Recommend an Amiga

[magnetic]

Was waiting for all the A4000 supporters from another forum post to post here :-)

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Nah for this particular case a1200 is certainly the way to go. The main thing is the PCMCIA port. Big advantage over a4k for non power users. You can xfer files with a pc with CF cards and/or use cheap pc ethenet laptop cards.  So 1200 for sure the way to roll

[magnetic]

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm sold.  So can you recommend a vendor or is ebay the way to go?

What country are you in?

[magnetic]

I am in the US.  I looked at amigakit, but they seemed to be out of stock as far as I could tell.  And they only seemed to sell PAL systems.  Will PAL even work in the US?  If they do have something I can use, I would certainly be interested.

If you are in North America DONT get a PAL unit. For one thing, the composite video output will always be in black and white on NTSC displays. If you have a 1080 or 1084, 1950 or 1960 commodore monitor you should be able to display both PAL and NTSC.  And there will be guys to follow this post saying get a PAL unit. Trust me man go NTSC. Oh, just thought of another reason you wont be able to use genlocks and other rgb devices with NTSC signals.

[magnetic]

bbjones

LIke I stated earlier  you need to get a north american (NTSC) Unit. It will save you alot of headaches.  Yes lord chaos has some points (like I told you they would) but unless you are strictly a hardcore gamer DONT GET PAL.

[magnetic]

I read that there are problems with the ROM version of Kickstart 3.1 on the Amiga 3000.  For instance, I would need to drop my cpu speed from 25MHz to 16MHz.  Is there a way to install WB31 on this system or should I stay with WB21?

Hmm dont know where you heard this but not accurate. I've never heard  of dropping the cpu speed. If you put 3.1 roms you will be fine. If you have the rare softkik amiga roms (1.4) you Can boot 3.1 from it. I had  a desktop 3000 that was setup like this.