PC in a CPC6128 case

[radu14m]

I search about such a Project, but could'nt find one on the Internet.
Did somebody done this already, to build a PC into a CPC case ?
Using a mATX board or a RasberyPi should work
What do you think ?

[steve]

I sometimes think about fitting a CPC with add-ons in a PC tower case, but I don't think even a micro nanoatx board would fit in a 6128 case, you could fit a Raspberry Pi to the expansion connector of a 6128, that way you do not destroy a 6128.

[TFM]

I search about such a Project, but could'nt find one on the Internet.
Did somebody done this already, to build a PC into a CPC case ?
Using a mATX board or a RasberyPi should work
What do you think ?

Why should somebody replace a well working PCB with a great CPU by a dodgy Intel-CPU containing PCB which forces one to run an OS that makes me cry?


BTW: I got a nice CPC in a PC case.




Seriously. You could more easy some PCB from an older Apple laptop (probably).

[TotO]

I search about such a Project, but could'nt find one on the Internet.
Did somebody done this already, to build a PC into a CPC case ?
Using a mATX board or a RasberyPi should work
What do you think ?

I think that was a bad idea for some reasons:
- You will not be able to interface the CPC keyboard with the PC
- It will cost you more than a real CPC to get less
- No CPC emulator run as well as a true CPC
- CPC is fun... Only when it is a CPC.

[radu14m]

I know that cpc is cpc, an nothing can change that...especially when you grow up with it
I will never destroy a working cpc for such a Project
Unfortunately i have a broken cpc, and thought about putting inside a small pc unit.
By using the cpc case you will have the old"CPC Feeling"

@TFM : do you have a link with your CPC in the PC case ?

[TotO]

Your broken CPC may help to repair a CPC if you get another one.
And your case to cover a working board.

[TFM]

@TFM : do you have a link with your CPC in the PC case ?

Gotta make some pictures, it contains
- 6128 PCB
- PC PSU
- 512 KB RAM expansion
- 256 KB EPROM card
- AMSDOS and X-DDOS can be switched by a button
- 5.25" HD drive (runs in DD mode, but uses HD power to magnetize the disc), side select, 40/80 track switch
- 3.00" floppy
- Outputs for VGA monitors, RGB (CPC) and Video-Recorder (some kind of modulator)
- HD20 hard disc from Dobbertin (20 MB in four partitions of 5 MB)
- Reset button (a real one, not just a shortcut)
- Siemens keyboard, which produces NO keyboard clash (connected in a compatible way)
- Speaker in case (a bit bigger then the usual one)
- FutureOS on ROM of course, which supports all that crap ;-)

[radu14m]

Wow 
A lot of stuff for a cpc... the most pimped cpc of all the times...
Please post some pictures....
This is s wondeful project TFM !

[cpcdownunder]

I saw this a few months ago. Don't know the progress.
Raspberry CPC 6128

[TFM]

You definitely can put it into a CPC case. But else it's just another piece of hardware emulating a CPC more or less well.

[Gryzor]

Wow, that's a nice project there... gotta read!