Amiga 1200 Blue Thunder Tower (BTT) home made tower conversion

[dooz]

I can present my home-made tower conversion of A1200.

A1200 Blue Thunder Tower (BTT) photos:
http://free-zg.t-com.hr/dozanic/

It took me more than 3 monts to assemble this unique configuration. It is assembled only from used PC parts so it costed me nothing! That was a matter of principle..... I will rather invest that money in new Amiga hardware like SAM460.
 
Only hardware that I bought is Amiga hardware from Amiga dealers to finish this project!

Many interesting solutions for A1200 like sideways PCMCIA, half size PSU, USB connectors, original A1200 LEDs.
 
Amiga, Amiga and only Amiga :lol:
 
-dooz

[tribz]

Nice work

[lionstorm]

nice ! so essentially you just expand all the connectors ! I am thinking about the same project : I found my winner tower very unfriendly to open each time I want to do something inside but the Dell Optiplex PC towers are quite clever, with things that can be lifted etc so I was considering transferring my A1200PPC in this box.

[haywirepc]

I've always wanted to do a 1200 tower, but so far never have.

This looks like excellent work...

Great job.

[AmigaClassicRule]

Beautiful!! But I still prefer it original desktop case, personally. So in the end I will spend whatever it takes, expand it to the maximum capacity that I can expand it in a desktop case...and enjoy it this way. No other way for me

[haywirepc]

Towering it just adds alot more versatility but I understand the love of the wedge case.

If you tower, you can have pci interface, zorro card expansion and more...

Just can't do those things in a desktop case.

[AmigaClassicRule]

Towering it just adds alot more versatility but I understand the love of the wedge case.

If you tower, you can have pci interface, zorro card expansion and more...

Just can't do those things in a desktop case.

If I am headed toward PCI interface, zorro, etc then I would rather own an AmigaOS 4.1 hardware. Way cheaper and get more for my bucks in hardware performance.

[dooz]

Beautiful!! But I still prefer it original desktop case, personally. So in the end I will spend whatever it takes, expand it to the maximum capacity that I can expand it in a desktop case...and enjoy it this way. No other way for me

Yes - I also like classic A1200 case. more than tower. Its more "Amiga" way than towers. Original A1200 case is very attractive - design is beyond its time and even today a very attractive case.

But the reason I done this midi-tower solution is to have proper PSU, cooling and space for hard drives and DVD.

The combination of BlizzardPPC + BVision is very hot and I had problems in stability of the whole system. Before I was using PPC only occasionaly, but when I started AmigaOS 4.1 that is working 100% on PPC  it turned out that system is overheated and unstable.

Now I have temperature of about 33 celsius in midi tower (outside the tower temperature is 25 celsius). When I remove that big fan that is located in the front of BlizzardPPC/Vision the temperature is also very hot!

I dont know if other people have the same problem in original A1200 case?