When I get a spare 1200 i'm going to do one of these and it's getting a name
Plate JOPE-EAB
A1700

Chris :bowdown

Please do ! I love what you did here, but those seams annoy the hell out of me, even though it's not my Amiga :D.

I must say I'm a little jealous...time to get the good ol' A500 from the attic...

What a nice looking A1700 there..:D
I didn't know you did it already,I have done it to mine just about a hour ago,but mine needs peroxiding cos its very yellow..:(

You didnt know even though you'd been told by 2 people and were given strong hint to search and still didnt... :nuts

how did you get the A500 keyboard working on the A1200 board..?

maybe a 2b board there is a hack to add keyboard

he probably soldered it to the mpu.

Yes, there is a picture link in post 3

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=339019&postcount=3

Hello, love the A1700. Considering doing this to an A1200 I'll be getting soon, so I have maximum room for pimpage. Here's my question, can the A500 case hold an A1200 keyboard? If not what are the mechanical problems.

The keyboard bottom plate is the same shape. The only things I can think of is that the A500 case has holes for only two LEDs, so you can't use the A1200 LED board without modifications, and the A1200's keyboard ribbon cable might not reach the connector, since the motherboard sits a bit further from the keyboard.

Haven't tried it though, as I prefer the older style keyboard controller.

I have used the A1200 LEDs but you only can see 2 of the them,The power is the HD and the Disk drive is the same,I bent the power LED a bit so so the two LEDs fit in the holes and stuck them on with sticky tape.The power Led still lights up so you see light coming from them when the Amiga is on..;)

Yeh, that will work. :-)

I bodged separate LEDs into my A1260 with hot glue, because I used an A500 keyboard without removing the controller board in it. There was no room for the LED board.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=54556

Great, thanks gents. I knew about the extra LED. I might try to slice a nice neat hole in a 500 case for the 3rd one. I just didn't know if the keyboard backplate bit would be held properly by the 500 case. (I don't actually have any of the bits yet you see). :great

Cool,like how you did it.nice work.

Here is a pic of mine,I did it this way cos I don't what make a crapy hole in the top of the case,it only works this way cos of the hole in the keyboard metal frame..;)

I noticed that your bottom part of the case is yellowing like mine,well i got a new-ish one for mine from airey36 on ebay..;) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISA...ht_1118wt_1037