Why not buy both a a1200 and a a500? You should just about get the
a500 for nothing, I've been given 3! Some games do not like running
on the a1200 because of the caches on the 020, but by holding down
both mouse buttons when you boot the machine you get a early startup
screen that lets you turn the caches off and select OCS or ECS
effectivlly turning the a1200 into a a500.
Some games still will not work and you will have to use Relokick or a
similar program to softkick Kickstart 1.3 as well. Some (old) games
will still not work though. Boot the a500 up ;-)
The A1200 can use a 2.5" laptop harddrive. You will need a 44pin hard
drive cable for this and HDToolbox (software). 3.5" hard drives can
be used but you will need a 44pin to 40pin IDE cable and a 4 pin hard
drive power plug spliced into the floppy power cable. You will need a
slim 3.5" drive to fit the case of the 1200 and still might need to
cut some of the rf shield away to fit it. You do not need a special
interface for a 3.5" drive. Note that a lot of old games cannot be
installed to hard drive without special software (whdload).
Keep the hard drive size under 2Gb for maximum compatbility.
The more you add to the A1200 the less old games will work. Indeed a
few old games do not like a hard drivve or extra floppy connected!
The late A1200s had a modified pc high density floppy and some games
will not work with it.
I keep a a600 for old games that do not like my a3000.
Christmas 1993 for a new 1200 ;-)
