Yet another tower project, this time A4000! :-D

[redrumloa]

Yup I towered a A3000 once before with pretty decent(though a tad ametuerish) results. This time I am going to take that experience and try to improve upon it by towering an A4000. The biggest difference this time, and it is a HUGE difference, is that I have both a dremel *AND* a mig welder:-D

I'd like to hear from people who have taclked this themselves recently. Maybe I will document my project this time, would make an interesting Aminet upload.

[Kronos]

Orginal daughter-board, or exented (3rd party) one ?

[redrumloa]

Kronos wrote:
Orginal daughter-board, or exented (3rd party) one ?

I have been debating this with myself. I think I am going to stick with the stock daughterboard, mediators are simply too expensive for my current budget :-( However I may very well pick up another Prometheus:-D

[Kronos]

Or you could try to get one of the 7xZ3-thingis, not much to gain
unless you got lots of cards (like mine  ;-) , but makes the whole mess
much easier to handle (cards hanging upsidedown are not my kind of cake).

[Tigger]

Red,

I've got a Micronik  Big Tower Amiga 4000 kit, i'd let you have for shipping costs.   I have my flyer in a Megatower 4000 (which is a much better case) so I never dremeled my way to a fully assembled Micronik.  
      -Tig

PS  Your other option is to buy the Megatower Toaster/Flyer system, and get it all assembled  

[Framiga]

Hi Red,

take a look HERE

I like it, because you can extract the Zorro cards, without problems. (the bottom of the case, is removable).

Ciao

[redrumloa]

Tigger wrote:
Red,
I've got a Micronik  Big Tower Amiga 4000 kit, i'd let you have for shipping costs.   I have my flyer in a Megatower 4000 (which is a much better case) so I never dremeled my way to a fully assembled Micronik.  
      -Tig

That have the 7 slot daughterboard? I'm going to have to take you up on that offer:-) It was one of my old dreams to have a 7 slot daughterboard with a Prometheus on the top slot. That would give 6 available ZIII and 4 available PCI, none inline all available at once...

/me drools all over the floor!

I will be PM'ing you shortly!

[mikey2001]

 :-o  :-o  :-o I think a bigger power supply wouldnt go amiss as well!  ;-)  :-D

[redrumloa]

Framiga wrote:
Hi Red,

take a look HERE

I like it, because you can extract the Zorro cards, without problems. (the bottom of the case, is removable).

Ciao

Great site, cheers Framiga! Thanks:-)

[redrumloa]

mikey2001 wrote:
 :-o  :-o  :-o I think a bigger power supply wouldnt go amiss as well!  ;-)  :-D

Yup I will probably end up needing a 400W PS:-D Besdies having 10 slots fully occupied I intend to have more drives than you can shake a stick at. Let's see.. Stock IDE port, Catweasel/Buddha, Cyberstorm *** SCSI.. How many devices does that add up to? :-D

[mikey2001]

Im would love to see pictures of this project when it is finished, it would look fantastic!  :-D

[Kronos]

@Red

Fitting the Prometheus in the top slot would probraly make the PCI-cards
with the CPU-card(and offcourse the drivebays).

No chance with my RBM-tower and the CS-MK1....

[redrumloa]

No chance with my RBM-tower and the CS-MK1....

Well that will be my goal. I am ready to go ultra custom:-)

[Framiga]

Hi Kronos

i'm thinking the same too.

Maybe if the first PCI is a low-profile . . .mhhh! i don't know.

Ciao

[redrumloa]

Even so, heck how hard would a ~1 inch Zorro extender be to make? :-?