Converting A600 into a console. Great work

[Tiago]

http://www.globaldata.pt/forum/viewtopic.php?p=280484

Ok guys, this is in Portuguese, but there is a lot of pictures.

This guy pick up a A600 and created a nice console.

I think i will do the same. My girlfriend don t like My A1200 in the living room, she says it is not prety to have "keyboards" on the middle of the living room....
So i will have to transforme one Amiga into a nice console or something more attractive... this exemple is great, This A600 is fully operational and looks like a tv satelite receiver. If i transform my Amiga into this baby, maybe my girlfriend let me keep it on livnig room ....

I think this is a great job, the post ends with the guy saying that he would put the Amiga logo in it, but there is no more text.
Take a look

Last time i checked it didnt had the logo, but these photos the logo is there,
the main boards of A600 are not so expensive... humm...

[Harrison]

Very nice project. Does he say in the posts about the keyboard? How does one get connected? Amiga to PC adaptor?

And I noticed in one of the screenshots it is showing a kickstart 1.3 screen. Does he give details about that? relokick? rom switcher? or other method?

If i transform my Amiga into this baby, maybe my girlfriend let me keep it on livnig room ....

Your house? Your rules! Are you a man or a mouse!!!

[Tiago]

Very nice project. Does he say in the posts about the keyboard? How does one get connected? Amiga to PC adaptor? :

He uses a keyboard pc adaptor when the game requires keyboard.

And I noticed in one of the screenshots it is showing a kickstart 1.3 screen. Does he give details about that? relokick? rom switcher? or other method?

He put the kickstart from the A500 !!

If i transform my Amiga into this baby, maybe my girlfriend let me keep it on livnig room ....

Your house? Your rules! Are you a man or a mouse!!!

....i am a mouse...
She is not living in my home yet, so for now, she just said "a keyboard (amiga)? how nice... are you going to keep it here in the living room?"
But i know the day she moves to my home.... i will have to do something....
yes i am a mouse...

[Tiago]

Did you see the hole that he did in the A600 Mainboard?
He needed to make a hole with his black&decker so that the board would fix to the chassis.
Very courage guy, i dont know if i got that spirit to do it... imagine that 1 milimiter to the side end... bye bye Amiga ...

[Harrison]

Yeah, that would worry me too. I think I would rather modify the case more, rather than start cutting holes out of the motherboard.

[toomanymikes]

That sounds like an ace project. Whats the chances of hooking up a bluetooth keyboard to this - that way I could hook the same one up to the ps3. Now that would be cool!

[Harrison]

It definitely would be the ultimate Amiga with a wireless keyboard/mouse. You could then put the actual Amiga anywhere out of the way and control it. And using WHDLoad so the games are all on the HD would mean you don't even need to get up to load a game! You would just need to work out how to control the on/off to reset the Amiga.

[AlexJ]

Couldn't you just build a wireless keyboard dongle into the case?

[Harrison]

Using an Amiga to PC keyboard adaptor, and then using one of the wireless keyboards where the connector plugs into the PS2 PC keyboard port should work. That way I don't think you would need any software at the Amiga end.

[AlexJ]

Using an Amiga to PC keyboard adaptor, and then using one of the wireless keyboards where the connector plugs into the PS2 PC keyboard port should work. That way I don't think you would need any software at the Amiga end.

Then it's just a case of finding a way to turn it on and off at the PSU remotely.