Pc inside Amiga 1200 project - completed

[Tiago]

:D
Finaly, i completed the project.
Space inside the case was the major problem. Everything else compared with Space problem was easy.
Closing the original A1200 case with keyrah inside and a pc laptop board was ...... Hell ...
I did it, but everything was to compress inside.
I should get an ribbon cable extention so that i could put the Keyrah in a more confortable position.
anyway, it's done.
My soldering skills are not the best, but i was able to do the job.

so in resume:
- Original Amiga 1200 case
- Laptop Mother Board (Pee Cee)
- Keyrah adaptor with original A1200 keyboad
- USBs
- Sound RCAs
- DB9 Ports (with Keyrah)
- Power on/off plug
- Power on/off button (connected to m. board slot)
- F12 button for Winuae (connected to m. board slot)
- HD 2,5" sata (with extention cable)

The HD 2,5" sata (with extention cable) is not very stable, don't know why. 1 in 10 boots fail to detect Hd
without the extention cable wokrs fine

https://picasaweb.google.com/102563872250501158835/PcInsideAmiga1200?authuser=0&feat=directlink


Feel free to comment some pictures in picasa (i would apreciate)

And, i know, that a lot of you will say "WHY? Why did you do such a project"
- Because i had some spare parts... and because i like to create... and... to have an dedicaded emulation machine

[Harrison]

Very nice to see it finally completed.

I wonder if the 2.5" sata cable is too long? The laptop hdd port might be designed to only allow short cables? And struggles with longer ones. If you have a PCMCIA port on the motherboard you could get a SATA expansion card for that and ditch the built in port.

[Tiago]

The cable is about 20cm... quite strange, but i found similar problems by other people on the web.
The cable cost me less then 1 dollar includind shipping... it looks good, looks a "normal" cable, i don't know if is good or not...

[Andrew1971]

Hi Tiago
Awesome work you have done there. Whats it like when running does it get hot or not. Whats the performance like.
More pics whens its all built and running please.When people ask WHY did you do it. I find the answer is because i CAN do it.
And its a challenge. Its an awesome A1200 Execellent work. Now whats next.
Many Thanks
Andrew

[Tiago]

As a Pee Cee Mother board, it was biuld for being inside a very closed case (laptop). In A1200 case it has similar space. I have the original cooler fan, so temperature is equal as in the origianl Pee Cee.


WHY did you do it. I find the answer is because i CAN do it.
And its a challenge Yes !! That's it, it was a challenge, i learned a lot with it, my soldering skills were bad, now, they are a bti better.

[Harrison]

SATA cables do seem more fragile than the older IDE ones and seem to suddenly stop working if handled a few times. I find the ones bundled with Asus motherboards the most reliable.

[Tiago]

Yes,
and this cable has vrey thin wires, and with 20 centimeters a guess they can receive "interference".
Maybe if i cut then to half size they would work better?

[Andrew1971]

Hi All
Tiago whats you next project PC in A600 :)

[Tiago]

I don't know, but i am looking at the Rashberry pi, and i looks very interesting...
why not? an Rashberry pi inside A600 ?

[Harrison]

I would personally look at the new Android board for such a project. Only for the reason it can run all Android software from the app store so already has a large library including emulators. Although with the Raspberry Pi you can run Linux.