RE: C64 TOWER _________________________________________________________________ From bo@prismnet.com Organization Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Date Fri, 06 Mar 1998 08:57:54 -0600 > >Good morning. > >I was thinking to myself the other day (a scary thing at the best of >times :), I wonder if we could bring the C64 into the 90's, so to speak, >by fitting the board and other associated gubbins in a PC tower case. > >Now don't get me wrong, I love the 64, but the old brown case gives me >the shits because, well, it's just not nice. I was thinking that the >board, drives, power supply, and my ARVI could be mounted inside a PC >case. > >Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It would be a fairly major job, >and something would have to be worked out with the keyboard, but with a >bit of time and effort something could probably be worked out. > >I intend to have a damn good go at it (using spare parts, not my good 64 >:) sometime in the next couple of months, but I'd like to hear from >anyone who's tried something similar. > >Regards > >Rob. Hey Rob... aside from those you have done it, I'm also trying it. I have a full tower I'm trying to mount a C128 motherboard in, I'll mount a 1571 mech, and a 1581 inside. I already have the motherboard mounted, a CMD RamLink mounted (with a 1750 clone and swiftlink in there). The only real work left is to build all the cables necessary to make the external ports useful. However, there is some cheese. In order to get the 9V I needed for the C128 motherboard, I actually mounted a C128 power supply inside and hooked it off the same switch as the PC power supply. I even insulated the extra PS against any sort of radiations and added a little fan to boot. This strikes me as awful though, and I've always hoped to get better ideas from someone. Does anyone know a power supply maker that makes 5V/9V/12V power supplies that fit in tower cases? If not, is it possible to pull one of the 5V up or a 12V down with some simple circuit? I know nothing of power supplies... Anyways, my other big issue is power for the RamLink. It needs constant power, but it strikes me as silly to actually mount the little transformer in there... and an external port just for this power supply seems silly too, and yet that's all I can think of. Any other ideas? - Bo -- Bo Zimmerman mailto:bo@prismnet.com http://www.prismnet.com/~bo "geoJunky at large" [C128D-20mhz-330HD-14.4-13mgRL-2xFD2000] [C64/C64C/C65/VIC20/PLUS4/SX64/C128/C16] [C=SP9000/C=Colt/C=PC10/CDTV/A500/A3000] -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading