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Customisation Ideas
« on: July 03, 2003, 01:18:57 PM »
Even though I hated my A1200 tower (long since replaced with a much nicer 4000 tower), Jaruzel's Sparc 1200D has  got me really wanting to build a cool custom Amiga. I don't really need another Amiga (I have 4 already ;) but I just have the urge to tinker. So, i've started looking around for a cheap A1200. Now... what should I do with it? Does anyone have any cool case ideas? (and *NOT* just a normal tower... I want to do something different).
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2003, 01:58:14 PM »
I just looked on google image search... heh.. the airport is an interesting shape, but i think scaled up to A1200 size, it would be quite unweildy. I do like the idea of a desktop case, though. I was thinking maybe a black VCR or CD player would make a nice case, because I love the look of the CDTV, and I could even install a vacuum flourescent display in there. hmmm....

Maybe something like this...
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2003, 02:08:14 PM »
Incidentally, does anyone know what the physical dimensions of the A1200 motherboard are?
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2003, 02:12:13 PM »
The advantage of a CD player is that you already have a front for the CD-Rom, and a power button, so no new fascia is really needed, just a little tweaking of the one thats there.
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2003, 02:22:42 PM »
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Perhaps if you found the case of a fairly big TV, you could mount the mobo and a monitor in it - an iAmiga :-)


Thats quite a nice idea, but I don't really like messing with CRTs...
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2003, 03:50:08 PM »
@Framiga:

Hmm.. its too big and ugly. And expensive :-). I want to get all the basic bits cheap, but i'm tempted to put an expensive accelerator in there. I'm hoping once the Pegasos II is out, and OS4 arrives on the AmigaONE, A1200 060 accelerators will flood the market and the price will come down...
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2003, 10:41:11 PM »
Well, thanks for all the great ideas. I think the Millenium Falcon would be a bit unweildy, and I lack the plastic-forming skills to make a replacement wedgie case. HOWEVER, I have just won an eBay auction for a CD player, and so i'm going to make an A1200 based CDTV style computer.

To start with it'll have to have an Amiga 4000 keyboard and beige monitor, but in time i hope to source a CDTV keyboard, and i'll probably spray my 1084S black, or something :-D

I will of course put pics online as i work on it.
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2003, 10:47:09 PM »
@AmigaMad

You might be able to cram a mediator and voodoo into one of those desktop cases with a PCI riser card (available from mini-itx.com). It'd be a VERY tight squeeze, but the voodoo would be lying flat parallel to the motherboard, instead of pointing upward.
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2003, 10:58:23 PM »
Yes, but I have 1 A2000 keyboard, and 3 A4000 keyboards. If I put a mini-din connector on the computer, I can use an A4000 keyboard now, and a CDTV keyboard later.

Hooking up an A4000/CDTV keyboard socket to an Amiga 1200 only requires a little bit of soldering, something i'm very good at (got top marks on my electronics course ;)
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2003, 12:55:15 AM »
Hey, its nice. I was a bit dubious from the initial shot of the VCR, but the final design looks quite nice.
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Re: Customisation Ideas
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2003, 03:09:05 PM »
Didn't you say you had 2 of those Mac cases? You could stick the PC in one and the A1200 in the other.

OR, if you want to put the A1200 in the A500 case, you could put the A500 in the other mac case :-D
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