A1000 Phoenix System w/ expansions

[a-pex]

@McTrinsic
Sorry, but there are no more boards avaible. 50 new board were built and 48 were sold to users in whole europe, the last 2 are for Andrew (the developer). :-)

@All
You can found more information about the phoenix board on the new official site: http://phoenix.a1k.org/index.php?lang=en&id=0x1

The boards were built in down under from Andrew and Pyng and then shipped to germany. The project startet in 2004 (2004.12.08) on amiga-news.de and was finished this year (2006.04.25).

Andrew gave me the first Phoenix board ever built for this project, you can see it here:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?mode=viewthread&forum_id=15&thread=20

This are pictures from the new produced turboboard for the phoenix from George:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?mode=viewthread&forum_id=15&thread=22

And here some pictures from the Phoenix Buddha IDE controller from Jens (still avaible!):
http://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?mode=viewthread&forum_id=15&thread=23

The whole new phoenix story will be released in english and german in the next Jurrasic Pack Diskmag (the whole mag is in english):
http://jurassicpack.de/

Ok, I think this is now enought information for every A1000/Phoenix freak, if you want to visit us, you are welcome (we speak english). ;-)

Best regards, aPEX
Amiga & Phoenix Community
http://www.a1k.org

[a-pex]

>So you mean they started this project in December of 2004
>and completed and entire motherboard redesign in under a
>year and a half?!?!?

No, only the reproduction of 50 boards were done in this time. No redesign, it is 100% original, made with original  (like the plane board) and some new parts.

>And since then there have been accelerators and ide
>interfaces and scandoublers made for it?!?!?!

Yes, the expansions were a private project by George, the designs are avaible on his homepage, if you want to build something... Only the turboboard was build in small production run (about 30 pieces I think).

>Why does that seem soooo Un-Amiga?

If the community work together without conflicts, everything is possible. ;-) :-)

[a-pex]

>What would it take to make another 50? Are the parts even >available anymore?

No! Maybe Andrew can made something like a Phoenix-II (in the future), but for the moment all needed parts were gone.

I started this project with 15 orders and it grows up to 50 orders from WHOLE europe. I wrote sometimes a newsupdate on amiga-news.de, but it seems that the news was not translated for amiga.org.

I think I have to talk to Andrew again. :-D

Maybe, maybe there is something possible, but we need much time and the price for one board with shipping and tax will be about 300 euros!

[a-pex]

>Pardon my ignorance, but does this mean someone actually
>made a new production run of Phoenix boards

Yes, I made this.  :-D  I spend one and half year on this project...

If you are interested in the "New Phoenix Story", you can read it in the english amiga-scene magazine Jurassic Pack #16.

Get it here:
http://www.diskmag.de/downloads/JP16.lha
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=25938