NEW! A1000 Phoenix boards

[eroom]

If some more could be made then you can put my name down as well.  Depending on the price of course  :-D .

Paul.

[TjLaZer]

I'll buy one!

http://phoenix.a1k.org/pix/phoenixboard.jpg

[McTrinsic]

@all

Please be aware that an A1000 is NOT a good idea as custom-chip-donor. The A500 would much better do: the phoenix needs an Gary and the A500-Agnus, NOT the A1000-"Agnus".

So you should really go for an A500. If you want to use a High-Res-Denise and an 2MB-Agnus you have to use chips from various systems anyway.

In any case: check with Andrew what is possible FIRST.

DON'T make too many plans about this project before haven an idea what it will be about.


Have fun,
McTrinsic

[pierre]

you should also mention that the money would most likely be needed "upfront" with a lenghty wait time, if you are interested in creating a list of "serious" buyers.

[Mercid]

I would be up for it 100%

[techie]

I'm interested for sure  :-D
but I'd like to hear a price before I'd commit to anything.

[Gavilan]

You can also count me in!!
Im very interested in getting one of this board!!

Regards

Sebastian

[TheMagicM]

I have no idea what the cost will be, but the last run was reasonable,

well then post the last runs price so we can get a ballpark figure.  how long will it take?  who is making it?  etc.

[recidivist]

 Yesss, by all means post TODAY'S  projected costs as all I could find were 2 year info.
  Thanks to the member who pointed out  A 500 is  a better donor( and 500 is more common and cheaper).

  My preference based on the 2004 prices would be the  tested board minus the IC  chips.

   SLIGHTLY RELATED QUESTION : my recently purchased new old stock 1200 motherboard appears to have no 68020 chip on it...is a base 020 necessary if an accelerator card is attached?

[redrumloa]

Well, duh! :-D Of course I would. Either as a user wanting a single piece, or possibly multiple for resale.

[McTrinsic]

Please read the comments by aPEX in the other thread:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23782

It took 1.5 years to get the boards delivered.

Price for Germany including tax and shipping was about 300 Euros.

Read his comments!

You are up to a frustrating, time-consuming project costing you a lot of money.

Thinking about it... it is a typical Amiga project, then .

If I may make a suggestion: there is one of you interested who is from Australia. Looks like a good idea to make him the person to approach Andrew.

And if you are going to make any deals, let aPEX (again, see the other thread) know about it, he has a list of persons who didnt get a board last time.

Have fun,
McTrinsic

[alexh]

I'm up for one as long as they are relatively good value for money.

[amigadave]

@McTrinsic,

My idea was to get enough people interested and approach Andrew to do it again.  It would have to be easier the second time around for him than for someone to try and duplicate his effort as a first attempt.

I may be too optomistic, but I really think we could find between 50 to 100 interested users/buyers, and I would bet that a few dealers would be willing to commit to buying several boards for resale, if they can make a small profit from the effort.

I just hope that Andrew will agree to build the new boards if there are enough buyers to make it worth his time.

[bigmac]

Hi! all, as I live in oz I thought I,d drop Andrew an e-mail to sus out if he would be interested in doing another Phoenix board run Basically I said that there were a few of us who would really like one and that if we could fill an order for 50 boards or more would he be interested in doing a re-run. I never asked about price at this stage as these details can be worked out later,thats  if he decides to go along with our little project, in other words this all hinges on Andrews yeh! or neh! will keep you all posted if he replies.
             Cheers

[McTrinsic]

@all

Be sure you read and understand aPEX' post in the other thread.

There might be something possible, but at the time being it is not. Andrew can and will not do a production run by hinself, since he is lacking parts.

He is willing (afaik) to share layouts etc, so if you can organize something, there might be a possibility.

You would have to do a lot of work, it would not be a simple order. However - if you succeed, you would open up a new source for new Amiga-boards. Considering that there also is an accelerator card for the phoenix available commercally and the buddha ide interface, you would essentially bring new life to the classic amigas.

I have warned you, though....

Have fun,
McTrinsic

[bigmac]

 @all
        Hi! just received a reply from Andrew and this is what he said

      Quote: At the moment I am not going to do another run of Phoenix boards, but this may change if there is enough interest.  The only assembled boards left, about 30 or 40, are boards that have been tested and found not to work.  To get these working would be correspondingly harder, take more time and therefore cost more.  

To assemble blank boards would be prohibitively expensive, as all components would have to be bought and the hand assembly time enormous.

At present I have one fully functional board left over from the last lot I did for Robert and the Germans.  It is available for AU$300 plus postage to anyone who is interested.

Regards,

Andrew.