CU Amiga reader, Simon Archer became obsessed with the idea of owning a portable Amiga (who isn't), devised Suzanne as an experiment. His results can be seen in full in the October 1997 edition of CU Amiga Magazine, whose DIY features have managed to upgrade the standard Amiga to a completely new level.
Suzanne is basically an upgraded A600 in a portable case. It was fitted with an Apollo A620 28MHz 68020 accelerator with 2MB chip ram and 8Mb fast. This was mounted on top of the original 68000 processor. His experiments also led him to attach a CD-ROM drive to make the machine more inline with the features of portable PCs. After some experimentation with SCSI, Simon chose an 8X IDE unit as it cut down on the amount of cabling required and also allowed connection of a 2.5 IDE hard drive. This was accessed on the left-hand side just below the PCMCIA slot is located. A "Glidepoint" finger pad was also used to replace the mouse due to the space, and a PC power supply and black and white monitor were attached by adapting the cabling and a change of monitor drivers.
I admit that this is not an Amiga, or even a clone in its own right. As a result of the article I can see a great many A600 owners resurrecting their system just to get a cheap portable and who knows, we may see someone actually manufacturing systems based upon the Suzanne experiment.
2Mb Chip ram upgrade,
4Mb fast ram,
Apollo A620 28MHz,
8X IDE CD-ROM drive,
880k disk drive,
LCD VGA display,
Glidepoint finger pad.
CU Amiga magazine is published monthly by Emap Images. All copyright of the Suzanne remains with the author, Simon Archer. Myself, Simon Archer and CU Amiga do not accept responsibility for anything that happens that happens to you, your pets, computers, house, or the world as a result of trying this experiment.