Hi,
I've been meaning to get my old 1200 out of storage and see if it boots for a while. After reading your post I did just that
I haven't got a good display to plug it into, its a Acorn RGB monitor (with in built speakers).
I plugged it all in and the screen came up yellow and then went black and then came back yellow. I have a blizzard in the trap door slot and after pushing that in I turned it back on and it gave me the purple rom screen with the floppy disk animation. Although it should have booted from the hard disk. I could actually hear the hard disk spinning up so I took the case off and I unplugged the IDEFix board and pushed the hard disk cable directly onto the connector on the motherboard (probably the IDEFix wasn't connected properly). Then it booted into Workbench! COOL!
So good to see my workbench after all this time. I fired up OctaMED and went through playing all my old mods. Really great nostalgia. Brought back loads of happy memories sat there tracking with it for hours and hours. WinUAE is great but you can't beat the real thing. I'm in two minds whether to sell it or not. The keys were yellower than I remembered so i'd have to give it a clean if I were to sell it.
I don't have any games for it now either so it will probably go back in storage.
Sorry if this story was a bit long and boring, just wanted to share :-D
