What else can I do to help make a new Phoenix Motherboard a Reality?

[recidivist]

 The minimig sounds very interesting/promising. Just discovered that thread yesterday.Not even sure what a FPGA is but must find out. I basically stopped fooling around with hardware breadboards  25 years ago when everything was DIPS .Did small amount of programming using machine language and Basic on Z80A ,6803 and 6809 .Just a hobby,seldom had an bearing on my work.Lot of catching up to do.

  It appears to me at least of offering more performance,especially in that the designer has found a way around the custom chips.

  Give me a reasonably priced modern board with high speed ports and processor and that I can plug in my old Amiga ROM and load in Amiga 3.x or OS4 ---I'll MAKE a case for it!

  Might be a piece of wood furniture lined with screen or thin sheet metal for rf suppression. or built into a REAl tin breadbox. I KNOW that only a hacker could tolerate the thought of a non-commercial cabinet. Just remember a lot of the early 8 bitters were  short on looks but sparked a whole industry. If somebody could sell a thousand boards to prove the concept and get real world testing I'd think that good.

  I'd still buy a inexpensive ($50 or less) replacement Phoenix board and stuff it myself to renovate one of my A1000 but not sure I see $300 plus justifiable.

[recidivist]

 What we have is a failure to communicate....I thought the last order of bare boards was priced at $30.I said I'd stuff them and that's what I mean:sell me a bare board with the parts list and layout.It wouldn't be  difficult,just tedious. If we need to rob chips from an old Amiga anyway for the ROM and the girls the more mundane parts shouldn't be that bad.

 I am reminded of the ads in the local Trading Post which read:196X Chev Model,restoration project 90% finished,$15K invested,will take B.O. over $4K,must sell,getting divorced. There is a limit to what a person or spouse will put into a hobby. Time may be money,but often is easier to come by.

 Perhaps Dennis would be willing to make his code available under GNU or something,or for a fee.If it is as good as reported,be a shame to be lost.

[recidivist]

 A competent woodworker or maybe cabinent maker could build a very nice little piece of desk furniture  that would house the motherboard, have  a metal plate in the back? for mounting the
various I/O connectors,be sturdy enough to support a monitor,and look good doing it.

 Few people realize the costs of manufactured items are not in the materials used but in the engineering,the production machinery,marketing,and even a little profit as an incentive to make the item. The smaller the number of items made the higher cost per unit for all those non-material cost. For instance setting up a CNC milling machine is pretty much the same in order to  make one part or thousands.That's why single quantity and prototype cost so much.

[recidivist]

 What I am trying to suggest is that a different approach might be called for in making something to sell to a few hundred or thousand hobbyists versus the mass marketing of consumer goods. Several ham radio companies started out selling uncased specialty boards for the user to house as he wanted.Typically they also offered a metal cabinet costing as much as the functional board for those willing to pay for it.