Amiga case for computer, is it possible?

geon106 · 8 Jan 2011 at 17:40

I was recently thinking recently when playing Amiga games on an emu about how tempted I am to dig up my amiga from my parents loft.

But then thought, how hard would it be to open up an Amiga case, take out everything, put in a PC motherboard, CPU etc etc, put on a PC keyboard in place of the Amiga's. Run somethign like XP. Put on an Amiga OS... voila.

A nice compact PC for playing retro games

What do you guys think? do you think it'd be possible?

Schizo · 8 Jan 2011 at 17:43

i think heat and space would be a issue but does sound like a cool idea.

geon106 · 8 Jan 2011 at 17:59

schizo220168 said:
i think heat and space would be a issue but does sound like a cool idea.

thats what i was thinking, but on the A500, behind the keyboard is the grill at the back, if you mod that so the CPU fan comes up to the case, it shouldn't be a problem as the air goes out of the system. In theory anyways.

Plus it'd not be a high end performance machine anyway, could even use laptop components thinking about it

Brian8bit · 10 Jan 2011 at 06:03

With an Amiga 500, it could be possible to get a mini-itx board in there, or even a butchered laptop board. Laptop board would also be good because of the ultra low-profile coolers and SODIMMs so you don't have to go hunting for low profile RAM.

You wouldn't need to put a Windows keyboard in it. You could make your own controller with remaps of required Windows keys. The custom controller/matrix would require the most work and you'd need a good understanding of electronics to do it though.

geon106 · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:05

Brian8bit said:
With an Amiga 500, it could be possible to get a mini-itx board in there, or even a butchered laptop board. Laptop board would also be good because of the ultra low-profile coolers and SODIMMs so you don't have to go hunting for low profile RAM.

You wouldn't need to put a Windows keyboard in it. You could make your own controller with remaps of required Windows keys. The custom controller/matrix would require the most work and you'd need a good understanding of electronics to do it though.

Yeah plus laptop components are as you mention, designed to be in a small enclosure. It would be relatively easy to dismantle a laptop and put it into an amiga case(in theory)

As for using the built in keyboard, that sounds quite complicated to me lol

spirits247 · 11 Jan 2011 at 20:27

You mean like this: http://images.arianchen.de/?x=a500pc

Brian8bit · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:49

spirits247 said:
You mean like this: http://images.arianchen.de/?x=a500pc

Awesome find! Would love to see the details on how he did the keyboard work.

Methanoid · 13 Jan 2011 at 10:54

Go have a google for English Amiga Board (where you may find some members from here

of course) and you'll see several modded Amigas. Pretty sure what you suggested has been done a few times before with pictures