Amigas in Japan ... help!

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ahh welcome to japan my friend (well, two years late I'm in japan three years myself and as you said, it's not easy to get hold of amigas here. you should check out yahoo auctions, where good items pop up from time to time. Actually there's a A1200 lot going right now with a 040 turbo, but the price of 40.000 yen might be pricey. you also need to fight someone for it.

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d75309278

you may find 2000, 4000 toaster systems go up for sale there from time to time. 2000's usually go for 5000-10.000 yen and 4000's 30.000-40.000. And most of them are dod (battery death). somebody should teach the japanese how to take care of amigas. I was lucky though last week I scored a 2000 with PPS 040, GVP SCSI and MegaChip for 5500 yen ! And it's working ! (though it came with its front panel broke, due to stupid packing by the seller)

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e71770108

anyway, good luck and please share your experiences, I believe there're some other gaijin amiga users here too.

CoZe

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well Rafaelle has a point. Japan uses american standarts so electricity is 110v and Tv's are NTSC. And it's impossible to find multi system Tvs except from Duty Free shops in Akihabara and the like. But the best solution is a LCD-Tv or LCD which supports 15Khzvertical-50Hz Horizontal. Last time I was in Akihabara I saw some LCD screens which supported these.

Also I recommend importing PAL amigas from Europe and 110v PSUs from america. I usually buy dead big box amigas here and put mobos imported from europe. NTSC mobos can give you headaches with some software (especially ECS-OCS systems).

by the way, in case you don't know, jmbattle is AIAB fame

Doh, I live in Chiba too At Gyotoku, near Urayasu (Disneyland).

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jmbattle wrote:
I am proud to say that I have never been to Chiba Disneyland.

Cheers,
James
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why ? it's not that bad