Building a NEW Amiga 2000 in 2022 - Part 1 assembly, testing and first power up

Why buy a big box Amiga when we can make one...

If there's one thing that's been missing from my collection its a big box Amiga and since prices of those are heading skyward, me and a few other folk got together and did a group buy of the parts needed to build our own.

This board is a reworking of the classic Amiga 2000 but redesigned to fit an EATX form factor for use in a modern case. The boards came partly assembled from JLCPCB (not sponsored) but its up to us to put the rest of it together. The chipset comes out of the battery damaged A500+ we looked at a few months ago.

Thanks to screemo, pillock, liv2 and sparxuk for the help while assembling this. Special thanks to sparxuk for ordering everything and splitting it out into kits for each of us.

2000EATX GitHub - https://github.com/jasonsbeer/Amiga-2...

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Music - Modspire by NaokiS (   / naokisaito  )

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:52 First look at the board
02:55 Pass through caps
07:39 Thank you SparxUK
08:27 Fuses
08:50 Diodes, stupidly small diodes!
12:21 Fitting SMD IC's
14:02 Soldering montage 1
15:27 SRAM
17:01 What's next
18:16 -5v regulator
19:16 Capacitors
19:42 Oscillator
22:07 ATX power connector and modification
24:49 U103, U105
25:46 Soldering montage 2
26:32 Jumpers
27:31 Sockets
28:35 Some more stuff needed from the old board
30:16 Ports
31:20 U103, U105
31:55 Some quick tests
34:26 Video cable and fitting the chipset
36:19 Setting the AGNUS jumpers
37:16 First power on
37:46 Reset and clocks?
38:33 Clock Fix
40:30 Second power on
40:49 A few days later...
43:54 Amiga test kit
46:30 What about Zorro?
47:47 Conclusion, questions and credits.

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