Monday 6 May 2024

Assembling the A1222+ from A-EON

Got the Demos, Games, Music drawers from Apollo OS

Where to get more stuff?  From an Apollo OS CF card!

Had to tweak the Archanoid for a better frame rate

Gotta try out a classic game!

After formatting, partitioning, and installing from recovery USB stick

Without prepping the hard drive, this is what we got.

Another view of the back

A view of the back

Radeon RX550 now installed.

A look at the cables going through the case

Lots of cables to wind through the case

Modded backplate now attached; the board now lays flat!

SSD drive in the case attached (above the p.s. in this pic)

Another view of the test fit

Another test fit of the A1222+ board

Made the round holes bigger, the 2 right rectangular ones lower

Another view of the power supply installed

With the 3D-printed backplate, the A1222+ board didn't lay flat.

Test-fitting the 3D-printed backplate that was provided

Another view of the power supply in the case

The power supply slips into the corner of the case

The power supply I got from Central Computers in Santa Clara

The case's features

A highly-rated case according to the Internet


 

Once again Blogger has put my photos in reverse order, even though I renamed them.  Oh, well, enjoy the pics of the assembly of the A1222+.  My thanks to Duncan M. of The Other Group of Amigoids and his expertise in putting the machine together; I would have done a hack job on it if I were to do it!

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

June 22-23 Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

Monday 29 April 2024

Unboxing the A1222+ from A-EON

As usual, Blogger has jumbled my photos out of order, and it's too much trouble to move them into correct position.  :)  Anyway, on Saturday, April 27, 2024, I received my A1222+ I ordered back on Nov. 2, 2023.  I ordered everything except the case and power supply, thinking I could source those parts easily in the USA.  (Well, I could have sourced other parts, but I wanted everything together mostly.)  Below are my photos of the unboxing.  As soon as the machine is assembled, I will post those pics in a separate topic.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

One of the shipping papers taped to one side of the shipping box

Radeon RX550

Radeon RX550 box

Underside of the A1222+ board (notice the signatures)

View of the external ports on the board

The Fractal mini-ITX case I bought new for $50

Instructions to put the board into a case!

Topside of the board

Rotated 90 degrees (Note that the RAM is installed.)

Rotated 90 degrees again (Note that the microSD card is installed.)

And 90 again (Note that the coin battery is installed.)

All the pieces inside (minus extra bubble wrap)

Underside of the box

What I saw after removing the paperwork

Inside the shipping box

The reverse of the above paper

What I saw when I opened the box

Just these two boxes inside the shipping box

Inside the shipping box minus extra paper packing

The other shipping info taped to the side of the shipping box

The unassuming shipping box, light weight to pick up

Sunday 28 April 2024

Yup, More Pics from the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024!

These are CLASS 2024 photos from Mario Luppi.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

http://www.portcommodore.com/class

Left side of the room, Sunday afternoon

Right side of the room, Sunday afternoon

As more people came in

Door prize - 1581 disk drive plus box of 3 1/2" disks

Free donuts on the table!

Sunday morning before it became more crowded

Still Sunday morning before the show

Mario snacking before the show

Robert (far left) filming David Pleasance

Richard Goedeken's sign adorns his Sony PVM monitor.

Richard's A1200 in front of the Sony PVM

Richard's C64 set-up with new, boxed games to the side

Door prizes (center)

Raffle prizes

Robert's flat C128

Larry Anderson's Mini PET's

Ultimate 64 from the late Bogdan Macri

Robert's VIC-20

Marc's A1200

Marc's A4000 Video Toaster set-up

Mario's A2000

Mario's Plus/4 set-up

Mario's Amiga Forever set-up

Robert's THEA500 Mini set-up running Aminimiga

Play Donkey Kong here; win the Atari 2600+.

Danny's MiSTer set-up

Another set-up from Danny

And another from Danny

And another from Danny

Robert's A4000 set-up

Robert's Commodore PC20-III

Robert's A3000 with external SCSI CD drive

Robert's A1200

THEC64 Mini

Lazlo's A1200 set-up

Clothing for sale from David Pleasance

Books for sale from David Pleasance

Marc Rifkin preps the audio-visual before the show.

Early Saturday morning before the show

No, ask Danny !