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Offline SaMigaTopic starter

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A600 MOBO in a A500 Case
« on: October 21, 2010, 10:18:31 PM »
A600HD in a A500 Cabinet


I had an A500 rev5 already limped slightly with yellow, green and red boot screens once in a while.

I pulled the motherboard out and put an A600 motherboard i had in spare, with a Kick 2.05 rev. 37,350 in.

Customized the expansion trap door a little so I could use the PCMCIA slot, and put a CF card reader on the back, and also put the joy stick ports on the back where i think they belonged.

I kept the A500 disk drive, but put a green LED on that indicates when the drive is active, although i can not fail to hear it;)

Then I made a hardware hack I found online for A500 keyboard to A600 MOBO, so it could run on the motherboard.

It worked, also the Reset (Ctrl+A+A) keys and the numeric keypad works.

'Power' and 'Drive' LEDs is connected to the motherboard, so the 'Drive' flashes when ide port running.

So it all ended up with an alternative solution with A500/A600 HD.
Link -> http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3340

More pictures in my gallery
Link -> http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?u=5970

Reg .SDH.
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1* Amiga 500
1* Amiga 600 in A500 Case
2* Amiga 600
1* Amiga 2000
1* Amstrad CPC6128
1* ZX Spectrum 48k.
1* Amiga Emubox i A600 Case
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Offline SaMigaTopic starter

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Re: A600 MOBO in a A500 Case
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2010, 10:40:49 PM »
Yep Tone007..

Lots of space for further prOn ;)
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1* Amiga 500
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2* Amiga 600
1* Amiga 2000
1* Amstrad CPC6128
1* ZX Spectrum 48k.
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Re: A600 MOBO in a A500 Case
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 06:27:37 AM »
Quote from: kickstart;586160
Whatching this gallery is clear (at least imho) a mini pc mounted on the a600 case (very nice hack) and the a600 motherboard on the a500 spare case.


Yeah..
I Know.

I still have 2 fully functinal A600 in its original, and 1 mobo from the mini pc hack,
but i think it has a memory problem, since it sometimes boots up with green screen, so
i chopped up a ugly a600 that i got for free, because the previous owner gave it a nasty satin black paint job.

in my world Amiga is beige.

Cheers SD-H
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1* Amiga 500
1* Amiga 600 in A500 Case
2* Amiga 600
1* Amiga 2000
1* Amstrad CPC6128
1* ZX Spectrum 48k.
1* Amiga Emubox i A600 Case
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Re: A600 MOBO in a A500 Case
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 08:08:48 AM »
Quote from: Franko;586170
@ SaMiga
A nice idea and a great piece of work... :)

@ ferix
The point is, to be creative and make use of what limited hardware is available to us Amiga users and have fun & enjoy doing it... :)


It was fun, and somehow keeping things alive with alternative solutions is also fun.





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1* Amiga 500
1* Amiga 600 in A500 Case
2* Amiga 600
1* Amiga 2000
1* Amstrad CPC6128
1* ZX Spectrum 48k.
1* Amiga Emubox i A600 Case
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1* Amiga 500
1* Amiga 600 in A500 Case
2* Amiga 600
1* Amiga 2000
1* Amstrad CPC6128
1* ZX Spectrum 48k.
1* Amiga Emubox i A600 Case
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