What's the "ultimate" A1200

[KatManDEW]

I want to start building a good A1200 system. Would it be OK to get a used A1200 if I can find one cheap, and build it up from there?

I want a tower case of course, but what are the other "gotta have" add-on's?

MEDIATOR 1200TX PCI BUSBOARD & MMCD ?
What graphics card?

[KatManDEW]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm retro-drooling :-D

Why the two video options - Indivision AGA 1200 and Voodoo 3?

[KatManDEW]

Wow! lots of great info. Looks like there's lots of interest in the A12000.

Where might someone obtain some of them there custom-burned 3.1 kickstart roms?

[KatManDEW]

DBAlex wrote:
@KatManDEW

To me there are two routes, you either stay with AGA and use a flickerfixer (or TV of course) and are still available to play games and programs tied to the chipset... the other route (which I want to go when I have enough £) is to get a tower, mediator, graphics card etc... atm I have a blizzard 060 w/ 64mb ram, a wifi card etc, I need to get a tower and mediator one day.

It all depends on what you want to do of course, if you're interested in games it's probably best to get a flickerfixer like the indivision. To me i'm more interested in using my Amiga as a "real" computer so i'm more interested in getting a tower, mediator, sound card, usb, ps2 etc

Although some would say thats stupid and i'd be best of using WinUAE... ;-) but real is allways better IMHO.

So we can't have our cake and eat it too? If we use a Mediator and a Voodoo card, we can't Indivision and play AGA games?

[KatManDEW]

amiga4ever wrote:
@KatManDEW

You should maybe think twice about towering you 1200. For me, building a tower out of my A1200 was not as cool as it sounds. It was very expensive for all the components (BPPC, mediator, BVision, etc) and I soon realized that a Nextgen Amiga (Peg or SAM, etc) could do the same job much much better. So I now have my standard 1260 as well as a Peg2/Morph OS and it feels right! :-)

My worthless opinion is that the maximum expansion a A1200 should see is a 060 accelerator. But I know many will disagree :-)

What's Peg2 and Morph OS?

My tupid  :-D

[KatManDEW]

I just snagged an A1200 on EBay with 10 gig HDD, 1 - CF Card of 32MB (Kodak Picture Card) + PCMCIA Card adapter
1 - IBM Microdrive of 1GB + PCMCIA Card Adapter.

That should hopefully make a good starter system.

Whoo hoo!

[KatManDEW]

Tenacious wrote:
@ Kat

How many Amiga configurations do you own now?

I tend to agree with others here.  If you already have a tricked out A2000 with native (ECS) and retargetable graphics, adding an AGA machine with an Indivision would cover all the classic bases.  I think it's expensive to move a 1200 up to RTG.  Some solutions look better before you invest in the reality.

The only thing left after that is OS4.x on new hardware.

That makes sense. I currently have a A1000, a A2000 with GVP 040, and the A1200 that I just got on EBay.

But I'm kind of s sentimental old SOB, so I might digress further in the future, with another A1200 in a tower. And I may investigate an A3000 and/or A4000 in the future. I never kept up with Miggy stuff in the later days, and I can't remember the skinny on the 1200 vs 3000 vs 4000?

I have every Timex/Sinclair ever made, from the ZX80 through the QL, including a TS1500. I'm actually not a real big game buff, but there was a game I played on my TS2068 that I really liked, and I would like to find something similar to it for the Amiga. I'll have to dig out my TS2068 and see what that game was. My TS2068 is of course tricked out about as much as the TS1000 in my stage lighting controller :-D

[KatManDEW]

CountRaven wrote:

What's Peg2 and Morph OS?

Pegasos 2 is the ultimate machine and MorphOS is the smoothest and faster operating system you will notice around, that is my opinion and now lets see some standard points: Pegasos 2 CPU is based on PPC technology, there are G3 and G4 models up to 1Ghz with memory able to be expanded up to 1 giga. It is faster than Sam 440. You can add standard PC hardware to a Pegasos and there are certain series of graphic, TV and sound cards supported.

MorphOS has its root on AmigaOS. It can run natively, smoothly and fast almost every 68k Amiga software –so you do not have to drop your old Amiga 2000 stuff away-, but unfortunately it can not run games in native mode as they make use of the Amiga chipset which is not supported by Pegasos2. But the issue of games is solved as well as there is an UAE emulator available for MorphOS that allows you to run the entire of Amiga software. If you re a fun of gaming there is also a Multiple arcades Machine Emulator –MAME- available for MorphOS, letting you play all your favorite old coin ops.

MorphOS rules.

Click here to see a pic of my desktop in order to take an idea:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/CountRaven80/Grabjpg.jpg

That's a sweet looking desktop!

An Amiga emulator for the Amiga? I've heard it all now  :-D

I'll have to look into MorphOS.

My EBay A1200 shipped today! The stuff I ordered for my A2000 did not :boohoo: I'm having a flashback of how long it took to receive Amiga hardware that I have ordered  :boohoo: