Putting a1200 in a PC case...

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Dudes,, the time has come :-) Im gonna put my miggy 1200 in a case (home made from a PC case) Basically, its going in a desktop case (from a Compaq deskpro),

Is there some way of powering the amiga from the PSU? Im sure i read it somewhere here... anyone got the wiring schematics or any advice before i proberbly break my amiga?

Cheers

Kev

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I think its one of the old type PC cases so the ATX function on the PSU wont be a problem - i hope. I know its an ugly case but im gonna spray it and hopefully get it looking kinda nice :-) Heh, good job i have an amiga 500+ to test the PSU wiring before i wire up my a1200 hahah :-)

Cheers carl

kev.

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Definatley. Im going to get some spray and laquer tonight, the case and front is going to be silver, then if i can get the colours and make a stencil im going to put a big tick on the top :-)

I have no room (or spare case) for a tower, damm even a desktop will be nicer than the a1200 vanilla case.

Cheers!

Kev

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Yeah, its one of the old P133/P166 desktops, but its kinda big, lotsa room and easy to modify. I will post pictures here of the actual making and the finished project :-)

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UPDATE ON BUILD :-)

Ok! Now we are getting somewhere! The motherboard is all mounted onto the base with the help of some runners to elavate it, the CD drive, HDD, 2 floppys are installed, front of case is now sprayed, along with 75% of the main case shell itself, and the whole thing is booting off the old PC PSU (Thanks to Jurrassic Camper for assistance with the PSU problem). Ordered a keyboard adaptor from www.powerc.com hopefully get that in the next day or so, then the top can go on. Need to get a scandoubler/ ff next (have one lined up)... hopefully will be taking my frankenstein to the bath amiga show if its finished in time, maybe even have an accelerater / ram expansion in there too :-) So far, have shot 20 photos of the build process, will be uploading them all (or at least the good ones) up to the website when the project is done.

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Come along to the bath show - you can play on it then :-)

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@amigamad Cheers dude - mesured all wires with a multimeter - blue was neg12. The a500 survived anyway (its only a mobo :-)

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Heh,, cant stand a600's...

Anyway - the a500 survived.

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Anyone need a slightly cooked mobo?...

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Mobo is fine :-)