My Amiga Experience

[Holley]

You're talking about a 12 year old computer, very old add-ons, and programs that have been patched to heck an back.  The reliability and ease of use when they were new was through the roof, to get that now you need good hardware, and to be selective over what software you use - Classics are a steep learning curve I'm afraid (and most Amiga die-hards take that knowledge for granted).

What hardware did you have problems with?

[Holley]

Sorry, posted while you were replying ;-)

SCSI CDRoms can be found cheap (around £10 + p&p), and all drives fail sometime, usually due to the moving parts wearing out.  It's a boon having a CDRom for the first time, so don't give up now!

Again, stuff like having to manually edit the startup-sequence isn't unusual I'm afraid, though the squirrel setup oughtta be able to do that.

[Holley]

Erm, A1200s were launched in '92 ;-)