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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« on: October 04, 2012, 08:45:46 PM »
Great looking case, but the keyboard looks like its got limited travel.
Can something else be used?
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2012, 01:09:12 AM »
It is VERY pretty, but again - a chiclet keyboard?
Brings me back to Coco1 standards (shuddering).
 
I don't even like those on laptops (where its about your only option).
 
Then again, I know I'm in the minority when I say I like longer travel keyboards with clicking feedback (like early IBM keyboards - fabulous for touch typing).
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2012, 01:17:43 AM »
Quote from: runequester;710330
If this had an option for a clicky keyboard, I'd sell a non insignificant amount of grandmothers for it :)

Ah, someone else that remember that good keyboards used to be an option.
I wish I could find the nimrods that convinced everybody that silent, short travel keys were OK.
 
You know, I still have two IBM keyboards and an early Tandy I prefer because of the keyswitches they were using at the time.
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2012, 02:03:28 AM »
Quote from: runequester;710334
I actually have a really nice IBM model M that I use. I can't really use it right now, since Morph OS is hard to use proper, without windows keys, and I can't get the rebind options in poseidon to work, but once I get a Linux machine again, it'll go right back on!

Yeah, I remember those.
If I'm not mistaken, IBM wanted to give them the kind of tactile feedback that you got from a Selectric typewriter keyboard.
Good stuff.
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2012, 06:18:32 PM »
Quote from: kedawa;710358
It's an either/or thing for me. If I can't have buckling springs/cherry switches, then I don't want long-travel keys at all.
I've had a mac aluminum chiclet keyboard for at least five years and it's the best membrane keyboard I've ever used.

Yeah, the type of long travel keyswitches I'm thinking of go down just so far then drop with an audible click. Cherry made good ones and so did a few other companies.
I'm no fan of mushy long travel keys either.
 
But, the daddy says this is out of our price range. So, chiclets it is.
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2012, 06:50:53 PM »
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Don't get me wrong I love mechanical keyboards and I would have gone that way hadn't it been for the price, they are really expensive...if I can get some money back from this project maybe one day ;)

 
Not a problem.
The case looks great and the thick metal housing should be great for cooling and really impressive looking.
 
Also, there's nothing to prevent one of from modifying it (or just plugging in a keyboard).
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2012, 07:50:10 PM »
I'm confused.
You want to hook a DVD drive to a Replay board?
Why?
There's no software that would support that.
 
I'm not even sure how compatible a CD drive hooked to a USB port would be.
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2012, 10:07:44 PM »
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Connecting a DVD drive to a replay is the same as connecting a DVD drive to a real Classic Amiga:
 
Burn your own CD/DVDs using existing Classic software
Run CD based games.
Load CD based software archives.
 
The Replay's USB connections on the expansion board will use the Poseidon stack as used by most Classic machines.
 
I use a DVD+RW connected to my USB port on my A4000. It works fine. You can install OS3.9 off it too (once you've installed OS3.1 on your HD and installed the Deneb software).

That's an interesting option.
So 3.1 and 3.9 will accept a DVD-R as a storage device.
That one's news to me.
And really interesting when you consider how much older the Amiga is when compared to DVD technology.
 
Darrin, what kind of software do you use that can properly recognize and format writable DVDs?
 
You know, you're really tempting me to invest back in legacy hardware.
 
Yet another question. Does the Deneb have an internal USB connection?
 
I'm beginning to think that an A4000 with a PC floppy drive connected via a Catweasel and a DVD-R drive both installed internally might be fun.
 
One final question. How come no one has tried to create drivers for DXR2
 and DXR3 cards so the Amiga could play back DVDs and Mpeg2s?
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Re: Black, sexy and menacing...X500 PLUS
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2012, 11:58:19 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;710452
I'm afraid my system looks a bit different now as I bought a Mediator and put it into a tower case:

 

 
I've changed the top two 5.25" into removeable hard drive slots. Makes it easier to swap hard drives between my PC (for WinUAE) and my A4000. Plus I wanted to be able to insert different hard drives depending on what OS I wanted to run (3.1, 3.9, ClassicWB, AROS, etc).

Nice.
Looks like every PC I've ever owned though because I never seem to have the side panels on.
 
Is that a case designed for a mediator equipped 4000, or a modified standard AT/ATX tower.
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