LGR - Building a Checkmate Amiga 1200 (Patreon)

https://youtu.be/XNI18uLhkt8

Quite the different thing this week! This project has been many months in the making, largely due to waiting on parts from around the world to arrive. Plus, having to source new components along the way since all sorts of stuff I initially planned to use didn't work out. In fact I'm still waiting on stuff to arrive that was ordered back in late March, early April. Among the many things that Covid has ruined, global shipping certainly is one of them.

Anyway, yeah! Amiga 1200 stuff on LGR! It's about danged time, as this is easily one of my favorite retro systems to play around with. Thanks to several generous donations over the years, I've ended up with some excellent hardware to install into the Checkmate case here. Speaking of which, the star of the show really is the A1500 Plus from Stephen Jones of iMica Limited. Nothing's sponsored and there's no revenue sharing going on, but he was kind enough to send over a bunch of their products to use in this build. It's quite the lovely-looking thing, I think! Very Amiga 3000-esque.

I'll be continuing to work on this machine over the coming months, so you can probably expect a follow-up video or some kind in the future. Not sure if it'll be on Blerbs or what, it just depends on I end up doing in terms of upgrades and tweaks. Lemme know what you'd like to see done to this system once you've finished watching the video!

Finally, there's a new 3D LGR intro I'm trying out here, made and emailed to me by a viewer of the show named Lenich. They've been learning 3D modeling and used the LGR logo as practice! Thoughts on that are welcomed as well, of course :)