Your worst Amiga hack!

[giZmo350]

Over the years (and especially when I was a kid), I have tried some pretty crazy hacks on different peices of hardware. One time I put an 8 horse Kholer engine on my mini-bike! Got caught going 60mph in town with it!  :crazy:   I had an idea to take an A500 motherboard and cram it to a Commodore SX Executive. Anyone try that? What is your worst Amiga hack experiment? What's the strangest thing you ever tried to cram an Amiga motherboard into? And what's the worst experiment you ever botched! Pics would be GREAT!  :-D

[Piru]

A1200 tower conversion

Amiga 1200 68060 64MHz (+28.2%) and PPC 603p 266MHz (+10.0%) and BlizzardVisionPPC. 128MB of 50ns memory, total 130GB hd (of which 100GB SCSI2). quick overview

Some details:
- Selfmade IDEFIX hardware, allowing 4 ide devices.
- PCMCIA reset fix, 100mbit PCMCIA NIC.
- Selfmade external keyboard. pic 1, pic 2, pic 3.
- Selfmade fully shielded BVisionPPC cable, allowing sharp 1600 x 1200 x 16 picture
- HD floppy disk drive

Ugly motherf*cker, don't you agree? Gotta love that opening to house the BPPC... Check out the amount of tape to keep the thing together... :-)

The system is no longer operational. The system was used for some early MorphOS development (before Pegasos). The tower now houses my peg1 server:

PEGASOS I with April2 chip running PowerPC 750CXe (G3) 600MHz and Club 3D Radeon 9200SE 128MB. 1.2GB of PC-133 REG SDRAM, 80GB + 400GB + 400GB HDD.

[motorollin]

That tower is massive!  :-o  And yes, very ugly too  :lol:

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moto

[Dr_Righteous]

Actually, the tower itself looks fine... It's the cabling nightmare inside that looks like hell.

My worst hack on my A4000D so far has been my attempt at making new pegs for my A3640, since the originals are MIA. Right now I have two PC motherboard pegs superglued together, and it's still not quite long enough to support it.

The craziest hack, I think, is supergluing the SIMMs in place, since the lock tabs have all snapped off. Ahh if only that 8MB chip jumper worked...

[AmigaPete]

... has to be Irving Gould or Medhi Ali.

Pete

[motorollin]

AmigaPete wrote:
... has to be Irving Gould or Medhi Ali.

Pete

Eh?

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moto

[KThunder]

its not a hack its a consumer inovation :-D

i did some pretty crazy stuff with my a1000s memory cards and stuff

i did a really ugly pc psu for my a1200

and now im thinking of towering my 3000

[delshay]

try a right angled ide interface on my a1200 so my hardrive can be cableless...

turn my amiga on, only to find im getting a high pitch sound & lots of smoke..


also sending 5v to the 3v rail..turn the power on then saw the lights in the flat go dim..then there was a bang..end of ANTEC TRUECONTROL..the thing is done this twice..wires were touching..

[opi]

I was (I still am) afraid of HW changes. But I patched my OS like crazy. ;-)

[Merc]

Aside from towering my A1200, the only other thing I did was the PCMCIA reset fix on the 1200 mobo -- soldered a transistor and 2 resistors directly onto some pins of one of the chips!
It even worked!  :-D

[Plaz]

Hacked my first Amiga 500 into a large ugly unix desktop case back in 1988. Once I have it stuffed in there, I added flicker fixer, over-clocked 030/50mhz accellerator, memory, HD, second diskdrive, larger powersupply and put the keyboard (still in the original A500 case) on an extended detachable cord. Then I stuck a lable on the front "Amiga TS500" for "totally superior" :-) It was the bomb back then, but by today's standards, it's UGLY. Still have it on the shelf and it still works, but I think I pulled the flicker fixer to update my 2000 some time later. Posted pictures of it years and years ago. I've theatened to pull it out and take some updated photos, but never got around to it. That was a fun project. Later I did a similar project with a 1200 MB and a PC clone case. That one's not quite as ugly, but it aint a beauty either. I can see new life for the hacked 1200 if the ACK PPC expansion sees the light of day.

Plaz

[yogisumo]

@Dr Righteous

I replaced at least 2 of the pegs with plastic bolts I got from Home Depot in my A4000D tower project.  Helps keep the cpu card from popping out when the tower is standing up...

[J-Golden]

I once tried to make a A2000 mobo fit in a standard PeeCee tower case.  Thing was I only had tin snips to do the case augmenting and by the end it not only didn't work, but the case was one giant razor blade, a twisted WARPED razor blade!!! :crazy:

[Karlos]

Piru wrote:

Ugly motherf*cker, don't you agree? Gotta love that opening to house the BPPC... Check out the amount of tape to keep the thing together... :-)

I have seen an even more hacked tower conversion than that. I'm just waiting for fluffy to post the pictures :-D

[Dr_Righteous]

@yogisumo

Yeah, I saw some pics on here where someone had done that with their Cyberstorm. Next stop, Home Depot!