My Custom A600... - Page 3

Amiga1992 · 09 July 2010, 17:25

This is really cool man! Looking good with the hxC.

Two questions still remain from me:

- Where will the buttons be?
- How hot is this thing running? Seems like there's hardly any space inside.

KKeep it up! This is one of my favorite Amiga modifications ever.

mfilos · 09 July 2010, 23:00

I haven't decided where to put the buttons yet cause I haven't figured out yet what are the best looking and nice for modding buttons to choose

Maybe I'll stick with buttons same as the ones that are already mounted on HxC but we'll see.
Most probable position would be left from LCD screen but I'll decide after my 2 week vacation

It doesn't get hot almost at all since I already have a 4cm low db fan inside that I have it floating around. I think there is space in the airflows to put maybe 1 more 4cm fan just to be sure and cool but will check it out.

Thanks for good words guys

Hewitson · 12 July 2010, 13:25

Wow.. The way you've mounted that LCD looks great!!

This has inspired me to get a HxC for myself. Will be fitting it to my A2000.

Paul_s · 12 July 2010, 13:29

Cool Amiga.... surprised the outer plastic doesn't melt with all that lot crammed in there though!

mfilos · 08 January 2011, 11:39

I thought of making a small update since from the last time, I have now the new ACA630@30MHz replacing my old Apollo 630@40MHz

Yep it's a piece of art and fits like a glove along with the other hardware that co-existed!

Good thing is that the extra socket I putted in the past for raising a bit the Indivision ECS (hacked in A603) for the Apollo to co-exist is a lot better since without it... mounting the clockport cable would be difficult!

Since I had some time off today I thought of making the extra mod in my beloved HxC SD Floppy Emulator in order for me to be able to also "Write" instead of only "Reading" floppy images.
The mod exists in Jeff's Release notes (that can be downloaded with the new firmware from his website) and consists of 4xResistors, 1xCapacitor and 1xMicrochip.

Well since finding the microchip was a pain in the butt to find here (check: http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=12432) I ordered it from eBay so while waiting for it to arrive... I used a socket instead to finish my mod

Cool isn't it

OK here are now all put-up together

And to finish this post...

Here's some photos of the case (semi) closed and WB up and running.
1st pic is a ClassicWB AdvSp installation (DH0@PFS3) while 2nd pic is a OS3.9 (DH1@PFS3) installation. Both reside in 2 different partitions in the CF drive selectable via Early Startup Menu.

Well for a old ECS machine... I'm pretty well proud!

I'd like to thank d0pefish and Cammy for sharing some info and ideas that helped me a lot!

Cheers and more to come soon

Bloodwych · 08 January 2011, 12:13

Fantastic little machine mfilos, I'm sure you are very proud.

mfilos · 08 January 2011, 12:23

Thanks a lot Bloodwych my friend. I can't believe how perfect and fast your ClassicWB operates even in 16 colors!
Always been a fan of your work but now... it's so thrilling, I'll probably toss my 3.9 installation for this little beasty

I can't wait for the firmware upgrade of Indivision ECS that will support 800x600 modes @ 16 colors!

Bloodwych · 08 January 2011, 12:51

Nice, glad it runs so well! I thought it might be slow in 16 colours with Newicons. That's an awsome wallpaper by the way for 16 colours - did you edit the palette to get it looking so good or free up the fixed pens?

Great project and thanks for the detailed account - it's been an enjoyable read.

fitzsteve · 08 January 2011, 12:54

Marios thats some pretty awesome shit right there!

What does OS3.9 run like for you? Are the icons very slow to load for example?

Maybe a little demo vid?

Also be nice to see how the CWB operates too...

Keep up the great work mate, if some mug buys my Apollo 620 I'll be joining the club

Steve.

mfilos · 08 January 2011, 13:22

Bloodwych mate, the palette I'm using is Rebel's custom Palette that Cammy gave some time ago.
It's locked and used via FullPalette22.
The wallpaper is a nice wallpaper I use but rescaled to 640x512 and converted via ImageStudio to IFF by using Rebel's Palette with Floyd Steinberg dithering

I made quite some wallpapers and they most look pretty awesome!

Fitzsteve my friend, I'll post a YouTube video tomorrow with both partitions booting to check the time and response.
With 8 colors both systems were blazingly fast. With 16 colors they are a little bit less responsive but a lot better than what it was with Apollo and 8 colors. So I'd though of... keeping 16 colors for the beauty of it! After all most of times I use Bloodwych's awesome shortcuts via right click so no much time opening and closing folders

Djay · 08 January 2011, 13:31

very nice mod

ever thought of buying a spare trapdoor and cutting it up to create a blanking plate for the floppy drive hole, of course cutting in a slot for the SD card?

just an idea

Bloodwych · 08 January 2011, 13:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfilos

Bloodwych mate, the palette I'm using is Rebel's custom Palette that Cammy gave some time ago.
It's locked and used via FullPalette22.

It looks really nice - great end result!

I'd just like to make you aware that in the ADVSP pack, which uses Scalos, you can set the palette via Settings->Scalos->Palette (top menubar) - no need for FullPalette, Scalos supports fixed pens natively. There you will find some fixed colours for MagicWB icon compatibility already set - they may be conflicting with FullPalette. Looks like it's working ok however from your screenshot.

Cammy released a FullPalette AND a Scalos prefs file containing the correct colours. Scalos prefs file is the one you want (or set them yourself manually).

mfilos · 09 January 2011, 01:44

@Djay
Ofc I thought of some way blocking the gap for dust purposes... but I find the idea of inserting some plastic (even in same color) a bit ugly

I have something in mind that I'm gonna try in future updates.

@Bloodwych
I realized that my friend, just after installing FullPalette22!

I had the ScalosPalette.prefs and after loading it had the same exactly results. FullPalette is going to leave pretty soon! Thanks for the observation

Bloodwych · 09 January 2011, 11:08

Good skills mflilos. I shall now sit back and admire your A600 - tis such a perfect little thing!

mfilos · 09 January 2011, 19:51

Just because Steve asked... I'm attaching a video that I took just before some minutes and shows some basic functions along with boot time of both ClassicWB AdvSP, and AmigaOS 3.9+BB3.
Not many things installed yet but the basic usability

Bloodwych my friend... You're the man! (or better... "Is the Daddy"). Sorry for using LotusIII music as your own preview, but I like it also \o/

I hope you'll like it...
[ Show youtube player ]

Amiga1992 · 09 January 2011, 22:46

Man you are seriously making me want to get that ACA630 thing that I cannot afford! :P

fitzsteve · 09 January 2011, 23:33

Hey mate. Thanks for the vid. I'll watch it later as on the phone at the moment...

Retro1234 · 09 January 2011, 23:37

How many colours are those WallPapers?

duga · 09 January 2011, 23:42

I love those wallpapers, especially the Terminator! Can I download it somewhere?

mfilos · 10 January 2011, 00:29

Wallpapers have 16colors and have been optimized by Rebel's Palette with the help of Cammy

They are just random Google wallpapers if you check them out. Just resized to 640x512 and converted to IFF with Floyd Steinberg Dithering

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Custom Cases	mancity	Amiga scene	21	06 June 2015 16:05
My custom A4000D...	mfilos	Hardware mods	48	11 June 2012 17:06
A600 Custom RF shield?	Photon	Hardware mods	0	03 July 2009 19:40
Custom Miggys	Mick_AKA	Amiga scene	14	14 May 2003 19:14
Custom modules	Carlos Ace	request.Modules	3	24 April 2003 12:46

09 July 2010, 17:25	#41
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	This is really cool man! Looking good with the hxC. Two questions still remain from me: - Where will the buttons be? - How hot is this thing running? Seems like there's hardly any space inside. KKeep it up! This is one of my favorite Amiga modifications ever.

09 July 2010, 23:00	#42
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	I haven't decided where to put the buttons yet cause I haven't figured out yet what are the best looking and nice for modding buttons to choose Maybe I'll stick with buttons same as the ones that are already mounted on HxC but we'll see. Most probable position would be left from LCD screen but I'll decide after my 2 week vacation It doesn't get hot almost at all since I already have a 4cm low db fan inside that I have it floating around. I think there is space in the airflows to put maybe 1 more 4cm fan just to be sure and cool but will check it out. Thanks for good words guys

12 July 2010, 13:25	#43
Hewitson Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 41 Posts: 3,772	Wow.. The way you've mounted that LCD looks great!! This has inspired me to get a HxC for myself. Will be fitting it to my A2000.

12 July 2010, 13:29	#44
Paul_s Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Amigaville Age: 46 Posts: 3,334	Cool Amiga.... surprised the outer plastic doesn't melt with all that lot crammed in there though!

08 January 2011, 11:39	#45
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	I thought of making a small update since from the last time, I have now the new ACA630@30MHz replacing my old Apollo 630@40MHz Yep it's a piece of art and fits like a glove along with the other hardware that co-existed! Good thing is that the extra socket I putted in the past for raising a bit the Indivision ECS (hacked in A603) for the Apollo to co-exist is a lot better since without it... mounting the clockport cable would be difficult! Since I had some time off today I thought of making the extra mod in my beloved HxC SD Floppy Emulator in order for me to be able to also "Write" instead of only "Reading" floppy images. The mod exists in Jeff's Release notes (that can be downloaded with the new firmware from his website) and consists of 4xResistors, 1xCapacitor and 1xMicrochip. Well since finding the microchip was a pain in the butt to find here (check: http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=12432) I ordered it from eBay so while waiting for it to arrive... I used a socket instead to finish my mod Cool isn't it OK here are now all put-up together And to finish this post... Here's some photos of the case (semi) closed and WB up and running. 1st pic is a ClassicWB AdvSp installation (DH0@PFS3) while 2nd pic is a OS3.9 (DH1@PFS3) installation. Both reside in 2 different partitions in the CF drive selectable via Early Startup Menu. Well for a old ECS machine... I'm pretty well proud! I'd like to thank d0pefish and Cammy for sharing some info and ideas that helped me a lot! Cheers and more to come soon

08 January 2011, 12:13	#46
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Fantastic little machine mfilos, I'm sure you are very proud.

08 January 2011, 12:23	#47
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Thanks a lot Bloodwych my friend. I can't believe how perfect and fast your ClassicWB operates even in 16 colors! Always been a fan of your work but now... it's so thrilling, I'll probably toss my 3.9 installation for this little beasty I can't wait for the firmware upgrade of Indivision ECS that will support 800x600 modes @ 16 colors!

08 January 2011, 12:51	#48
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Nice, glad it runs so well! I thought it might be slow in 16 colours with Newicons. That's an awsome wallpaper by the way for 16 colours - did you edit the palette to get it looking so good or free up the fixed pens? Great project and thanks for the detailed account - it's been an enjoyable read.

08 January 2011, 12:54	#49
fitzsteve Professional slacker! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kent, UK Age: 44 Posts: 6,683	Marios thats some pretty awesome shit right there! What does OS3.9 run like for you? Are the icons very slow to load for example? Maybe a little demo vid? Also be nice to see how the CWB operates too... Keep up the great work mate, if some mug buys my Apollo 620 I'll be joining the club Steve.

08 January 2011, 13:22	#50
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Bloodwych mate, the palette I'm using is Rebel's custom Palette that Cammy gave some time ago. It's locked and used via FullPalette22. The wallpaper is a nice wallpaper I use but rescaled to 640x512 and converted via ImageStudio to IFF by using Rebel's Palette with Floyd Steinberg dithering I made quite some wallpapers and they most look pretty awesome! Fitzsteve my friend, I'll post a YouTube video tomorrow with both partitions booting to check the time and response. With 8 colors both systems were blazingly fast. With 16 colors they are a little bit less responsive but a lot better than what it was with Apollo and 8 colors. So I'd though of... keeping 16 colors for the beauty of it! After all most of times I use Bloodwych's awesome shortcuts via right click so no much time opening and closing folders

08 January 2011, 13:31	#51
Djay 95th User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Brighton/UK Age: 48 Posts: 3,120	very nice mod ever thought of buying a spare trapdoor and cutting it up to create a blanking plate for the floppy drive hole, of course cutting in a slot for the SD card? just an idea

09 January 2011, 01:44	#53
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	@Djay Ofc I thought of some way blocking the gap for dust purposes... but I find the idea of inserting some plastic (even in same color) a bit ugly I have something in mind that I'm gonna try in future updates. @Bloodwych I realized that my friend, just after installing FullPalette22! I had the ScalosPalette.prefs and after loading it had the same exactly results. FullPalette is going to leave pretty soon! Thanks for the observation

09 January 2011, 11:08	#54
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Good skills mflilos. I shall now sit back and admire your A600 - tis such a perfect little thing!

09 January 2011, 19:51	#55
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Just because Steve asked... I'm attaching a video that I took just before some minutes and shows some basic functions along with boot time of both ClassicWB AdvSP, and AmigaOS 3.9+BB3. Not many things installed yet but the basic usability Bloodwych my friend... You're the man! (or better... "Is the Daddy"). Sorry for using LotusIII music as your own preview, but I like it also \o/ I hope you'll like it... [ Show youtube player ]

09 January 2011, 22:46	#56
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Man you are seriously making me want to get that ACA630 thing that I cannot afford! :P

09 January 2011, 23:33	#57
fitzsteve Professional slacker! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kent, UK Age: 44 Posts: 6,683	Hey mate. Thanks for the vid. I'll watch it later as on the phone at the moment...

09 January 2011, 23:37	#58
Retro1234 Phone Homer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: 5150 Posts: 5,773	How many colours are those WallPapers?

09 January 2011, 23:42	#59
duga Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 528	I love those wallpapers, especially the Terminator! Can I download it somewhere?

10 January 2011, 00:29	#60
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Wallpapers have 16colors and have been optimized by Rebel's Palette with the help of Cammy They are just random Google wallpapers if you check them out. Just resized to 640x512 and converted to IFF with Floyd Steinberg Dithering

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)