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Blog Epsilon's World: Amiga 500 with AmiKit 12, Pistorm and Checkmate (13. Dec. 2023)
In his latest blog entry in his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows how he installs an Amiga 500 board in a Checkmate 1500 Plus case, provides it with a Pistorm upgrade and then installs AmiKit 12. ...

Video: Installation of an Amiga 500 in a Checkmate 1500 Plus (30. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Jan Beta introduces the "Checkmate 1500 Plus" case and shows how to install an Amiga 500 in it....

Blog Epsilon's World: Checkmate 1500 Mini with RPI4B and Greaseweazle (19. Aug. 2022)
After restoring an Amiga 2000 (part 1, part 2), Epsilon has already started his next project: in his blog 'Epsilon's World' he now reports how he installs a Raspberry Pi 4 into a Checkmate A1500 mini case and then running it with AmiKit XE including a Gre...

Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s (05. Apr. 2022)
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers. In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 155 - preview and excerpts (21. Feb. 2022)
Previews and excerpts of Amiga Future 155 (March/April 2022) have been published today. This issue includes reviews of 'Attack of the PETSCII Robots' and 'Checkmate A1500' as well as a "Special" about AmigaOS 3.2.1. Amiga Future magazine is available as a...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Jan. 2022)
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. November/December 2021 news Old art...

AdAstra3000: Cases and keycaps for the do-it-yourself Amiga (30. Jun. 2021)
Dennis Pauler from Virtual Dimension shows how to assemble an A500+ himself with several videos on his YouTube channel in the tinkering corner. The first two episodes show in detail how to solder and assemble the 344 components. In a third video it is exp...

Pre-order starts soon: Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format (29. May. 2021)
Stephen Jones had an A3000-inspired case crowdfunded in 2018, reviving the "Checkmate" brand he used thirty years ago for an A500 desktop case. Announced in late summer, the "Checkmate Mini" variant which is significantly smaller and intended for motherbo...

Kickstarter campaign for Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format (09. Dec. 2020)
In 2018, Stephen Jones financed a case inspired by an A3000 by crowdfunding and revived his brand "Checkmate" for that which he used 30 years ago for an A500 desktop case. In late summer the "Checkmate Mini" was announced which is much smaller and is mean...

Stephen Jones announced smaller version of his "Checkmate 1500 Plus" case (03. Sep. 2020)
In September 2018, Stephen Jones successfully financed his case Checkmate 1500 Plus which was inspired by the A3000. This version of the Checkmate, which Jones said he is going to sell the last 300 pieces in the near future, was remarkably bigger than the...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Sep. 2020)
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2020 news Old articles ...

Computer case: Second batch of Checkmate 1500 Plus can be preordered (03. Nov. 2019)
As announced, Stephen Jones will produce another batch of maximal 500 pieces. From the first batch, still 100 cases have to be delivered. These cases for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200 now can be preordered. The delivery time is three up to six ...

10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast: Episode 40 - The Checkmate-1500-Plus case (07. Oct. 2019)
The 40. episode of Douglas Compton's 10-Minute-Amiga-Retro-Cast is about the computer case Checkmate 1500 Plus crowdfunded by Stephen Jones. The video shows the installation of an Amiga 500 together with a Gotek drive and the Romulator. A n...

Video interview: Mike Battilana (Cloanto) (03. May. 2019)
In February the managing director of Cloanto, Mike Battilana, succeeded in transferring all Amiga rights from Amiga Inc. to "C-A Acquisition Corp." which was founded by him. After that Stephen 'ClusterUK' Jones (e.g. Checkmate A1500 Plus) started a crowd ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 136 (08. Jan. 2019)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 136 (January/February 2019) have been released today and can be ordered from the magazine staff or various Amiga dealers. This issue's topics include an interview with Stephen Jones (Checkmate A1500, iMica),...

Case: Crowdfunding of Checkmate A1500 Plus at 45 % (09. Sep. 2018)
The announced crowdfunding of the computer case "Checkmate A1500 Plus" initiated by Stephen Jones was started and within ten days has collect almost half of the required sum of about 87.000 Euro. ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 134 (04. Sep. 2018)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 134 (September/October 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include reviews of the 2017 edition of the processor c...

Case: Crowdfunding of Checkmate A1500 Plus announced (26. Aug. 2018)
The Checkmate A1500 is a case for the Amiga 500 which transforms it into a desktop computer similar to the Amiga 2000 (amiga-news.de reported; a video about the historical backgrounds have been released two months ago). Stephen Jones has announc...

Amiga history: Pictures of Checkmate-1500 case (27. Dec. 2017)
Under the title link a collector has published pictures of one of his two Checkmate 1500. This is a metal case sold around the year 1990 for the Amiga 500, which offered more space for extensions (entry in Big Book of Amiga Hardware). ...

AROS complete system: iMica one (26. Feb. 2009)
Steve "Cluster UK" Jones who was the manager of several well-known former Amiga companies like Checkmate Digital (A 1500), HiQ and Siamese Systems is getting involved in Amiga again and offers a complete system for AROS in his webshop. The computer i...