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Now someone needs to do this for the 8 pin 'DIN' commodore connector. They seem impossible to find now other than from people who've already bought up all of them to make commodore video cables.

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I believe it's the same issue with the DB-23 connector on the Amiga. It's would be somewhat surprising if no one has done something similar for that connector. Then again, to build an entirely new Amiga you'd still need to harvest the custom chips and then you may very well be able to get the DB-23 connector as well.

IIRC you can build a completely new Amiga now, or very close to it.

Plus there are FPGA Amigas, but that is another matter.

I don't think you can replace the custom chips, without using FPGAs. If FPGA replacements exists for all of the custom chips I don't know.

There's also weird resistor or capacity pack somewhere that doesn't have a modern replacement.

You can get an entire Amiga as an FPGA, but that's a little different than a chip for chip replacement.

https://github.com/nonarkitten/amiga_replacement_project

Can't tell how complete it is, but they are on a mission. :-D

There are a few retro computing youtubers that have done it. There are reproduction motherboards available.

Male 262 degrees 8 pin DIN connectors (for C64 video cables etc) are readily available from for example AliExpress.

Couldn't find any female connectors (for the motherboard) though.

If I am not mistaken, it is the same connector as the one used by the Sega Megadrive 1, although with a different pinout. In principle, you should be able to get a Megadrive cable, cut it, and reorder the pins.

They seem readily available until you try to actually order them. Everywhere that sell electronic components has an entry for them still but has no actual stock.

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