@jope
>Yeah.. Seriously, having seen some truly fantastic cases, I find it hard to cheer for something that's been done lots of times before with varying success.
This was in no way shape or form an attempt ot rival and compete with the pc modding scene, just an AMIGA exercise. When I showed to friends and people at work they were amazed of the results, from basic A1200 to modded up to date Amiga. Lots of them didn't even know the Amiga was still around!
I am not asking you to cheer for my case nor I am begging for your approval but your comments were the only ones I and somebody else found offensive and rude, coming from someone who has never attempted doing something similar.
>Look, the reason I have this opinion is, that you are modding in essence what is a PC case that has a special mounting bracket for the Amiga motherboard + a different back panel.
Ok so what? Does it make it less interesting?
>Thus the mods you do are going to be judged by the same standards that people judge mods done to ATX standard cases - the base case looks pretty much the same from the outside, but you can create interesting results when you apply a bit of creativity.
Please! There is no intention to compete with pc modders. I couldn't give a flying monkey about the pc scene and I don't want to be judged by any pc modding people. It was as it explains clearly on the first page, a way to show what you can do with a 1994 motherboard and in this case the Amiga1200. The pc modding scene is backed by multimillion dollar industry, you can buy lots of things that fit properly, the A1200 itself is already a pain in the arse to stick into a Power Tower imagine in an ATX case. No comparison and no intention to compete with no one. If even one person like it then I am happy, although, as we know numbers don't always mean it's right otherwise we could say Windows is installed on all the pcs on this planet so it's the best OS!
>Now you're just taking it sooo verryyy personally. If you read my first post about this, I still feel it was written in a pretty encouraging tone.
LOL! There are ways and ways to encourage people. You Assumed things, criticized, slagged it off as a bit of paint and clear panels.
>Come on, take some constructive improvement ideas like a man.
Err. excuse me, see the above comments, I wasn't going to compete with pc modding cases full stop.
>No, it shows a tangle of wires.
You again minimize my work and put it down. It's not a tangle of wires, there was no more time to finish it off, otherwise I would carried on with watercooling and all that crap but I am not a pc modder. Anyway it's a tangle of wires and pc mods are a tied tangle of wires.
>Sorry, but as you looked through those galleries, you're bound to have seen lots of cases that were similar to yours. Hence it wasn't really anything that special in the case modding universe.
ROFL! So fine. Were you expecting fireworks and dancing monkeys coming out of it! It's a transformed Amiga, I would never even imagine to try and compete with a pc modder for lots or reasons, one being I have a job like many others and I am not just a kiddie who spends all of his time on a pc!
>You're missing the point. The point here was to emphasize that it is a PC case -> mods done to PC cases are usually judged by the standards set by other people's PC case mods.
Again you are missing the point by a mile! I don't want to be judged by any pc person who thinks it's another windowed case. BUT if they knew it was an Amiga then things would be considered differently.
>Yeps. How many of those hits contacted you to say it was an exceptional design? This thread isn't very long, you know, only a few dozen people out of 1000 here.
Quite a few actually but that's not the point, I wasn't looking for people to say "hey man you are good!" Who cares, I just wanted to show what you can do with an Amiga and it was never on my mind to make it better than a pc.
>The reason I pointed people to what's happening in the PC world is, that all the Amiga case mods I've seen posted to these forums so far (and this means the ones that are in basic modified PC towers before the user started their own modding affair) look quite similar to yours - paint, window, tangly wires, a few fans.
Good. We like them like that, paint, window, tangly wires, especially tangly wires we love them and they are VERY different from pc modded case with their windows..paint and tidy wires...
>You guys can surely do more, I enjoy watching people do great things. However I am NOT one to just throw a generic "great job" remark if I think the creator could outdo himself with a few outside ideas..
Again, patronizing comment and of course we can always do better, but time, money and other things can't always allow it.
>The bottom line is, I only tried to give you and the rest of the Amiga case modders a few hints on where to proceed from these beginnings (ie. what was done outside the Amiga world a long time ago). If someone who has seen lots of modded PC cases surfs to your site, they might not think "wow, great job" but they could be thinking "oh, seen those, next".
Yeeah if it were a pc, obviously you would think "seen that", but if they knew it was an Amiga (and they knew what an Amiga is) they would judge it differently.
