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Impressive A1000 faceplate re-model
Posted on 2-Jun-2018 22:46:19
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| So, I was watching this video showing an Amiga A1060 sidecar for the A1000 (the guy has two of them, actually).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzlTf5fV4o
After a few minutes watching I felt something wasn't right. I looked around and then I saw it, the internal floppy drive opening on the A1000 (the one to the right in the video). On further scrutiny I saw that the faceplate seemed lighter in color than that of a typical A1000 and the odd internal floppy faceplate matched this guy's external floppy drive.
I posted it on twitter asking around, and @AmigaL0ve left a comment asking the owner what was going on. In response, the guy posted this video, showing what he's done here.
@AmigaL0ve tweeted this, this morning:
"I finally got the info on this bizarre case. Completely custom hand-made panel - some sort of bondo/dremel work at a very high-quality level. He did it because the PO had mashed a crazy FDD hack job on it. This guy went with it and made it beautiful."
See the explanatory video here:
https://youtu.be/EfR6tEyM7YY?t=3m22s
Pretty unique and a good result in the end!
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Re: Impressive A1000 faceplate re-model
Posted on 3-Jun-2018 7:37:37
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Very nice work. _________________
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Re: Impressive A1000 faceplate re-model
Posted on 3-Jun-2018 15:53:48
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Re: Impressive A1000 faceplate re-model
Posted on 3-Jun-2018 16:56:40
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Thank you for posting the link. I enjoyed all 6 minutes of the video, the production of the work and the documentation is admirable. _________________
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Re: Impressive A1000 faceplate re-model
Posted on 3-Jun-2018 21:47:41
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hmm well unique yes and admire the time/effort and end product but for me, aesthetically it just wouldn't work
as for the A1060 they were pretty common in my area back in the late 80's but for me, coming from a C64 I had zero use for XT emulation
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