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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Desverger on August 21, 2004, 05:28:16 AM

Title: Little project. Check this out.
Post by: Desverger on August 21, 2004, 05:28:16 AM

I get tired of posting and reading about problems as I'm sure everyone here does.  I thought I would post something cool.

(http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7st31/HPIM305-1.jpg)
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I have taken an external amiga floppy drive and added it to my scsi tower.  I am powering it from the tower psu which should take some strain off the miggy.  Future plans include a burner and to power the amiga from this AT psu so it can all be controlled from one power switch.  I welcome any ideas or criticisms.

Enjoy.

Title: Re: Little project. Check this out.
Post by: Argus on August 22, 2004, 03:18:21 AM

The A500 is very easy to put in a tower, imho.  Just follow the A500 hack notes on Aminet.  You don't really need a GVP A530 accelerator card, any sidecar A500 expansion can be useful with a towerized A500 motherboard (to add hardisk, ram, etc.). If you're handy with a solder iron and multimeter you can do many cool projects.  Now if only someone would make a clockport expansion for the a500.....sigh.....

Title: Re: Little project. Check this out.
Post by: Doobrey on August 22, 2004, 04:24:48 AM

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Argus wrote:
  Now if only someone would make a clockport expansion for the a500.....sigh.....

 I take it you haven`t read about Stedy`s plans then ?
He`s planning to get a small batch of CDTV/A500 clockport adapters made (amongst other things)

 See this thread  (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7510) for more, and give Stedy some support..

Title: Re: Little project. Check this out.
Post by: Desverger on August 22, 2004, 04:36:07 AM

Actually this is just an external scsi tower that I am going to use to hold all my drives and power my 1200.  I wanna keep the classic 1200 desktop case but still have some expansion capabilities without having tons of external boxes all over the place.

Title: Re: Little project. Check this out.
Post by: TheMagicM on August 22, 2004, 06:23:21 AM

purty fancy!!

Title: Re: Little project. Check this out.
Post by: jjans on August 22, 2004, 07:19:14 AM

I did much the same with my A500/A530 for my cd-writer & hard disks in an old 486 desktop. The a500 and a530 are both powered off the same seperate 250 Watt power supply. I left the A500 and A530 in their consoles, but removed the Hardrive from the A530 to keep the CPU cooler. The addition of a real 68030 and 68882 FPU with a Quantum Fireball in there was pretty warm for the tiny little fan in there.

At one time I had 3 hardrives along with the CD-WRITER in the old desktop, but that was a silly waste of power, as I don't need 6 GB of HD space on a classic Amiga. All my installed software barely fills a 2.1 GB disk, so I removed a hard disk for preservation. There is tons of room in there! Likewise, I require a rather large desk.

What I realy need is a way to pass thru the gvpscsi controller for a Zorro LAN card!