Amiga Slingshot

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: That's right. The expansion connector on the 500 and 1000 are electrically compatible, but since it's on the other side of the case and backwards, they can't share peripherals. The slingshot would work upside down though. Although you'd have a zorro card (possibly with a hard drive attached to it) hanging out in mid air on the 1000 whereas on the 500 it would be flat on the table. I guess that would mean the pro version would have the card upside down on the 1000, so you'd have to elevate the 1000 off the desk. The amiga has always had a cult following, but appears to have had a resurgance in popularity lately. There's a lot of hardware that goes for silly prices on ebay. Acclerators in particular go for crazy prices as do graphics related boards for the 2000. Recently, a former employee of GVP managed to buy the designs for their upgrade boards and start making them again: http://www.gvp-m.com/ The prices are reasonable if you compare them to the original new prices, but they're still more than what I would pay for an accelerator. If it were possible for someone to make accelerator boards and undercut these prices, you could sell a lot of hardware. Individual computers has also made some good hardware for the amiga. Although he (Jens) seems to be focusing on VGA adapters these days. There seems to be a definite shortage of love for the 1000 and 500 though. Most "new" hardware focuses on the 1200. There's plenty of used upgrades for the 2000 floating around. And Individual recently released a VGA board for the 500/1000/2000 seriese machines. But memory, hard drive, and processor upgrades for the 1000 and 500 are in very short supply and I think would sell very well. The slingshot could do the hard drive, or maybe the memory. There are zorro boards that had both, but I think they're less common. There were processor upgrades for the 500 that plugged into the expansion slot, but they're in very short supply as well and can sell for several hundred dollars on ebay for a 68030 board with disk and memory. brian