General Amiga Modding

[Samuar]

I'm interested to know what people have done with their Amigas: hardware or software mods...

Please post here.

[Damion]

Here's my current toy:

A1200, Blizzard 1260-66mhz, DCE Internal SD/FF,
simple IDE splitter/buffer for a CD drive and
a network card via PCMCIA.

For software, I'm running OS3.9, and of course
Fblit, Ftext, Executive and the very excellent
Blizkick.

I won't tower this system, I'll probably leave
it pretty much as - is. It's been an entertaining
hobby to say the least.

Future projects include finding a nice internal
accelerator with IDE for the old 500...possibly
a 2000 or 4000 to build up, and of course
the Pegasos 2 when available.

[Oli_hd]

Well I have a large window to put in my RBM case (Does putting my A4K in a tower count as a mod?) as well as a UV light and UV reactive fan.. but I will have to tape those windows up on the chips first I think.  ;-)

The window is just a standard L shape one but Im thinking thats a bit sad now so Im going to get my tools out and cut a design in the case... If I can think what to do.  :-)

[scafe]

Ive just started upping my amiga A1200 and have just installed one of eyetech's EZIDE interfaces and got that HD spinning today. Here's my current spec.

A1200 1.D.4 MBoard mounted in Tulip i486 SX case (unique and one tight fit!)
2mb ram
EZIDE interface
EZKBD interface
ScanDoubler coming soon
250mb HD (one i had in the loft)
52x CD-ROM (in external han built case)
 No performance mods as yet, hard life as an unemployed student but so far ive only spent about £40 excluding the A1200 itself but i was brought that years ago and most the stuff is from old cannabalised PC's ;-)  Its good to know theruseful for something :-P

[PMC]

Here goes:

My A1200's hardware has been upgraded with the following:
Apollo 040 40Mhz / 64Mb
Eyetech EZ-Key keyboard adaptor
Twister serial clockport expansion
IDE Buffer
Elbox Power Tower
Mediator 1200
Voodoo 3 3000
Soundblaster 128
PCI Ethernet 10/100
Belinea 17" Monitor
DVD Rom
CD ROM 52x
4.3 Gig Samsung HDD
15 Gig Seagate HDD


And Software:

OS3.9 BB2
Visual Prefs
Stack Attack
Magic Menu

[Dr_Righteous]

I haven't done JS with my A2000HD... It's pretty much a paperweight right now... (NO, it's not for sale)

My A4000D has the following:

A4000 mainboard Rev unknown (don't have it handy, but I do know it has a Rev 9 Buster)
Kickstart 3.1
AmigaOS 3.1 (3.9 is on the IDE drive, but not enough space on the CF drive at the moment)
Commodore A3640 040@25MHz w/cooling fan
GVP Impact Series II 4000 HC+8 SCSI controller
2.15GB Seagate ST12400N SCSI HDD
4.3GB WD Caviar IDE HDD
8MB Generic Compact Flash & Generic CF2IDE adapter (boot drive)
Apple 16x SCSI CDROM
2MB Chip, 16MB Fast, 8MB Expansion RAM
Sega Genesis 6-button game controller
NiMH replacement RTC battery
Super Glue (holding the Fast RAM in place)

Soon this will all be stuffed into a Compaq Proliant full-tower server case... It was a 486 with EISA expansion and the ever present hot-swap SCSI bays.

This case is so HUGE, not only can I fit the entire A4000 board in, I have room left over to add a PCI backplane if I decide to go PCI and end up needing additional slots! It DOES need a serious makeover tho (LOTS of PAINT!)

[amiga1260]

I haven't mod my two Amiga 1200's, because I don't like Towers.

My first Amiga 1200:

Commodore Amiga 1200 with 3.1 kickstart ROMs rev1d4
Blizzard 1230 IV with 48 MB RAM 030@50MHz and FPU @ 50MHz

Blizzard IV SCSI-kit rom version 8.5 (softkicked)
IBM 1080 MB HD (notebook)
A500 PSU
DCE ScanDo-FF external Flickerfixer has a transparent casing.
Proview 17" Monitor
Apple PowerCD Single speed portable CD-ROM, you can connected to TV to watch PhotoCD's with the remote controle.
Pioneer DR566S 32 speed SCSI CD-ROM in external case
Hisoft Squirrel SCSI controller
Target 10Mbit networkcard

Operating system:

Dualboot with Bootman: AmigaOS3.9 and WB3.1

My second Amiga 1200:

Escom Amiga with kickstart 3.1 ROMs rev:2b
Blizzard 1260 with 128 MB RAM 060 @ 50MHz
Blizzard IV SCSI-kit rom version 8.5 (softkicked)
Fujitsu 2 GB HD (notebook)
Original Commodore 60 Watts PSU
Commodore 1084S Monitor
Canon BJC 240 Bubblejet printer
Plextor 40 speed SCSI CD-ROM player in a external SCSI case
Yamaha 6416S SCSI Rewriter
Quantum Fireball 2 GB SCSI with HD cooling fan
Both in an external SCSI case for 2 devices
External ZIP 100 Plus
Power Computing 1.76 MB HD external diskdrive
Dell slimeline 1.76 MB HD external diskdrive
Philips 4 Watts speakerset
Dynalink 10Mbit PCMCIA Networkcard

Operating system:

Amiga OS 3.9 and Workbench 3.1 dualboot with early startup

Highdensitypatch for the Power Computing HD diskdrive

[JurassicCamper]