My Amiga 1200 published in IDG's TechWorld.

[som99]

Well I was not planning on posting this due to the writer didn't write as correct and technical as I wanted and also I do not like to share my name and my picture online since I do not want to share my age etc.

But I thought what the hell... All publicity the Amiga gets is good, I got quite a few mails after that publish with people seeking help where to start to getting new life in their Amigas.

A writer for TechWorld contacted me after seeing some pictures of my Amiga 1200 online and insisted that he wanted to make an article about it, at first I didn't want to since my Amiga isn't that special, but as he explained the majority of readers have lived trough the Amiga era and would find it interesting to read about it and get nostalgic.

As the article is written on the retro pages of TechWorld it's kept simple and readable, it got quite good response when published December 2012.

I did a rough translation from Swedish to English, not perfect but I hope readable. Both versions will be linked here.

Here are the original scanned pages in Swedish.








Here is it roughly translated to English.







Don't be to harsh, it's not directed to hardcore Amiga users.

//som99

[som99]

you deserve praise  mate  ..built a good machine  ..why not  show others  get them interested  in how  much fun an amiga can be ..
just curious  ..what sort of buffered connection is on your ide port ..an im ver curious about the wifi card ..though i have given up ever getting my amiga 1200  online..unless its a dial up ..

Thanks for your kind words! I am working to get people hooked on Amiga every chance I get, got a friend who I am scouting for a A1200 for right now and help him get started
Most people tend to be into the games tho, so I find myself copying games for unexpanded A500's a lot and ship em all over Sweden

It's just a 4xEIDE'99, but im planning on trying to fit a FastATA as soon as possible, I got a bit to many projects in the air at once (even outside Amiga land), but first im completing my external CD/DVD and Harddrive combo build (of course ill post pictures here on Amiga.org)

Just found a guy willing to airbrush my A1200 for a fair price, he is good and have the feel for retro look.

If you got a prism2 compatible wifi card I could hook you up with my configs to get it working.

[som99]

Very nice!!

Thank you

[som99]

wow congrats!!!

Thank you

Great article!  I saw one of your pictures before and was wondering how good a ground you're getting through the hard drive cradle.  Isn't it just sort of resting in there?  Oh well, I guess if it's good enough, right?  :drink:

Thanks! There is a plastic film between the shield and the motherboard, I made a hole in the film at the HDD cradle to give it contact to the RF shield that has a seperate ground to the PSU and measured ground resistance, it is enough

[som99]

You can never have too many "A" keys...

Uh, I didn't get that, might be the beer making me slow this evening but please explain ^^

[som99]

thanks ..dont have one of them  ..got a normal  network  card  pcmcia ..that was supposed  to work ..sadly  my machine  never could  find it  ..never tried one  with the prism  device  ..would like to just get it to join a network with my pc  so i could go online with it ..to date ..not happening ..i will  keep your suggestion in mind  ...do u know which  network pcmcia cards use prism  device ..that i may find on ebay australia ?? ..

These cards would work:
Allied Telesyn AT-WCL452 O6M-WE300
Artem CC-PC-b-H2-STD
Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11(g)
Compaq WL110
Speedtouch 110(g)
Lucent Tech Orinoco Bronze
Lucent Tech Orinoco Gold
Lucent Tech Orinoco Silver
Lucent Tech Orinoco WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11(b)
Netgear MA401
Microsoft MN520
SMC SMC2632W LLM002SMC2632W
Unex NexAir MR011-001

I myself use the Orinoco Silver and it works great. The Orinoco cards are quite common on ebay for a few bucks Can't recommend another since ive only used Orinoco cards

If/when you get a card, ill be happy to help you configuring it

[som99]

Very cool indeed! Congrats!
Tygre :-)

Thank you Tygre

Nice

Thanks Paul

You have three "A" keys on your keyboard
Not counting the "Amiga" keys...

Ahhhhh, now I get it AÅÄ Thanks

[som99]

had a quick look  ..there is a Lucent Tech Orinoco Gold model on ebay australia  ..ill keep an eye on it  ..i have a wireless  broadband connection  ..i guess ill need a wifi  card  for the pc as well ..i have a pcmcia  card on my laptop intelpro wireless 2011b  ..it  did try to  connect to my network ..and  next doors as well ..had to take it out cause wasnt sure  what settings  to use ..networking was never my high point..

Hmm, what modem/router do you have? You should only need to connect and use automatic settings on most standard equipment, how do you connect to the internet on the machine you are typing from here?

Great work!

Nice details and high class...

Congrats.

Thank you matt3k, im happy more people got to see a little bit of Amiga in 2012 Swedish ebay prices on wedge Amigas spiked some so I hope some more people bought Amigas after reading the article

[som99]

i use a usb mobile  broadband on my pc ..can move it between my laptop an pc...havent  networked  either machine  ..will do that if i look like my amiga can actually  join in ..

Great, write when you get a PCMCIA network card and ill help

A, Å and Ä are considered separate letters in Sweden and Finland (although the Finns rage a lot about Å), just as A, Æ and Å in Denmark and Norway.

Very nice setup, by the way!

Yepp, we just have three letters more then the English population the rest is the same (åäö).

And thanks, ive done a bit since that article was published and im working on some other things on the A1200 that I will post pictures on in the future when im done (got lack of spare time at the moment due to many projects in the air but I hope to be done near xmas).