Amiga 1000 Turned Into A PC!

[Noster]

Hi,

I've also done this.
I put an socket 370 motherboard with a Pentium III 933 MHz in the case of an old defect A1000. I placed the CD-RW behind the front-door where the 256KB memory extension is placed. It's a very nice system running windows and UAE.
Currently I save my money to purchase an micro A1. When I have such a beast, I will replace the x86 mobo with this one and I will have a new Amiga in the original Amiga-case :-D

A Windows-PC looks much better in an Amiga-case than in any other case. You will only find Amigas in my working room ;-)

Noster

[Noster]

Hi,

BTW.: My reworked A1000 is better: :-)

The whole system is shielded because I've build a metal-case that fits into the A1000-case.
I have a micro-ATX board, that is larger than a flex-ATX board and has an (unused) AGP- and two (unused) PCI-ports.
I use an original A1000-mouse that is attached to the mouse-port of the A1000-case (using an additional logic to convert the A1000-mouse-signals into the signals of a serial PC-mouse).
I use a full-size CD-RW, that is invisible, when the tray is closed.
The computer has additional front-audio- and USB-connectors hidden behind the front-door below the CR-RW.
The expansion-port at the right side is used as air-input for cooling the cpu.
The original A1000-powerswitch is used to switch the powersupply on and off, the computer is started by a poweron-switch hidden behind the Amiga-symbol at the left, top corner of the case.
And the power-cable is attached at the original position of the case.

Noster

[Noster]

Hi,

> Can you post some pictures of your converted A1000
I would do -- I have pictures of every part of the A1000 and of every step of work -- but I don't know how :-)
I have no webspace where I could store the photos. Anybody knows a solution?

> Also please provide a complete parts list of what you used
I'll try to do my best but it is not so easy. The powersupply for example was an ATX-powersupply from scrap. You will need a powersupply that isn't higher than 5.5 cm or could be reworked so it isn't higher.

> who did the custom logic work so you could use the original A1000 mouse?
Microsoft :-D
I used the logic-circuit of a Microsoft serial mouse for this purpose.

> If you were to make any changes to what you did, what would you change now?
Use a better motherboard than the scrap Elitegroup board, look for a better way to close the A1000 case, I've had some problems because I couldn't use the original screws.

I'm still thinking of placing a catweasel into the case so I could connect -- with some rework -- an original A1000 keyboard. But the catweasel controller is more expensive than the whole computer and I don't know if it really fits into the case (there isn't much space left and I would get a heatproblem -- don't know where the hot air of the processor cooler should be blown out of the case).

The best would be to write a complete description with some photos but this would take some time. Tomorrow I would have the time to do this but is there anybody that could place it in the web?

Noster

[Noster]

Hi,

Ok, I'll try to get an account and place the pictures there.

Noster

[Noster]

Hi,

Ok here we have an album with the pictures of my A1000 casemod.

http://community.webshots.com/user/Amiga1000Power

I have added some comments. Any questions? Feel free to ask.

Noster

[Noster]

Hi,

@nadoom
>  Oh God WhhyyyY?
First: Because the A1000 was dead and I like to have Amigas arround me, now I have only Amigas in my working room :-)
Second: I wanted an adaquate case for my coming AmigaOne. Do you know a better one?

@amigadave
>  Thanks for posting those pictures Noster, I hope you can leave them up there for a little while.
I have opened the account just for this purpose and will leave the pictures there until they close my account.

> I'll try to download the whole photo album, but if that is not an option,
> perhaps you can send them to me with your comments.
I think there is a backup-option in the software used to load the album up, I must have a look...I'm looking for a way to get an own website (without costs :-)), where I could store a complete description incl. pictures about this mod.

@Oliver
> How did you fabricate your back pannel? Did you use a CNC mill?
No, I use a drilling machine, a saw, a set of small rasps, and a couple of hours of handwork :-D

Noster

[Noster]

Hi

@Oliver
> Also, the panel looks fairly thick, so I guess it would have been a LOT of work. Good job.

Yes, thanks. The panel is 1.5 mm thick. The main problem with the inner metal case was to bend the lower part. Anythink else was just a question of time and sweat :-)

Noster