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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Ral-Clan on December 18, 2014, 05:46:38 PM

Title: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 18, 2014, 05:46:38 PM
If I ever had to love a PC it might be this one I just stumbled accross (not my video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-FTqZHrmA

The Schneider EuroPC II looks like it could have come right out of the Amiga production line ca. 1988!

http://oldmachinery.blogspot.ca/2013/03/schneider-europc.html
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: wawrzon on December 18, 2014, 06:35:49 PM
a girl i know had one around '90. wasnt too sexy. one could play lemmings on that though.
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 18, 2014, 06:43:45 PM
Would be a good candidate to put an Amiga motherboard into, or a modern PC motherboard booting straight into UAE.
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: blanning on December 18, 2014, 11:41:06 PM
I wouldn't mind getting a hold of one of these...    Think of it as the Japanese Amiga.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=sharp+x68000&oq=sharp+x68000&gs_l=img.3...191.695.0.951.5.5.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.60.img..5.0.0._w1ZXxgyzGc
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: TCMSLP on December 19, 2014, 09:12:52 AM
Quote from: blanning;780139
I wouldn't mind getting a hold of one of these...    Think of it as the Japanese Amiga.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=sharp+x68000&oq=sharp+x68000&gs_l=img.3...191.695.0.951.5.5.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.60.img..5.0.0._w1ZXxgyzGc


That looks like an MSX :)
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: som99 on December 19, 2014, 09:33:59 AM
The X68000 is a nice machine, a friend of mine has one and I'm still looking for one for my collection but they go quite high most of the time (well over 1000$ in Sweden and abroad you have the crazy shipping), they have a lot of PSU problems nowdays tho but it's quite trivial to fix for most of us :)

The IBM PC compatible PC I have never seen, would be nice to have in my collection but nothing I will hunt for, I have seen a few russian clone machines sell now and then with the "amiga" wedge look :)

But to buy it and replace the motherboard with a modern machine mini-ITX board would not be something I would do, it's not any form of recent standard on the innards anyways so would be the same hackjob as doing the same on any Amiga wedge and such a waste on a less common machine.

I wish for a Wedge case for a modern machine but without the connections to use CNC machines etc it's hell, so I have been thinking of experimenting with building one in pepakura and fiberglass and reinforced inside but doubt the results :/ ( will try to build a Fallout terminal before I try any wedge case to get the hang of it).
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: Lurch on December 19, 2014, 09:36:15 AM
So it's an XT in a C128/C64 disguise.... run...
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: som99 on December 19, 2014, 09:46:37 AM
Quote from: Lurch;780172
So it's an XT in a C128/C64 disguise.... run...


Haha sometimes I wish we had a function to +rep a post :)
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 19, 2014, 03:08:33 PM
Quote from: Lurch;780172
So it's an XT in a C128/C64 disguise.... run...

Actually, when I first saw it I thought more: C65 !

(http://s2.postimg.org/n3iny7ed1/C65_Old_Comp_2.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/n3iny7ed1/)

(http://s1.postimg.org/wz0g15cm3/Portrait.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/wz0g15cm3/)
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: XDelusion on December 19, 2014, 04:36:34 PM
I could see my self getting excited over having found one, say at a flea market or something. Then after I realized how much I just spent thinking I found a rare Amiga or Atari and ended up with a piece of crap under powered DOS machine, I'd be furious! :)
Title: Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 19, 2014, 06:35:44 PM
Quote from: XDelusion;780190
I could see my self getting excited over having found one, say at a flea market or something. Then after I realized how much I just spent thinking I found a rare Amiga or Atari and ended up with a piece of crap under powered DOS machine, I'd be furious! :)


Yeah, I should have stated in my original post, it's really the design of the case I like.  The PC guts don't thrill me (although an XT is starting to have a little bit of retro interest - but not much).