Looking for help with hardware hacking...

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McTrinsic wrote:
Hi all,

this time I need some help with real hardware - hacking. Ihopy any of you could help me with this.

I am looking for an adaptor, a sort of a riser card, for the Amiga 2000 VIDEO SLOT.

That means, I want the card that is put into the Videoslot to be parallel to the mainboard instead of standing on it.

Similar adaptors for PCI and AGP exist,  is anyone of you able to make one for the Video Slot???

Thanks a lot,
McTrinsic

That shouldn't be too hard to make just pop down to Maplin/Tandy/Radio Shack and pick up some conenctors and a PCB prototype board and then just move the traces across the board and stich the connector on at 90degrees  :-)

Simple!!!

-Disclaimer- I have never tried this and wouldn't want to.

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Jope wrote:

That shouldn't be too hard to make just pop down to Maplin/Tandy/Radio Shack and pick up some conenctors and a PCB prototype board and then just move the traces across the board and stich the connector on at 90degrees

Yeah, probably won't degrade the signal TOO much.

The signal should be fine you would only be moving the lines half an inch or so.

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McTrinsic wrote:
Well, nice idea, BUT:

youre talking to someone who never has soldered, and the only thing I have in electronics was to exchange cards and chips...

McTrinsic

See if you can find an ISA adaptor card them :-)

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McTrinsic wrote:
So you mean I should get two of these:

http://www.mycableshop.com/sku/ISAR-04A.htm ,

cut the smaller part of both and have the adapter?

Nice idea again,

but... looks costly.

McTrinsic

Looks about right, but I don't know how  the A2K video slot was Keyed.

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Looking at this picture:


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It looks to me like that adaptor you found would not fit fine, since the key is in the centre :-(