A500 ++ Prototype

[Darrin]

You've missed the point.

Instead of designing a whole new motherboard, it would be better to just design a 030 accelerator for the A500. That way they could sell it for a much more reasonable cost and far more people would be willing to buy it.

No reason to do a whole new motherboard if the new motherboard doesn't offer you any benefit over the old motherboard + an accelerator.

It does offer a benefit when you own an A500 with a dead motherboard.

There would probably be a market for new replacement A4000D mobos too.  I know I wouldn't mind one.

Why purchase a brand new 68030 accelerator to put into a 25 year old computer that could fail at any minute?

Plus, you're also missing the ZII slot (although getting anything to fit in that and be able to close the case should prove to ve interesting unless there is some sort of right angle adapter).

[Darrin]

There is @ amigakit.com http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=51&products_id=572

Ah, perfect!

[Darrin]

There's not much that can go wrong with an A500 motherboard besides the chips (which you're going to need for the new motherboard) or the sockets (which are easy to replace).

Why buy a whole new motherboard to populate it with 25 year old chips that could fail at any minute?

The side expansion connector on an A500 is pretty much ZII. If you want to use a ZII card on a A500, only a simple adapter is required. You're not going to fit any standard ZII card inside an A500 and still be able to close the case.

True, but it is yet another option.  Options are good and this is a neat all-in-one solution.

[Darrin]

I agree, esp. cause they want us to rip custom chips from old a500.
it would be much cooler to preserve A500 as much as possible than make this 'frankenstein'

if they want speed so much, go straight to winuae.
this will not be another Amiga as far as I'm concerned.

I fail to see what is so cool about preserving a dead A500.  You can always hang on to teh old motherboard if you wish.

Personally, I'll stick to my Minimig-ARM solution, but I can certainly see people wanting this.