A1200NG motherboard appears at AmigaKit

Hi everyone,

Stumbled upon some news posted by amigang at amigaworld.net this morning. Seems like the A1200NG motherboard suddenly was up at AmigaKit!

Wrote a small blog post about it here:

https://oldschoolgameblog.com/2024/12/ ... rom-the-amigakit-webshop/

Here is the link to AmigaKit:

https://www.amigakit.com/a1200ng-motherboard-p-91333.html

Could someone explain what exactly this is. As in, is it just arm linux running some uae variant or is it something completely different?

@orgin

It's a backplane board for an R Pi 3 that fits into an A1200 case.

@ferrels

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Isn't RPi3 a bit long in the tooth? I'd expect an RPi5 instead.

@ferrels

I'm asking for an explanation on what it does. Not what it physically is (which is explained on the page).

As in, is it just an arm board running linux with uae or does it achieve the amiga emulation in some other way.

@orgin

It is mostly the same as the A600GS, but suitable for an Amiga 1200 case and with more expandability.

Like the A600GS, you'll get the full menu system at startup where you can launch games, programs and demos, as well as launch AmiBench, the new OS which has a lot of content from Enhancer.

Software through the main launcher/menu of the A1200NG is done through emulation (Amiberry).

@AmigaOldskooler

I see, Amiberry, alright then. Thank you.




Would be a nice platform to run a native arm os4 on. To get away from the ridiculously expensive ppc hardware that we are stuck with now. Oh well.

@orgin
Quote:Or at least any ARM native OS ...
Except for some tiny parts like ARMgraphics.library it just seem to be emulated m68k versions of AROS, SystemV46 and AmiBench instead.
As long as not even exec is ARM native the support for running ARM native code is probably as limited as it was for x86 code on Amithlon.