13 Oct
2010
13 Oct
'10
6:39 p.m.
IIRC, probably the biggest improvement of the Phoenix was the capability to use a square
Agnus chip and ECS chips, so you could get more chip ram and support PAL/NTSC
simultaneously.
They are quite rare stateside. Don't know how many were produced.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mike van Bokhoven
<mike at fenz.net> wrote:
I'm just curious about the
machine, mainly. I'm not really an Amiga guy,
just have a passing
familiarity with them.
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=46
Definitly worth picking up if you can as they really are rare and not
ebay-rare. I'd love to have one. As far as functionality is
concerned, there's nothing there that you wouldn't get with a garden
variety amiga 2000 with some upgraded custom chips. But getting that
board in an a1000 form factor has some serious cool-factor. I think
you can still find right-angle zorro adapters that might allow you to
fit a memory board, a buddha, or deneb board in there. 68k socket
processor upgrades would probably work also.
brian