14 March 2020, 03:26 | #1 |
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Amiga 4000 Alice+ build!!
Here are some photos of my Amiga 4000 Alice+ build. Thanks to hese! What an amazing board! (Yes, the kickstart roms in initial photos are in the wrong position, I did correct that
Some photos attached to this post, more here: http://imgbox.com/g/TvBDKtQwBO I will post more as I complete the build! Attachment 66456 Last edited by DarrenHD; 21 April 2020 at 23:13. |
14 March 2020, 04:20 | #2 |
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Beautiful! Can you snap a landscape version of the bottom picture for a wall paper?!
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14 March 2020, 04:32 | #3 |
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Sure i will tomorrow!
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Beautiful. Looking forward to see more pictures :-)
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15 March 2020, 06:11 | #5 |
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Day two!
Mostly cleanup today and I installed a Mediator 4000Di so the system could take advantage of my 32" monitor/TV. This will be temporary as I await my Cyberstorm PPC arrival - it's been stuck at Canada Customs for 8 days now!! Ugh!. Once I (hopefully) get the CS PPC, I will mate it to the GREX and do a fresh install of OS 3.1.4. Right now I have a mix of OS 3.4.1 and OS 3.9. It's mostly stable but I think the Mediator refuses to work sometimes. Most of the Mediators I have owned over the years have been a bit tempermental! I did some more testing of the Alice+ A4000, installed a compact flash card, and removed the internal floppy drive. I figured I will need the space for extra cooling fans once the CS PPC goes in. Check out this link for photos: http://imgbox.com/g/26pyGtIC6S Last edited by DarrenHD; 17 April 2020 at 17:16. |
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Once the Grex is in, donate the entire system to Hedeon and maybe he’ll get PowerPC.library working on it for you
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15 March 2020, 10:10 | #7 |
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Awesome work and lovely setup. CSPPC with Grex will be a lovely setup, it's the one working configuration that escaped me, I had the hardware briefly but my Grex turned out to be toast. I had the Grex in my A1200 though and it was much better than any mediator.
Thought that said with the sonnet library you can have a faster PPC now with Mediator. |
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Gives him a nice chance to try OS4 though. With Grex and a fast ppc it might be a better experience.
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But primarily I will be using it as a OS 3.x machine. I have a Mediator 3.3V and a Sonnet in another A4000. Next project after this is getting my A3000 repaired (shaf has it now to repair) and hopefully get an AA3000+ board from hese if he makes more. Fun times for sure! |
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By the way, some guys on A1k.org got ahold of 5 original AA3000 circuit boards from C= (somehow they got them, I don't know how!) and they are completing them. Apparently C= made 50 AA3000 systems but most were destroyed when they liquidated. BTW I like your videos, I am subscribed on Youtube! Darren Last edited by DarrenHD; 15 March 2020 at 17:40. |
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15 March 2020, 19:51 | #13 |
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Hey Darren, thanks for watching lol. I'm sure we talked a bit when we were both active before.
I'm doing pretty much the same rebuilding my collection as I too sold everything off. What I found mostly is there's still a great interest in the Amiga and I was particularly inspired by the new open source projects and such things as the terrible fire accelerators and the Vampire. |
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DarrenHD that is a thing of beauty.
I have a dead A4000 that want to revive, was it expensive? Did Hese do the board build for you? |
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Yes it was about 900 EUR assembled by hese. So not cheap. Unfortunately he does not have any Alice+ boards remaining, this was the last one.
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Some photos with the GREX installed (and yes it works!)
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It looks awesome, bummer it was the last one.
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