TheDaddy wrote:
>>So you did take offence.
>Of course I did! Read your comments and see if they are not >offensive. "Just a bit of paint and some plastic","I am >awaiting to see a really AMAZING Amiga case"
Yeah.. Seriously, having seen some truly fantastic cases, I find it hard to cheer for something that's been done lots of times before with varying success.
>What do you mean by that anyway, someone to produce a
>custom one for your royal pleasure to slag off or a pc case
>with lights and "rounded cables" in it like all the ones
>from the "pc scene" You are passing judgment!
You lost me on that, sorry.. I'm not a native English speaker.
>And what is this crap "Please don't take it as an insult
>but as an encouragement to do BETTER next time!" WTF! Who
>are you to judge?
No-one, but I'd really like to see some really great case mods by those of you who are handy with the tools.
>Some sort of industrial design guru? The way you speak is
>totally pc devotee like I am afraid and it reflects in the
>way you talk about the "pc modding scene" and how behind
>the Amiga is.
Not words from my mouth, certainly.
Look, the reason I have this opinion is, that you are modding in essence what is a PC case that has a special mounting bracket for the Amiga motherboard + a different back panel.
Thus the mods you do are going to be judged by the same standards that people judge mods done to ATX standard cases - the base case looks pretty much the same from the outside, but you can create interesting results when you apply a bit of creativity.
>Do you own an Amiga by the way?
A4000/060
A4000/040
A2000/060
A500+/010
and a pile of other A500s
C-64 user since 1985, Amiga user since 1989, also a PC user since 1995. I'm not fanatic of any computer platform, I use what gets the job done.
>Excuse me but it's a project and it could carry on forever
>but for time reasons couldn't be done. You are spitting on
>somebody's effort and creativity...show us something you
>can do/have done with your hands, without just assembling
>pc stuff!
Now you're just taking it sooo verryyy personally. If you read my first post about this, I still feel it was written in a pretty encouraging tone. However now that we began to argue about this, the situation is different and my tone is different too.
>You can stand by your points, your choice, and I visited
>all the galleries and didn't like a single one, so you are
>assuming that I only looked at one gallery.
You only pointed out the "hoover style case".
>Please! Again you are patronizing and offensive.
Come on, take some constructive improvement ideas like a man.
>Why is it
>pointless to leave the innards looking like that, on the
>other hand it shows from all the angles the beauty of an
>Amiga1200 and its incredible expandibility.
No, it shows a tangle of wires.
>Also if you don't mind me asking did you read the website's
>notes and my recent post? Just because the cables aren't
>tied it doesn't mean the case isn't interesting,
Sorry, but as you looked through those galleries, you're bound to have seen lots of cases that were similar to yours. Hence it wasn't really anything that special in the case modding universe.
>there are some lovely architectures, like the Lloyds
>building that have expressed and exposed structure but it
>is still an interesting piece of work (not that I am
>comparing my Amiga to the Lloyds building)
. It might not
> be finished but you will rarely find a designer happy and
>satisfied with his work, there is always something that can
> be done to improve.
True and I gave you some ideas, yet you took them as insults and that lead to the crap we're spewing at each other at this very moment.
>I can understand other people when they say "I don't like
>the colour" and that's fine. It's a matter of taste, but
>slagging off somebody's hard work is lame.
Slagging off.... Hmm.
The second post was not in such an encouraging tone any more, I guess I should have been more careful with my wording.
>Yeeeah! It's a pc case converted by Elbox/Power Computing.
>Ever heard of them?
>"It looks like your case from 1995" so
>what? It's probably the same one and??
You're missing the point. The point here was to emphasize that it is a PC case -> mods done to PC cases are usually judged by the standards set by other people's PC case mods.
>Appreciate the fact
>that like Haymiggan said it's an admirable the effort to do
>something with it and make it look different.
Congratulations.
>I am enjoying it, more than 1000 hits in a day, thanks.
Yeps. How many of those hits contacted you to say it was an exceptional design? This thread isn't very long, you know, only a few dozen people out of 1000 here.
The reason I pointed people to what's happening in the PC world is, that all the Amiga case mods I've seen posted to these forums so far (and this means the ones that are in basic modified PC towers before the user started their own modding affair) look quite similar to yours - paint, window, tangly wires, a few fans.
You guys can surely do more, I enjoy watching people do great things. However I am NOT one to just throw a generic "great job" remark if I think the creator could outdo himself with a few outside ideas..
The bottom line is, I only tried to give you and the rest of the Amiga case modders a few hints on where to proceed from these beginnings (ie. what was done outside the Amiga world a long time ago). If someone who has seen lots of modded PC cases surfs to your site, they might not think "wow, great job" but they could be thinking "oh, seen those, next".
I'm ready to admit that I have not done modded cases myself, but that's just because I know that what I'd come up with wouldn't be all that great -> hence I reckon I better keep the case's original appearance rather than ruin it with my shaky hands slipping with the dremel.
