Building new Amigas, chip availabilities

[Steve]

Hey guys,

I've been looking at these Amiga PCBs that have been produced and fancy building one for a project, but I'm wondering about chip availabilities.

When it comes to the three main kinds floating about, a500+ a1200 and a4000 -

* Are chips generally available to buy new?
* Where is the best place to source chips besides ebay (I'm talking custom & obsolete chips)
* I assume the a4000 requires a lot more expense than the others, more PCBs to build, more parts, SIM slots, CPUs etc.

Any advice in this area much appreciated,
Cheers

[go0se]

For A4000 chipsets contact Screemo on Amibay.

https://www.amibay.com/forum/want-to-se ... d-chipsets

For A1200 / A500 / A500+ builds it would probably be more efficient to buy a working machine from eBay to get what you need. I know that is sacrilege to some around here but ... :lol:

[Steve]

Oki cheers

[mrbombermillzy]

Unfortunately, I've yet to find a Best Electronics equivalent for the C= machines.

Unless anyone knows any better? :shrug:

[stephen_usher]

Maybe that's a good thing considering Brad's reputation. ;-)

[mrbombermillzy]

Maybe that's a good thing considering Brad's reputation. ;-)

Heh. You know what? Apart from the horrendous shipping price for 2 shifter ICs, he was quite pleasant to me and prompt with the replies.

I'm quite tempted to grab some other NOS bits that cost a fortune old and chewed up on ebay normally.

Back on topic though, I wonder where all the liquidated C= stock went?