Amiga 600 schematics nearly put into Kicad

[Mick]

I've ordered some PCB but they are already asking me questions about how to do certain things which has me a bit worried.

[pixie]

Originally Posted by Mick

I have to reiterate KiCad is more fun than most PS5 games these days, it's also even easier now you add a scan as background in KiCad 7, spending money on pcb's/parts and soldering not so much unfortunately. I feel like I'm letting people down but yeah not really completed anything unlike chucky whose brought about 10 boards to completion.

Do you think it would be feasible to fit an A1200 board into the A600 case?

[Mick]

If someone made an A600 case with the expansion port removed and just a flat base I reckon it would be pretty easy, all you'd really need to modify is the joystick area and any expansion card would have to be really short, or maybe just remove the edge connector altogether and add some fast ram in the empty space. I've been interested to know how the Blizzard 1220/4 doubles the 14mhz clock actually.

Trying to design a board around the stock A600 case is going to be really difficult though, definitely more trouble than it's worth.

[Heywood]

Originally Posted by pixie

Do you think it would be feasible to fit an A1200 board into the A600 case?

Tentatively this should be possible as I think the CD32 would close to fitting inside an A600 case if you exclude the optical drive. That would pretty much become an A1200 equivalent if you equip it with something like a TF328/330/360

[pixie]

I liked the form factor, but as a machine A600 seriously underperformed, but if at its core it had AA it could be a nice machine and quite portable!

[Mick]

I think I've found a good substitute for the line filter.

KEMET SHO-301

What do you guys reckon?