Old Amiga 500/2000 games not working on A1200

[scuzzb494]

Hi

Really depends on your other hardware. I was OK with most games till I got the accelerator. Also a PCMCIA RAM card can cause problems. Sure, you can degrade but often thats tricky when your running the game out of Workbench. The trick is quite simple... I have always had an A500 set up next to my A1200. That was till this weekend when the Joystick port finally died playing Turrican. Anyway I swapped out the CIAs which was sad cus the seals had never been broken. That didn`t work so I swapped the motherboard. A500 bits and pieces are very very cheap and easy to come by. I wouldn`t be without the A500... Specially as loads of games that I seem to acquire come on the back of old copied floppies... ( bad boy )... So I don`t risk the 1200 with old disks I just bang them in the 500 and off I go. The 500 takes a real hammering... Magic machine. Back to Turrican.

PS A copy of Turrican 2 went on Ebay this week for £52. Worth more than the computer you play it on... happy days.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[scuzzb494]

Hi

Populous 1989 Bullfrog. Has never worked on my 1200, even with all those things switched off. I just had another go and as ever the game loads but the mouse locks up and then the disk goes in a spin. Has happened on every disk that I have ever had.

scuzz