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Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« on: July 08, 2015, 02:35:14 PM »


http://a1200.tindev.net/
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/permalink/10153003358729157/ (Facebook Group)

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Philippe Lang:
Hi Folks,
This is a new project i'm going to launch by next week
In 1993, i would have been too young and unexperimented to lead this kind of project ..
From an Amiga user, to all Amiga users ^^

UPDATE:
Click the link below to stay updated on our A1200 Housing project.
http://a1200.tindev.net/

UPDATE 2:
Some extra news:
- In around two days we'll have all the datas and infos required for the project.

By then we'll be able to:
- Crunch down all infos to find out final price of each A1200 Housing including worldwide shipment.

UPDATE 3:
With the latest datas we've received today, we're now able to give you some pricing.
Right now even by squeezing everything as possible, we've reached a maximum of 79 EUR.

What's keeping us from having a better price is indeed the two molds we need to manufacture.
One mold is necessary for each housing part (Top / Bottom) and each of them weight 2 tons (4400 pounds).
Part of this expensive process is also due to the necessary 3D modeling of each parts.
Molds are manufactured from these 3D models, and then they're handled manually until perfection.
After that we'll be ready for production. wink emoticon

The main difference with Dallas Moore SK64C housings project, is that he had indeed the chance to get his hands
on the original C64 molds, thus his production cost was very low.

Stay tuned

Soon a Kickstarter link.
« Last Edit: July 08, 2015, 04:03:08 PM by VingtTrois »
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2015, 03:09:56 PM »
Indeed very interesting project...

But I see only 3 issues:

1.The A1200 keyboard is absent from the design, so we will need to reuse an old one :(

2.The sticker/badge that the A1200 had will probably be missing too (due to legal issues).

3.The trapdoor (accelerator expansion plastic door) and the faked scsi plastic tab (the small little plastic that covers a port where all connectors are located) are not mentioned.

Anyway, I see it as a good endeavour, and a cool alternative for current users.
 

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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2015, 03:48:03 PM »
@Gulliver:
- yep, no keyboard supplied (perhaps a new Kickstarter soon!)
- No AMIGA sticker to avoid patents and/or copyright issues
- About the trapdoor & plastic tab (rear the AMIGA): these 2 pieces will be supplied!

The author need to know approx. the number of pieces to build.
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2015, 04:57:30 PM »
Looks like an exact remake (without the logos), no updates connection wise :(
 

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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2015, 05:13:35 PM »
@spudje:

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Philippe Lang: Hello xxxxxxxxx, This is indeed a perfect copy of the original. The housings will be more robust, are going to UV resistant, and posses the trapdoor as well as the back/rear removable trap for dvi/hdmi.

The trapdoor will indeed be redesigned a bit to add more vents for airflow.

Other than that, we're willing to stick to the original housing.
Because not every users has the same expansions.
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2015, 07:32:31 PM »
have you found the orginal mold. ?
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2015, 08:53:47 PM »
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have you found the orginal mold. ?


No, Philippe Lang want to build a new mold.
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2015, 10:13:28 PM »
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2015, 02:43:54 AM »
Jens' Amiga Reloaded would look nice in one of these...
 

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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2015, 03:39:53 AM »
Extremely surprised to see the original cat puke beige being the most popular color.  I guess I had enough of beige PC's back in the 90's, is all, heh.
 

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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2015, 08:41:17 AM »
Why not an A1000 style case for A1200 Mobo ? ? ?
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2015, 09:43:25 AM »
I'm not really surprised with this poll , without any new color matching keyboards then the only color that will look well will be beige are maybe the transparent case.

The black will look really nasty unless users intend on butchering some rare CDTV keyboards.
 

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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2015, 01:50:06 PM »
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I'm not really surprised with this poll , without any new color matching keyboards then the only color that will look well will be beige are maybe the transparent case.

The black will look really nasty unless users intend on butchering some rare CDTV keyboards.


Agreed, plus I would never ever butcher my carl sassenrath CDTV Keyboard.
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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2015, 05:35:39 PM »
I'm pretty excited about this! Now I can have a new case to go with the icomp.de board when it's available.

Of course the currency conversion of about $89 (at this point) is a bit steep for a plastic case, but I can understand the reasons for it.
 

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Re: Project: New (colored) case for A1200
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2015, 05:51:58 PM »
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