exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

@exxos ultimately it is your full right to do what do you find appropriate. But if it were me, I wouldn't worry too much about it. You can license it in a way that it forces everyone to state on the PCB something like "This is a modified version of Exxos Phenix board, no support will be provided by Exxos" or something (better worded) like that.

The beauty of open source is that yeah, a lot of awful forks and dead ends may be produced but also, if you keep it closed, you will never see the good ones.

Ah, man I was just served a huge portion of FOMO seeing these posts. I have a 1040STF that someone tried to perform an RAM upgrade on and cut a bunch of traces on the board. I've tried many time in vain to bodge the issues and get it fixed, to no avail. I would love to get an H4 or H5 and get that machine running again.

After moving back home from living in Florida, my aunt said she was moving and I had some boxes in her basement..

My old Atari stuff!

I replaced the power supply for the 1040 but also have a badly hacked 520 system , I had really done a lot of damage as a teen with a cheap soldering iron . Id love to have a new board to tinker with as I wish to preserve my Atari unmodified. But I have a scsi hard disk and have to switch tos versions on boot to avoid data corruption from the original TOS.

In any case , if you do make more , ill certainly be ordering one.

People can shout out if they are interested in one in this thread.

Though it's highly unlikely there will be a batch this year for various mentioned reasons. But I need at least 25 buyers to even consider doing a new batch. Thats more like 50 people as half will back out when it comes to coughing up the cash.

Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to do a new batch but the buyers have to be there before anything else.

I'd be interested in one (possibly two) if these are the virtually complete versions - I think it was just the rear ports, RAM, and some minor soldering that needs to be done by the end user? I wont attempt another "bird seed" version though; I simply ran out of steam on the one I started.

I'd be interested in buying two in any buildout condition. I'd be interested in any existing boards people have that they aren't going to use as well.

I'd definitely buy one if there was a new batch. Through hole soldering is fine for but would struggle with too many smd components.

@exxos Can I suggest a pre-order system? This way you can get 'guarantees' on the order. With smallprint that if it doesn't reach X amount of orders, preorders are refunded.

Steve wrote: 06 Jul 2024 11:18 @exxos Can I suggest a pre-order system? This way you can get 'guarantees' on the order. With smallprint that if it doesn't reach X amount of orders, preorders are refunded.

It's been done before and wasn't so simple in the end. There's loads of posts about it all already.

I can be put down for two of them.

Not sure if I stated before or not, so I'll reiterate here, I do want to start up a youtube channel (or encourage someone else to do so), on various Atari ST computers and fixes, try to get more support. Putting together one from a bare board would make great content.

I think probably a better system over a pre-order would be a wishlist, a waitlist, or "notify when available" system. This way once it's at a particular threshold, an email can be sent out to better gauge interest or perhaps even collect money.