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Re: WTB: Amiga 1200/other in the US.
« on: January 14, 2015, 03:36:22 PM »
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Still looking!

I might be interested in a 500 also if available.

All i'd be using it for is games and maybe some midi/music activity if i get to integrate it in a studio environment.....but mostly nostalgia gaming :)

Remember, if you get an Amiga 500 and decide you want to use an ACA500 later, it only works with Rev 6A and higher boards.
 

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Re: WTB: Amiga 1200/other in the US.
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2015, 07:04:15 PM »
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Thanks for the heads up, sm3!


Are you talking about this?

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1168

I do read the following at the end:

³ motherboard revision 5 or higher required. At this time, there are some unconfirmed reports of NTSC motherboards not working with ACA 500.

Would you say those reports are not quite "unconfirmed" then?

  Well, it didn't work for my NTSC Rev 5 board, but after I found an NTSC 6a, it works.
 

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Re: WTB: Amiga 1200/other in the US.
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2015, 07:33:41 PM »
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...  ACA 500 sucks anyway, lol.
 I don't know if it sucks, for the price, it's not a bad upgrade. Better than messing with one of those old hard drives in my opinion.   I use mine to burn real floppies from ADFs and also use it as boot environment for my Workbench 1.3.  I'm going to spring for an ACA1233 soon to plug-in to the ACA500. I think that will work better for WHDLoad and then I can also plug it into my A1200 ;)
 

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Re: WTB: Amiga 1200/other in the US.
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2015, 10:54:03 PM »
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... On the lookout for a Rev 6 board or a whole A500 that is Rev 6 NTSC.

 The Rev 6a boards are plentiful if you are willing to purchase them from Germany or the UK. Of course they will be PAL, but there is a jumper setting that changes it from PAL to NTSC. I have picked up several as replacements via eBay. Just expand the search to "worldwide". I wanted mine mainly as a source of spare parts.

I forgot to add that if you have an Indivision ECS scandoubler from Amigakit, it probably doesn't matter if your Rev 6a is PAL or NTSC:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=82&products_id=918
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Re: WTB: Amiga 1200/other in the US.
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2015, 11:04:34 PM »
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Thank you all for the information!

I guess i shouldn't be too concerned. As i said i ill be using it mostly for gaming, but having the option to upgrade is always nice.

amiga76, are you only going to use original floppies to play games? I'm not sure how everyone else with a 500 does it, but the main reason I purchased the ACA500 was to transfer games/software from my PC to real floppies on my 500. There are 2 CF card slots on the ACA500. One I use (left) for the FAT (PC) CF card and the right side is my boot card (wb 1.3 or 3.1). From wb3.1 I use EasyADF and burn the ADF to a floppy.

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Re: WTB: Amiga 1200/other in the US.
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2015, 01:48:44 AM »
Rev 6a boards are out there, you have to get them from the UK or Germany though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/201263697432

PAL but you can either 1) keep it PAL with a compatible monitor
                               2) set jumper to be NTSC
                               3) get Indivision scan doubler
 

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Re: Chameleon 64?
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2015, 12:17:56 AM »
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Odd question, but i was just reading about the Chameleon 64 and its ability to emulate Amiga....since i have a C64 already, would it be sacrilegious to get a Chameleon 64 to emulate the amiga through the same monitor i run the C64 in, using the same joystick?

It might also allow to save some space...

just asking for opinions obviously:)

I suppose it depends on you and what you want to do. I personally enjoy using a real Amiga 500, slow floppies and all!

I have a Turbo Chameleon 64 with all the options and have only recently started with the Amiga.
 

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Re: Chameleon 64?
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2015, 12:24:04 AM »
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Odd question, but i was just reading about the Chameleon 64 and its ability to emulate Amiga....since i have a C64 already, would it be sacrilegious to get a Chameleon 64 to emulate the amiga through the same monitor i run the C64 in, using the same joystick?

It might also allow to save some space...

just asking for opinions obviously:)

I suppose it depends on you. If all you want to do is play some Amiga games, you could probably just get WinUAE or AmigaForever, but if you really want to experience the Amiga like people did back in the late 80's or 90's I guess, you can't beat the real thing.

I personally enjoy using the real Amiga 500, even the slow floppies. I also have the TC 64 and use it with my Commodore 64 mostly, even though I did try out the Amiga 500 core once to see how it worked. It's a great device. It will even run an Atari 800 now.
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