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Re: Booting a notebook into Workbench
« on: June 19, 2010, 12:56:29 AM »
Quote from: Retrofan;565553
I was thinking something:
 
I've seen a very cheap notebook with broken screen at Ebay...
 
Coudn't it be possible to use an A1200 case (modified with the internal cd rom of the notebook) to install it inside it using a Keyrah Amiga module to use the Amiga keyboard and boot it with Workbench using an Amiga Forever Cd?
 
I would like to know if that's impossible, if someone has already done it, and the possibilities Amiga Forever has to make it run as a real Amiga, how to use the floppy drive and what do you think about the idea...
 
By now I've seen this: http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-129



Yeah, I think it's likely to work.  Here you can find a guide to replacing explorer with WinUAE.  Basically hides everything Windows.  http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49465

The keyrah should let you go to the USB port of the laptop motherboard.  Don't think you can use the floppy though.  Catweasel is PCI.

The only think thing I can really think of is BIOS errors at startup if it doesn't detect the monitor or the built in keyboard.  But probably not likely. Or you could find a custom BIOS to flash.  Other than that just physical size limits.
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