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MEX68KECB wrote: 28 Jan 2025 23:44 @exxos I will monitor for it (unless you can just check me out somehow, I want it) is this one you can't ship with other items to the US?

I will give you a link to buy later..

In this case it can be possible to ship very small items in the same box, but likely only ICs. The boxes are only about 2cm tall internally. By the time the PCB and bubble wrap is in there, there's basically no room left. Anything thicker than a IC simply won't fit. I don't think it's a good idea to even try. Things can't be packaged very well like in a larger box.

Okay, thank you!

@MEX68KECB your board is packed up ready to be shipped.. I will send you a store link shortly.. I would advise purchasing it as soon as possible in case someone else beats you to it... As you are not currently online I will hold off physically allocating the stock to the store...



Also thank you for your generous donation :thumbup:

exxos wrote: 21 Jan 2025 13:02 Really starting to hate the .webp format, as I keep having to convert all those to png :roll:

Might I recommend this extension: Save Image as Type
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A bare board? Nice! I've got a bare Amiga Raemixx 500 board that I want to build as well. I don't mind SMD soldering at all. I got my good ol' J tip at the ready!

me262 wrote: 30 Jan 2025 15:47 Might I recommend this extension: Save Image as Type
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... nemd?pli=1

Thanks! Just added that extension and it will make life monumentally easier :D

A bare board? Nice! I've got a bare Amiga Raemixx 500 board that I want to build as well. I don't mind SMD soldering at all. I got my good ol' J tip at the ready!

Yeah, I just got them for measurement purposes more than anything but I had to order 5. I kept 1 leaving 4 boards which have sold. I can get more bare ones made, but I have to order them in packs of 5. There was never any interest in the bare boards, its why I don't basically stock them.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone trying to make one of these up as you would have to have good soldering skills and patience of a saint...

exxos wrote: 30 Jan 2025 13:14 @MEX68KECB your board is packed up ready to be shipped.. I will send you a store link shortly.. I would advise purchasing it as soon as possible in case someone else beats you to it... As you are not currently online I will hold off physically allocating the stock to the store...


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Also thank you for your generous donation :thumbup:

Have a pint on me if you can. This will be a treat!

exxos wrote: 30 Jan 2025 15:56 Yeah, I just got them for measurement purposes more than anything but I had to order 5. I kept 1 leaving 4 boards which have sold. I can get more bare ones made, but I have to order them in packs of 5. There was never any interest in the bare boards, its why I don't basically stock them.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone trying to make one of these up as you would have to have good soldering skills and patience of a saint...

Looks like I already missed out on them. I'll get a populated one in any case once they're released, I plan to build it up anyways, a bare would have just been a bonus.

They are on the way to me :)


There are a few items which are deliberately not fitted.. Such as the two oscillators and reset switch, but am going to try and figure out how to ship them in the same package.... After looking at the board people will need the MFP and floppy GAL and even flopper power cable.. And even the RGB connector..

I was thinking of including these within the box but is going to be rather tricky :( there will be more of a "get you working" type of kit, but some people may want other chips or connectors, which would have to be ordered separately anyway..

But I cannot really cover every scenario of what people want.. I have to pre-packaged these things up in advance because of time restraints I have.. Have to allocate today to package them all up and then that is it I cannot change things afterwards because I just don't have the time. So what is shipped in the box has to be standard across everything.

So let a load of people complain against the notion, I plan to include, the reset switch,MFP, 2 x oscs, GAL and floppy cable. Then theoretically all people really need is the main IC's from a donor board to get the thing booting.

The most problematical thing will be the RGB connector because of its size it may just be physically impossible to put this in the box.. But at least they can be recovered relatively easily from a donor machine anyway..

Other problems are things like the ROM, I cannot just ship one ROM or have several different versions of the ROM in a standard "kit". that some people may be forced to do a second-order anyway..

Ultimately it would just be way simpler just to sell the motherboard " as is" as it would take up a lot less of my time and things could be shipped out a lot faster that way... But it also seems a little after people only want the oscillators to force them to do a separate order.. Because what people want is essentially random I cannot really standardise anything which makes it very complicated....

Thoughts ?

Sounds good to me. Have enough just to get it to boot which makes it for the rest of the stuff.

I'm assuming we'll need to get a PLCC 68000 on our own?