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This thread tells the story of my journey of building my first Amiga tower. The project started with a towerization of my trusted old Amiga 600, but later on I realized that I wanted to play AGA games so I upgraded. Therefore the thread is called A600T but in fact today is a A1200T.
Thanks for checking it out!
/T
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I've got this blog up, but here's for you who don't read swedish.
The main goal of this project is to have a nice WHDLoad system with a nice menu (still waiting for Tiny Launcher and xBench) for me and my son (and upcoming son/daughter) to play with during the harsh winter nights of Sweden's northern forest country.
Without further ado, here's some progress:
Ian Steadman's wonderful work and a cheap plug I've ordered from France (so that I wouldn't have to slaughter my working PSU).
Soldering the plug into PERFECTION
First test-run - What a wonderful sight! Although I used to hate this purple screen since I had a faulty hard drive in my 600HD which would decide every other day to take a little nap. With the upcoming CFIDE, no more!
Even though I started this project with a desktop chassi mod, I soon realized there wouldn't be much room for stuff - also, I didn't want to cut too much plastic in the front, I wanted the machine to look good! Got this ATX-case instead, donated from a friend.
The joystick extension cables BARELY fit. Please, don't mind the soldering work. :roll:
I actually had quite some trouble making these, because of my fat soldering iron (I'm too cheap to get a smaller and better!) Also, I managed to make a straight connection the first times before I realized I had to swap places with the pins.
1MB Chipmem I grabbed off eBay. Nice to have SIMMS instead of soldered memory in case I need to fix it some day.
Case chaos! Thankfully, I've got lots of room and airflow for this tiny devil.
I needed something to make the machine easily identifiable. A case badge sticker would do!
The new ATX I/O shield made out of aluminium looks horrible from the behind! Luckily, only myself will be looking inside the case! All I need: Two DSUB9 ports, RCA connection and DIN5 connector for the Elbox keyboard adapter. Later on I'll install a port for the PS/2 mouse, but this would have to do for now.
Again folks, please don't mind the soldering. Although, by this time I've actually improved! Now all I need is proper tools.
It looks actually quite good from behind, especially with everything plugged in! Now for the ultimate test run:
TURRICAN 3 (so, so awesome!)
-- In the coming episodes:
This thread tells the story of my journey of building my first Amiga tower. The project started with a towerization of my trusted old Amiga 600, but later on I realized that I wanted to play AGA games so I upgraded. Therefore the thread is called A600T but in fact today is a A1200T.
Thanks for checking it out!
/T
´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´
I've got this blog up, but here's for you who don't read swedish.
The main goal of this project is to have a nice WHDLoad system with a nice menu (still waiting for Tiny Launcher and xBench) for me and my son (and upcoming son/daughter) to play with during the harsh winter nights of Sweden's northern forest country.
Without further ado, here's some progress:
Ian Steadman's wonderful work and a cheap plug I've ordered from France (so that I wouldn't have to slaughter my working PSU).
Soldering the plug into PERFECTION
First test-run - What a wonderful sight! Although I used to hate this purple screen since I had a faulty hard drive in my 600HD which would decide every other day to take a little nap. With the upcoming CFIDE, no more!
Even though I started this project with a desktop chassi mod, I soon realized there wouldn't be much room for stuff - also, I didn't want to cut too much plastic in the front, I wanted the machine to look good! Got this ATX-case instead, donated from a friend.
The joystick extension cables BARELY fit. Please, don't mind the soldering work. :roll:
I actually had quite some trouble making these, because of my fat soldering iron (I'm too cheap to get a smaller and better!) Also, I managed to make a straight connection the first times before I realized I had to swap places with the pins.
1MB Chipmem I grabbed off eBay. Nice to have SIMMS instead of soldered memory in case I need to fix it some day.
Case chaos! Thankfully, I've got lots of room and airflow for this tiny devil.
I needed something to make the machine easily identifiable. A case badge sticker would do!
The new ATX I/O shield made out of aluminium looks horrible from the behind! Luckily, only myself will be looking inside the case! All I need: Two DSUB9 ports, RCA connection and DIN5 connector for the Elbox keyboard adapter. Later on I'll install a port for the PS/2 mouse, but this would have to do for now.
Again folks, please don't mind the soldering. Although, by this time I've actually improved! Now all I need is proper tools.
It looks actually quite good from behind, especially with everything plugged in! Now for the ultimate test run:
TURRICAN 3 (so, so awesome!)
-- In the coming episodes:
- Installation of A608
- Installation of CFIDE
- Configuration of system
- Buying WHDLoad key (!!)
- Grab a PS/2 mouse adapter and hook up ports for the back
- Installing mouse/joy autoswitch
- Soldering/buying multiplayer adapter and move port 1/2 to front, replacing USB/Firewire ports
- Playing awesome, awesome games all nights long!
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