A few Amiga 1200 questions

[_ZooL_]

Hi, I'm new to this forum. :-) I have just bought a complete A1200 Magic Pack (not the HD model) quite cheap, how much are these things worth now?

I have heard that these particular 1200s have problems with the floppy drive and old games that accessed the drive directly. Apparently there was a free circuit fix to solve this problem, does anyone have any information on this fix? Is it just a simple solder or a complicated circuit board?

Also, does anyone have a spare 1200 accelerator (even broken ones, I like fixing stuff!) that they would like to sell cheaply?

Thanks,
 _ZooL_

[_ZooL_]

Thanks for your help! I thought that it would only be a simple soldering job. I live in England by the way.

[_ZooL_]

You wouldn't happened to have a spare A1200 accelerator, would you? :-P Btw, are there any shops still selling Amiga stuff in this area? I'd love to relive searching through an Amiga PD library!

[_ZooL_]

Damn, I was hoping there'd be some little shop with shelves of PD floppy disk games... Ahhh those were the days... Aminet just doesn't compare to actually browsing through floppy disks in a shop! It looks like eBay is going to be the best place really, the prices on Amibench are just too much for me to afford. Does anyone have any idea about how much the A1200 Magic Pack is worth in the UK?

[_ZooL_]

Yeah. I've seen the fix, and I will attempt it when I get round to it. If there's one thing I hate is breaking the warranty seal! It's the only Amiga I have that still has it intact! Does anyone know about how much the Magic Pack is worth in the UK?

[_ZooL_]

That was the price I was expecting, although mine is fully boxed aswell...

[_ZooL_]

Well it's in very good condition, even the box and manuals. There's no yellowing at all and it has 3.1 roms. No harddisk though, unfortunately. I'm probably going to tower mod it anyway when I get an accelerator...2.5" drives are so expensive! Thanks for all the help!

[_ZooL_]

Yeah, good point. I mean it is too shiny and clean to be butchered up. And I have a couple of 1200s exactly how you described just waiting to be hacked at. Why does it have to have 3.1 roms! I'd hate to break that lovely shiny warranty seal to get them out. It almost makes me wish that someone had opened it up before I got hold of it! :-D Well, at least I'd have the pleasure of taking it out of the box and stroking the intact warranty seal and the lovely clean white keyboard. Mmmmmmmmm. :-P