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Re: Amiga 1200 Internal Cd rom drive
« on: March 25, 2010, 04:12:18 PM »
Quote from: Retrofan;549621
Just a photo by now:
The photo is here:
http://yfrog.com/7eabcd0005dj

Very nice work Retrofan.  I want to install a DVDRW drive inside my A1200 in the near future, but I am thinking of using a slot-loading SuperDrive from an Apple PowerBook of mine that has died.  Can you show us some more pictures of the inside of your A1200 and how you mounted your drive to the case?  Also how did you cut the new CDROM face and put the lettering on it?

I also like your avatar picture of the VW Beetle, is that your car, or just a photo that you found?  I have a 1970 VW Karmann Ghia that I will be restoring later this year.  Old VW's are cool cars and it is amazing that there are so many parts still available for them.

Edit: I have a Phase5 1260 Blizzard accelerator inside my A1200 with the SCSI controller option and two 128mb simm sticks of RAM for a total of 256mb of Fast RAM + 2mb Chip RAM.  I think you should not bother with the Hawk RAM board and just install the Blizzard 1260 accelerator and get yourself a 128mb 60ns RAM simm module to put in it.  Make sure you get the right simm module, AmigaKit may still have some, or they may be able to order one for you.  AmigaKit also has replacement floppy drives for the A1200 if you have not already found one.
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Re: Hawk Ram board & Whdload
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2010, 03:59:08 AM »
I have seen one simm that was double the height and single sided, instead of being double sided, but I can't remember if it was 128mb in size.  Unless you can get a double sided simm that uses extremely thin chips, it will not fit in the Blizzard 1260, unless your 1260's simm socket is different than mine, which holds my simm flat against the 68060 CPU.

I do not try to close the A1200's trap door cover on my A1200 so I have considered putting some 1/4 inch feet at each corner of the bottom of the A1200 case to raise it off the desk and having someone remove my flat simm socket and replace it with an angled simm socket on my Blizzard 1260 card so my simm module will no longer be resting against my 68060.  That would allow me room to install a thin heatsink on the 68060 to keep it cooler and remove the heat from the 68060 transferring to the RAM chips.
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