Super Amiga Hobby Project (Just a fantasy ATM)

[Cymric]

Tahoe wrote:
Here in Amsterdam I met a few people that just recently bought a brand new A1200, which should say somthing about the demand at the moment...

More about the city of Amsterdam, really. What on Earth have they been smoking...?

/ducks

[MskoDestny]

MuLTiViEW wrote:
 I would take an A1000 motherboard,  measure it,  and re-design an AGA (or even a simple ECS version) and try and somehow dual processor a pair of 060's right on the motherboard.   (I mean actually create a brand new mobo replacement that fits exactly in the A1000)

 Maybe even add PPC somehow.   This coldfire CPU is also interesting.  If you really want to do a hobby puter.  Add a 3rd different type of CPU to the mix like that and come up with some new "tWisTeD AmIGA"  in a 1000.

Let's not get carried away now...
A single 266MHz V4e Coldfire is probably faster than 2 060s anyway at least when running code compiled for ColdFire (not sure how much overhead implementing the missing instructions adds or how frequently those instructions are used).

[Tahoe]

Cymric wrote:

Tahoe wrote:
Here in Amsterdam I met a few people that just recently bought a brand new A1200, which should say somthing about the demand at the moment...

More about the city of Amsterdam, really. What on Earth have they been smoking...?

/ducks

Hahahahaha!!! I know, lot's of smoking. But be fair now, we even have a real retro computer store here, selling Atari's, C='s and lots of Game&Watch nintendo's  :-D

[Flasheart]

I wonder what happened to Mick Tinker and his designs.

From what I can remember they were along way to the path to completion. Does anyone know where he is now and what how far he had got, perhaps this can be revived as a hobbyist project.

[Doobrey]

AFAIK, Anti-Gravity bought the designs from Mick and Blittersoft around 1999-2000.
Dunno what happened after that, did anyone ever get any money back from the pre-orders?