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old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« on: January 01, 2009, 08:50:28 PM »
hi guys,
just thought i ought to hi to ya'all. i had an Amiga in the 1990s after my C64 bit the dust. It sort of got waylaid and lost during a couple of house moves and life changes. I got back into playing my old games under emulation on my laptop and GP2x last year. However, my girlfriend brought me an A1200 for Christmas and i haven't been able to sleep right since - cant wait to get it playing all my fave old games.
its a stock A1200 so i will be looking to expand/accelerate and put a HDD in it.
It came from Amigakit.co.uk so a called mat - who was very helpful and patient - and got an adf-pcmcia easy transfer kit. any advice or tips etc. on tweaking my new miggy will be appreciated.
HAPPY NEW YEAR DUDES
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Re: old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2009, 01:57:43 AM »
Hi Guys and thanx for your replies,
 is it best to go for the flash card option over a HDD and what is the difference between 030 - 040-060 accelerator, and which should i get? also should i also be buying more ram separate to the accelerator?
sorry for dumb questions but this is really new to me , i cant believe how much i have forgot since Intel and Microsoft took over the world.
my girlfriend was spying on my ebay searches (in case i was buying gentleman's viewing material probably )and got me an 1200 from amigakit.co.uk.
give it a few weeks sat upstairs in my office and she will learn to spit the word amiga out. :).
i have just sent a payment for whdload, but i am not sure what it does and i have an easy adf-pcmcia transfer kit.apart from that its an 'old' 'new' stock miggy1200
what is a scandoubler?
thanx again for your help and i am sure i will be moaning about ear ache soon enough
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Re: old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2009, 03:35:35 PM »
Hi Guys, thanks so much for all the posts and replies. I have told the girlfriend all the kind things you said, and she sent me out to tidy the garage :( and take the decorations down and box them up and clean the car, and put the xmass tree in the garage:(
so i dug out my old commodore 64 :)

i wont lie and say i understand everything you told me - but i have registered a copy of WHDLOAD and will soon down load it.
i will also order amiga forever - what is it?

which is easier to install and set up a flash drive or a HDD, because amigakit.co.uk will set-up a HDD for me before they ship it.
thanx guys
ps - is an 030 accelerator a ram expansion also or do i do that sepereatly?
cheers for your time and patients  
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Re: old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 12:58:13 AM »
HI again guys, well its back to work :( but at least i have some more money coming in and its snowing:) so i may have to stay at home and play Amiga.
just a quick question. what is the difference between a 12030 and a 68030.
cheers dudes
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Re: old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2009, 10:48:33 PM »
Thanx Voyager74 and everybody else who has taken the time to welcome me in, and answer my noob quewz :)
I have been working my butt off this week doing as many hours as I can to get some money to spend on my miggy.
I want an 030/50 accelerator with as much ram as i can get. I take it i then don't need to bother with a standard ram expansion as stefcep2 has, even though this would probably suit my needs - i am getting obsessive :) . I am also going to get cables etc to link to my pc. I would also like to get a HDD with IDE splitter for CD-rom. Oh and a network card :) eventually.
 However, i am a little confused when it comes to Kickstart ROMs! is my standard A1200 Kickstart 3.0 ROM?
should I upgrade to 3.1 for gaming? what benefits will it bring?
is it a case of flashing the ROM chip like upgrading my mobo bios on my pc, or is it a hardware modification?
Also should i upgrade my OS?
I am having a lot of fun planning all this and its taken me back a few years, its brought back a lot of happy memories.
I also have you guys to thank for that too
so cheers to you
PZ
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Re: old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2009, 03:12:05 PM »
cheers guys. I am still at work at the moment but will check things out when I get home. still can't get easy adf tranfer kit to pick up my flash card . will have another experiment laters.
Oh and is an FPU card a requiremnt for retro games?
cheers for the advice chaps
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Re: old timer returns to the A1200 and is now a NEWBIE
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2009, 08:31:17 PM »
@James,
greetings dude. I want a flicker fixer also - think amigakit have new stock in,
I never had a HDD back in the day, still dont have one. next purchase before flickfix.
Pz
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