Minimig Case

[amiga_3k]

I had to pay for two engineers and technicians to reduce the costs, putting the drawing into CAD, machining the case (this is the most expensive part), then the first prototype finally arrived, six months later.

Now I am testing it, see if everything fits and then I am going to take photos, I believe this will be the first bespoke/original Amiga related case probably since Commodore.

Those engineers cost a fortune. If you go into something like this again in the future, feel free to contact me. I'm more than willing to help the true Amiga-enthusiast. I've got access to and know how to use Pro/ENGINEER and Unigraphics. Also I have some 10 years of experience in Mechanical Engineering.

This offer also stands to other Amiga enthusiasts wanting to pull something like this. Due to my contract these Amiga enthusiasts need to be non-profit, non-company type of enthusiasts ;-).

This message is not intended as SPAM or to advertise myself. I just love the development going on right now with all kinds of home-brew projects getting of the ground where new Amiga's and such are being developed (I even read about the re-creation of the Picasso II :-)).

[TheDaddy]

@everyone

A sneaky preview of the upcoming Minimig case:

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html

Enjoy.

Thank you,

 :-)

[Darrin]

Bloody hell, just show us the smegging case.  It's not the Crown Jewels you know.

[Ami603]

damn teasers, look what i found:

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/preview2.htm

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

EDIT: silly me, i didn't see the next button myself :-P

[Rob]

TheDaddy has put some teaser pics up on his site just now.

[TheDaddy]

>>Bloody hell, just show us the smegging case. It's not the Crown Jewels you know.

The rest is under protective film. Tomorrow it's going back to the manufacture to have some things rectified.

 :-)

[TheDaddy]

Dennis?

 :-o

I am not Dennis...

Rob, could you edit it please?

www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

 :-D

[Bandis]

@TheDaddy

Good work there, it looks nice.
Hopefully you can get amigakit or/and Vesalia to sell your cases.

If it works out well this might open up a future for more case designs for upcoming products such as the NatAmi.

regards
Bandis

[TheDaddy]

@bandis

Thanks for the encouragement, I have put all myself in this project. If it sells well, the Natami is next. I have already got a few sketches going for it.

Thanks

Loriano

:-)

[Darrin]

TheDaddy wrote:
The rest is under protective film. Tomorrow it's going back to the manufacture to have some things rectified.

 :-)

Damn, I hate waiting.

On the plus side, I got my updated PIC from Amigakit and it's in the Minimig and working.

[TheDaddy]

@darrin

>>Damn, I hate waiting.

Believe me Darrin, nobody is more excited and wanting to show it and start selling it more than me! :-)

>>On the plus side, I got my updated PIC from Amigakit and it's in the Minimig and working.

Excellent! Any more news on compatibility improvements?

I so want to play Superfrog, SWOS and Speedball 2 on my Minimig in its new shiny case!  :-)

[CD32Freak]

@TheDaddy
You should change your nickname into TheTeaser :lol: Just kidding! :-D I admire your passion, good luck! :-)

[TheDaddy]

@CD32Freak

>>You should change your nickname into TheTeaser

LOL!

>>I admire your passion, good luck!

Thanks for your support. :-)

[straycat]

@TheDaddy

Well done for getting it done, looking forward to seeing some more pics  :-)

[TheDaddy]

Thanks straycat, it's cost me an arm and a leg but we are finally there!

So much hard work, months, many sleepless nights and lots of money, but we are there people, Minimig will finally have a cool case! :-D

[Darrin]

TheDaddy wrote:.

Excellent! Any more news on compatibility improvements?

I so want to play Superfrog, SWOS and Speedball 2 on my Minimig in its new shiny case!  :-)

I haven't done much with it yet as I'm fighting with my A4000 trying to get it to work right with a new Fast ATA 4000 board (I think it might not like these 80GB hard drives - although it was happy to partition one of them into 18 x 4GB chunks when I first ran it).

I did retry Rodland (the right hand screen is still missing) and Menace (shield still run down).  I think the work Denis did was on games that wouldn't load so I need to try the games in my "buggered" folder when I get a chance.