Amiga 600 to buy or not to buy

[scuzzb494]

An oppertunity to buy an amiga 600 has come up and I cant decide if I should or not! Basicaly I have a 500 and have wanted a 1200 for some time but not really been fussed about the 600. I sort off see it stuck in the middle with ECS being not much better than the 500 but with the chance to fit a harddrive which is something I have wanted on an amiga which would be cool! I do think its the best looking of the amigas though!

So basicaly I wondered what you all think of the 600 should I buy it??

I would wait and buy an Amiga 1200. Simply because there are/were far more accelerators made for the 1200 and they had the SCSI KIT on say the Blizzard. You can Squirrel the 600 but I like the SCSI through the back leaving the PCMCIA free for a network card. The 1200 is just easier to expand.

I do have quite a few 600's, see below, and wouldn't suggest they were inferior, but once you use and expand an A1200 you would never go back to the 600.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz93.htm

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz33.htm

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz107.htm

The best conversion ever of the 500 was the Checkmate... I have two.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz86.htm

The 500 is a classic machine. I just leap frogged the 600 to the 1200 and then went and got a 600 for the odd games. However I mothballed it in favour of more 1200's. Once bitten I guess.

My main A1200 has an internal hard drive, two external SCSI hard drives, ZIP drive, CD drive, HD drive, network card , internet connection via broadband and still works perfectly since 1993. Great machine.