Access A1200 - Cool!

[Piru]

Am I the only one who has seen these before? IIRC it was shown in 1998 or so. Didn't hear from it again until now.

[Jost80]

Am I the only one who has seen these before? IIRC it was shown in 1998 or so. Didn't hear from it again until now.

I remember the swedish magazine Amiga Info had it in the news section at the time it was announced.

[Calen]

Never heard of this either until recently, quite cool.

[Iggy_Drougge]

Only trouble is there`s nowhere to put a PCMCIA network card so uploading new MP3`s would have to be done over the serial port  :-(

According to one of the contemporary UK rags, you could run an ISA network card off it. Some sites which used the Access for kiosks allegedly updated all their systems via ethernet. The only question is where to get the drivers.

[olegil]

I'm not lempkee, but I have one :-)

I never had a bigbox Amiga, so don't have a proper keyboard for it. But I'm at work now, and have just finished making an A500 to Access keyboard converter, so I'm in business.

It's a nice little toy, but the expansion possibilities are a bit non-existant. I'll be looking into getting the ISA port operational, I would love to network this baby :-)

Mine is currently running 3.9, but it will be running my spare 3.5 license when I get home (the only way I could get it operational without a CDROM and CD drivers was of course to copy the data across using the A1, and that means easier with preinstalled 3.9 than with 3.5 on a CD :-) )

[olegil]

300 Euro? I paid 180 Euro for mine. This is a really cool toy for those who still like to play with AGA Amigas, how on earth would a Pegasos be more fun than an AmigaOne with an Access in the top 5 1/4" bay? ;-)

[GadgetMaster]

@olegil

So did you just buy it this weekend? If so then I lost out because of you buying it ...Aaaargh! :pissed: ;-)

Anyway, nevermind... are you planning to put in your A1 case?

Keep us up to date on your progress, a few pics wouldn't go amiss either

[olegil]

Well, I bought it WAY back, but I only picked it up at my local delivery point inside the EU (I can bring quite a lot of things through customs duty-free, so I use the option of carrying it myself :-) ) at the OS on Tour event in Gothenburg. And the past 2 weeks I've been on vacation, so I haven't made a posting in ages.

If anyone knows about any work done to bring the ISA interface online, contact me (or answer here).

A hardware MP3 chip would also be a good idea for this one. Hardware mpeg video (1,2,4) would also be cool, but is probably not doable :-)

[olegil]

Latest update:
I just shoe-horned it into the AmigaOne tower :-)

I seriously need to do some cutting at the back so I can have cables running out of it, but open side-door will have to do for now :-)

Don't have a camera, so will take some time to get the pictures.

[Piru]

how on earth would a Pegasos be more fun than an AmigaOne with an Access in the top 5 1/4" bay?

Pegasos with Access in the top 5 1/" bay... perhaps? :-)

[lempkee]

oleegil: i dont have my access yet, 1-5 days away , but as i said on the os4 tour , i have a cubo cd32   ..

btw it seemed to fit fine in your tower when we checked it out , but heh then u didnt have the cables etc, but i guess..just use a lower bay ?,
it should fit fine in my new case hopefully

anyway i paid 180 euro+ postage... and i guess if the postal service in norway is as stuck up as usual, well then i have to pay custom taxes also...grrR ..

will let ya all know what it costed in the end...

anyway ITS worth it

[ShadesOfGrey]

They were originally designed/produced by Mick Tinker (Index Information Ltd.) and was the forerunner of the BoXeR and InsideOut.  Take a look here.  IIRC, the Access was only available for 'industrial' applications and info kiosks and never officially released to to the general public.

[Guyver]

hello all.
yesterday I got an email from Soft3 and they told me that they mey have located a batch of NEW boards.

The price may be a bit higher than before, because the previous boards were used and these are new.

They would send me a mail again, when they knew more...

So I'm going the save some money :-D  :-D  :-D

-edit-

The new price is 250 euro

[Dr_Righteous]

I still think it's fully possible to build an AT/ATX A1200 compatable board...

Start with a 68060 cpu. Decode the logic from the original chipset and write it to PLDs. Leave out unnecessary parts (such as the original AGA video, sound and PCMCIA). Add PCI support, and use RTG exclusively. Change out the CIA chips for modern UARTs. Use the Catweasel chip as a floppy controller, so you can use a regular PC floppy drive and still use Amiga floppies. Stuff like that...

Hell, most of the work has been done already by Elbox, IC, and others.

Someday I hope to build this board myself.  :-D

[ACE]

Wow I had no idea these boards were still around.  I tried looking on ebay for them from time to time.  At the time these were avalible I was waiting for the BoXeR or maybe an A/Box (or PreBox) Anyone remember these??

I had a dream of putting two of these Access machines side by side linked via Ethernet with some sort of RTG sysyem, one could handle the GFX and the other do AHI 14 bit Paula sound, I/O etc.  Or even better play games of Super Skidmarks in "dual head", get two 4-player adapters and race eight of your friends.  That could of been a killer console with a killer app.

Can anyone post some dimensions, this might be a better option than a CD32 for a laptop conversion.  Yes I'm still going on about that laptop!

[Dr_Righteous]

Hmm, perhaps I'll build the laptop board instead... Just because no one else has even attempted it!