New Mainboard released ...

[Darrin]

skurk wrote:
Ok, I've got an estimate for $150 per unpopulated board.  I just might order one to see how it turns out.  I have a few semi-broken 500's for parts.

Unfortunately they could not offer volume discounts at this point, so I'll volunteer as the guinea pig.

Now, what we need is someone to clone the A1000 case... any takers?

Ebay has always got some sort of A1000 going cheap including the odd "dead" one.  A case shouldn't be too hard to come by.

With Jens working on the Clone-A project and producing replacement "chips" that fit in the original Amiga motherboard sockets, it might be possible soon to buy one of these new mobos and use Jens' Clone-A chips instead of gutting a real Amiga.

[Darrin]

weirdami wrote:
I think antigravity was doing something a while back but they were having trouble with their "talent". Or, some stories say, he was having trouble with them. Pretty much it was one guy commissioned to do some kind of clone Amiga or something. Whatever the jargon that applies, it might have been called "boxer", but I'm not sure. I think it only got as far as them showing the unfinished prototype at a few Amiga shows.

Yep, the infamous BoXeR by Mike Tinker (or Tinkler or something).  I think most of us here were drooling over the specs when it was announces and had our wallets on standby to buy a board.

I'm not sure what the main problem was.  Development costs, feature creep, bugs in the hardware or a combination of some or all of them.



Here's the bugger:
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/boxer.html