That's a very interesting site! I've been reading your blogs about building or restoring A2000s as well as the other models. Unfortunately, almost all of your stock is NTSC, but I'm in the UK. I do own a 1084D monitor, which I assume is compatible if I connect an NTSC Amiga via the RGBi or composite ports. Can anyone confirm this? The problem is that the vertical resolution would only be 200 or 400 instead of 256 or 512. The monitor controls allow NTSC type games screens to be adjusted to fill the screen, though.
Another issue is that the graphics chip in my PAL Amiga A1200 can be switched between PAL and NTSC. Don't NTSC A1200s and A4000s also have this facility? Can their graphics chips be exchanged for the PAL equivalents?
As for the power supply, I seem to remember reading something about you exchanging a power supply if someone outside North America won or bought one of your Amigas. Was this just because of the weight, or is the new power supply 220-240V 50Hz?
Years ago I really wanted an A2000 because of its expansion slots, but I'm worried now that I may just be playing with old Amigas in the same way my Dad played with old bangers (i.e. used, broken down cars). I doubt I would ever be able to sit in a room with an A2000 with someone else who also had an A2000 there.
As for how to get the money together to buy an Amiga from the Amiga Lounge, I thoroughly recommend the classic Amiga software Personal Finance Manager to plan your spending. Other tricks could be to open a savings account which doesn't allow access to your money at all without at least 7 days' or even 28 days' notice, or if you're outside Canada you could change some of your money into Canadian Dollars, or some other currency which you can't spend locally, such as Euros or US Dollars. Another idea which Amiga Lounge would have to set up themselves is to offer a voucher system, so that buyers don't have to pay all at once. Amigakit has a system like this, but they don't seem to have any classic Amigas in stock.
I am in Canada, so I don't know or have to worry about anything that has to do with PAL. PAL does not exist here, so I can't be of any help to overseas PAL users on PAL Monitors. what I do know is that PAL machines just have to be booted into NTSC mode to work on NTSC monitors.
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What I do know is that on all big box Amiga's there is jumper somewhere on the motherboard (except the A1000) where that jumper is and if you need to do more than that's beyond my knowledge (and to be honest, not my target market-as it would cost me thousands of dollars to rig up some sort of PAL and European power grid to help you figure it out).
I have had a few PAL A1200s and A600s here, as PAL A1200s and A600s are more common than the NTSC counterparts, these days and far easier to get.
if you have 3.0 ROMS, you just hold the 2 mouse buttons down a boot and boot into NTSC mode.
The power supply thing. I have a contest to win an A2000 on right now. If the winner is overseas, I will remove the power supply and put an ATX converter cable from AmigaKit in to save on shipping. Most A2000 power supplies I have seen are non-switchable from 115W to 220W. I do not carry 220W power supplies as there is no market here in Canada for them. The only things we use 220 for are wielders, stoves and the occasional clothes dryer
All prices listed are in US dollars, as most of my customer base is the US market. October 1 is the date the new on-line store officially opens, and right now, there are 2 paypal "add to cart" one for shipping included to the USA and one for shipping included WorldWide. If we can change currency on the site, we will implement that at a later date
