My Custom A600... - Page 6

mfilos · 04 February 2012, 22:18

One more weekend update

Custom audio mixer & mounting MAS-Player inside!

Retrofan · 04 February 2012, 23:07

Great

and it's incredibly "clean" and organized inside!

voyager · 05 February 2012, 14:24

I played with the idea putting a mas inside a miggy if I could only find one :-) Why did you use the full 25 pin's you only need eight + 12v.

mfilos · 05 February 2012, 15:35

Yeah I know that I only needed the eight pins plus +5V (instead of +12V).
- Fact is that I couldn't get them directly under the mobo cause then I wouldn't be able to bring them nicely from the front side.
- Secondly, 8 instead of 25 wires would make the ribbon from the IDC connector really thin, which I wouldn't like cause as it is now, it looks and feels pretty solid (especially when you want to disconnect it to put other hardware).
- Last but not least, even with 25wires, stripping the wires, making it round, and putting it firmly with hotglue on the case was really clean and didn't create any issue.

There are many ways of doing something. This was the way I imagined and I wouldn't change it even if I started if from scratch today

Before putting the MAS-Player inside, I was thinking of putting my spare Delfina but sadly there is NO way I can make it fit somewhere unless I remove the floppy. Space exist where I put the MAS but then sadly the clockport cable would have to be TOO big for the Delfina so again it's a NO NO.

A600 is just fine with a MAS and Paula I think

Amiga1992 · 05 February 2012, 15:41

Looking great mfilos!
I have one worry about your project though: you are adding all this stuff and attaching a lot of things to the case, making it annoying/inconvenient to remove the motherbaord etc... but I see you still have the old surface mount capacitors in this motherboard.
Shouldn't you replace the caps before continuing the modifications?

keep up the great work!

mfilos · 05 February 2012, 22:06

Thanks Akira mate and thanks for the good words

Caps are working great and since I use the Amiga at least once per week, I hope I won't have issues anytime soon. Having the Amiga unused for long time is bad for cap's health.
Even if I ever need to replace them.... it will be kinda annoying to dismantle the whole mobo, but I have done it so many times that I don't care much

After all I try and keep tidy everything without endless cabling and mess.

Btw I made one more update today

Mounting NMI and USB Connector

Enjoy

Amiga1992 · 06 February 2012, 02:12

Oh I see. Well, I was just worried about it dying. I get yuor point

Wow an NMI button. That's really cool, I didn't know it was possible

wXR · 24 February 2012, 15:51

mfilos this is such an inspiring mod!

question: for the MAS Player is it not possible to have even the cables inside and the port switchable by some... switch? :-) maybe it's a bit overboard, but then again what is overboard in this project...

EDIT: Also wondering if it's possible to have more than one parallel port on an Amiga?

mfilos · 24 February 2012, 22:01

Haha I love the way you think wXR mate

Tbh, there are limitations concerning space in doing such a mod...
Firstly you'd need to desolder the parallel port in order to get the lines (with wires) feeding them to a dual Parallel switch.
Then you'd need to use an IDC parallel connector glued to the original place. It's not so difficult to make tbh, but the whole ribbon cables plus the REALLY big rotary switch which normally is being used in such switches, is primary ugly... but most important... there is NO such space for mounting it.

If there was a way of putting an extra parallel interface inside using a clockport adapter that would have been really cool! (like extra serial ports can exist internaly via SilverSurfer).

Apart from that, everyone can use a switch externally for Printer/Sampler devices if any

mfilos · 05 March 2012, 16:29

Made a new thread on my blog today concerning my A600

Didn't have much time recently preparing my baby's room but made some more tests and changed in my beloved miggy.

You can check the article here: http://mfilos.blogspot.com/2012/03/r...new-video.html

Amiga1992 · 05 March 2012, 17:33

Your A600 is bad-ass, Mario

Retrofan · 06 March 2012, 13:04

Incredibly fast. But I didn't understand what's that hack with the Wifi. Is it that you coudn't connect with it before or that it now goes faster or what?

mfilos · 06 March 2012, 14:49

All the PCMCIA Wi-Fi adapters compatible with the Prism chipset were able to only authenticate using WEP keys on our Amigas.
By upgrading their firmware/station via a laptop using Windows/Linux and by using the newest Prism drivers found on Aminet, you can now authenticate using WPA/WPA2 as well!!!

Amiga1992 · 06 March 2012, 15:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfilos

All the PCMCIA Wi-Fi adapters compatible with the Prism chipset were able to only authenticate using WEP keys on our Amigas.
By upgrading their firmware/station via a laptop using Windows/Linux and by using the newest Prism drivers found on Aminet, you can now authenticate using WPA/WPA2 as well!!!

That's awesome ,since WEP is garbage!

jimbob · 06 March 2012, 17:28

That is awesome, my A600 is demanding to speak with its brethren but cabling is a pain. Is this tricky to do, I have an old laptop with pcmcia slot.

What about suitable cards. Will this do it -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SENAO-PCMC...item3a71104c0c

can you point us at more detailed info on this please.

BTW, I just tried the 800x600 indiECS screenmode by following your blog. It is brilliant, so much faster than highGFX 1024x768 and on my screen anyway, a more readable display. ALL indiECS users must hear about this.

mfilos · 06 March 2012, 17:58

jimbob mate that card seems to be compatible as Prism 2.5 is compatible.
At it's price I'd say it a nice way to experiment

I got my MA401 for 5 pounds from eBay just because the guide I followed concerned that card so I wanted to be sure

In my article there is the link that Hiddenevil from a.org posted on his blog. Check it out cause the guide is really straightforward.
If you need any help in the meantime don't hesitate to ask.

SuperPlus driver is just brilliant. HighGFX on ECS chipset kinda sux as it's uber slow on anything more than 4 colors and even at 4, it's not ultra enjoyable.
800x600 is a bit slower than 640x512 PAL Hi-Res Laced but it's really responsive as you can also see from my video and the extra pixels are really nice to have for cases like AWeb, AmIRC, DOpus etc.

fitzsteve · 06 March 2012, 23:35

Lovin' the latest update bro, great work on the 800x600 Workbench

Enjoyed the Video too

AmigaFriend · 06 March 2012, 23:56

Amazing A600 mfilos!

jimbob · 15 March 2012, 04:17

Woohoo, posting from my A600 which is online for the first time ever. The card I linked to above seems to work perfectly and already comes with WPA capable firmware.It is a Senao nl-2511cd. Thanks for pointing the way to more good stuff Mfilos!

For some reason I am reminded of this -

"'But what do you do? You just there?' Case shrugged, put the vodka down on the cabinet and lit a Yeheyuan.

'I talk to my own kind'
'But you're the whole thing. Talk to yourself?'
'There's others. I found one already. Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years, in the nineteen seventies. 'Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, nobody to answer.'"

Right, off to a slightly newer browser to see if that garbage is formatted properly.

mfilos · 15 March 2012, 07:10

AWESOME jimbob mate!!! Congratz

Cheers for pointing out that the card works indeed. I'll get one as well to have as spare

05 February 2012, 15:35	#104
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Yeah I know that I only needed the eight pins plus +5V (instead of +12V). - Fact is that I couldn't get them directly under the mobo cause then I wouldn't be able to bring them nicely from the front side. - Secondly, 8 instead of 25 wires would make the ribbon from the IDC connector really thin, which I wouldn't like cause as it is now, it looks and feels pretty solid (especially when you want to disconnect it to put other hardware). - Last but not least, even with 25wires, stripping the wires, making it round, and putting it firmly with hotglue on the case was really clean and didn't create any issue. There are many ways of doing something. This was the way I imagined and I wouldn't change it even if I started if from scratch today Before putting the MAS-Player inside, I was thinking of putting my spare Delfina but sadly there is NO way I can make it fit somewhere unless I remove the floppy. Space exist where I put the MAS but then sadly the clockport cable would have to be TOO big for the Delfina so again it's a NO NO. A600 is just fine with a MAS and Paula I think Last edited by mfilos; 05 February 2012 at 15:46.

06 March 2012, 13:04	#112
Retrofan Ruler of the Universe Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lanzarote/Spain Posts: 6,185	Incredibly fast. But I didn't understand what's that hack with the Wifi. Is it that you coudn't connect with it before or that it now goes faster or what? Last edited by Retrofan; 06 March 2012 at 19:54.

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04 February 2012, 22:18	#101
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	One more weekend update Custom audio mixer & mounting MAS-Player inside!

04 February 2012, 23:07	#102
Retrofan Ruler of the Universe Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lanzarote/Spain Posts: 6,185	Great and it's incredibly "clean" and organized inside!

05 February 2012, 14:24	#103
voyager The show must go on. Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Alkmaar Nederland Posts: 269	I played with the idea putting a mas inside a miggy if I could only find one :-) Why did you use the full 25 pin's you only need eight + 12v.

05 February 2012, 15:41	#105
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Looking great mfilos! I have one worry about your project though: you are adding all this stuff and attaching a lot of things to the case, making it annoying/inconvenient to remove the motherbaord etc... but I see you still have the old surface mount capacitors in this motherboard. Shouldn't you replace the caps before continuing the modifications? keep up the great work!

05 February 2012, 22:06	#106
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Thanks Akira mate and thanks for the good words Caps are working great and since I use the Amiga at least once per week, I hope I won't have issues anytime soon. Having the Amiga unused for long time is bad for cap's health. Even if I ever need to replace them.... it will be kinda annoying to dismantle the whole mobo, but I have done it so many times that I don't care much After all I try and keep tidy everything without endless cabling and mess. Btw I made one more update today Mounting NMI and USB Connector Enjoy

06 February 2012, 02:12	#107
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Oh I see. Well, I was just worried about it dying. I get yuor point Wow an NMI button. That's really cool, I didn't know it was possible

24 February 2012, 15:51	#108
wXR Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New York Posts: 552	mfilos this is such an inspiring mod! question: for the MAS Player is it not possible to have even the cables inside and the port switchable by some... switch? :-) maybe it's a bit overboard, but then again what is overboard in this project... EDIT: Also wondering if it's possible to have more than one parallel port on an Amiga?

24 February 2012, 22:01	#109
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Haha I love the way you think wXR mate Tbh, there are limitations concerning space in doing such a mod... Firstly you'd need to desolder the parallel port in order to get the lines (with wires) feeding them to a dual Parallel switch. Then you'd need to use an IDC parallel connector glued to the original place. It's not so difficult to make tbh, but the whole ribbon cables plus the REALLY big rotary switch which normally is being used in such switches, is primary ugly... but most important... there is NO such space for mounting it. If there was a way of putting an extra parallel interface inside using a clockport adapter that would have been really cool! (like extra serial ports can exist internaly via SilverSurfer). Apart from that, everyone can use a switch externally for Printer/Sampler devices if any

05 March 2012, 16:29	#110
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Made a new thread on my blog today concerning my A600 Didn't have much time recently preparing my baby's room but made some more tests and changed in my beloved miggy. You can check the article here: http://mfilos.blogspot.com/2012/03/r...new-video.html

05 March 2012, 17:33	#111
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Your A600 is bad-ass, Mario

06 March 2012, 14:49	#113
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	All the PCMCIA Wi-Fi adapters compatible with the Prism chipset were able to only authenticate using WEP keys on our Amigas. By upgrading their firmware/station via a laptop using Windows/Linux and by using the newest Prism drivers found on Aminet, you can now authenticate using WPA/WPA2 as well!!!

06 March 2012, 17:28	#115
jimbob Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Kilmacolm Age: 46 Posts: 632	That is awesome, my A600 is demanding to speak with its brethren but cabling is a pain. Is this tricky to do, I have an old laptop with pcmcia slot. What about suitable cards. Will this do it - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SENAO-PCMC...item3a71104c0c can you point us at more detailed info on this please. BTW, I just tried the 800x600 indiECS screenmode by following your blog. It is brilliant, so much faster than highGFX 1024x768 and on my screen anyway, a more readable display. ALL indiECS users must hear about this.

06 March 2012, 17:58	#116
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	jimbob mate that card seems to be compatible as Prism 2.5 is compatible. At it's price I'd say it a nice way to experiment I got my MA401 for 5 pounds from eBay just because the guide I followed concerned that card so I wanted to be sure In my article there is the link that Hiddenevil from a.org posted on his blog. Check it out cause the guide is really straightforward. If you need any help in the meantime don't hesitate to ask. SuperPlus driver is just brilliant. HighGFX on ECS chipset kinda sux as it's uber slow on anything more than 4 colors and even at 4, it's not ultra enjoyable. 800x600 is a bit slower than 640x512 PAL Hi-Res Laced but it's really responsive as you can also see from my video and the extra pixels are really nice to have for cases like AWeb, AmIRC, DOpus etc.

06 March 2012, 23:35	#117
fitzsteve Professional slacker! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kent, UK Age: 44 Posts: 6,683	Lovin' the latest update bro, great work on the 800x600 Workbench Enjoyed the Video too

06 March 2012, 23:56	#118
AmigaFriend Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: CLI Posts: 1,462	Amazing A600 mfilos!

15 March 2012, 04:17	#119
jimbob Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Kilmacolm Age: 46 Posts: 632	Woohoo, posting from my A600 which is online for the first time ever. The card I linked to above seems to work perfectly and already comes with WPA capable firmware.It is a Senao nl-2511cd. Thanks for pointing the way to more good stuff Mfilos! For some reason I am reminded of this - "'But what do you do? You just there?' Case shrugged, put the vodka down on the cabinet and lit a Yeheyuan. 'I talk to my own kind' 'But you're the whole thing. Talk to yourself?' 'There's others. I found one already. Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years, in the nineteen seventies. 'Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, nobody to answer.'" Right, off to a slightly newer browser to see if that garbage is formatted properly.

15 March 2012, 07:10	#120
mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	AWESOME jimbob mate!!! Congratz Cheers for pointing out that the card works indeed. I'll get one as well to have as spare

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