New classic boards

[Mucker]

All our beloved machines are getting older, parts braking, boards corroding and failling.

What happens when all the second hand machines are used up, and there are no more boards or chips.

Wouldn it make sense, and extra revenue, to remanufaucture some of the boards. would create sales for amiga along the way, and ensure we can at least keep what we got.

Or even better, what about an a600 or a1200 mother board the size of a floppy drive, easy with modern technology.

Amiga got the rights, why don`t they use it. it would at least creat revenue for future prod.gets

[AJCopland]

Normally I detest one word answers but in this case:

MiniMig

:-D

Andy

[Jose]

If the miniMig project goes well it could provide the boards.
I'd still like to see the AAA chipset produced simply because of nostalgia reasons, and if you think there isn't a market just look at the Amiga sales in eBay. Demo makers would probably enjoy using an updated chipset alot:) But it would have to be tweeked for AGA compatibility (AFAIR AAA only aimed ECS comatibility..)

"Amiga got the rights, why don`t they use it. it would at least creat revenue for future prod.gets"

 :lol: Well, unfotunately not, AmigaInc. would rahter have the real Amiga technology dead along ago and everybody using their DE PC software...

[Tahoe]

Clone A is what i'm betting on...

[keropi]

yep, clone-A is the most promissing and accurate...

[amigean]

I see to have missed an episode...

What exactly is a Clone-A?   :-?

[Matt_H]

amigean wrote:
I see to have missed an episode...

What exactly is a Clone-A?   :-?

It's a project Jens Schoenfeld (and others) have been working on. It's a reimplementation of the individual A500 custom chips in FPGA.

[steve30]

I don't think MiniMig is really a replacement for Amigas though. It is a good project, but some of us might prefer to use proper amigas.

[AJCopland]

Aside from the possible ability to produce replacement A500 chip using smaller FPGAs on little extension boards, I don't really see what the difference will be between Clone-A and MiniMig.

Except that MiniMig will be Open Source and Clone-A won't.

Andy

[AJCopland]

steve30 wrote:
I don't think MiniMig is really a replacement for Amigas though. It is a good project, but some of us might prefer to use proper amigas.

Yep I'll still keep my originals but I don't see Clone-A being any different to MiniMig, or did i miss the point?

Andy

[amigadave]

steve30 wrote:
I don't think MiniMig is really a replacement for Amigas though. It is a good project, but some of us might prefer to use proper amigas.

I must disagree, Minimig's design goal was to duplicate an A500 w/OCS chipset in FPGA.  As a result of Dennis' intention to release his work in some way as Open Source, that will allow others to pick up where he has ended and work on extending the code to include ECS, then perhaps AGA and who knows, perhaps a backward compatible AAA or 8mb Chip RAM design.  I think his work is one of the most exciting things to happen in the Amiga community in 15 years.  It opens so many possibilities.

Jens "Clone-A" project is similar, but he has not stated that it will ever be released as Open Source.  He is a hardware designer and sells his work to the rest of us.  I am looking forward to seeing Jens produce something similar to the C64 in a joystick for the Amiga, or an Amiga PDA or Amiga Laptop.  Who knows what he will do with his project.  In any case, we are living in exciting Amiga times again and I can't wait to see what comes of both these projects.

[guru-666]

@amigadave
When all the second hand amigas run out.... then we have third hand amigas ( I think that already happend)
BTW don't you have 21 amigas? (and a massive winUAE/amigatholon) station  that should last you the rest if your life BRO!  Where do you stash them? As much fun as the amiga is there are fantastic things going on with modern gear that I don't want to miss... and I hate to admit it the amiga was more fun back in the day, but using my amiga reminds me of how much fun I had back then.  The only thing I am offened by is an amiga phone, I don't want that, EVER.  PSP is o.k.

[Rob]

@Mucker

There is also NatAmi.

From what I can tell it is intended to be more of an evolution of the classic hardware than an exact clone.
At the moment it is being developed on the CommodoreOne board but I think the end product will be a completely new board.

[recidivist]

 Nat looks very interesting;what happened to the PCI card Amiga proposed a century ago?Well it was IN another century.

[InTheSand]

Heh! The 1907 Amiga PCI card!

Purchase now for two pounds, five shillings, elevenpence and a farthing! You'll only need to wait another 86+ years before you can buy a PC that will accept it!

 :-)

 - Ali

P.S. No, I'm not old enough to have used pre-decimal currency! Just about missed the switchover!