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Re: Transforming an Amiga 500 (using only the case)
« on: May 06, 2006, 06:39:14 PM »
About that Keyrah, so it actually allows you to hook up the A1200 internal keyboard to a standard PC mobo?

I ask as I had this same idea but with a mini-itx (17cm*17cm) in an A1200 case, using a flexible riser cable to allow use of the AGP port and have a GFX card inside, it should all fit provided there's a card that doesn't take up 3 backplanes' worth of space. But without the internal keyboard it would be kinda pointless.
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Re: Transforming an Amiga 500 (using only the case)
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2006, 09:23:35 PM »
So it basically turns the internal keyboard of the 1200 or 600 into a USB keyboard and ignores the rest of the system?

That should be perfect for a M-ITX-in-1200/600 conversion, provided it's possible to have an internal USB connection on a M-ITX board, I've only seen them with a big 4-port combined USB/Firewire attachment.

Just out of interest, why can't the same be done for a 500? I had a look inside mine, the cable is very different, and it seems to incorporate the LEDs aswell, can't it be adapted like the ribbon on the 1200 keyboard?

P.S. appologies for the thread-jack hbarcellos.
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Re: Transforming an Amiga 500 (using only the case)
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2006, 03:55:30 PM »
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that a u-ATX won't fit inside an A1200 case, you might be able to squeeze one inside a 500, I don't know, never checked the measurements, but I reckon M-ITX is the largest form factor that could comfortably fit inside the 1200 case, plus with it's diminutive size it would allow ample room for a gfx card.

EMT64 is Intel's attempt to rebrand AMD64 and pretend they came up with it, AMD64 was AMD's answer to Intel's Itanium, and was a much smarter idea than Itanium (Itanium was a whole new architecture, AMD64 was just expanding the x86 to 64 bit) so if you're going to use an Athlon of any kind, it's not an EMT64 chip, but an AMD64. Or if you're a Microserf then both are grouped together as x64, which sounds much simpler really.

A riser is a device that attaches to an expansion port of whatever kind and simply extends the port to a new position, for example there are clockport risers for the 1200 that move the port connector up for use when other devices might block the port in its original position. PCIE risers have flexible cables that enable you to position a PCIE card how you wish, rather than being tied to the right-angle arrangement of normal PCs, useful in x86-in-Amiga conversions as obviously right-angled PCI cards wouldn't really fit inside a wedge Amiga case.
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