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Title: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: VingtTrois on August 30, 2015, 10:23:34 PM

AMIGA 600 Portable by Giuseppe Zanco
•Compaq SLT

Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/amigaweb/permalink/10153232989098897/ (Facebook group: 'AMIGA')

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Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: trekiej on August 31, 2015, 12:18:16 AM

good luck

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: XDelusion on August 31, 2015, 04:52:14 AM

Very cool!

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: ExtremeWays on August 31, 2015, 05:31:22 AM

I've always wondered about doing this..  

I'm interested to see how you go with the battery requirement.  There are some pretty good battery capacities out there now..

Does anybody know how much power an A600 motherboard consumes?

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: ddniUK on August 31, 2015, 07:51:57 AM

Nice job vingttrois. Good luck.
I remember speaking to Simon Archer (Rigo) about "Suzanne" his 1997 portable A600 project.

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/suzanne.html

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: som99 on August 31, 2015, 08:38:48 AM

Nice, something I wanted to do if I ever had found a fitting donor case :)
The A600 can't be pulling much more then 25w (I should measure this some day) + peripherals  so with today's batteries you should be able to get a respectable run time on a portable A600 + a decent LCD panel.

Do not forget to build a correct charging circuit depending on battery choice. Will look forward to seeing more pictures on this.

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: VingtTrois on August 31, 2015, 07:56:46 PM

Quote from: ddniUK;794768

Nice job vingttrois. Good luck.
I remember speaking to Simon Archer (Rigo) about "Suzanne" his 1997 portable A600 project.

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/suzanne.html

:) Thank you but I'm not Giuseppe :) it's not my project :)

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: Duce on September 01, 2015, 03:23:00 AM

Yech - maybe (hopefully) it's not done yet, but it looks like someone tried to cram 10 pounds of Monkey plop into a 5 pound bag.

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: paul1981 on September 01, 2015, 01:01:56 PM

Quote from: ExtremeWays;794767

I've always wondered about doing this..  

I'm interested to see how you go with the battery requirement.  There are some pretty good battery capacities out there now..

Does anybody know how much power an A600 motherboard consumes?

I've never measured it, but one thing's for sure (at least with my Amiga's) - A600's run HOT. They give off an awful lot of heat when compared to an A1200.

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: AmmoJammo on September 02, 2015, 11:15:12 AM

Quote from: paul1981;794830

I've never measured it, but one thing's for sure (at least with my Amiga's) - A600's run HOT. They give off an awful lot of heat when compared to an A1200.

I measured it.... I don't remember :lol:

But, the 12volt rail sits at around 100ma, increasing to 300ma or so from memory, when the floppy drive is accessed.

And with my CD rom drive, I need about 3amps on the 5 volt rail as the drive spins up, but under normal use, I can only assume it was less than 2amps, but as I said, I forget :P

So, for a base system, assume about 15watts ;)

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: commatari on September 02, 2015, 05:46:12 PM

I like this concept. Will there be the option to use an external keypad?

Title: Re: AMIGA 600 Portable
Post by: ExtremeWays on September 03, 2015, 12:20:07 AM

Quote from: paul1981;794830

A600's run HOT. They give off an awful lot of heat when compared to an A1200.

I hadn't noticed that.  I'll have to have a look at my A600's + A1200's again and compare!

I suppose you could sink the heat to the portable's chassis somehow.  I can see it's already got some metal in there.  It would be nice to keep the whole thing passive.

Then weight starts to come into it.  It does say "Portable", not ultra-light! :)