Amiga 600 Uses?

[Flashlab]

Then I'm afraid the A600 won't change that for you...

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When I was your age I had a 500 and I made a lot of DPaint graphics with it. That was cool. A friend of mine programmed in AMOS and used my graphics.

To relive that old skool feeling I have my Amiga and nowadays am able to make some simple games in Flash like in my sig.

Had a shot at music too but I guess am not that talented ;-).

[Flashlab]

Neither did I. Just trial and error.

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If you have some more pounds look for an 030 card at 50 MHz and  at least 8 Mb RAM. It will make your 1200 a lot better.

[Flashlab]

Ok, first of all don't make any rash decisions; you'll regret them later.

I suggested an 030 with 8Mb of RAM because it will give you a fairly powerfull 1200 with which you can do a lot of stuff without too much trouble. Like gaming from HD and comfortable use of Workbench and other apps. It can run 3.9 too but you don't need that. So you don't need a buffered IDE interface, network card for 3.9 to work but you do need the OS3.9 CD and a way to get it on your HD. My advice is to just stick with 3.1 for now. Even with a 4Mb RAM card your 1200 will feel faster and can do more things.

What would you do with a PPC card if you don't even know what you want to with a stock 1200? Don't trade your Xbox for something you don't have a clue about what you're gonna do with.

Please first make up your mind about what you want to do with your Amigas.

[Flashlab]

Oh and just remember: the cheapest and fastest Amiga you'll ever find is Winuae. It's free and you already have the roms because you own a real Amiga.

Experiment with Winuae to see if you like it. Then you could always decide if you want to invest (yes "invest" because it's a very expensive hobby you've chosen) in more real Amiga hardware later on.

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You have a 1200 with HD. If that floppy drive is bust, you can try cleaning it and look for the pins that check for write protection. They can get stuck when dirty.

If that fails you can buy a replacement drive from Amigakit or just swap drives with the 600.

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I must say that for 13 year old you sure do have strange bedtime hours ;-)!  :lol:

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And a 600 I presume?

[Flashlab]

Wow great Christmas for you! When I was your age I only got a book each year, ha ha!

An 060 will be fast. The bottleneck will be AGA. Should work with an A500 PSU.

OS3.9 in AGA will work fine.

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Yes, AGA gets better with faster processors. It's just that IMHO in comparison an 060 is too fast compared to AGA.

That aside when you have an 060 you can use it also for faster chunky to planar routines for games like Doom or programs like Shapeshifter.

Apollo is good but IMHO Blizzard cards are better.

How fast will OS3.9 be? How can you measure? It will be fast. As fast as OS3.0/OS3.1 on a normal 1200. Speed is very depending on the number of colours used on AGA.