14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
8:04 a.m.
On 10/13/10, Geoff Oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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.
Over here, we had The Rejuvinator - http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/rejuvenator
I brought a couple of Amiga 1000s to VCFmw - one with a Spirit Inboard
(memory and RTC), the other with a Rejuvinator and a Microbotics
Starboard (memory) and Stardrive (SCSI and RTC). Unfortunately, it's
been a while since I powered up an A1000 and the best I got was a Guru
screen on one of them (no Kickstart prompt on the one, no Workbench on
the other).
In terms of features, an A1000 motherboard+Rejuvnator was like a
Phoenix (ECS chipset, more CHIP RAM, Kickstart in ROM...) but it was a
bit ugly to install vs a total mobo replacement. I've never seen a
Phoenix over here, but since the Rejuvinator designer lived in Dayton
(90 minutes away from me) I did see plenty of Rejuvinators in Ohio.
-ethan