Amiga replacements - Why ECS?

[Heiroglyph]

Lately the GBA 1000 board has gotten a lot of attention and I admit that I was tempted to get one myself for the challenge.

I've also seen requests for a expansion box for a 500 like a Bodega bay.

What is the attraction to one of these over a 2000 or 3000?  They're all ECS machines and all will take some digging to get fully expanded.

Why a new ECS board?  Isn't any AGA 4000 or 1200 better?

It's not like there are 060's, PCI and USB available for the GBA1000 board, it's just pretty much an A3000 with no slots in a hard to find case.  An A2000 is actually easier to expand and dirt cheap.

I tinker with hardware myself and I never thought of it as something viable.  The apparent market for new ECS based boards just really surprised me.

[ChaosLord]

A1000 is OCS not ECS.

So take everything you said and multiply it *2 :crazy:

[Linde]

A1000 is OCS not ECS.

So take everything you said and multiply it *2 :crazy:

GB 1000, by which I assume he means GBA1000, is an ECS board, though. Not sure where you got the idea that this had anything to do with the original A1000.

[Lord Aga]

Well, I can think of one reason. It is relatively easy to pluck OCS/ECS chips from old, broken boards and put them in GBA1000.
Not so easy for SMD chips of A1200/A4000.
Anyway it's a first step. Hopefully FPGA based replacement boards for A1200 and A4000 will follow

[Iggy]

Hey does anybody have a layout of the board and a parts list?
I don't want to buy the wrong pats.
For example - I bought a 50MHz  68882 the other day in PGA packaging.
What if the board is set up for a differently packaged device?

[Heiroglyph]

Oops, Linde is right, I corrected it to GBA1000.

I'm not one to put down what someone wants.  This whole forum is based on an emotional rather than a logical response to a piece of hardware.

I just didn't foresee the demand being as great as it is and I thought I had a pretty good idea of how the Amiga market tended to go.

So are new ECS boards and A2000 (and A500) upgrades actually in demand?

I kind of figured that the Individual Computers upgrades had turned the A600 into the ultimate ECS machines these days, even though there are A2000's everywhere with faster CPU's and RTG.

[Iggy]

Oops, Linde is right, I corrected it to GBA1000.

I'm not one to put down what someone wants.  This whole forum is based on an emotional rather than a logical response to a piece of hardware.

I just didn't foresee the demand being as great as it is and I thought I had a pretty good idea of how the Amiga market tended to go.

So are new ECS boards and A2000 (and A500) upgrades actually in demand?

I kind of figured that the Individual Computers upgrades had turned the A600 into the ultimate ECS machines these days, even though there are A2000's everywhere with faster CPU's and RTG.

I only own an A2000.
So, at my home, yeah they're in demand.
And still available (for one of the more reliable Amigas - IMHO).

For anything else I've got my evolving constellation of Macs.
Just finish using three abused Power books to make one.
I'm giving my MDD FW800 Power mac to a developer who wants to try to port Libre Office.
And once AmigaDave ships me a G5, I'm giving my Quicksilver (w/a 1333MHz processor in it) to Steven.