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Re: How far can a desktop A1200 be expanded?
« on: April 28, 2006, 02:23:34 AM »
ATA4 is IDE, you can happily get SCSI into an A1200 desktop so (no offence to Power Flyer owners) I don't understand why anyone bothers with CPU eating IDE (they like using parallel port/USB1.0 scanners?).

DCE SD/FF is a scandoubler + flicker-fixer (it allows a flicker free Amiga display on a PC monitor) made by a German electronics company.

A lot of people use the Wizard Power Box or Goliath external power supplies. An uprated A500 power supply will still blow a fuse with a super-upgraded A1200. There are plans on Aminet to modify a PC AT/ATX power supply and use the case to hold drives.

A switch to solid state drives can reduce the juice your A1200 eats, a PPC + BVision combo in a desktop case would need careful planning with cooling in mind. Maybe removing the floppy drive and getting good ventilation is the answer.

There was a 2MB graphics card called the AteoBus Pixel-64 but not that impressive. It was basically an ISA card for the A1200.

A Blizzard 1260 + AGA can do marvellous things, that might be your safest bet until you can either consider modification or towering.
 

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Re: How far can a desktop A1200 be expanded?
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2006, 03:05:51 AM »
I read somewhere on Amiga.org that the AteoBus's Pixel64 GFX card was just a 5 dollar bargain-bin card that could be found in most second hand PC shops!

Might be worth tracking one down since you'd have 2MB ChipMem AND 2MB of GFX-Card memory (the custom chips would have the ChipMem to themselves!)

I could have sworn I saw the Pixel64 in a desktop case at WOA'97/98, it kept crashing and noone was looking at it with the other goodies on display!

What happened to this PowerVixxen integrated PPC+GFX card?
 

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Re: How far can a desktop A1200 be expanded?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2006, 01:08:02 AM »
Hurray for the wedge!

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Anyone know anything about heatpipes, what they look like and what the dimensions are?

The most redundant thing in my A1200 desktop is the double-density floppy drive. It would be nice to get it up to at least high-density...

As for scandoublers, you might be able to get away without one if you find a suitable LCD TV... you'll need a SCART cable though.