Laptop/clamshell style cases

[MegatronUK]

For those of us in Euro-land I found somewhere that does a nice range of hinged plastic and aluminium cases. Perfect for laptop style projects where you want or need a clamshell design with keyboard/controls in the base, and the screen in the top.

http://www.kkc-cases.com/

Prices are reasonable for aluminium hinged cases compared to the run of the mill ABS plastic enclosures.

I'm thinking specifically of this for a mini-Amiga laptop I'm hoping to build.

-John

[Triton]

ive been wanting to make a minimig laptop for ages! but i cant justify paying over 200 USD for it. i paid less for my accelerated a1200!

in case you havent noticed (via my sig) i am the resident amiga fanatic! if you wanna talk amiga hit me up via PM or instant messenger

[MegatronUK]

I've got an A1200 as well (DCE Typhoon 40MHz 030/68882/40Mb and 10Gb 2.5" drive) that I put together to play games, but it's such a chore dragging it out and connecting it up to the TV all the time. When I saw the Minimig I just thought it would be really cool to have a tiny, portable system that was completely solid-state and play direct from ADF files - the ARM add-on for the PIC socket that can use UAE compatible hardfiles looks very neat too!

I've got my Amigas entered in my videogame database that I use to keep track of my inventory
http://targetearth.dyndns.org/vgdb_syst ... ysystem/16

Pictures might be slow to load as it's running from my home machine over ADSL.

[Triton]

my a1200 has a DKB cobra 030 @28mhz with 128mb ram, 1gb hdd and squirrelSCSI and a CD rom drive. im eventually going to overclock it and get a wifi card as well and a decent monitor so i can run WB3.5 or 3.9 with highGFX mode

i also have 2 a1000s and an a500 plus loads of other stuff for them (1010 and 1020 floppy drives, 2 1080 monitors and much more)

[MegatronUK]

Minimig arrived this afternoon! Such a teeny weeny little board; I think it will make a cracking portable Amiga game system.

[Triton]

how much did you pay for yours? ive been wanting one for ages to make my own minimig laptop! color me jealous that your going to beat me to it!

[MegatronUK]

£150 including a power supply and delivery from Amigakit.com. I just loaded the bootloader tonight and put the latest minimig fpga core on and then tried out a few ADF's including the old favourites like SOTB, Pinball Dreams and Turrican 2 - all absolutely perfect.

It really is neat - it's virtually the same size as the controller for the PSOne screen.