New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition"

[amigalove]

I got a really interesting scoop from Jens Schoenfeld today: a New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition" is coming (very) soon from Individual Computers, and will be officially announced this weekend at Amiga32 in Neuss, Germany. The card has been redesigned to be more modern and RoHC compliant. It will be based on the 1997 original version, not the more recent "Phoenix" version.

More info here.

[psxphill]

a New Buddha Flash "20-Year Anniversary Edition" is coming (very) soon from Individual Computers,

Is that like the new c64 motherboards and cases that are coming autumn 2016?

[giZmo350]

Is that like the new c64 motherboards and cases that are coming autumn 2016?

Or more like the A1200 Reloaded boards that are coming autumn 2017?

[amigalove]

My understanding is that Jen's schedule got completely slammed by the production of the C64 Reloaded MK2 and most other projects were put on hold as a result.

His goal is to get the new Buddha Flash cards out into the market before Dec. 25.

Personally I'm looking forward to it. I've got a scsi2sd card working beautifully in my 2000 under 1.3, but IDE options with no GB cap would be pretty sick.

[klx300r]

My understanding is that Jen's schedule got completely slammed by the production of the C64 Reloaded MK2 and most other projects were put on hold as a result.

His goal is to get the new Buddha Flash cards out into the market before Dec. 25.

Personally I'm looking forward to it. I've got a scsi2sd card working beautifully in my 2000 under 1.3, but IDE options with no GB cap would be pretty sick.

same here and I love the scsi2sd but I'll be getting the new Buddha flash for my boot drive and I'll be going back to real notebook IDE drive (or SSD) in my A4000 as I just don't trust the CF cards as they always fail after 2 years or so

[David Wright]

Or more like the A1200 Reloaded boards that are coming autumn 2017?

Well, the leaves are still falling.

[psxphill]

My understanding is that Jen's schedule got completely slammed by the production of the C64 Reloaded MK2 and most other projects were put on hold as a result.

production or design? My understanding is that while he announced it last year, he wasn't working on the design at any point in 2016. At least that was the impression he gave in an interview.

[tlgrooms]

Is this card available for purchase now?  Does anyone know if it will still work with an A1000?  Also, where is the best place to order one if I am in the US?
Anyone know how long shipping would take?  Thanks in advance.

[amigalove]

Is this card available for purchase now?

Yes. It is on the IC site.

Does anyone know if it will still work with a stock 1000?

It's intended for machines with Zorro slots (A2000, A3000, A4000). In theory, if you had some sort of Zorro expansion out the sidecar, maybe? But I'd probably look to do an internal IDE solution before having all that stuff hang out the side of the machine. Assuming you're running KS 1.3 floppies, it would be a rather janky looking external drive if you got it to work. Be cool to hide one in an old metal external drive enclosure, though...

In theory it would work in a Phoenix model, but you wouldn't be able to close the case. Back in the day Jens made a Buddha Phoenix version, too, but those are probably as rare as unicorn horns these days (and not really applicable to your questions).

[amigakit]

Amiga Kit also stocks this card here:

https://amigakit.amiga.store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1318