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A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« on: August 07, 2010, 10:30:50 PM »
Hi Everyone... :)

Been wondering... just who out there has an Amiga setup in the most unusual or most curious case. I don't mean an off the shelf PC tower or such like, what I mean is a case that you have had to build or customize yourself to stuff all your Amiga goodies into. :)

I'll start with mine. I built it myself from wood (yes I did say wood !!!) well MDF to be more precise then spray painted it silver. I couldn't find the space for one of those orrible PC cases that are so deep you need an extension built onto your house to fit one in. :)

I don't claim it to be cool looking or the most amazing case ever, but I do think it may be a wee bit curious and unusual.

It holds my main miggy and is my most used Amiga. It measures Width=26cm, Height=44cm, Depth=25.5cm

A1200 Blizzard060/PPC603 60Mhz/240Mhz / 256Mb RAM / 2 x 500GB HDs / 2 x DVD Burners / FASTATA MKIII / Cocolino Wireless Mouse / Custom built Amplifier

Now... who else out their has a curious or unusual Amiga case that they would like to share some pics of... :D

(or am I just curious & unusual !!!) :biglaugh:

Cheers :drink:

Franko

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2010, 10:58:20 PM »
Quote from: TheGoose;573841
Easily that would be the G1200 Sir. Seen here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/blog_attachment.php?attachmentid=18&d=1256169404

Now that is neat... :cool:

Wood is Good, but my first attempt began to warp with all the heat, so I had to use MDF instead...
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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2010, 11:07:13 PM »
It's a little amplifier that I built myself, the controls are, from left to right. Bass, Treble, Volume and a Fader/Mixer between the Amiga Audio and one of the dvd burners for listening to CD's. :)
 

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2010, 11:17:55 PM »
Quote from: TheGoose;573848
Jealous! Very cool.

G1200 has a little Space 1999 in it, inspiration:  :lol:


I was going to build it from aluminum at first but in a tower form but it was a bit too expensive, now if I could just have that shiny beast you've got there I would be very happy indeed... :)

(ps: how do you get the pic to appear instead of an attachment, i think the pic was too big or something !!!)
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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 12:47:19 AM »
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Meet Graham an Amiga 1200


Neat Stuff scuzzb494, that's the stuff I like to see... :) :) :)
 

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2010, 12:12:02 PM »
WOW !!!, It's like a shrine... I wants one... :cool:
 

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2010, 06:09:27 PM »
Neat stuff Darrin, but you've got the answer to all your problems sitting right there on your desk... :)

That little TARDIS would be able to hold everything.... :D
 

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2010, 06:58:28 PM »
Found this real wooden one on the net from 2004 by someone called FisherKing... :)

 

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2010, 07:32:22 PM »
Quote from: Debaser;573945
It was an Efika 5200b case. Quite nice..the working media tray was pretty slick.

Though not an "amiga"  - feel free to check out his Efika case in pictures (and I have a video up of his as well showing the tray operating)...as well as many other custom Efika cases on my site...

http://www.efikafoundation.com


Some pretty interesting and neat solutions there, nice work... :)
 

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Re: A Most Curious & Unusual Case...
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2010, 07:35:05 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;573946
I'd like to point out that it is my son's sonic screwdriver in the photograph and not mine.  :D

Can I borrow it... I think it might be needed for some of mrmoonlights probelms... :D
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