My A1200D (Sparc) Rebuild Is Complete!

[Jaruzel]

Hi guys,

I'd just like to mention that my A1200D(Sparc) rebuild is complete:



For full details and 16 more pictures click here.

Cheers,

-Jar.

[Vincent]

That's one hell of a job, well done on that :-D

I like the idea of having the floppy/cd drives on the right of the case - it'd still feel like an Amiga when putting in floppies :-)

Hope you come up with a good ide for the PSU - the black thing is a bit hideous, and as you say it's noisy.

[Staticman]

Cool  8-)

[mendark]

Looking really good! Good job!

Maybe you can fit the PSU if you replace the HD. Just remove the PSU tops and place it into the SPARC! A smaller regular 200W desktopPSU (compaq etc) will do the trick too and it's 40% smaller

Keep up the good work!

Mathieu

[Linchpin]

With reguards to a PSU, tiny (the make) pc's are well small and they have small psu's in them.

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=9#p67

something like that maybe?

[whabang]

Cool!

[xeron]

Thats great, but you should REALLY consider getting an A4000 keyboard. I know they're expensive, but I think it would make a perfect finishing touch!

[clark]

Very Cool.  I've always loved the case design of the elder SPARCs.  It's too bad SUN droped the side-drive design with the Ultra 1.

Clark

[Jaruzel]

Thanks everyone for your comments!

by xeron on 2003/6/26 17:22:29
Thats great, but you should REALLY consider getting an A4000 keyboard. I know they're expensive, but I think it would make a perfect finishing touch!

Does an A4000 keyboard work the same way as a PC-AT keyboard, or would I need to rip out the keyboard adaptor ?

-Jar.

[Brian]

Need a special keyboard addapter that takes Amiga keyboards, or better yet get those that have auto detection and takes both Amiga and PC keyboards. :-D

[xeron]

Amiga keyboards do not use the same protocol as PC keyboards; however, some A1200 keyboard adaptors support both A4000/A2000 keyboards and PC ones, so check if yours supports them.

I was under the impression that it was easy to wire up an A4000 keyboard socket to an A1200 motherboard, and a quick look on aminet confirms that it is pretty simple, and the parts to do it should cost very little, with one problem. Apparently the A1200 and A4000 handle keyboard reset slightly differently, and it requires a little extra work to get that to work.

All the instructions you need are in the hard/hack directory on aminet.

[PMC]

Cooooooooooool!

A home made case like this is much more satisfying than buying an off the shelf item.  I I had the skills and patience I'd have concoted something for my A1200 like that instead of being lazy and buying a Power Tower.

Well done!

[Cyberus]

I know it's about a week late (so ppl might not see my comment ). But I was really impressed with that mate, good job! And a good photorecord  of what you did. I must admit, it has inspired me to get back to that rackmount project...

Any ideas how many hits you've had now?

[amigamad]

Very smart well done . I might sell my ppc card and blizard vision graphics card after i get os 4 for my a1 . :-)

[carls]

One word: Cool.