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Offline vic20ownerTopic starter

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Why no mediator hacks?
« on: May 11, 2007, 06:28:28 PM »

I'm sort of surprised nobody has built a mini-mediator... something that could be tucked away inside the A1200?  It seems entirely possible to fit a standard PCI vga card inside the A1200 with the appropriate board if you only created one PCI slot on a cable.

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Re: Why no mediator hacks?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2007, 06:44:20 PM »
The reason this has not been created is probably because there is little you can connect to a Mediator which you cannot connect to a desktop A1200 some other way (BVision for gfx, PCMCIA network card, USB on clockport...)

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Re: Why no mediator hacks?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2007, 09:31:31 PM »

PCI Video card or sound card?
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Re: Why no mediator hacks?
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2007, 11:25:14 PM »
The vanilla A1200 barely has enough spare juice to supply a 68030 card and some RAM at a stretch, possibly with a notebook 2.5" HDD attached.  Considering I blew my PSU after fitting a 68040 and a 16mb SIMM, not to mention a 3.5" HDD then the demands of a Voodoo (which is exponentially more powerful than the 68030 the A1200 was originally designed to take), plus the issues of cooling such a setup in the A1200's cramped case means powerful fans, which need more power... You get the picture.

The safest option is to take the A1200 and rehouse it with an AT PSU with sufficient juice to drive everything and the extra space to circulate cooling air.

Mind you, it would be nice to be able to fit a decently powerful machine into an A1200 sized case...
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