The Daddy's Amiga

[lempkee]

Posting this for a friend of mine , he can't post atm.

have a look at this project , quite cool.

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

[Brian]

Agree... quite cool but you would think he'd use some strips and whire hiders so there's not a wormsnest in there with such a big window.

[Ilwrath]

Hmm... Pretty cool.  I really dig the copper fascia.  The DVD, floppy drives, fan controls and Amiga logo bay cover should have been done up with that, too.  

I've never been much for transparent case mods, though... Especially when they reveal a rats-nest of wires and sideways jammed in expansions.  It might be a neat effect if you tinted them dark and added a bit of a backlight, though.  

Come to think of it, I might do that on my own project.  :-)

[Hattig]

Ah, he really needs to get the drive faces off and sprayed with the same copper stuff.  It isn't that hard for most drives.

[Linchpin]

Looking Good!

[TheDaddy]

Thanks!

Hi,

I am TheDaddy! LOL!...I mean...I am the guy who "modded" the Amiga and made the website www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk to share the project with other Amiga users.

I asked Toaks (friend of mine and Amiga Guru to post the link to the website for me because I couldn't post from the darn pc (both Mozilla and IExplorer suck big fat ones) so I have now re-assembled miggy (the one on the website) to post from IBrowse.

I'd like to thank for the comments left and underline a couple of things...

1) If you think the project stinks let me know because it's not Toaks' fault he only posted the link as a favour

2) As I wrote on the last page, this is a project that could go on forever, modifying, spraying, tidying up cables and so on but the A1200 has been sold so I had to take photos and post before being collected and with an A1 on my mind there is no more time to waste

3) The drives are beige (not white) and left that colour on purpose so to match the Amiga badge and floppy disk drive, beige doesn't clash with copper and the silver controller fan would have been the only one in a different colour, this way beige is matched and silver picks up the silver from the Amiga name, controller and switches.

4) As I said the webpage was created very quickly to speed things up...sorry for the unfinished feel to it...

Thanks again...

[keropi]

VERY NICE work.... I need a power tower....

[Jope]

Hmm, it seems that Amiga case modding is currently at the same level as PC case modding was in 1997.

For the current PC situation, take a look at sites like:
http://metku.net/modgallery/mods.php?area=99
http://www.case-gallery.de/gallery.php?gallery_nr=1
http://www.moddin.net/gallery_view.asp
and especially stuff like:
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/case_gallery.php

More can be found with google.

So, I'm eagerly awaiting to see a really amazing Amiga case mod / custom case, a little more than some paint and windows.

Please don't take this as an insult, but more like an encouragement to do even better next time.. It's always a good thing that someone decides to apply some creativity to the boring sea of beige boxen, but Amigans should set their standards so high that the end result is totally exceptional! :-)

Tidy up the cables, paint the visible front panels of your drives, paint the inside of the case, maybe have some interesting designs on the windows, inside the case, etc.. You can even be creative with the cables - instead of just buying rounded cables, stick them in tubes made out of metal mesh or modify them otherwise, whatever suits the theme of the case you're going to build.

There's loads of great ideas to be applied in the case modding galleries all over the web.

[haymiggan]

TheDaddy! Nice tower!

Hard to make that PowerTower look good

When i get into retro-mode again, I'll finish my a1200 project too...right now i'm using my a1-c in a travla case so...

http://www.haymigga.dk/Billeder/PowerTower/tower0.jpg
http://www.haymigga.dk/Billeder/PowerTower/tower1.jpg
http://www.haymigga.dk/Billeder/PowerTower/tower2.jpg
http://www.haymigga.dk/Billeder/PowerTower/tower3.jpg

There's actually 4 CPU's in that.
BPPC (68060, 603-210mhz) Amiga Access (68030-50mhz), Onboard (68020)....

My plans were to have the Amiga Access serve as an always turned on gaming+demos+music player which i would control via a serialnetwork with the main A1200 (using Netkeys etc.)

I'd use my TV-Card for display. Pretty cool idea i thought!
So i could play WHDGAMES in a window that i could move around at will, returning to when i want etc. Damn nice! I managed to get working first with my a1230, and that was nice feeeling! No locking up OS!

But i never got it to work with the Access, because i encountered problems with the Amiga Access harddrive controller + no keyboard for it

[keropi]

lucky haymiggan !!!! you've got an ACCESS!!!!  :-o

[adonay]

When i get into retro-mode again, I'll finish my a1200 project too...right now i'm using my a1-c in a travla case so...

Cool!!!!!!!!!! :-o  :-o  :-o
but still reminds me of a pc cant put my finger on why :-P
whats with the scsi cable?

adonay :-D

[haymiggan]

a long long scsi cable i got from Toaks, it goes from the SCSI on the Blizzard (25) to 50 and then to my adaptec scsi-ide bridge i was using at time of taking picture...

reminds of a pc eh? it's a tower...> amiga is desktop so

[whabang]

I can't help it, guys, but I find that case incredibly unattractive! Copper simply isn't my colour.
Good work, though.

[TheDaddy]

@jope

Sorry but I can't see a single cool case there I am afraid, they more like some kind of monstruosity from the pc modding scene... LOL!

>Amiga at the stage of 1997 pc?

I really hope we don't reach the stage when we put our beloved Amigas in vacuum cleaners like many pc users do!

>A little more than some paint and windows?

Apart from the fact that it has taken a long time to do "some paint and window, cut out the panels, cut out the Amiga badge and so on" but we are talking of an "original" Amiga case here (as far as I am concerned even if the Power Tower is a pc case, it's still been converted to host an Amiga properly) modified and as I have said on the website you could go on forever for example spraying the chassis itself and so on...

>Amigans should set their standards high?

If it's to end up like those monsters on the websites you posted then I am not in

>Tidy up the cables, paint the visible front panels...

Again as explained in the message above and on the website the drives were left beige on purpose and there was no time left to do anything else...

>being creative with the cables?

Yeah you could buy rounded meshed cables and so on and go totally nuts but you will never end. The difference here is that a bit of manual work has gone into it while other "modders" simply buy the parts and put them together.

>There's loads of great ideas to be applied in the case modding galleries all over the web.

There was no intention to make the Amiga 1200 super mega modded, just different and still recognizable as an Amiga.

@whabang

>Unattractive...

Question of taste...would have been better sprayed in black, silver, blue, red? How many cases there are in those colours?

[TheDaddy]

@Haymiggan

Hi mate!

Thanks I love your case too man! And I haven't forgotten I will send you the simms as soon as I can...(taking note!)

Thanks