Amiga 1200+ Black Box Edition

[Crom00]

Started to restore an Amiga 1200 system with parts off of Ebay and local scores.

Spoke to Lierbag who actually VJ's with his amiga against Mac laptop touting VJ's and out classes them using a NTSC DCTV, 030 with gobs of ram and fast SCSI Hard drive.

Check out his youtube vids...

Well you can imagine the instance anyone sees "AMIGA" and that beige wedge shaped box, the competition will make sure to point out the use of outdated machines.

Lierbag pointed out that if it's black and you hide the Amiga name well no one bothers you.

So I'm going to use just commodore branding since it has more "Retro street cred".

Here is the logo for the case badge...



So far I've painted the keyboard keys using krylon matte, going to make it black and sliver with the following:

Internal Mini-itx power supply
External 3.5 Ide port
Scart to component using adapter off of ebay
NeoBitz Svideo if possibe
IDE FIX
A4000 HD floppy drive on right side
slim Laptop CD-rom
IDE CF hard drive using 5 gig microdrive

any ideas & sugestions?

[AJCopland]

Yes! Remember to show us lots of pictures so we can drool! :-D

[adolescent]

Crom00 wrote:
Scart to component using adapter off of ebay
NeoBitz Svideo if possibe

Why not just use the NeoBitz component adapter?  I believe it does S-video also.

IDE CF hard drive using 5 gig microdrive

I'd stay away from the microdrive.  For reliability, performance, cost, etc. I'd go with a normal CF card.

[RRunner]

I really like that case badge!

[a1200]

I'd stay away from the microdrive. For reliability, performance, cost, etc. I'd go with a normal CF card.

Yeah CF card is the way to go, fast and non-mechanical.

[Crom00]

I sourced a 5gb microdrive for $10

also the neobitz rgb to component board had issues with the Amiga 1200 didn't it?

Did a keyboard layout using the same font. Will use waterslide clear decal paper. I will paint the keys sliver where the letters show through. The decals will have printed black, the clear portion will contain the keyboard letter and will display the silver underneath.

Bad job explaining it but the pictures will tell the story.

Also thinking of using bondo to fill in the Amiga recessed logo on the A1200 case. Kind of horrible to do that but trying to see how far I can take it using just paint.

Leaving the Amiga name detracts...It actually screams "hey, don't hire me, I'm a nut using a 16 year old computer and I may just screw up your show..."

But I dunno, just a cool project to work on whenever the girlfriend ain't around.

[leirbag28]

@Crom00

Wow, that is an amazing logo, I really like it. Looks amazingly professional
you have now been selected to make me one of those for my A600 and A1200 and perhaps my CD32 witch I may paint black or silver.

Also, I don't recommend those MicroDrives...........they are slow and have moving parts.......instead get a 4gig CompactFlash or even a 1gig, they go cheap online.


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Lierbag pointed out that if it's black and you hide the Amiga name well no one bothers you.
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When I worked at the club, and when im at certain performances, I block the name "Amiga" for their sakes, and sometimes they ask me "what software will you be using?"  and I tell them I use Hardware (Genlock, ChromaKey etc...) so as to not answer: SCALA MM300, Elan Performer, DCTV) which they will not recognize or realize its ancient hardware, but you know..until recently Mac VJ software has NOT been able to do fast video live mixing  at resolutions higher than 320x240 smoothly...........pretty darn sad cuz DCTV has been able to do smooth 720x240 video for a long long time since the invention of the 68040.

I have Arkaos VJ for my Mac Mini 1.6ghz, and it just does not run smooth enough.

this kind of thing makes me enjoy my Amiga all the more:-)

[rkauer]

 Nobody needs a Neobitz in A600/1200 !

 The Y and C signals are already present inside those two Amigas!

 It's a simple case to route and buffer the signals and nothing more!

 For other types of video connection or different Amiga models the answer is different, obviously.

 I'm in the middle of challenge: make an YUV converter for any Amiga inside an A520 case, so stay tuned! :crazy:

[Crom00]

Is there a diagram of how to make this YC connection?
What parts are required?

This will probably be my last Amiga so as many bells and whistles I can throw in the better...

Here is the current keyboard styling

[Crom00]

leirbag28 wrote:
@Crom00

Wow, that is an amazing logo, I really like it. Looks amazingly professional
 

Thanks the whole point is to make it look as pro as possible, yet retain the wedge case and original keyboard. Clean logos and fancy names with WORKSTATION thrown in will confuse most in a club setting.

Hell maybe I should just put an EDIROL logo on there, funny...they use BE OS for their editing appliance...

[Kristian95]

looks pretty good I am wondering though whether someone might notice that your keyboard has no Y ??  :-P

[alexh]

Spot the deliberate mistake. He was just checking see if anyone was paying attention.

[Crom00]

There are more mistakes. Can you spot them?

[mingle]

No numbers, ! @ # $ % , etc???

[Eclipse]

F11 and F12?