Petro: 500 units new Amiga 1200 Magic Pac

[Darrin]

can someone ask petro if he can make New batches, the way he did last time for Escom ?

Does he have the AGA chipset diagrams to make new models ?

If anyone has the diagrams it would be Petro

It would be easier to use something like the FPGA Arcade instead and put it in an off-the-shelf case.  In theory you could use the FPGA Arcade's expansion port to provide additional expansion slots (although the upcoming daughterboard takes care of almost all of your expansion needs).

[Darrin]

On another, unrelated note: I found out my local dump was basically hoarding old computers. A friend of my former boss told me he saw a bin full of C64s, C128s and all kinds of Amiga computers.

This was a couple of weeks ago though. Still gonna call them tomorrow. Hopefully, they didn't get rid of them yet. Would be a pleasant surprise if I could not only get some spare replacements and/or upgrades for my new baby but also save some of those computers*


*It just makes me sad to think that some people would just throw them away like they were a bunch of no good laptops. Those things have a soul. They ain't the throwaway stuff people buy today only to get rid of them them again 1-2 years later. Throwing such precious little computers away is like child abuse, if not worse.

I hope you manage to save them.  Test them, stick them on eBay and find them a new home.  

[Darrin]

Well. If I manage to save them, I'll probably keep some (would be great to have an original C64 again. Especially as I never managed to mod my C64DTV) and sell the rest on here.

Never been much of a fan of Ebay.

Sure. Would be nice to find a sucker on Ebay who'd pay me a fortune so I could stock up on expansions for my Amiga and perhaps a MorphOS machine. But is it really worth the hassle? I mean, how many Ebay sellers actually end up earning that kind of money? The great majority probably loses money to Ebay.

I get a lot of stuff off there (picked up a PET and a C128D this year).  There are some bargains and a lot of fair sellers.  I mainly suggested it because it does reach a wide audience and if you save some machines and test them then I think you deserve some pay for your time and effort.  Just start the bidding low, be realistic on the shipping and don't "BUY IT NOW - $3000!".  

EDIT: Will ZorRam/BigRAMPlus actually be recognized by an Amiga 1200 with a Z3i busboard? Would be quite cool to have that sort of RAM in an Amiga 1200. Furthermore, do you guys think it would be difficult to place a modern mechanical keyboard inside an Amiga 1200 desktop case? I consider towerizing mine in the future which, in return, would leave the original case an empty shell.

There are some internal A1200 keyboard adapters that allow for a PS2 keyboard.  You'll just need to hunt for one that you can fit in the existing space with minimal cutting and run the cable inside.

[Darrin]

Ok. I'll consider it.
Probably gonna open up a thread and link to Ebay from there.

As for pricing: If I can find an Amiga 500 and decide not to keep it, it will go for $100US buy now. If that's not too much.

If I can find an Amiga 1000 though, people will have to dump my dead body in a lake before I'll leave my hands of it (I wanted one ever since finding out about Jay Miner's and Mitchie's signatures).

Sounds like a plan

I'd rather get rid of the internal keyboard components.
It's actually the only thing I don't like about my new Amiga 1200. The handling is just really bad. Worse than that of many modern keyboards. I get like zero response.
I kinda imagined it to be clicky.

My main machines (Minimig, FPGA Arcade, A4000 (tower) and A1200 (tower)) all use PC keyboards so I'm kind of used to them now.  My wedge A1200 is on a shelf.  Only the A2000 and A3000 have their original keybaords in use and I think they're a better quality than the A1200 or perhaps it is just the design.