Project: New (colored) case for A1200

[amenophis]

Hello Everyone,

First i'd like to thank all of you for following us , I also thank the admin who activated my account ^^
This is an amazing adventure, and we can't wait to ship the first casings.

I'm going to start to work on our new website tonight, to give you all details about our new housings as well as the enhancements we'll add to it.

Our Kickstarter campaign should be available in a matter of hours now, as the Kickstarter team is currently reviewing it.

Please let me answer some of the questions you've raised in the previous posts:
- Indeed our new A1200 casing is a near-to-perfect match to an original commodore one.
Near-to-perfect, because we're adding some enhancements to it, regarding ports & slots for your expansion cards or HxC devices.

- Our new housings are going to be totally compatible with Reloaded A1200 motherboard by Jens. Individual computers are going to produce two versions - A500 compatible & A1200 compatible - designs.

- Colored Keys : If our kickstarter campaign succeeds and the second stretch goal reached, we'll start to work right away to get you New A1200 keyboard as well as New Key Caps, matching our housings colors.

- We plan to deliver screws as well with our housings

- For legal reasons, we will not provide stickers / badges


Should you have any other question or comment do not hesitate to join us on our FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/a1200housings

Thanks for your support !

#AmigaRulez

Edit:
My strongest thanks for VingTrois, who requested activation of my account to the Admins

[amenophis]

Well, I looked and didn't see a clear case version in the gallery, but White & Purple were also present but not on the chart . . .

Hi Wolfe,

If by clear you meant transparent, that's normal you did not see it.
We're working on our prototype, and we intend to make it transparent

For those who do not use Facebook, no worries.
We'll publish the link to our Kickstarter page (as soon as KS team has our campaign validated.. they're reviewing it.)

I'm also preparing a new webpage that'll replace the one actually at http://www.a1200.net
This new webpage will display all the datas about our new housings

Do not hesitate to ask me any questions you might have in the meantime.
We've also set up a dedicated skype account: a1200housings
You can contact me there for any reason, from 2pm to 4pm GMT+1, as often as i can

Thanks guys ^^
#AmigaRulez

[amenophis]

Dear all,

Kickstarter team validated our campaign this afternoon.
We're so very exited about it and early backers already supported us !

Support us too by following this link, and help us make it happen :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/a1200housing/new-a1200-housings-pressed-from-new-molds


Thanks to all of you for your support.
Do not hesitate to comment on our FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/a1200housings

Or Tweeting:
https://twitter.com/NewA1200Housing

#AmigaRulez

[amenophis]

I have backed the project, crossing my fingers it will be funded!

Kickstart link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/a1200housing/new-a1200-housings-pressed-from-new-molds

Thank you very much Som99 and to you also Paul1981!
We know the price tag is slowing people a bit. No really any choice here.


You're awesome guys !

[amenophis]

Hi Guys,

We've updated our video intro on Kickstarter, to show you where we're goign to produce your new cases

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/a1200housing/new-a1200-housings-pressed-from-new-molds

Enjoy

Ps:
This is my first video i'm editing, please don't be too hard on me

[amenophis]

Thanks guys,

You're just all awesome!

We need something like 700 more backers. We're based in europe and with time difference and the lack of informations we have regarding the Amiga users in USA,
Could you please maybe help us to spread the word ?

Thank you DutchInUsa, Oldsmobile_Mike and Apsturk !

I'd like to confirm you that WE WILL manufacture new keyboards when this campaign has reached his goal!
- For A500/A2000/A3000/A600/A1200/A4000.
- Full keyboards as well as key caps sets only if you just need caps.
- Available colors are going to be Original Amiga colors, as well as transparent and all the colors we have on our current KS, to match our cases.
- Some "enhancements" we can't really tell about right now.. but you'll get crazy


Thanks again to all of you for your support,
Spread the word !

Cheers,
Phil

PS:
Guys i'm available on skype if anyone of you want a chat, or to say hi:
Skype account: a1200housings

[amenophis]

Hi All,

- We've just added a new Special Edition by SCOOPEX
- Most of our Cases pledges have now been updated with a new bonus:
  - Commodore: The Amiga Years, Book by Brian Bagnall

Enjoy ^^

[amenophis]

Thank you for your support Mahen
We need more of people like you!

We've also launched our Referral Contest, so all of the backers can get more if they successfully refer our KS to other Amiga fans

Cheers,

[amenophis]

Dear all Backers, Followers and AmigaFans,

Our campaign has ended, and like we knew already we haven't reached our goal.

But we did reached a wide audience of the Amiga community, and we'd like to thank all the awesome backers who supported this campaign.

We'll be back soon and re-launch the campaign on a longer period, starting early September.

We're also share with you some astounding news with you, before the re-launch.

Again, thanks to all of you for this fantastic campaign, and see you in some days

Cheers,
A1200.NET Team.


-> To stay updated you can register in our contact list.
http://www.a1200.net

[amenophis]

Hi Guys,


Hope you all doing great.
As i'd like to confirm you good news, i just saw that IanP nailed it

So i'll simply answer some of your questions/statements here.

To IanP:
Nice catch
We've indeed obtained license to use Amiga name, Amiga logo and the Boing ball.


To Candyman:
Yes, keyboards (internal Amiga 1200 at first) and Key Caps are coming, we just need a bit more time for that. But we do look forward to get mechanical keyboards indeed.
I'm not sure i said molds costs 30KEur each.. I said for the 3 molds  it'll be around 90KEur. The third mold is much smaller than the 2  others.
And we're still working on that!

To Oldsmobile_Mike:
You're right, we'll need all and every of you guys help for that to happen.


Do not hesitate to ask anything guys, We're close to the KS campaign re-launch.


Cheers,
Phil

PS:
Another thing the team wanted me to say so i just put it down here:
The team understood that after they tried their best to demolish our efforts (on the Amiga Impact French Forum), some members are trying to do the same here. We have nothing against them and they can state and tell anything they want! We're not going to react/answer.
But because of allegations of us willing to "hide" informations to the french community, we'd just like to inform you all that before leaving this French forum for another French forum, we clearly and publicly apologized to all supportive members about us not willing to update this forum anymore with our news.
 
We're making new Amiga 1200 cases. This is what we do.
And it's understandable that some people simply don't appreciate others efforts. If some people think they can do better, they should do it.

[amenophis]

@candyman,

Very nice new logo !
I'm not sure we can change this logo design on the case.
Technically we could of course, it's about to know if we can do it legally as we're bound to manufacture "clone" cases with invisible inner enhancements.
We'll check that.

For the LCD display location, we've decided the location base on the surface for the mounts. Your suggestion is very nice !
But it also remove the original badge holder, and again i'm not quite sure we can.
Checking also.


About keyboards:

This is the process we're going to follow for keyboards and key caps.
Please comment and tell us what you think:

- We'll first make available Key caps only. Localized keys, as well with all special "A" keys.
- Caps are going to be available in these colors:

• Original Amiga 1200 color (Dual White/Brown)
• Original CDTV Black
• Transparent
• All colors supporter by the new Amiga 1200 case will have counterparts for caps.
• For caps, technical choices have to be made. We'll simply ask the community through a poll with examples. As these choices will have impact on final pricing.

- Aside from that new full keyboards are going to be available. With and without caps.
The new keyboards will need technical choices as well to be made
We'll ask you also about that.

- The new key caps & keyboards will be available through a new campaign.


Cheers

[amenophis]

@Candyman,

My friend came back quickly on that and it's safe to say we can't do anything regarding the overall design. We're bound to the original design.
 But thanks for your suggestion anyway

Right now we really would'nt change anything more on the overall design of the enhancements.

What we do need right now, is people helping us with the remaining 9 colors to choose:
LINK

Also, when we'll publicly come about with Keyboards and caps, we'll surelly need all community suggestions


Cheers

[amenophis]

Dear friends,

It's about to come
Please be a bit more patient, we'll update you as soon as the new campaign is live.

Cheers

[amenophis]

The logo and font we're actually using are not the final ones.
We'll have our own Logo designed by Paul Kitching soon.

Thats the reason why we're not using the "AMIGA" logo, the one with square point on the I, as well as it is commercially used by Amiga Inc.
Our license does gives us the right to use it, but we're not Amiga Inc, so we'll have our own logo.

Of course, the "AMIGA" name on top of cases stays the exact same as it is on Commodore/Escom previous cases.

[amenophis]

Dear All,

Our New Amiga 1200 cases Kickstarter campaign has started today at 12PM

You can follow it at this address: https://t.co/7J1eDoAuv3

New infos for Keycaps and Keyboards are scheduled for around next week.

Stay tuned

Cheers.