New A1200 - some questions

[Damion]

@harrison:

 Lotus 2 and 3 never worked for me on my unexpanded A1200, but when I bought an 8meg trapdoor board they worked fine...I guess they just needed some fastram.

 I have gotten all but one or two games to work on my 1200, the one I have a problem with is Mega lo Mania, it seems to crash after a bit, and I can't get Moonstone to work no matter what!  

With an A1200 and fastram,  I've gotten pretty much all of the old games to work, a few of them just need some extreme coaxing and combination of degraders. Sometimes hours of ridiculous trial and error just for a stupid old game I don't even play afterwards!

 For some reason I have had no problems at all with the Escom disk drive. Even the few really old games I have work fine.  

[Damion]

@harrison

Yeah, I just love it, when at the critical moment (usually to show a friend something cool) you forget the cryptic ritual to get an old program working.

I'm pretty sure my internal drive is a Teac. I don't know if C= used these or not. It's much more quiet than the Chinon in my old 500, but it is unfortunately starting to give some problems...too bad after the little use it has seen! :-(

BTW: I checked out your site and it looks fantastic! It has a geat feel and layout. Count me a regular visitor.