My A1200 project Updated: 08/28

[amigadave]

@som99,

It is great to see pics of all your mods and new pieces of hardware for your A1200 and how they fit into the stock A1200 case.  Thanks for providing so many pictures within this thread.

Can you perhaps take some measurements and tell me if the new IndivisionAGA's DVI connector board would fit over on the other side of the case, if you removed the Composite output port and converter, like so many people have done to their A600's and A1200's?

It looks like the pcb board for the DVI connector might be larger than the square component behind the Composite RCA jack inside of the A1200, so it probably won't fit there.  I have a Blizzard A1260 inside my stock A1200 case and I am using the port where you put your DVI connector for my SCSI port and would need to put my DVI port in a different location, so the Composite port location would be the nicest place for me to put mine without making another new hole in the case plastic of the A1200 case. (I am terrible at making clean, nice looking holes in A1200 cases and did such a bad job for my USB connector holes that I have purchased a replacement A1200 case to try again.  Hopefully I will have better luck in making it look professional this 2nd try)

Edit: I meant to write RF output, instead of Composite output connector location.  I guess removing both the RF and Composite output connectors and components would be required to fit the HDMI output of the IndivisionAGA Mk2.

[amigadave]

Just noticed how small the ACA1231 accelerator is and how much room is left in the trap door area with the ACA1231 installed.

It would be great if Jens could make a new run of ACA1231 accelerators that had extended PCB's to fill the empty space, and that other half of currently unused space could contain a real 24bit graphics card.  Something like the equivalent to a PicassoII, or better a PicassoIV w/4mb VRAM to make it a combo accelerator & 24bit video card would be fantastic. Some of us A1200 owners prefer to keep the stock wedge A1200 case design, and don't want to put our A1200's into tower cases.

Probably not enough market for such a product and it might be difficult to reverse engineer the PicassoIV and shrink it down to such a small form factor, but it would be a very cool combination product for the stock A1200 case.