Amiga 1000 Turned Into A PC!

[Coolit]

I was surfing about and found this site with an article I thought the people here would be interested in.

arrrrg why?

PC1000

[AmigaEd]

Well, I guess it's better than just ending up in the bin altogether.

You have to appreciate the fact that the guy mentions putting Amithlon or similar on it.

-AmigaEd

[Tomas]

sad....  :cry:
It would be better to see this done with an a500 or similar.

[amigadave]

Why?  Why Not!  If the A1000 is dead or dying from part failures, why not turn it into something that can run all those old games via Amiga Forever or WinUAE?  I have just such a project to complete when I can find the time.  I already have almost all of the parts except the motherboard.  My only concern is that the newer Shuttle motherboards are going to probably need more power than the PS that this article mentions and I have bought.

[JimS]

I've thought about doing one of these conversions myself. I've got a couple spare 1000s around, although one is missing the lid.  :roll:  
I'd probably use one of the mini-itx boards. I believe some have floppy support now if you need it. It would also be cool if you could mount the cd/dvd facing forward, hingeing the ram expansion cover as a door... assuming things would fit.

[amigadave]

JimS wrote:
I've thought about doing one of these conversions myself. I've got a couple spare 1000s around, although one is missing the lid.  :roll:  
I'd probably use one of the mini-itx boards. I believe some have floppy support now if you need it. It would also be cool if you could mount the cd/dvd facing forward, hingeing the ram expansion cover as a door... assuming things would fit.

If there were enough interest, we should get a group from here to colaborate on updating the original design shown in that website (which I believe was done by Kermit Woodal of Nova Design), to the best solution for the components available today.  I have one A1000 that I will always keep in it's original form, but the other is not working anyway so I plan on doing the conversion sometime in the near future.  I like your idea about the CD/DVD facing the front with the old RAM expansion acting as a door to conceal it, but don't know if that will work due to space problems inside.   :-D

[steve30]

At least it's running amithlon and Amiga forever.

I;ve been thinking about doing this with an A500 sometime. It would be good to have a PC in suck a small portable case.

[Coolit]

It is cool I guess that it's a PC to Amiga, usually it's the other way about,  A1200 to PC tower  :-)

[uncharted]

This is where the minimig would really prove to be useful.

[CatHerder]

Actually, why not just go with a MiniITX board?

I mean, have you seen what people put those tiny boards in? Be sure to view all the user casemods etc on the right column! :-)

You can go as powerful as you want to spend, and you can get a board with everything onboard (video, audio, etc). Have fewer heating issues, even fewer power issues (most of these things run with 30-60 WATT power supplies) and plug in any PS2/USB/FireWire expansions you want or desire. If you wanted, you could basically build a "micro Amiga iside a joystick"; just shove WinAUE on it, all the games from BackToRoots and you have one of the fastest Amigas ever. :lol:

[amiga1084]

Hello All,

Wreaking an A1000 in my opinion is bad, but then
again can anyone remember back in 1991 the Phoenix
motherboard replacement for your Amiga 1000 where you
took few chips of your original motherboard & trow
away the rest.So it's happend before.Merv

[c64_d0c]

this is blasphemous...... :madashell:
________
EROTIKA

[Zac67]

Yes, that's what I wanted to say - salvaging the case would be definitely a shame.
The Phoenix project was something completely different, the Amiga stayed an Amiga.

[DaBest]

Looks like it would be a 10 year project for me to do. If I had an A1000 floating around.
 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[amigadave]

CatHerder wrote:
Actually, why not just go with a MiniITX board?

I mean, have you seen what people put those tiny boards in? Be sure to view all the user casemods etc on the right column! :-)

You can go as powerful as you want to spend, and you can get a board with everything onboard (video, audio, etc). Have fewer heating issues, even fewer power issues (most of these things run with 30-60 WATT power supplies) and plug in any PS2/USB/FireWire expansions you want or desire. If you wanted, you could basically build a "micro Amiga iside a joystick"; just shove WinAUE on it, all the games from BackToRoots and you have one of the fastest Amigas ever. :lol:

Yes, that is my plan, but I did not realise that the more powerful versions would run on such low wattage as you state.  I have the 125 Watt PSU that Kermit used in his design and was afraid that it would not be enough.  Looking at the site you provided a link for, I see the "Nano" ITX MoBo's and start thinking that I might be able to go even smaller and make an Amiga Forever PC inside an old Commodore 1010 external Floppy Drive case.  :-o