The NEW Commodore???

[giZmo350]

by Waccoon on 2006/8/25 7:09:02

Why do case designers insist on putting covers over the drive bays? It looks a bit too pregnant for my tastes.
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I agree!   :lol:

[motorollin]

Will-i-am wrote:
What I'd really like to see is a nice cool case with maybe an athalon 64 inside, (maybe two cpu's) and a secondary level for popping in an old Amiga mobo with built in ethernet or some other way to connect the two.

I remember Eyetech (I think) selling tower cases with an Amiga and PC motherboard inside. They were linked using Siamese RTG which displayed the Amiga's screen in a window on the PC, and routed keyboard/mouse input back to the Amiga. Unfortunately, it didn't work very well from what I heard. With a fast Amiga and a good spec PC it could probably be made to work well if the software was up to scratch.

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moto

[Rooster]

@ the drive cover comments:  Well, when you have white, tan, beige, and black external devices, you'll learn to appreciate external drive covers  Not always is the device you wish to put in there, a nice shiny black-matching your case color!!

@ running two systems in one case;

Should be "fairly" easy, I'd think, especailly with today's PC's..  Simply use an nVidia or ATI VIVO card (or a TV card with inputs), and run RCA out of ami mobo into the in on said device..  Would be slick to see SVHS action or even some form of VGA (I guess depending on your ami, right..) - Anything is possible where there is desire.  All you need is one of those nice full-size cases for plenty of room and a dremel

As an off-topic - I've done this very thing with an Xbox.  Xbox outs went into my SVHS in on TV card..  Was slick and got tons of remarks about it, even though I just simply got the idea from the net, wasn't like my own original idea, lol  Still - Was a fun setup..

In the same box was also a 4-port 10/100 switch (disassembled, of course)..  Was my ultimate LAN rig..  Miss those days...  (Sold the unit to a buddy).  Thinking of someday doing up another with a x360), but a miggy sounds like a blast, too.  Never thought about that...

[LoadWB]

@ gizmo350

 :roflmao:  :laughing:  :bow:

[alexatkin]

I have long since thought it was narrow minded of PC manufacturers to not have at LEAST an RGB SCART input on VIVO/TV Tuner cards.  More interesting perhaps would be a VGA input so you can capture the output of one PC on the other one, or in this case output from the scandoubler on the Amiga.

If someone DID create a VGA input card for a PC they could even support none standard rates so it could become a scandoubler itself.  Its not as if scandoublers are a complicated technology, its just there isnt a huge market for them so they cost a lot.

The closest I have seen is this http://www.cwcembedded.com/products/0/4/312.html which im betting DOES cost a lot.  :-o

[beller]

Vlabguy1 wrote:
I wouuld buy one just cuz the name and run AimgaForever on it..hehe

Yep, me too!  I was just thinking the coolness factor of running AmigaForever on this box would be worth the cost! And heck, I once owned a Commodore PC box before we had Windows...

Bob