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[Web] An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment)ANN.lu
Posted on 11-Feb-2004 15:48 GMT by Raffaele17 comments
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Take a look at this german site showing modding of a A600, regarding how to install it into a car and use it as good MP3 Player, excellent Navigator and also for entertaining use. Enjoy it. (available in english also)
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 1 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by MrZammler on 11-Feb-2004 15:19 GMT
Very nice!
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 2 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Mr. Anonymous on 11-Feb-2004 16:20 GMT
http://amimpc.world3.net/
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 3 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Gregg on 11-Feb-2004 17:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Mr. Anonymous):
Thanks - I was trying to recall that site.

Gregg
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 4 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Roberto C. on 11-Feb-2004 18:03 GMT
Not good!
It can't make coffee!!!!!!!!!

;)
It's great!
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 5 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 11-Feb-2004 22:22 GMT
this...like other similar projects, is uber-cool.

anyone can rig up a Mini-ITX... but an A600 at 7MHz to do this sort of job?

el neato!
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 6 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by corpse on 11-Feb-2004 23:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
"but an A600 at 7MHz to do this sort of job?"

A pretty slow MCU could also be used to drive the mp3 decoder, however the A600 provides an IDE interface etc which cuts the development effort/time down a bit ;)
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 7 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by anonymous on 11-Feb-2004 23:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (corpse):
This is *officially* the coolest. thing. ever.
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 8 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 12-Feb-2004 08:37 GMT
I prefer the version with A1200...

...because you can add to it a 16bit soundcard...

And it makes the difference compared to an A600 with 8bit audio chipset
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 9 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by ikir on 12-Feb-2004 09:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Raffaele):
mmm I think that the A600 have at least one accelerator card.

Very nice idea :-)
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 10 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Peter Gordon on 12-Feb-2004 09:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Raffaele):
Paula is not an issue since the hardware MP3 decoder has its own audio autput, which is, AFAIK 16bit.
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 11 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil on 12-Feb-2004 10:33 GMT
I just had to quote this one:

"6. and all the boasters with they're Car-HighTec-DVD-Players can go home, if you are able to play Jump'n'Runs, car racing or Bomberman in multiplayer-mode in your car :-)))))"

Amen. That is so right. I'll be fitting my next car with LCD sceens and mini-itx AmigaOnes for multiplayer games for sure :-)

Then I'll need to hire a driver so I can play games while travelling... Hmm, costly.
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 12 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by MrZammler on 12-Feb-2004 10:44 GMT
Hmm, I'm only put off by this:
http://cgi.snafu.de/dcr/user-cgi-bin/Forum?action=HTML_Add&edit=24&time=MO+17-NOV-2003+19%3A17%3A17

I'm sure it might be just a one-thing, does anyone here used the MAS? Any comments?
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 13 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by ikir on 12-Feb-2004 11:00 GMT
"Then I'll need to hire a driver so I can play games while travelling... Hmm, costly."

LOL :-D
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 14 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Alan LM Buxey on 12-Feb-2004 11:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (MrZammler):
MAS = no problems here (or from any other owner i've known...)
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 15 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Alan LM Buxey on 12-Feb-2004 11:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Raffaele):
not an issue....the A600 isnt using Paula for sound output (apart from the
games - and even the A1200 wont use a 3rd party sound card for hardware bangin' old skool games0 - instead, its using the MAS - which has a very respectable output.

you could go 1 better here - have the A600 kept up by battery juice (i guess its got an isolator etc to stop typical drain), use a PCMCIA network card and
connect this to a wireless bridge...when the car is parked at home, you
could change your MP3 collection via the net.... connect a serial link to a relay and you could have a remotely operated heater for cold winter mornings... engine block and windows perhaps... maybe add a serial GPS device, record your journeys to disk and then when at home, you can do anaylsis (distances travelled, fuel consumption rates....etc - until AmigaOS gets a decent GPS software suite we're losing out on this point :-(

alan
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 16 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 12-Feb-2004 19:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Alan LM Buxey):
To Peter Gordon and Alan Buxley who wrote:

PG> Paula is not an issue since the hardware MP3 decoder
PG> has its own audio autput, which is, AFAIK 16bit.

AB > - instead, its using the MAS - which has a very respectable output.

Ohhh... very nice hardware.

I didn't notice it first time I read the site!!!
An A600 in your car as MP3 Player (also good as Navigator and for Entertainment) : Comment 17 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by varthall on 13-Feb-2004 19:27 GMT
A fantastic project... I like the idea of playing a car racing simulator inside a real car :)
Some years ago a similar project has been made by an italian, he has put an Amiga in a Fiat 126 (using a small televisor instead of an lcd monitor) and he has brought it at the Pianeta Amiga 98 fair, see here:

http://www.amiworld.it/reportage/pa98/pianetaamiga98_eng.html
http://www.towertech.it/personal/azummo/amycar/AmyCar.html

If someone is interested, I can scan an article from a magazine with more photos.
Varthall
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