Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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AmigOS
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Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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Hello all,
I'm new in this forum, and relatively new, or I should say returning old Amiga fan. I have no experience in retrofitting electronics or even soldering. So I have a great challenge in front of me, since I want to find a solution to use a SD floppy emulator internally in my A1200, to replace the original floppy drive, but without having to modify the A1200 case to show the lcd screen or buttons.

Is this even possible for even someone so neophyte as myself? If so which model I need to order and which components?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Re: Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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If you want limit the case modification, i recommend you the new Slim floppy emulator.

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Re: Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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Jeff wrote:If you want limit the case modification, i recommend you the new Slim floppy emulator.
So should then I assume that there's not solution available, which doesn't require any modification to the case?

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Re: Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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AmigOS wrote:
Jeff wrote:If you want limit the case modification, i recommend you the new Slim floppy emulator.
So should then I assume that there's not solution available, which doesn't require any modification to the case?
THe Slim version doesn't require any modification.

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Re: Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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Jeff wrote:
AmigOS wrote:
Jeff wrote:If you want limit the case modification, i recommend you the new Slim floppy emulator.
So should then I assume that there's not solution available, which doesn't require any modification to the case?
THe Slim version doesn't require any modification.
Hi Jeff, with the new slim version doesn't require modification to the case? microswitch comes out of the case? as if it were a real floppy eject button?

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Re: Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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With the Slim version you can mount it so that the microswitch is accessible through the case slot for the old floppy disk. Or you can modify an old floppy drive case to house the slim like this

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Re: Planning to upgrade my A1200 with a SD floppy emulator

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Arnie wrote:With the Slim version you can mount it so that the microswitch is accessible through the case slot for the old floppy disk. Or you can modify an old floppy drive case to house the slim like this
In my amiga there is no floppy drive...

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