From FB: Porn... pure porn... Amiga A1000 prototype. Fan boards are the CMOS versions of the custom chips, and board at the front is a Wire Wrapped A1000. Wow... It always amazes me you can replicate complex chips using normal logic chips. 😂 - ThreadSky

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mdf200.bsky.social • 75 days ago

From FB: Porn... pure porn...

Amiga A1000 prototype. Fan boards are the CMOS versions of the custom chips, and board at the front is a Wire Wrapped A1000.

Wow... It always amazes me you can replicate complex chips using normal logic chips. 😂

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rocky2040.bsky.social•75 days ago

Pure filth

polpo.org•75 days ago

I just saw it this weekend at VCF East as they were carrying it in for the Amiga roundtable discussion! Sadly it was too crowded for me to get in to watch the roundtable.

adriansdigitalbasement.com•75 days ago

I had seen pictures of this before and it's mind boggling. Does this contraption still work?

jaycee1980.bsky.social•75 days ago

I doubt it. I recall there were issues when they were demoing it on display, an engineer would have to come in and poke one of the boards in the right place to make it work

I bet it draws an absolute sh*tload of current at 5v too!

mdf200.bsky.social•75 days ago

That I’m not sure about….

breakintoprogram.co.uk•75 days ago

That is a thing of beauty.

breakintoprogram.co.uk•75 days ago

Coming from an electronics and computing background I find prototype boards like this fascinating. I guess they’re of the past now. It’d be done with FPGA these days.

jaycee1980.bsky.social•75 days ago

FPGA and probably a lot of simulation

breakintoprogram.co.uk•75 days ago

Indeed.

mdf200.bsky.social•75 days ago

Yeah - totally….