Hi,
@iamaboringperson ,
HaHaHa, How can you say the Amiga 4000 is a serious computer when it died 10 years ago. Break down an buy a clone computer and then see what real computing power is about.
@scientist
Ok lets go through this with the A1200 computer. I am using a pc power supply to power my A1200. To do this I cut off the power cord from my Amiga's power supply, then I checked the books to get the proper pins to so that I could hook up the pc power supply to the Amiga power cord and get the right voltages to the right inputs. First problem solved.
Then I removed the board and put it in an Xerox word processing case that I bought from gov. surplus, this case was big enough to fit the power supply in and the A1200 motherboard. 2nd problem solved.
Then I took a look at the IDE interface on the A1200 the interface is actually a pc laptop interface which uses a smaller plug then a regular ide interface, this interface also has power connections for a 5 volt supply to power the ide harddrive from a laptop. Contacted software hut and they had the proper ide plug for a crossover from a laptop drive to a regular 3 1/2 inch ide drive 3rd problem solved.
Now comes the biggest problem the damn keyboard which uses a flat ribbon cable to hook up in the A1200, this flat ribbon cable is about 4 to 5 inches long and runs from the keyboard to the Amiga 1200 motherboard. I believe if I remember right it had 32 wires in it, but don't take my word for it, it has been a long time. Now you can take out the old socket and solder in a 32 wire cable from mother board to a special socket connector attached to the computer case and then a special socket attached to 32 wires on the keyboard (female, male connector). This was my first solution that I tried and was a real pain. The second solution is to visit the Aminet boards and lookup some files that tell you how to make a 5 wire connector like the Amiga 3000 / 4000 and then hook up a Amiga 3000 / 4000 keyboard, This is the method I finally used on mine. You can also buy the connector from software hut, (if they still exist). 4th problem solved.
Now after I did done all the mentioned above my A1200 was equipped with a 603e 210 mhz ppc / 68040 / 40 mhz board then upgraded to 64 megabyte of ram, a 10 gig harddrive and a 52 X cdrom drive, OS 3.5 and then OS 3.9, a zorro slot card for my Picasso II card and my GVP IV24 card all hooked up into an A1200 as Tim Allen would say Who Who Who this is a real mans computer.
Then about 3 years ago smoke poured out of the back and it all wound up in the trash and I went out and bought a pc clone and installed winuae on it. 5th problem solved.
Have fun compootin,
Smerf
