For those that don't know, as the original Phoenix board is very rare, I believe it was the original first-ever crowd funded hardware project for the Amiga. It was based out of Australia, and essentially was a complete redesign of the Amiga 1000 motherboard. Here's why that's so cool:
- It uses all original chips and has all of the original ports, but it includes a Zorro II slot and a video slot.
- Agnus gets replaced by Fat Agnus - all of the other chips get transferred over
- KS 1.3 is pre-installed
- It can hold up to 4 Kickstarts, which is nuts, and there is a physical switch that is installed to the plastic back panel to flip between two
- It has an internal RS232 serial header just like the 2000
- PGA FPU socket and oscillator socket
- battery backed up clock and it is of the coin variety (no idea if mine is functional or not yet)
- SCSI port for an internal hard drive. I don't have any extra mechanical ones at the moment (I think) but I do have an extra SCSI2SD card that needs a home. Hm...
- And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Read more about it here.
Now, alongside this massively awesome piece of historically important hardware is also a mild accelerator board, the Blizzard Turbo Memory Board. Using a CPU off-setter, this machine should get to 14Mhz with 4MB RAM (upgradable to 8, but I'll probably just leave it at 4MB, which is plenty).
Very cool to be a new-comer to this very small club.
This is my winter hardware project.