Well who knows if it will ever run any Amiga-like OS. I'm very hopeful for a MorphOS 1.5 release soon that works for it! :) They don't make cases for it yet so this is a real low-rent affair I have going on here at the moment. And I slapped this together basically last evening. I'm looking forward to it having a new home when Genesi releases cases for purchase. :)

For now its in a 27 slice frozen cheese pizza box (minus the pizza and no longer a frozen box). The pizza was pretty good, even though its a store brand. :)

I digress...

I put two fans in the box, it really does not likely need it. But I put one intake in the front and an exhaust in the top. I have a hard mental time with passive cooling I guess. :) I ordered a Radeon 9250 256MB half height card for it and thats what is installed. I had to fashion a strap out of cardboard to hold the video card evenly with the board. I have motherboard mounts screwed into the box bottom. They were longer than the width of the cardboard so I made a base out of the video card box so that the metal from the mounts would not contact anything.

I still need to install the 2.5 inch hard drive and a USB keyboard and the power and reset buttons too. When I have that together I hope to get going on a Linux install.

My digital camera needed a charge so I took these with my camera phone, hence the quality is not too good, my apologies in advance on that.

http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika1.jpg
http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika2.jpg
http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika3.jpg
http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika4.jpg
http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika5.jpg

Oh My God :D

Really, you don't need the fans... I mean it. Remove them! :)



Best regards,
Johan

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Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
Director, Software Engineering

Yep, I have a blog... PurpleAlienPlanet

noooo ! don't listen to PurpleAlien, don't remove the PSU fan !!!

As fun as a cardboard box is for building a case I'd really recommend using the one it came in even with a larger PSU.

As for fans, it's a waste of energy unless you live in the desert with no air conditioning. The PSU fan is important, though, but not for the Efika :)

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Matt Sealey

fairlanefastback" : I think you have a good chance to win the "most ugly case prize" :D :shock:

As said Neko you can also use the paperbox provided with the Efika (that's the one I use, waiting for a nicer box). 8)

Yeah I know but I liked the idea of doing something wacky until you guys release cases. :P

I also liked the link to working with the original box BTW! :)

Well, anyway the paperbox idea (small of big) is the most-geeky look one can find (so the must funny because it attracts people attention on it) :-D

LOL

Yes I am quite sure that may be the case! But does your case sound like a jet engine???? NOOOOOOOO!

LOL

:D

Looking forward to getting it. I have not messed with the EFIKA much yet but want to get back into it in ernest once the case arrives.

I am VERY curious about MorphOS status. I'm going to play with other stuff in the meantime but I hope a version that can run on EFIKA is out soon, anyone have any word on this? I am reading something about a version 2.0 instead of 1.5? I hope this does not push things back too much!

- Joe

MorphOS is coming and so is your case. Thanks for the case order! :D

R&B

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