Crazy Idea to get a A1200?

[Crom00]

Picked up an A1200 for $40.

Best $40 ever spent.
Got the following add ons
Got a 030 50mhtz CPU and FPU
128 megs
CFcard adapter
Winuae and one of those WB distributions so I can switch back and forth to Amiga and PC
PCMCIA CF card adapter
BLACK Plasticote paint for killer paintjob
Indivision
Black mouse

This thing sits in a box, becuase I honestly tinker with it endlessly, play games, MP3's Mods, etc. I had to take UAE of my laptop. At one point I had an Amiga Project as an excuse now I just can't waste time with the thing.

You run into other Amiga folks like this. Sold an A500 to a financial industry businessman in NYC who was orginally from the UK and wanted a spare as his A500's drive was getting "dodgy" as he said.

[Crom00]

IT aint 199FO any MO...

If you get the WHDload versions the whole compatibility issue is usually patched. WHDLoad is a must if you're going to game... you're gonna love it! See that's the whole beauty of the CF enabled A1200, you can have an identical Amiga setup on an external USB drive and setup the workbench in UAE on your pc and drop the CF card into the Amiga...

Of just use the PCMCIA CF card reader as a go between. With this setup a CD-rom drive is not required in my experience.

[Crom00]

About the 600... I dunno... I had a buddy get an A600 back in the day and he sold it for an A1200 got a CPU card and ram. That was back in 93.  He loved the 600 but the A1200 had more colors and CSA had a special on CPU cards so he jumped on it.

He never looked back.

[Crom00]

STAY AWAY from the NTSC cd32 unless every game you want is in PAL. It's funky as some games will only work in PAL on a PAL CD32. I mean the problem is your TV will not display the game properly. A multisystem TV or Commdore monitor may be better. Why didn't they include the RGB port!!!! Aside from that quirk the CD32 rocks. The game compliation CD's you can acquire are great.