Customisation Ideas

[Brian]

Here's an idea for you... make an "Amiga shaped" case in seethrough perplex. :-)

Or an even better one... "Amiga shaped" in fiberglass look.. wooo cool. ;-)

Ofcause you don't have to be 100% about the size thus saying you could let it be a lil bit bigger so you can fit an internal DVDR, 3.5" HD and a nice BlizzPPC/BVision combo without having to worry too much about heat. :-D

[xeron]

Well, thanks for all the great ideas. I think the Millenium Falcon would be a bit unweildy, and I lack the plastic-forming skills to make a replacement wedgie case. HOWEVER, I have just won an eBay auction for a CD player, and so i'm going to make an A1200 based CDTV style computer.

To start with it'll have to have an Amiga 4000 keyboard and beige monitor, but in time i hope to source a CDTV keyboard, and i'll probably spray my 1084S black, or something :-D

I will of course put pics online as i work on it.

[xeron]

@AmigaMad

You might be able to cram a mediator and voodoo into one of those desktop cases with a PCI riser card (available from mini-itx.com). It'd be a VERY tight squeeze, but the voodoo would be lying flat parallel to the motherboard, instead of pointing upward.

[amigamad]

You could use an a2000 keyboard it has the right connector for pc/ keyboard adaptors cdtv has a mini din plug and needs an adaptor. :-)

[xeron]

Yes, but I have 1 A2000 keyboard, and 3 A4000 keyboards. If I put a mini-din connector on the computer, I can use an A4000 keyboard now, and a CDTV keyboard later.

Hooking up an A4000/CDTV keyboard socket to an Amiga 1200 only requires a little bit of soldering, something i'm very good at (got top marks on my electronics course

[amigamad]

Ok found some things that would help me on mini-itx.com like slimline dvd rom i might as well put the pc motherboard in the mac case.

[GadgetMaster]

Whatever you do don't spend as much money on case modding as this crazy "but creative" guy:

Warning extreme case mod ahead

[R2D2]

Good looking AMiGA

What do you think about this one?

First click 'sekalaiset' and then 'erinäköinen amiga'.

[xeron]

Hey, its nice. I was a bit dubious from the initial shot of the VCR, but the final design looks quite nice.

[Iggy_Drougge]

Well, 19-inch rackmount is a bit dull, but the professionality image weighs up.

http://www.aminet.net/pix/misc/A1200R_1.jpg
http://www.aminet.net/pix/misc/A1200R_2.jpg
http://www.aminet.net/pix/misc/A1200R_3.jpg
http://www.aminet.net/pix/misc/A1200R_back.jpg
http://www.aminet.net/pix/misc/A1200R_inside1.jpg
http://www.aminet.net/pix/misc/A1200R_inside2.jpg

John Klos's one is actively serving pages, and quite busy at that.
http://www.sixgirls.org/lilith/

[amigamad]

I have been thinking all day and i want to put a pc motherboard in the mac case i have i was thinking of maybe putting an a1200 in it.i will put an  a1200 with slimline cd rom in an a500 case . :-)

[xeron]

Didn't you say you had 2 of those Mac cases? You could stick the PC in one and the A1200 in the other.

OR, if you want to put the A1200 in the A500 case, you could put the A500 in the other mac case :-D

[Jaruzel]

John Klos's one is actively serving pages, and quite busy at that.
http://www.sixgirls.org/lilith/

Oh! lilith is SO cute! Damn, thats what I should have done!

-Jar.

[lorddef]

I have a "Castle Greyskull" at home from the Heman series of toys, I was thinking of putting a PC inside it and some red lights in the eyes.  It's probably big enough to fit an a1200 into.

[amigamad]

Didn't you say you had 2 of those Mac cases? You could stick the PC in one and the A1200 in the other.

I have 2 but one is abit yellow and i broke the middle piece of plastic trying to cut it for cdrom door anyway the top of the case is now my printer stand with the paper underneath. a1200 into a500 case should be fairly easy. :-)