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Offline MiAmigoTopic starter

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Can It Really Be Done?
« on: January 18, 2009, 05:49:21 PM »
I love my clunky old A2000 and soon I'll be done getting it back up and running. At the same time as rebuilding it, I've been building a couple of new PCs for my home network, and it occurred to me - wouldn't it be nice (and quite a challenge) to build a brand new Amiga from scratch, using as few "vintage" parts as possible. In essence a whole, spanking new machine built on Amiga specs, protocols and hardware, but cobbled together by me, and not purchased whole from some vendor. Can it in fact, be done? Would I be able to find a brand new motherboard (not necessarily a classic A1000/2000/3000/4000 board, however one would be nice!) and all shiny brand new components? How would I begin? Which platform should I use? OS? I'd really love to make this imaginary, mythological machine of my own making my main computer, with which to replace the current PC I'm using! Help me out - how would I start?
 

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Re: Can It Really Be Done?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2009, 05:51:03 PM »
EFIKA + MorphOS
SAM440 + OS4
x86 board + AROS

Those are the only options for new hardware.

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Re: Can It Really Be Done?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2009, 06:09:42 PM »
ya forgot:

MiniMig + Amiga OS 1.0 through 3.1
(3.5 and 3.9 require 020+, right?)

 

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Re: Can It Really Be Done?
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2009, 06:11:47 PM »
Oh yeah! Of course! The only brand new classic hardware, unless you include NOS A1200s.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10