Towerizing an amiga 2000 motherboard?

[haywirepc]

A friend of mine gave me an old spare amiga 2000 motherboard but he had no power supply or case. I did give me a spare a2000 mouse and keyboard.
 
I am curious if the a2000 mb will fit in a mid-size tower case, or if anyone has towerized their amiga 2000. It may take alot of ebay hunting to find all the parts I'll need (more ram, accellerator, video card and so on)
but I think it would be worth it in time...
 
Anyone else put an amiga 2000 mb in a tower?

I'd apreciate anyone's thoughts or advice before I decide to do this.
 
Thanks,

Steven

[haywirepc]

I'm not sure I understand why the video would be too slow if I got a zorro rtg card and an accellerator, wouldn't the video with a rtg card like picasso be as fast an on
an a3000 or a4000?
 
Sorry I just don't understand the difference, I thought zorro slot boards give generally the same performance no matter what the host.
 
I have an OLD full tower 486 case, wow from the 486dx2 66mhz days. The board is blown but the case and ps are huge and looks big enough for the project. The a2000power supply I have fits nicely in the spot for the power supply.
 
Thanks for warning me about the video speed issue, can anyone else confirm this? How would the video speed be with in indievison ecs instead of
a rtg card?
 
I'm kind of hesitant about going ahead with a project like this now. Maybe I should hold out for an a4000 or a3000 motherboard? I see them for sale in working condition occasionally, or if anyone here has one for sale let me know.
 
I guess I'd like to do this so I can slowly build a great amiga system without shelling it all out in one shot. Building it bit by bit would help my pocket alot.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Well like I said, I had in mind building it bit by bit so It won't hit my pocket like crazy all at once. I put togther a dedicated emulation pc for amiga forever. I thought that would be enough, but somehow, I still want the real thing. Actually I think playing with that just made my lust for a real amiga even worse
 
Emulation is nice but there is nothing quite so smooth a a real one.
The hardware is so expensive and I'm pretty broke as usual so I have to
sort of build one in slow motion. Might take awhile but I think it will be worth the effort.
 
I checked out this old tower I have. Looks like with some case mods it will fit nicely in there, since its an ancient full tower case made for those ancient full size at boards.
 
If anyone has a spare power supply, floppy, floppy cable, keyboard or mouse cheap, let me know. I have a 1084s for now till I get going, then I'd like the indievision scandoubler eventually.
 
Thanks for everyone's thoughts, any other ideas on this type of project, I'm all ears.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Thanks guys at least now I know if I do happen to hobble together enough parts, it should work out nicely for me. I'm going to work on the case next week when I have more time.
 
As far as all the other parts I'll need...
I'm broke and this may take some time, but I have a dedicated emulation pc in the meantime for now thats working out very well. I love it more than any windows pc I ever had, thats for sure. Thanks for everyone's thoughts about this issue.
 
BTW Damien, I never met anyone with so many 68060's Sheesh, I'm drooling just thinking about all that acceleration on every machine you apparently have.
 
Steven