Recreating the Amiga Walker Case

[Matt_H]

I thought the designs eventually ended up with some of the Pegasos/bPlan/Genesi guys? Weren't drawings for several tower variants presented at a Pegasos show a few years ago?

I think it's a nice design for an art installation, museum, or kiosk terminal, but its large footprint and the inability to stack anything on it makes it very impractical for home/office desktop use.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Ahahahahaha.  Hahahahahahaha.  Just saw that reference to "looks like Dr. Who's electric dog".  Take a look at this page for a picture:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=220


 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :crazy:

[downix]

Matt_H wrote:
I thought the designs eventually ended up with some of the Pegasos/bPlan/Genesi guys? Weren't drawings for several tower variants presented at a Pegasos show a few years ago?

I think it's a nice design for an art installation, museum, or kiosk terminal, but its large footprint and the inability to stack anything on it makes it very impractical for home/office desktop use.

Those weren't varients, they were the same model.  You could split the case horizontally and insert sections to make a tower out of it.

And while the actual unit and plans wound up at Genesi, the rights to them wound up at Merlancia so I understood.

[koaftder]

Those weren't varients, they were the same model.  You could split the case horizontally and insert sections to make a tower out of it.

Or you could just toss it in the trash bin.

[murple]

Somebody bought the design? With actual money??? Wow.

[Mazze]

I'm wondering that no case modder has already put an Amiga into an vacuum cleaner.

There'd be a lot of advantages:
-Portable because of the wheels
-No heating problems because of the big fan
-Enough room for a big boing bag


 :-D

[Darth_X]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who liked the Vader-Helmet case... *sniff*

 :-D

[downix]

Darth_X wrote:
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who liked the Vader-Helmet case... *sniff*

 :-D

I did too Darth, I did too.

Now the MMC, that was just.... yeck!

[Tomas]

Why? The Walker was bashed like hell just for the look of the case.
Though.. i believe the main problem was the colour of the cdrom and floppy drive. It would have looked a whole lot better if they had the same colour as the case.

[Terse]

God god how can anything be so ugly.

[koaftder]

As ugly and retarded looking it may be, damn shame it never went into production ):

[Tripitaka]

Merlancia still owned the rights to the Walker case last I heard but that was a few years ago.

[murple]

I would be STUNNED if Merlancia actually tried to prevent somebody from building cases like that.

[B00tDisk]

murple wrote:
I would be STUNNED if Merlancia actually tried to prevent somebody from building cases like that.

Regardless of the aesthetics of the case (or, in this instance, the lack thereof) I'm quite sure Doctor Professor Ryan of Merlancia would love love loooooove to find some shyster lawyer and squeeze a little bit of fresh cash out of anyone whom he perceived was stepping on anything that "belonged" to him, so I wouldn't try it myself.

[downix]

B00tDisk wrote:

murple wrote:
I would be STUNNED if Merlancia actually tried to prevent somebody from building cases like that.

Regardless of the aesthetics of the case (or, in this instance, the lack thereof) I'm quite sure Doctor Professor Ryan of Merlancia would love love loooooove to find some shyster lawyer and squeeze a little bit of fresh cash out of anyone whom he perceived was stepping on anything that "belonged" to him, so I wouldn't try it myself.

you know that reminds me, I haven't seen him online lately.  How is he doing now I wonder.....

[murple]

Somehow, I have a hard time seeing that as a serious threat, haha...