Amiga 1200CD

It took some time but finally in autumn 2020 I got time to change the caps for the Amiga. I had ordered a capacitor kit from amigastore.eu a year earlier and in addition to that I also got then newly released AmigaOS 3.1.4. I removed the old caps using two solder stations. I heated the capacitors' legs and my son took the caps out with tweezers. There was luckily no signs of any leakage so I could just clean the board with ipa and solder the new caps in place. After testing that the machine booted ok I also changed the roms to the 3.1.4.  I had started to think about upgrading my Amiga a bit more so I had also made couple new part orders, including EIDE'99, 68882 FPU for the Blizzard 1230-IV, laser upgrade for the mouse and new power connector from Amigastore.eu. In addition to those I got also SilverStone SST-ST30F 300W SFX PSU from Amazon and a Gotek drive from eBay. I wanted to make a new adapter to ATX->Amiga and used an ATX extension cable from eBay to build one. Once f...

This post is translated version of my original article to finnish Amiga magazine SAKU from December 2002 which can be found from here:  http://www.amigazone.fi/saku/41/osastot/sekalaiset/eriamiga.html How it all started The idea to change the casing begin in summer 2000 when I bought my current Amiga. A1200 setup was built into small IBM tower casing which was functional but not so pretty to watch. I decided to start it slow by buying a fitting tower case when I could find one that wouldn't be too expensive. Time went by I hadn't seen a case that would be appropriate. In spring time 2002 I got another idea. A friend of mine told me how he had seen a project in internet where a PC was built into HiFi casing for home theater usage. In the next morning I took a meter and begin to study the possibilities. A1200 with Blizzard 1230-IV combination was about 41 centimeters long so they would fit in 42 cm wide casing. Other minimum measurements were 9 cm for height and about 35 cm deepn...