Well, I agree, REAL thing is where it's at...

[vic20owner]

After getting a SD/FF (I've had a SD and was not impressed) I can say that WOW my A1200 really shines in PAL HIRES LACE.  A mediator and voodoo would really be nice, but pal lace on the 19" monitor with no flicker is really all I think I need to enjoy my machine!  Us NTSC boys are limited in vertical resolution...to 422.  But in PAL, I get 720x546 and it makes a big difference... especially when you let the desktop scroll to 1024x768.

I've spent most of the night installing demos and playing games. My 6yr old played shadow of the beast 3 for about 2 hours.  

Tonight it suddenly set in... I remember what I loved about my Amiga 10 years ago.  Even today, (with a stable display) it continues to impress me.

I used to pull my Amiga out once a month... mess with it for awhile and pack it back up. But now, with the scan doubler it's earned a permenant place on my desk. I spent a few hours today making space.

I am hopelessly hooked on this old machine with a clunky desktop...

[vic20owner]

hahah sorry.  The lady of the house is asleep (1:30 am) thus I am typing in the dark on a black keyboard down a few glasses of wine.  You are lucky you got what u got.

LOL.. Anyway.. my Amiga is clicking away and I am having too much fun to turn it off.  

[vic20owner]

Well I know the feeling... thats what I used to do.. pull it out and then put it back.

I think the key was picking up the floppies on there the other day. I received a box of around 300 floppies and a new SD/FF.  

The other important part was REMOVING my LCD from the amiga and using a 19" CRT.  The LCD doesn't even come close to the CRT... the crt is so much better it's like night and day.

So with 300 disks to go through and test, the monitor and solid display, my little A1200 is plenty of fun.

Without those things I admit it would probably go back into the closet once my eyes started bleeding.


 

[vic20owner]

You can get a wireless card pretty cheap... you can find the Microsoft MN520 which most people don't realize is a prism chipset, thus compatible with the Amiga 1200, apple newton, etc.  Plus, since it's "microsoft" brand nobody wants it

Unfortunately you'll need a lot of fast ram to browse the web, and even with my 68030/50 + 64mb fast it's too slow to be practical. It's ok for downloading apps from aminet and transferring between machines, but actually checking your ewb based mail or reading forums is nearly impossible unless you have all day to wait for it to render the images.