I am currently building an Amiga 4000T replica that I got from Amibay. I got the components from Mouser last week and spent the weekend starting the build. There was a lot of components to solder on this and I am far from finished, but happy to say that I am finished with 90% of all passives. Backside of the motherboard is finished!
I still have a ton of 1206 passives to solder on the daughter cards. But those will be far smother to build since the cards are smaller.
I just finished building my black Amiga 1200 based on a ReAmiga 1200 motherboard and a TF1260 turbo card and I am very happy with it!
System specifications:
I built the ReAmiga A1200 motherboard myself. I used parts from a broken Amiga 1200 motherboard. Halfway in the build I decided to build a second one as a backup so I got a white motherboard and built them both back to back. Both motherboards are tested and fully working. They are equiped with full LEDs. The white one has all green LEDs while the black one reminds of a christmas tree when its powered on.
The build was farily simple, as with most replicas close to original C= designs the amount of passives that has to be soldered is a lot, although not as insane as an A4000D/T.
I decided to build my motherboards without any sockets. There are two primary reasons for this, I can not professionally clean the motherboard, and cleaning flux from sockets is very difficult for me without an ultrasonic bath. The motherboard acts as a heatsink and it is more efficient if the chips are soldered to the motherboard IMHO. For example, Alice gets very hot (as does Lisa). Off course it is also more reliable, I have yet to find a socket that is not reliable though.
If I had to chose to keep just one Amiga it would be difficult not to chose this A1200, it is fast thanks to having an 060 CPU. HDMI output is a nice luxury and with high resolution monitor drivers running at 1024×768 (in 8 colors) it almost feels like you had an RTG graphics card in it when you are in Workbench.