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Offline psxphill

Re: A600 AGA Possible?
« on: July 22, 2013, 11:49:54 AM »
Quote from: NovaCoder;741569
Easy answer, just go for the A1200 if you want to be able to play OCS, ECS & AGA.
 
AGA is not possible on an A600.

You might be able to hacksaw an A1200 board into an A600 case, but I wouldn't want to do it. It's mainly the joystick ports need relocating, but as they are attached to the pcb it becomes a bit tricky. You wouldn't be able to fit in an accelerator afterwards either.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: A600 AGA Possible?
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 12:45:53 PM »
Quote from: Mrs Beanbag;741573
Someone did it, accelerator and all. See this thread on Amibay:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=570

Extending the joystick ports is fine, they are designed to be on a long cord.
 
Putting the computers bus on the end of some slightly different length cables which could affect slew timing and picking up interference a long the way, is slightly pushing it for me.
 
If they'd made a pcb with a male and female connector that allowed the accelerator slot to double back on itself then I might go for it. Trapped heat will be a problem though.
 
At the end of it you still have an a1200, but now you're missing the numeric keypad.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: A600 AGA Possible?
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2013, 12:16:45 AM »
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;741646
Floppy drive yes. PCMCIA no. Scroll through the FPGA thread that keeps popping up.

It would be possible to add PCMCIA and IDE to the daughterboard, I'm not sure it will happen though.