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Title: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: leirbag28 on November 14, 2007, 06:44:57 PM


 Its like a customized Graffiti Job :-)  like it alot. I think I am gonna mess with my A1200 like this before I paint it black.

http://syphus.untergrund.net/a1200/a1200_7.jpg

Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: motorollin on November 14, 2007, 06:49:06 PM
Looks a bit of a mess TBH.

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Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: Akiko on November 14, 2007, 06:50:13 PM

Abomination  :-P
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: Rob on November 14, 2007, 07:53:35 PM
@leirbag28

It reminds me of a lot of guitars I've seen.
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: TiredOLife on November 14, 2007, 07:57:03 PM
That's an absolute disgrace.
I'm not advocating violence or anything.
But only because hanging is too good for them.
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: twizzle on November 14, 2007, 08:01:24 PM
 
                 That Looks AWFULL
         all it needs now, are some furry dice
         to compliment his sticker tuned amiga
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: adonay on November 14, 2007, 08:04:19 PM
reminds me of a underground tunnel, wonder if it smells as pissy  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: Sure looks that way
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: Hodgkinson on November 14, 2007, 08:10:05 PM
Meths seems a good idea to start with...
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: hamtronix on November 14, 2007, 08:23:52 PM
looks like a 30 something vomited spray paint on it...
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: cv643d on November 14, 2007, 08:42:48 PM
I liked it.

Back in the day, the hardcore "sceners" would spray paint their A500 in neon colors and add cool one-off "scene"-stickers to their casings

This must belong to some DJ or something..
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: koaftder on November 14, 2007, 08:57:09 PM
Somebody likes their amiga 1200 and decorated it according to their tastes. Nothing wrong with that. I'm guessing that machine has rocked a lot of demos as well. Cool.
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: A1260 on November 14, 2007, 09:22:03 PM
this is what i call a "SCENER MACHINE"....  :-D
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: odin on November 15, 2007, 10:07:40 AM
So the guy stickers up all the ventilation slits and then has to add a fan? :crazy:
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: skurk on November 15, 2007, 10:19:14 AM
Don't care much about his computer, but I'm having problems with his handwriting.

What does it say on the sticker?

"Hello my name is SYPTOS"..?  Or something?
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: motorollin on November 15, 2007, 10:33:28 AM
Syphus? That's what it says above the F keys I think.

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Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: tokyoracer on November 15, 2007, 10:36:28 AM
Customised graffiti?! Just looks like a mass of stickers and a few maker scribbles. Degrading for an A1200.
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: McVenco on November 15, 2007, 10:50:59 AM
I'm going to give my A1200 a custom paintjob as well, but it's going to look a lot better than this, that's for sure :-)
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: neuroflip on November 15, 2007, 11:04:46 AM
i prefer the Dubmood / Razor1911 atari machine: http://www.razor1911.com/dubmood/bilder/AtariKlar.jpg

another scener machine :D
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: tokyoracer on November 15, 2007, 11:40:54 AM
Don't like that either, some sort of spaypaint work would look a whole lot better. This just looks like the scribbles at a public conviniance.
Sorry to be so negitive but it just doesn't look good to me or deserving for them computers.
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: jj on November 15, 2007, 12:06:23 PM
They both look dreadful.

If you want to see what graffiti should look like, and I dont mean spraypainting the line "Throw rocks at cops", look at the somebory like blakeys work
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: Housey on November 15, 2007, 12:36:31 PM
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JJ wrote:
They both look dreadful.

If you want to see what graffiti should look like, and I dont mean spraypainting the line "Throw rocks at cops", look at the somebory like blakeys work


Hi,

do you mean Banksy (http://www.banksy.co.uk/)?  I'd like some of his stuff on a 1200  ;-)
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: jj on November 15, 2007, 12:46:35 PM
Thats exacctly what I meant,  Im very tired, Kinda of new blakey sounded wrong lol.

THanks for sorting out my brain :)
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: Housey on November 15, 2007, 12:55:28 PM

hehhe no worries.... pretty cool artist though...
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: jj on November 15, 2007, 12:58:39 PM
Hi stuff is amazzing and a lot of his stufff speaks out so much  against todays society.

I love the countryside painting with the cctv cameras in it
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: leirbag28 on November 15, 2007, 01:06:35 PM
@neuroflip

 Now that is one seriously Disgusting crap.  Perhaps its because I think Atari STs look like Cheap Public School computers. But nevertheless...........it looks like someone left it in a New York City Public school bathroom for kids to tag up on it before they get caught.  Ugly.

The 1200 i think is a cool looking Scener machine.  The Scene here in NY has been trying to arrise real hard, but its taking long and is wayyyy long overdue.....but I am glad because now they have MicroMusic Clubs (AKA ChipTunes clubs. Some call it MicroDisco hehe.

Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: krize on November 15, 2007, 01:08:22 PM
Demoscene style, go to a demo party and you will surely see some A1200 like this (with hd hanging out etc etc.)..

Not too good tags, but funny :)
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: tokyoracer on November 15, 2007, 02:05:48 PM
A demo scene related 1200 would be great! Paradox, Vision Factory or Fairlight would be nice examples.
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: McVenco on November 15, 2007, 03:27:22 PM
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tokyoracer wrote:
A demo scene related 1200 would be great! Paradox, Vision Factory or Fairlight would be nice examples.


Hmmm, maybe I could do that as well...

Seriously, I currently have a yellowed A1200 and A500, and there are a few more or less yellowed A500s on their way, and I'm thinking of giving them a (good, not crappy half-work) paintjob, either with a gaming or demo theme (think about those new skinned Commodore PC cases).
Anyone have any ideas on how they should look? I'm thinking about painting the complete case, including the keyboard (and then sticking some custom-made new characters on the keys).
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: leirbag28 on November 15, 2007, 05:58:21 PM
@McVenco


 Just make sure you first cut holes into the A500 for future upgrades.............like a slimline CDROM port or Jumper switchers and USB ports. (Incase you decide to add these later, you wont have to repaint the holes.)

Also I Highly suggest flat black, then coat it with Matte finish clear paint.  YOu cant go wrong with the correct black and most likely the Keystickers will be black or white.  REMEMBER to label each key at the bottom so that when you paint it you know where those keys belong............becuase you do have to remove each one to paint them.  You can spread them all out on a piece of cardboard and paint them lightly at  seperate intervals so that they dont get stuck to the cardboard. Move them a little bit after the first coat, and then spray them again evenly.

Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: buzz on November 15, 2007, 06:49:58 PM
The owner of that machine (syphus) is extremely creative and makes some awesome music. He is also a very nice guy :) download some stuff from his site:

http://syphus.untergrund.net/

The fan was for additional cooling his ppc card i think, which needed more than the grate could provide, and to be honest if you want to pull air through the machine you don't want the grate open if you are using a fan.



Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: motorollin on November 15, 2007, 07:48:47 PM
He's online now :-)

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Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: syphus on November 15, 2007, 07:53:02 PM
Cheers Buzz, you're absolutely right.

Well I've taken a bit of a beating on here, for some reason ;)

I'm amazed that those people who consider my A1200 to be a work of gross iconoclasm fail to recognise the obvious fact that any self-respecting Amiga user OBVIOUSLY has a legion of alternative, unblemished machines from which to choose. 'Unblemished' is a bit of a joke, actually, considering the propensity of CBM plastics to turn piss-coloured in just a couple of years' exposure to British tuppaware sunlight... So I use multiple Amigas, productively, every day: some are 'decorated', most are not :D

Anyway:

(http://syphus.untergrund.net/a1200/amigassmall.jpg)

So, as you can clearly see from the images on my site, the peculiar and rather ungraceful cooling apparatus was constructed so that my 060/PPC could get the cooling it needed despite the A1200 having first one, then two hard drives inside. Raising the case with the large rubber feet gave a lot of airflow underneath, allowing the 060/50mhz to breathe. Actually, I really wish the 603e+ had the option of disabling the PPC... That's why, eventually, I part-traded the 603e+ for a straight 060. So drawing up air specifically through that fan on the top makes for an extremely cool machine that I can run all night, or for an entire live gig, without any worries. Better safe than sorry, yeah?

Oh, but I am sorry about the Atari :P (That 520STe went an even nastier colour than any of my Amigas - how 'bout that?)


EDIT: Sorry, this might all make a bit more sense with the full picture gallery;)

http://syphus.untergrund.net/a1200/ (http://syphus.untergrund.net/a1200/)
Title: Re: Look At this Tricked out Amiga 1200 ! Nice!
Post by: motorollin on November 15, 2007, 08:02:38 PM
Nice gradient on the 2nd A1200 down :-)
(not including the empty casing at the top)

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