Ebay purchase from 1826? GoldenGate 486SLC - Big Box Amiga PC BridgeBoard - 386SX in Cyrix 486 dress
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Ebay purchase from 1826? GoldenGate 486SLC - Big Box Amiga PC BridgeBoard - 386SX in 486 Cyrix dress
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January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Ebay purchase from 1826? GoldenGate 486SLC - Big Box Amiga PC BridgeBoard - 386SX in Cyrix 486 dress
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tak8...
#Commodore #Amiga #PC #BridgeBoard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tak8...
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Amiga 3000T Teardown Starts as Jan Beta Tackles a Rare Tower
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Amiga 3000T Teardown Starts as Jan Beta Tackles a Rare Tower - The Oasis BBS
Amiga 3000T teardown begins as Jan Beta opens a rare tower, pulls PC cards, removes leaking batteries, and plans repairs.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Amiga 3000T Teardown Starts as Jan Beta Tackles a Rare Tower
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Also, as far as I know, there are ways of upgrading the CPU on the Bridgeboard to 486-likes (SLC? DLC?) as well. It's been a while since I heard about this, so I don't remember how involved and/or expensive it would be...
But no matter what, it's a lovely machine and I'm sure you'll do it justice!
But no matter what, it's a lovely machine and I'm sure you'll do it justice!
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also, as far as I know, there are ways of upgrading the CPU on the Bridgeboard to 486-likes (SLC? DLC?) as well. It's been a while since I heard about this, so I don't remember how involved and/or expensive it would be...
But no matter what, it's a lovely machine and I'm sure you'll do it justice!
But no matter what, it's a lovely machine and I'm sure you'll do it justice!
New video! I got my hands on a rare Amiga 3000T and am starting the restoration process.
YouTube: youtu.be/5XsMTA0ZjhQ
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/cbdS1mpUE5...
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Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 1: Teardown and Inspection
YouTube video by Jan Beta
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December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New video! I got my hands on a rare Amiga 3000T and am starting the restoration process.
YouTube: youtu.be/5XsMTA0ZjhQ
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/cbdS1mpUE5...
#Amiga #Amiga3000T #Amiga3000 #A3000T #Commodore #Restoration #BatteryLeakage #Repair #A2386 #BridgeBoard #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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Made a start to remove components from the old A2386 bridgeboard for the new pcb i got as the old board was battery bombed.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Made a start to remove components from the old A2386 bridgeboard for the new pcb i got as the old board was battery bombed.
Vintage Amiga hardware is expensive, slowly failing due to old components, and the Zorro expansion cards are unwieldy and long: the part of the edge connector closest to the bracket is for ISA cards, and there were various Bridgeboard x86 emulator cards with a real Intel CPU that used both buses.
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Vintage Amiga hardware is expensive, slowly failing due to old components, and the Zorro expansion cards are unwieldy and long: the part of the edge connector closest to the bracket is for ISA cards, and there were various Bridgeboard x86 emulator cards with a real Intel CPU that used both buses.
I want to go back to the time when you could buy bridgeboards to add one computer into another computer.
September 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I want to go back to the time when you could buy bridgeboards to add one computer into another computer.
I mean it was feasible if they made a bridgeboard with a MicroVAX on it or something….
Hell, the “PDP on a chip” T-11 ended up in Paperboy arcade machines. I cannot for the life of me figure out why Atari went with that when everyone else was using 68k.
Hell, the “PDP on a chip” T-11 ended up in Paperboy arcade machines. I cannot for the life of me figure out why Atari went with that when everyone else was using 68k.
March 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I mean it was feasible if they made a bridgeboard with a MicroVAX on it or something….
Hell, the “PDP on a chip” T-11 ended up in Paperboy arcade machines. I cannot for the life of me figure out why Atari went with that when everyone else was using 68k.
Hell, the “PDP on a chip” T-11 ended up in Paperboy arcade machines. I cannot for the life of me figure out why Atari went with that when everyone else was using 68k.
xD There were also things like this too with other PC hardware inside a different one on an ISA card/bridgeboard.
If you can't decide between one or the other: glue them both together!
The Cordata WPC Bridge: An IBM PC Compatible with the guts of an Apple IIe on an ISA card. 16 lovely shades of green for both DOS applications and Apple ones.
Computers-on-a-board-inside-another this early on are fascinating.
The Cordata WPC Bridge: An IBM PC Compatible with the guts of an Apple IIe on an ISA card. 16 lovely shades of green for both DOS applications and Apple ones.
Computers-on-a-board-inside-another this early on are fascinating.
February 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
xD There were also things like this too with other PC hardware inside a different one on an ISA card/bridgeboard.
Remember last week when I said I found a Star Micronics nx1000 rainbow printer that I don't remember ever owning?
Now I found a second A2088 commodore bridgeboard. I don't remember owning two of them. I only remember one. Maybe next week I will find an Amiga 4000 Tower that I did not know I had!
Now I found a second A2088 commodore bridgeboard. I don't remember owning two of them. I only remember one. Maybe next week I will find an Amiga 4000 Tower that I did not know I had!
February 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Remember last week when I said I found a Star Micronics nx1000 rainbow printer that I don't remember ever owning?
Now I found a second A2088 commodore bridgeboard. I don't remember owning two of them. I only remember one. Maybe next week I will find an Amiga 4000 Tower that I did not know I had!
Now I found a second A2088 commodore bridgeboard. I don't remember owning two of them. I only remember one. Maybe next week I will find an Amiga 4000 Tower that I did not know I had!
I always wanted a bridgeboard for the Amiga, but they were way out of my price range at the time, I never knew anyone who had one, but the whole idea of having two systems in one box just seemed like the future.
I still really want a Sharp X1 twin, and a Sakhr AX-660.
I still really want a Sharp X1 twin, and a Sakhr AX-660.
February 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I always wanted a bridgeboard for the Amiga, but they were way out of my price range at the time, I never knew anyone who had one, but the whole idea of having two systems in one box just seemed like the future.
I still really want a Sharp X1 twin, and a Sakhr AX-660.
I still really want a Sharp X1 twin, and a Sakhr AX-660.
As none of the earlier bridgeboards had serial ports or centronics printer ports but both could be added via existing and (relatively) cheap "PC" ISA cards,
I'm guessing CBM designed and built a few but couldn't compete with existing products on the PC Card market.
amiga.resource.cx/manual/A2088...
I'm guessing CBM designed and built a few but couldn't compete with existing products on the PC Card market.
amiga.resource.cx/manual/A2088...
February 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
As none of the earlier bridgeboards had serial ports or centronics printer ports but both could be added via existing and (relatively) cheap "PC" ISA cards,
I'm guessing CBM designed and built a few but couldn't compete with existing products on the PC Card market.
amiga.resource.cx/manual/A2088...
I'm guessing CBM designed and built a few but couldn't compete with existing products on the PC Card market.
amiga.resource.cx/manual/A2088...
I believe it! From the looks of it, it's software emulation of the entire PC only with the code running on a real 286. So the 68k side gets hammered with memory access and what not. A video showing the performance vs pure software emulation and a real bridgeboard would be interesting.
January 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I believe it! From the looks of it, it's software emulation of the entire PC only with the code running on a real 286. So the 68k side gets hammered with memory access and what not. A video showing the performance vs pure software emulation and a real bridgeboard would be interesting.
It does feel like this deserves a unique setup. Did you ever do a bridgeboard video btw?
January 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It does feel like this deserves a unique setup. Did you ever do a bridgeboard video btw?
The clue is the floppy drive. The Amiga had a 3.5" floppy drive, not the 5.25" indicated by the latch.
Amiga 5.25" drives were for the Sidecar and external, or internal on the A2000 with the Bridgeboard..
Amiga 5.25" drives were for the Sidecar and external, or internal on the A2000 with the Bridgeboard..
January 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The clue is the floppy drive. The Amiga had a 3.5" floppy drive, not the 5.25" indicated by the latch.
Amiga 5.25" drives were for the Sidecar and external, or internal on the A2000 with the Bridgeboard..
Amiga 5.25" drives were for the Sidecar and external, or internal on the A2000 with the Bridgeboard..
Wow what the hell ... So it acts like a bridgeboard for the A500? Glues the 286 to the 68K bus? That's just wild!
January 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Wow what the hell ... So it acts like a bridgeboard for the A500? Glues the 286 to the 68K bus? That's just wild!
I had the older A2088 XT compatible bridgeboard with mine, came with a 20MB hard disk split 10MB each for Amiga and PC.
It inspired me at the time to write this Amiga demo.
youtube.com/watch?v=FD07...
It inspired me at the time to write this Amiga demo.
youtube.com/watch?v=FD07...
youtube.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I had the older A2088 XT compatible bridgeboard with mine, came with a 20MB hard disk split 10MB each for Amiga and PC.
It inspired me at the time to write this Amiga demo.
youtube.com/watch?v=FD07...
It inspired me at the time to write this Amiga demo.
youtube.com/watch?v=FD07...
Hah. Things were much weirder back then. The Amiga 2000 had XT/AT slots that were only active when a bridgeboard was installed. You could partition a hard disk from the bridgeboard to share it with the Amiga, but the Amiga couldn't boot from it, so you had to have a boot floppy.
January 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Hah. Things were much weirder back then. The Amiga 2000 had XT/AT slots that were only active when a bridgeboard was installed. You could partition a hard disk from the bridgeboard to share it with the Amiga, but the Amiga couldn't boot from it, so you had to have a boot floppy.
The 5.25" drive gives it away, it's fitted with an A2286 bridgeboard that can run Windows 3.1 fine.
January 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The 5.25" drive gives it away, it's fitted with an A2286 bridgeboard that can run Windows 3.1 fine.
Interesting.
That A2000 does have a bridgeboard installed, so, possibly that is not even a slow way of running windows on Amiga.
That A2000 does have a bridgeboard installed, so, possibly that is not even a slow way of running windows on Amiga.
January 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Interesting.
That A2000 does have a bridgeboard installed, so, possibly that is not even a slow way of running windows on Amiga.
That A2000 does have a bridgeboard installed, so, possibly that is not even a slow way of running windows on Amiga.
I keep meaning to get one of those for my Amiga Bridgeboard. Should give it a bit of a speed bump.
January 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I keep meaning to get one of those for my Amiga Bridgeboard. Should give it a bit of a speed bump.
MOS 6502 was the girl I first took to the dance.
Then 6510, 68000, 68030 and then an 386SX in my Amiga Bridgeboard. My first X86 main machine was an IBM Blue Lightning 75 Mhz in 1995.
I avoided Intel CPU's until my Q9400 in about 2009. Back to AMD now.
Then 6510, 68000, 68030 and then an 386SX in my Amiga Bridgeboard. My first X86 main machine was an IBM Blue Lightning 75 Mhz in 1995.
I avoided Intel CPU's until my Q9400 in about 2009. Back to AMD now.
December 10, 2024 at 11:41 PM
MOS 6502 was the girl I first took to the dance.
Then 6510, 68000, 68030 and then an 386SX in my Amiga Bridgeboard. My first X86 main machine was an IBM Blue Lightning 75 Mhz in 1995.
I avoided Intel CPU's until my Q9400 in about 2009. Back to AMD now.
Then 6510, 68000, 68030 and then an 386SX in my Amiga Bridgeboard. My first X86 main machine was an IBM Blue Lightning 75 Mhz in 1995.
I avoided Intel CPU's until my Q9400 in about 2009. Back to AMD now.