EBay - Amiga 600.. No Hard drive, easy to install one?

[cbrkelly]

Hey folks,

This is my first post here, discovered this AWESOME place via google. I've been an avid Commodore / Amiga fan for many yrs, but reluctantly sold my Amiga 600 40MB HD in 1995 for a 486 DX2 80.

Want to get right back into it and happy to lay good dollars down for a 600 (or even a 1200, though i hear they're incompatible with a lot of older games? - true / false?) ...

Ebay seems to indicate that Amigas are EXTREMELY hard to source.. either someones collected them all and kept them in a huge vault somewhere or people are simply holding onto them because they're such a great piece of computing history.

BUT!! I just discovered this on ebay, went up today i think?

Amiga 600 - No HDD

Questions :-

1) Chances its not busted / dead? Whats your feelings on this?

2) No power supply or any other cabling? How hard is it to get this stuff.

3) How hard is it to source a hdd compatible for it, format it so the amiga understands it? Is there a guide anywhere that anyone knows of? I really dont want an Amiga unless it has a hdd..


But given their rarity.. (this is the only a600 up for sale at the moment), i'm still keen.. as long as i can add the hard drive, find a mouse/joystick for it and power supply etc...

Oh, and is his asking price a little steep or right on the money?


Thanks for your feedback folks.

[cbrkelly]

Ah right... thanks for that...

Oh, and PAL is what we use here also by the way (i'm based in Australia) .. so shouldnt need to convert anything?

[cbrkelly]

Well, would be .... only i've looked at several 1200s up for grabs in the UK as well, and it would appear noone wants the trouble of shipping overseas (dont blame them either) ... but i could be sheer out of luck unless something pops up locally?

damnit!! I'm desperate for one of these babies  :-(

[cbrkelly]

OK thanks a heap for all the feedback on this folks... given i once owned an A600 with 40MB hdd (after selling my amiga 500) and had little to no compatibility issues with the games that i played, seemed the A1200 is indeed the way to go.

oh, one more question, is the a1200 capable of playing .mp3 files?


Cheers.