Building a new Amiga - Checkmate 1500+ Unboxing - New Amiga & PC Desktop Case (1/4)
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2019
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We've been following the Checkmate A1500 Plus project for the last year, from conception through to delivery today of the very first case off the production line. Was it worth the wait? Lets find out, this brand new desktop case is made for classic Amiga computers, modern PC's and a lot more.
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Part 1: Unboxing the Checkmate 1500+ Case: • Building a new Amiga -...
Part 2: Building the A500++ : • Building the Worlds Ne...
Part 3: Upgrading the A500++: • Upgrading The Worlds N...
Part 4: Test driving the worlds newest Amiga?: • Test Driving the World...
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Amiga 1200!
RetroManCave how long till the trash 80 is finished?
RetroManCave For me it’d have to be a 500 standard with upgrade...
Almost thought it's a new 2019 Amiga PC x3
Still though, AMIGA-ESQUE CASE? Wahooo!
i'd love to get one for my MISTer..
I genuinely don't need it, but after seeing this video I'm really considering getting one. Seriously impressive number of possibilities here, love how thoughtfully open-ended this design is!
Do you need any of the stuff you own? Lol
@@JaredConnell Technically he needs them for his UA-cam channel :p
Yes you know you need it. You know you need it to play the Settlers, Cannon Fodder, Lotus, Speedball 2 and Monkey Island on it. You know that. :D
Build a nice PC in it!
Yeah it looks great - my only concern is that it completely changes the look of the system which is part of the appeal for me.
"In memory of Jay Miner... Thank you for the Amiga" - thought that was a nice touch on the box. Thank you indeed.
That's the one name which is most obvious. But there were countless others. It's tragic so many of them are no longer with us. Dave Needle and David Morse.
@@6581punk Agreed. I'm trying to give them all the credit they deserve in my own little way: www.theamigamuseum.com
May they all rest in (well deserved) peace.
@@6581punk The manual has references to them all
@@6581punk Let's not forget Mitchy
@@algiles881 Mitchy is in the manual too
When you first opened the box revealing the top of the case, it really reminded me of opening the box to the A1000 in 1986. I remember my toddler daughter remarking, why does he keep smiling. Smiling again.
I remember opening the box of my Amiga 2000 in about 1987, i can still remember to this day doing it and even the new smell of it. I still have it although have not been ran in years.
This is the definition of a very well put together Kickstarter Project.
7:30 Glorious Amigan steel, folded 1000 times. 😂
In the voice of Alan Sugar:
"Ah yes, the classic forgetting the DIN socket move...I invented that move. Now charge $20 for each 'forgotten' socket and watch the money pour in. Cracking job"
That packaging is better than 99% of the items I get shipped from ebay :)
Excellent video and review. Love this case design.
Incidentally, next month will be exactly 34 years since I drove across the country to get an A500 kit for 499 quid! Love this channel mate cheers for the memories!
Thats crazy, you can still do that today as well :)
While I wait for the Vampire v4, I'll be placing the ol' Mister-FPGA board in there. I just need to source the items I need to get an A4000 keyboard to work on it. I can't thank Stephen enough for all the work he put into this case. Simply brilliant.
So used to looking at them yellowed now, that white just seems bizarre :D
Well the paint shouldn't yellow. But the face plate will. Not looked at mine in a while, it's in a cupboard (I should sell, but I'd regret it).
Hello you.
@@6581punk The face plate is UV resistant, so no it will not yellow. Plus it is not white it is Oyster white that is very close to original colour of Amigas
Have you checked out Perifractic's videos on how to get them looking like new? I think he goes by Retro Recipes on UA-cam
Awesome video as usual. Love the project and many thanks to Stephen for his vision and commitment to keeping Amiga's alive and moving forward!
A wonderfull piece of work! Thank you for showing it to us!
Congratulations Stephen and thanks for the coverage Neil!It was an absolute treat to hear and see Stephen's passion over the course of the project.
Great to see a kickstarter project with much love becoming a success and a great contribution to the Amiga scene. And that's coming from an ST boy :>
I also opted for the creamy white one. Cannot wait to put one of my repaired A500-bords in it!
A very nice piece of kit and obviously a labour of love. It amazes me that the Amiga still incites such passion. Actually, it doesn't because I feel exactly the same!
I own legal Workbench and Kickstart images. I also own a proper copy of the latest OS from AmigaOnTheBay. When the stand-alone Vampire is released, I might not be able to help myself. I'll have a lot of re-learning to do, but I'll be grinning happily whilst doing it.
It's weird, but I loved the Amiga but its the C64 I focus on. Daft really, I did so much more on the Amiga, music, 3d rendering, C programming. It kickstarted (boo boom) my programming career.
I love the super scope in the background hanging on, what looks like a thermostat control!
The case is very impressive, amazing attention to detail. This would be the perfect case for the new A500++ board, the perfect blend of vintage and modern components 😀
Just got to watch the unboxing today and my case arrived right after I got home! My Vamped A500 has a new home this weekend!
I laughed WAAAAAY to much at that date joke Neil, shows that deep down I'm still very childish LOL
I'm starting to suspect nobody ever truly grows up. They just put on an act of 'maturity' because we all collectively expect adults to be 'mature'. XD
Brilliant story, loving the detail and passion. thank you
That packaging and instructions are amazing!
Envious here, I am around 125 on the Kickstarter list, and shipping to Canada will take more time then a personal drop off. Anyway, my case will not use one of my 3 NTSC A500 mobo's, it will contain a version 6, Pal A500, that is pretty much an A500 Plus, yet with WB 1.3 instead of 2. Also, I did pick up that wonderful ACA500 accelerator board last year that will now be kept internally in this case...can't wait really. Fantastic support for the Amiga community Stephen!
I love that keyboard garage! What a brilliant idea!
After watching your video, I ordered a Black Checkmate not knowing what I would put in it at the time, together with the keyboard case and risers. Very high quality and superbly packaged. Some complain of the high cost but it is what it is and you have to pay to play!
Kudos to Steve. I have much respect for anyone who does more than just dream. The final product looks stunning.
This Checkmate 1500+ is really a great project. Hope mine will arrive soon!
Supercool! Thanks for showing it on video. :)
Lovely case what a great guy to design and kickstart it!
Wow, looks great! A first class job! I'm KICKING myself for missing this on Kickstarter...the house A500 needs a new home! Here's to a second run! I can't wait to see you build it!
AMIGA IS ALIVE !!!!
Fantastic to see this come to fruition. I’ve been following along all year too. Well done Stephen.
I’d love to put an A500 with a TF536 accelerator card. That would be a lovely setup.
Looks very versatile! Nice to see a successful Kickstarter project once in a while. :)
All together now, a Vampired A500 LOL
I like the way you think. Good job, excellent product.
Yes! And whatever you put in there, don't do a PC because they are a dime a dozen. Amiga-something is my vote!
will a standalone Vampire v4 go in there?
Got to be
@@trydowave When I get one it will
I'd never heard of this until your video popped up and I got really excited until I realised it was just a case. Here's me thinking it was an Amiga A1200 in a custom case that had room for extra add-ons like a hard drive, accelerator card or a graphics card but nope, never mind maybe one day.
Great vid as always and such a fantastic piece of kit
Stephen has done a fantastic job! I think it's a stroke of genius making this case so modular too, especially the support for PC motherboards too. A very smart way of maximizing sales. I would go with an A500/500+ to start with. I guess it stems back to the original Checkmate case purpose (I think) and I guess it's desireable to fit a 500 into a big box case.
I signed up for the vampire waiting list 2 weeks ago. Two days later I received an email that my card was ready. It arrived 4 days ago. Go Vampire!
Thanks for the kind words about the PCBs :) I'd just like to point out a couple of things for clarity: First, you *can* use both slots at the same time, provided the cards don't require DMA. Most cards don't to be honest - you should quite happily be able to run an ACA500Plus and a Zorro graphics card, Buddha, network card or whatever in the top slot. It's mostly SCSI controllers that use DMA really...
Second thing, the smaller power supply board without the Zorro slots - it looks like you got one of Steve's prototypes :) The finished versions don't have those funny patch components stuck on them.
Thanks Rob I'll clarify that when I make a build video and thanks for your excellent work
Oh crap did I give Neil a prototype board, sorry.
I love it!! Might look into getting one for my next pc build
This was one of the most expensive video I have seen on youtube :D Ended up ordering one for myself!
Beautiful case. Very tempting to rehome a A1200 into one.
Great video for a great case!
I don’t know what you’ll put in there but I’m excited to come along any which way.
I'm impressed as to how well that's been built! What about a USB front panel option though? Say, instead of a blanking plate.
defiantly an A500 board sharing the case with the latest "bleeding edge" boards /Os, what a beautiful mix of past and present to switch between.
I actually had the OG Checkmate 1500 case. I recased my Amiga 500 with a 40meg hdd in it. We did do a few modifications to it (specifically for power as the amiga power connector had issues) but this one looks so much better all round.
That manual looks fabulous. As does the whole package.
So awesome, im super jealous!!
What a beatiful case!
Please install an A500 for this project.. i think many people would love to see this Retro Man.. your the Man... :) And great Job Steve...
I love it, as soon as i can buy one i will be doing, also thank you so much for the video, i am also going to be using an A500 config and this has answered all my questions :)
Sweet! Can't wait for mine to show up tomorrow. I'm building a PC in mine, but for yours I'd suggest finding a nice orphan Amiga board and give it a home. Any model would be interesting.
Woah, a landline, this IS retro!
This reminded me that this project existed.
I've never seen an Amiga before, but the whole story behind the checkmate case fascinated me, and come to find out that there's a new version of that case in the works. It interested me enough to follow for awhile, but I just lost track of it.
As someone who's looking at it from the perspective of a modern slim case? not counting the price of shipping it to the States, this thing doesn't cost much more then a Silverstone with much the same features and probably lower build quality. This in black would make a *very* nice replacement for the adequate but limited Dell SFF Server/internet machine I have currently.
I have a 3D printer, so making a custom faceplate to use for an aux display of some kind or God-Knows-what-else would be all sorts of neat, too.
Amiga 500 absolutely! I would want one these myself pop in a recapped A500 board and make a extreme A500 with accelerators and other expansions boards.
Watch this space :D WIP this week
nice work, I must get one.
Comfy video as always!
Lovely Ring Mound!
I really need to get an Amiga 600 in my life again i have happy memorys of that machine i also had a 500 for a while too
Mind blowing when you think about it.
I'm really tempted to get one of these to put the A500 in that I found in a dumpster a while back. I think the power supply for that one is faulty, so this is a truly amazing product.
Great video, @RetroManCave!
I'd put the best emulator system with the most horsepower available so that ALL levels of Commodore, Amiga computer systems could be emulated, personally.
Add in the suggested DVD drive if you have a PC under the hood so you can load software from ROM files, or switch over XBMC or Windows Media Center for multimedia output.
Personally, I'd like to see a custom boot front end for launching a set of favorite systems, defaulting to load one of the Amiga PCs - maybe go with the developer's 500 by default - after a countdown of say 15 seconds.
Then a secondary page would be selectable that would take you to the full list of emulated systems.
This is how I would do it.
Zach
That case is definitely meant to be an Amiga. It would be a shame to put a PC in there.
After a long day at work the date night camera and the RTFM moments cheered me up no end!
Looks a lovely piece of kit, not sure about the keyboard case though, would probably just use an A3000 keyboard. Now if only I can persuade Stephen to take my money!
Now that is a proper bit of kit.
Now a Pi would be lost in that case but the platform is so big these days. With a Pi & *that case* you could technically have 10 / 15 different systems / consoles in 1 unit.
What ever people do with them, its a great product.
From the start of the video I was completely hooked or,,,inside my monitor or how can I say it :P I am very impressed with the details, the manual and everything, I really want one for myself. I would put an Amiga 500++ in there, and then a vampire accelerator :) Thanks for an awesome video :)
Hail from France ! Very interesting case ! Great video ! Keep up the good work !
Just came from Pixel Vixens stream. Great vid RMC.
I'm getting mine in a few days. It will become my main PC. High-end CPU and GPU.
Love your INPUT binders! I used to love getting those magazines.. even though they were mostly full of marketing pictures. So many hours I spend typing in the C64 "Simons Basic" clone assembly language (and assembler itself).. only to find it didn't work. :-)
Very nice. Maybe I will get one after i get my 4000 working again.
Short statement: Great! And greatest respect to Steven! Wait a bit and put a A1200+ in it.
That Gauntlet mini in the background is badass mate!!!...
Thanks! That was a recent build, you can see a video about it on the channel
@@RMCRetro sweet... I remember that game was a quarter(us) thief!!!!.... I play it on name once in a while....
Thats amazing!
Every Hipster needs one of these.
Agree. An A500 board will be splendid in there.
Fantastic looking case & excellent video! 😍 Wishing Stephen Jones the very best success on this! 👍 😉
You could use the 3.5” bay for one of those SD/CF/USB readers, to load virtual floppy images, .ADF files for example.
I would go down the 'classic Amiga with period appropriate upgrades' route like your OG Checkmate A1500 Trash to Treasure.
Something more modern using one of the current Amiga-like OSes might be fun though.
This case looks like it could almost host a stock 500, and ST, and and Archimedes stacked up lol. It'd make for an interesting back plane for sure, but if the keyboard housings were available separately with a bespoke layout, that could be a "thing" lol.
Nice job overall, if I were flush I'd be interested to rehouse my Amiga.
Really lovely result. Trying hard to resist diving onto eBay to grab an Amiga just to have an excuse to get one!
I want one so bad. Sad I missed the kickstarter, but eagerly awaiting them available on his store! Going to put an A500 in it and then start expanding. =D
I've never heard of a 500 plus plus before that sounds like a good board to put in there 🙂
Daniel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500_Plus
An A1200 is going in mine, case is here just waiting for the power supply to arrive... might need some longer floppy cables too.
Well done Stephen, and congrats Neil. I couldn't bring myself to cannibalise an Amiga, so I vote for either a *broken* A500 (where the case is too far gone), or an Amiga clone.
Early Mac II desktops aside (full and half length versions) the A3000 definitely had the best looking desktop case around.
I don't especially need one but now I'm thinking should I just get one anyway......... Great video as always informative and interesting :)
That's very interesting. I actually did something similar with the Raspberry Pi that I use to emulate vintage computers (as opposed to consoles).
I made my case out of an old PC surge protector. It is a beige box with roughly the same footprint as a desktop PC case, but it is not as tall.
I made a pair of Atari standard joystick interfaces by hacking a couple of gamepads, so it has traditional joystick ports. Hooked up to a keyboard, monitor and mouse, it really feels like I'm using an old computer rather than a modern single board computer.
I would love to put my A1200 in there PLUS my mini ITX pc in that case
How have I taken so long to find your channel!!
All the packaging is recyclable, no plastic (apart from the bag) and no polystyrene. Nice touch
This is very relevant to my interests!
Maybe I’ll get one for my 1200!
I needed this case in 96 when I was moving my 1200 into a PC case because it was too hot and would fail with an accelerator and scsi card on it.
I gotta get one. I would love to use it for my A500.
Very nice. I got several amigas laying around that could use a new box (2xA1200 and a A500 and C-128D). But i lack authentic monitors or old crt tv to assemble them in something like this. Would love to assemble a pc in that , but the shield havbe taken over the job that my old mediacenters did before.
I just bought an Amiga 2000 with just a case and a motherboard (lots of battery acid, all socketed chips raided), so my crazy plans for this box needs taking care of before I dare look at other cases :)
Although it is kind of a neat mATX box I could use for a Linux box.
Nice, even saw my name in the manual (haven't looked at he PDF version yet) Will be about mid September before I get mine Plenty of time to make room and plan
In memory of Jay Miner. May he R.I.P. :-(
Great video Neil! I'd put an A500 in that beautiful case !