Around these parts, we most often associate [Drygol] with his incredible ability to bring damaged or even destroyed vintage computers back to life with a seemingly endless bag of repair and restoration techniques. But this time around, at the request of fellow retro aficionado [MrTrinsic], he was given a special assignment — to not only build a new Amiga 2000 from scratch, but to pack it with so many mods that just physically fitting them into the case would be a challenge in itself.
The final product, dubbed Tesseract, took two and a half years to complete and has been documented over the course of six blog posts. The first step was to get a brand new motherboard, in this case a modern recreation designed by Floppie209, and start populating it with components. With some modifications, the new board slipped neatly into a slick metal case. Unfortunately it quickly became clear some of the mods the duo wanted to install wouldn’t work with the reverse-engineered motherboard. This was around Spring of 2021, which is the last time we checked in on the project.
Laying down capacitors to make extra room.
Things have progressed considerably since then. Despite the initial setback, there were still a dizzying array of upgrades and mods that would work on the board, so [Drygol] embarked on the laborious process of installing of them. When we say this machine is stacked with mods, we mean it literally.
To get everything installed, add-on boards needed to be piled on top of each other like some kind of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Connecting everything together required all ..
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