Hi, i used to be an Amiga fanatic, but sold my Amiga stuff way back in 95. Now i am at the point, maybe its nostalgia (it mostly is), i want to buy my again an Amiga and do two things. Play games and run a private bbs system on it.
Used to run actually Cnet and AmiX. Well also way back.
Anyway, i was thinking just to buy off an older 1200 which had at least some newer chips than the 500 i had.
What i am mainly puzzled what the value of that machine is and what to expect. These newer amigas used to have newer boards, if i recall it right versus the A500 which was the old style of boarddesign. I soldered on mine.
You are on the right track with the A1200 idea. It will run most A500 games (if not directly, through WHDLoad), and offers a smaller collection of games enhanced to take advantage of the upgraded chipset. You'll also have internal IDE by default, and a (16-bit) PCMCIA slot for easy networking and file transfer. With a 68030 accelerator and a scandoubler, you'll be all set for retro games and BBS'ing.
Also on a different note. I checked two sides and both offer 'new' Amigas. One from Commodore and the other one i forgot already but it was a X1000.
The first look like Linux driven Computers.. mm..
Can't really comment here, but essentially these are completely different, incompatible products from what you left behind in '95.
