasance (I belive that was his name...) who was on the ball...You also had the PACK in games... in the USA the offerings were no where near as snazzy.

Yeah, David Pleasance and team have been praised for doing a good job in the UK.  He lead one of the buyout teams after the Commodore Bankruptcy - think they would have been a better choice than ESCOM.

[Radfoo]

The slots are in the normal position (compare length vs. offset from edge), it just looks a bit odd because the area behind the slots is so empty.

The board's standard ATX, would be silly to not use a common form factor.

Ah, thats good then, just a bit of an optical illusion.