Teast wrote:
Hi!
I'm pretty new to the amiga scene (bought the a1200 about 6 month back)
Welcome!
First of is the problem I will get with the keyboard, is there a nice "converter" that I can look for to be able to use an extern keyboard, or do I have to do one myself??
There are several keyboard converters available. If you buy an A1200 specific tower from Elbox, they'll supply you with an interface to use PC AT keyboards. Eyetech produce the EZ-KEY converter which clips onto the A1200's keyboard chip. The EZ-Key recognises AT, Windows 98 and Amiga 4k keyboards. I have one fitted to my tower and swear by it.
And then we have the video port, is there a flicker bla bla bla converter that i can use that is extern? (Curious if I wont go throu with the tower building I can still use the amiga on my computer monitor)
Yes, there are external scandoublers / flicker fixers. A scandoubler doubles the frequency of the video port so an SVGA monitor will display it. A flicker fixer increases the frequency of the horizontal scan so interlaced modes are rock steady and don't flicker.
And I have read alot about problems playing old games with an vga converter is there a way to bypass that?
There shouldn't be a problem with the scandoubler and old games, unless you've added a graphics card to your Amiga and you're trying to play games through that. Anything that calls the Amiga's hardware directly will only work via the Amiga's RGB output.
Another problem (at least i think so..) is the pcmcia port, If I try to put the a1200 into a tower wont the pcmcia be blocked by the bottom??
You can purchase a 'V' shaped adaptor which will get around this problem.
Is there anything else I should know, or get, before trying to build a tower?
I have been searching the web for more information and most of the pages that I have found is about upgrading the a1200 alot and I am currently not intrested in that (cause of money problems)
It's best to get a pre-built Amiga-specific tower. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches along the way. Try
www.amibench.org for some reasonably priced preowned tower cases.
