My New PPC A1200 Power Tower

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Hi Guys
Just to add my little bit to the Bay my latest project:

A1200
Power Tower (the Best tower loads of space and Retro for style)
Blizzard PPC 160mhz with 060 50Mhz for Muscle 64mb ram
Elbox Mediator 1200 LT4
SB128
Voodoo 3 3000
Radeon (waiting for new 3d drivers)
NIC for network
4 Gig CF
DVDRW
Zip Drive

only a 4 way buffered IDE so far but give me time.

OS 3.9 will be going OS4


so the pics
 

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Nice work Alan, thanks for sharing the pics :thumbsup:

Have fun with it, must say I do have a soft spot for the old Power Tower having owned both A1200/A4000 versions, built like a tank and great to work on due to detachable Motherboard plate.

I've got myself the Mirage Pro for my A4k which is very similar in design.

A FastATA will fit just fine under the Mediator if you want to give your IDE a boost or do you have SCSI on the PPC?

I use SCSI-IDE off the BPPC SCSI and also a FastATA (on my A1200) they both pull about 6mb/sec vs 1.7mb/sec off the native IDE.

I also like how you made use of the Arcade VGA adapter, very cool indeed.

Steve.
 
Gief some pics and possible pinouts for this mod. Nice job dude :)
 
Nice to see that converter in use :thumbsup:

I bought my Power Tower around 1997 I think one of the best things I bought for my Amiga, though ridiculously priced at £150 new at the time (pure madness!)
 
Cheers

Cheers

Its working a treat buddy and the LCD works great with it too so well happy, when the next run of scan doublers hits the shelves I might be tempted but I think a decent IDE controller is first LOL.


Finally got my Warp Up working and am enjoying Quake on it.

Only Problem I have is with that nightmare Boing Bag 1 it just will not install on the 1200 always get that error 3

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Just seen the other question about the converter there is a thread on Amibay taking you thought the pinout and the needed parts.
 
nope

nope

I only wish would be well handy oh well IDE it is LOL.

Now this is a Friday Night playing my Miggy and finding a title you had forgotten about:

24inches of pure Miggy LOLOL:ninja:


This will be my Third on over the years but it's only now Iam really getting to enjoy using it LOL.

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"Red Five standing by..."

:thumbsup:
 
what about OS4

what about OS4

So come on Guys whats OS4 really like is there loads of software out there for it?

I want the Classic version
 
Cheers Steve

Cheers Steve

Got to have it sounds fun :Doh:

Its hard to believe this but I have had every Amiga out expect A1000, A4000T, A3000T

and this is the first bar my A500 1.3 with A590 from 1988 that I have really got game time and fun time with.

Never forget ordering my first A500 I was stationed in Germany and had to wait 3 months to get it the machine it was:

A500 1mb upgrade external floppy drive and a 1084s monitor(later an A590 with 2mb ram) big upgrade from my Commodore C64.

I spent Hours playing game on that A500 cant even remember what happened to it but next machine I had to have was the wonder flop the CDTV again got all the extras at the time turned her on and straight away wished I kept my A500 which I had the A590 for with the extra 2mb ram.

Next was the A1200 got her and kept her until I got my first 386sx pc, I also had the CD32 and again got stung just could not take to it CDTV all over again.

Took me 3 years of PC mania before I went back and of course I went nuts ended up with an A2000 060 and a scan doubler A4000 in micronic tower with CSPPC and Cyber Vision, A1200 in power tower with 040 and the Mediator also had a BPPC but she died, Finally got rid of the lot as I got fed up with waiting for the new stuff to arrive and the Rows with the then Wife, only machine I kept was my A500+ and a couple of box loads of games.

So its been back with a bump only wish I could have kept the A3000 and the A4000 I got here on Amibay but I really really really wanted this project so they got traded to buy this system.

Thanks Amibay for bringing me back.

I am interested in the Mini Mig and the Sam I suppose maybe in the future I will buy these but space is a premium LOL

Cheers for all your support more pics will come when I do my next upgrade:bowdown:
 
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