There's one thing that I like in the HxC project (that others will hate), appart of the use it gives, that is the hackering you have to do to install it. I love that part. Well, I've been thinking how to put it, inside or outside the A1200.
I was thinking to make it outside, like the photo of the clear enclosure, I've bought the perspex even. What I was going to do, that the one that did it didn't get to do is to put the buttons and close the box. He wanted to put the screen at the front and the buttons too. My idea if someone wants to do it is very simple: you close the box making a slot at the front side to introduce the Sd card, you leave the screen where it is, which is the best place to see it, and you only have to make three 3mm drills on the upper side of the box, above where the buttons are. Then you can cut three 3mm acrylic clear rods that you pass through the holes, with a drop of loctite over the buttons and you can use that rods as buttons from outside of the box.
I think that's a good idea, and didn't want to comment till I had it finished, but thinking well the best way will be to make it internally... Why?
I was thinking why the guy that did that beautiful external HxC floppy in the clear enclosure sold it, and what I believe is that if you find difficult to make the switch to change Df0 from a floppy to the other (I do), and if you want to keep the Chinon one inside working, you will have for example only a couple of games that will play from Df1, that has to be very frustrating.
So, what I'm planning to do now is to put it internally, with the same ribbon cable of the floppy with two connectors for both floppys. I have some ideas of how to do it too, that will post when I'll make it.
