Red's Retro and Indivision AGA...

[brianb]

well I finally took the plunge and bought an Indivision AGA 1200.  Was going to use AmigaKit but they were sold out, so I decided to try "Red's Retro Computing" (there was an advertisement on this site - what timing).   Anyway, just wanted to give  plug for this site.  Excellent service...  Ordered it late Wedsnesday, and I received it in the mail Saturday morning.  And just $2 shipping!?!
 
Anyway, any tips out there for mounting this thing?  Besides whats in the documentation. Those of you that have one...  How did you cut out the vga connector?  Did you remove the mainboard from the case when installing the Indivision?  Tips?

Thanks!
 

[save2600]

There's tons of info Re: installation of this here on A.org. The search engine here is your friend  :-)

But no, no need to fully remove your mobo. Being the careful and semi-anal chap I am, I did cut away some of the RF shield and stuck a rubber tab or two on the Indivision itself as to avoid any potential shortings.

Other main issue is if you have a CBM or HP made Lisa. You may have to shave away some of the socket to get it to fit snugly, but I believe with this latest batch of FF/SD's, that issue may have been corrected. Good luck!

[redrumloa]

brianb wrote:
well I finally took the plunge and bought an Indivision AGA 1200.  Was going to use AmigaKit but they were sold out, so I decided to try "Red's Retro Computing" (there was an advertisement on this site - what timing).   Anyway, just wanted to give  plug for this site.  Excellent service...  Ordered it late Wedsnesday, and I received it in the mail Saturday morning.  And just $2 shipping!?!
 

Thank you sir! We very much appreciate the support :-D

[zektor]

Yup, Red's is one great place to shop. I have purchased multiple items through him (on multiple orders) and everything arrived quickly!

[NovaCoder]

brianb wrote:

Anyway, any tips out there for mounting this thing?  Besides whats in the documentation. Those of you that have one...  How did you cut out the vga connector?  Did you remove the mainboard from the case when installing the Indivision?  Tips?

Thanks!
 

Cool, you'll love the Indivision  :-)

Mounting plate

The guts of the matter

waffle

[mdivancic]

I wish these things would fit an A4000T. It's a great product.

[ajacocks]

More kudos to Red...I bought last week, and had the board in my hands 2 days later.  Great service!

BTW, don't forget that there _is_ an Indivision AGA 4000 available.

- Alex

[redrumloa]

@zektor & ajacocks

Thank you both  :-D

@ mdivancic

No internal 4000T solution at this time...

[recidivist]

 Is 4000T  problem mechanical interference with the case or actual connections ?

 Is there one for the  3000T(which I have)?

[beller]

I don't think I've heard of one for the A3000.  I'm not sure how well they'd sell since the 3000 already has a nice VGA port.  You'd need the AGA chipset to replicate the 24bit display so I'm not sure what advantage you'd gain over straight VGA...

Bob

[jsixis]

thanks for the reds info, always nice to find other places that have amiga gear

[quarkx]

If you go to my blog, You will find pictures of my A1200. I had the Idivision Installed at AmigaKit when I bought the A1200. They had an interesting set up. No top RF shielding, And the hard drive mounted right to the side of the case. They had hot glued a small plastic "shield" to the top of the indivision Just encase the HD touched it, and routed the VGA plug out the expansion port. All and All a very neat and professional job. I have to order one of those "flexible" IDE Cables for my 600's

I ordered my OTHER indivison (4000) from RED. It took less than a week to get up here to Canada.More pictures on the blog.
Being up here in western Canada, I am ordering from Both Red, and AmigaKit is about the same. I go by the rule "If Red doesn't have it, then AmigaKit does" and vice virca.

One thing I found on the 4000 - it runs hot ( I am not sure if its the LISA or the Indivision itself), I glued a small fan on top and now it runs happily very cool. There is a thread on that on Amibay somewhere on a "Hack" for the Indivision, but this works well- you just loose the bottom slot.
I would stongly suggest installing the HighGFX drivers so you can run it at 1280x768. It makes a heck of a difference.

[T3000]

One thing I found on the 4000 - it runs hot ( I am not sure if its the LISA or the Indivision itself), I glued a small fan on top and now it runs happily very cool. There is a thread on that on Amibay somewhere on a "Hack" for the Indivision, but this works well- you just loose the bottom slot.

HOT!?!  not good. Loose bottom slot!?!  ...as in the bottom slot is going to fall off or become sloppy? The indivision card and fan unit together take that much space? not good either.  The Video Toaster card goes into the bottom slot and takes space from the slot above it making the daughter card have only 3 slots worth of space. With the Flyer and a TBC card in there and ya can cook eggs on the case top. A bit runny though...
I imagine the Indivision wasn't designed to be compatable with the VT to begin with...
So it goes... Stuck at 768×400 and a 15hrtz refresh rate.

[quarkx]

HOT!?!  not good. Loose bottom slot!?!  ...as in the bottom slot is going to fall off or become sloppy? The indivision card and fan unit together take that much space? QUOTE]

No, the fan I used JUST blocks the bottom slot. I am sure a thinner fan can be used. I had the Video toaster card in, but since removed it.

[Damion]

@brianb

If you're handy with a soldering iron, my advice is to remove the RF box from the motherboard, and install the connector there. You only have to modify the case slightly, and it leaves the expansion port area available for something else. This also gives you the opportunity to shorten the ribbon cable (long cable likely degrades the signal somewhat).