25 Jun
2013
25 Jun
'13
9:03 a.m.
On 25 June 2013 15:47, Alexandre Souza <alexandre.tabajara at gmail.com> wrote:
Danke! :D
Yes, I saw the pinout, I just didn't see the 2nd connection in any of
the pictures.
Clever hack. Beyond my skills, I fear, which is a shame, as I could
probably use it... Not that I have fired up my Amiga in about 8 years.
:-(
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Works just fine. I did that in my "amigo"
sidecar
http://www.tabalabs.com.br/amiga/amigo/
Nice hack! You do not show the power connections in the
picture... Do I
understand correctly, that the Amiga is booting off a 3.5" hard disk
in the PC cabinet, and also has access to a PATA DVD drive in the
cabinet, while the PC PSU in the cabinet is also powering the Amiga?
So you have external drives combined with an external PSU and you no
longer need the Amiga's PSU brick?
How does the power get from the "sidecar" to the Amiga -- surely not
over the IDE cable? I am guessing that there is a separate power cable
to the Amiga's normal power socket, which you don't show?
Yep! There is the pc power supply inside the "sidecar". It powers the
sidecar's peripherals, and a square-din-ugly-commodore-only-plugged-cable
goes to the A1200 to power it. And forget the (insert expletive here) Amiga
brick :) I thought that the PSU cable could be seen on the photos, I even
give the pinout of it to be connected to the PC PSU! :o)