The Amiga 3000 is a machine with a place in history. It was one of the first consumer computers that was truly 32 bit, with 32 bit memory, 32 bit address space and 32 bit expansion slots. It could drive typical VGA monitors and it had incredibly fast SCSI for its time. The A3000T kept all the advantages and added more space for everything.<p>It's such a shame that it couldn't have been a product offered by a sane company :(
Defender of the Crown, Bard's Tale, Dungeon Master, The Pawn... such great memories of these incredible games on my Amiga 1000. For me there hasn't been such an exciting computer in the last 30+ years.
A series of unlikely events resulted in me spending the mid-late 90s using an A3500, the prototype for the A3000T. The motherboard was laid out slightly differently (eg, there was no on-board audio input header for CD drives, and there was an extra set of sockets for ROMs with the original A3000 pinout), and the case is slightly different (it's literally the Commodore PC60 case with a different front bezel and port cutouts in the back).<p>Some 30 years after manufacture, it's now sitting under my desk and still bootable. It's got Amiga UNIX installed, and an MNT ZZ9000 (<a href="https://shop.mntmn.com/products/zz9000-for-amiga-preorder" rel="nofollow">https://shop.mntmn.com/products/zz9000-for-amiga-preorder</a>) in the video slot. I've got a partially written Amiga UNIX driver for the card, currently blocked on me reverse engineering MMU setup enough to be able to map the card's video RAM into userland - Amiga UNIX doesn't support Zorro 3, and Zorro 2 only supports 24-bit addressing so there's no way to expose enough video RAM to drive my UWQHD monitor at native resolution otherwise. It's the first computer I ever accessed the web on, and I hope to keep it running utterly ridiculous code for as long as possible.