hese:
I've shown this work to some folks outside the Amiga community who went to college where they earned engineering degrees, and their jaws hit the floor.It took me about 50-75 hours to do the schematics and layout the components on the board. And about 250 hours to do all the routing.
In any case, after news of this amazing work became public, Paul Rezendes (aka Acill) - a well-regarded Amiga tech in the community became inspired and launched a GoFundMe to get new boards made, as hese has said he'll release his files.
In other words, this is a donation. You won't be getting anything out of this directly except fuzzy warmth in your heart, and the knowledge that you contributed to a worthy cause. But it could build a foundation for future boards to be produced and made for those in the community that want to try and build one. That alone would be a major labor of love by most to do, but still.As many owners of the Amiga 4000 boards know they contain a battery and several electrolytic capacitors which when age and leak cause severe damage to the motherboard. The goal of this fundraiser is to have the original board converted to schematics and Gerber files. This will allow new boards to be manufactured. The schematics will allow future updates and changes to the design of the board for future enhancements or improvements.
I donated last night. I have no intention of buying one of these boards if the project is successful. But I love the idea of this community rising up and coming together to keep major parts (no pun intended) alive. I just love it.
At the time of this writing, the goal of $5,000 has nearly been met half-way in 1 day.