Another hack idea

[blanning]

OK, this is probably a dumb idea.  But after our discussion about hacking a pico-itx motherboard into a 500 case the other day, I was thinking about another hack:  An ATX motherboard and power supply into a 2000 case.

(If you're arriving late, the idea is to run XP on the wintel motherboard and put WinUAE on it)

I know this is sort of a bad idea because the 2000 case kind of sucks.  But I thought it would be cool to still have it in an amiga case.  The good thing about this is that it would cost me nothing as I have the parts lying around.  I also have a machine that I uses as my retro-gaming-facilitation-windows-machine.  It has two floppy drives and a catweasel in it in addition to a number of emulators like mame for example.  But it's in an ugly PC case.  

I thought it would be cool to put the catweasel in this machine also.  So I'd have a catweasel, some floppy drives, and a scsi controller in the case.  I have a separate scsi tower for some other doo-dads, like the dvd-rom drive that won't fit in the 2000 case if there's a 5.25" floppy in there...  

Maybe I should just use a PC case.  :-/

brian

[salax54]

You could do even better than that! There's so much room in there, you can fit an ATX mobo and a Macmini (been there, done that) :-)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGV8YijF7GI

[rkauer]

A humble approach to my friend Salaxy54 is using a bare XP installation that automatic launch WINUAE.

 Search the internet to know about it (bare bones XP).

[dougal]

It has been done.. I had seen an A2000 with a Pentium4 motherboard for sale on ebay a couple of months ago. I dont think it had a catweasel etc.. but it looked pretty cool.

[dougal]

You could do even better than that! There's so much room in there, you can fit an ATX mobo and a Macmini (been there, done that) :-)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGV8YijF7GI

That A2000 of yours is so cool

[kolla]

Considering that the A2000 case is just a generic Commodore PC case, barely modified to fit the A2000 mobo, I dont see what the big deal is. We had lots of old CBM cases that were quite similar, that we just threw in the bin at univ back in the days, none of us amiga peeps cared much about it. The only thing we kept were the mice that were actually the old brick type and could also be used on amigas.

[Tension]

Considering that the A2000 case is just a generic Commodore PC case, barely modified to fit the A2000 mobo, I dont see what the big deal is. We had lots of old CBM cases that were quite similar, that we just threw in the bin at univ back in the days, none of us amiga peeps cared much about it. The only thing we kept were the mice that were actually the old brick type and could also be used on amigas.

Yea, the ugly A2k and later Escom A4kT cases were naff PC leftovers.

Not good.

The A3k and A4k cases were far too small though.

Also not good.

Pfft.

[KThunder]

a3k and 4k cases arent too small i dont think. most motherboards would fit with smallish psu and maybe integrated video or hack a video card.