So, I procrastinate and do too many projects at the same time etc etc etc.. Well, 5 years ago I got all the parts to build a GBA1000... Then did a lot of other things except build it... So now it is time. Time to get out the solder paste and actually put this beast together.
This will be a rough log of progress, not a photo of every resistor I solder in.
Anyway, start pics!
The rev 4 GBA1000 motherboard
The GBA1000 68060 / 128mb accelerator card (left) and Picaso-II clone PCB v3.0 and v3.2 on right (I dont know what differences are from v3.0 to v3.2)
Two copies of the GBA1000 Thylacine board (left) and on the right is the GBAPII++ v2.6 Amiga 500/2000 (and tower 2k/3k/4k) Picaso II clone (which I dont need)
Most of the hard to get parts came from a donor Amiga 500+ motherboard (those non existant DB23 sockets and the oddball 28.3715 mhz crystal ) and the Amiga 1000 that is donating its case.
(Last time I dug it out, it was pleasantly, not very yellowed!, and that is a kickstart 1.2 disk next to it)
I have printed out the GBA1000 guide as well as the BOM from the rev4 pcb so I can tick off every single item I solder (its 16 pages long).
First thing is to go through the crappy pink mouser bag, sort out all the components and do some inventory, after that my thought is to paste and hot air the 8mb ram because its the smallest pitch parts on the board, after that, hit all the birdseed and lastly hit the sockets and dip parts.