Commodore 128 tower project continued!

[Jope]

redrumloa wrote:

As you see, there is a 120VAC -> 9VAC step down transformer bolted to the top of the ATX power supply.

Is the transformer alays connected to mains, or did you add a relay to toggle it as the PSU starts?

I used an AT PSU for my C-64T, mainly because I wanted a single switch to turn the PSU + trafo + monitor totally off. With an AT PSU, I didn't need to hunt down relays, I just tapped power to the trafo after the switch.

Probably a non-issue, as there are no power switches in original C-64 or C-128 PSUs either. Always good to think green, though. :-D

http://jope.fi/c64t/ in case you're interested.

Mine is not tip top, but I tried to make it as neat as possible.. It needs a neater port plate for the back of the tower, but otherwise I'm rather satisfied.

I also opted not to wire in video -> VGA converters, my flat panel monitor has s-video and SCART connectors behind it.

redrumloa wrote:

Only a few people have done such a project and no one has published information on it.

Nate/Vanessa Dannenberg's C-128 tower project has been on her website since 10 years ago.. The site seems to be down currently, but you can check out archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070628230052/starbase.globalpc.net/~vanessa/hobbies/c128tower.html

Hope it comes back up some day so you can see the pictures.

[Jope]

redrumloa wrote:
Standard 3.5 DD floppy disks? Yes. Standard 3.5 PC drives? No. I will convert a 1581 to go internal.

The same tricks apply for the 1581 as the Amiga concerning the drive mechanisms. You can modify a PC drive to be Amiga/1581 compatible and it will mount neatly in the front panel.

Mine is done like that, I'm using a modified PC mechanism.

[Jope]

redrumloa wrote:
Did you reference anything for your project? An Aminet hack maybe?

Just the knowledge about PC drive modifications you can gather from amiga.org and eab.

Get DC to pin 2 and RDY to pin 34 and make the drive answer to DS0. ;-) The Brazilian dudes figured out a way to cheat the RDY signal by jumpering pin 30 to pin 34 on the drive, but I haven't tried that myself.