- What model Amiga should I be looking for to play the games and such. I saw on Amigakit they have the 1200 or should I look for a 500. Is the 1200 completely backward compatible?
1200 is great. Forget the floppies. You can have ALL the Amiga games on the Hard Disk and play em all via a program called WHDLoad. But you will need some extras to expand your Amiga:
1. A hard disk
2. An accelerator card that makes your Amiga faster
3. Some extra RAM.
I would suggest a 030 Accelerator card by Blizzard. Look at ebay.com and amibay.com The card usually comes with extra RAM.
As far as the hard disk, a 2.5 SCSI hard disk from an old laptop can do the trick. You can buy a new one from Amigakit adding it as option iinto your setup. They will install the OS too.
If you do not know how to plug the accelerator card AmigaKit can do it for you. Ask them to be sure.
I got a 1200 with 030 accelerator plugged on my TV. All the games are on the hard disk and with a double click on the icon I have fan. This is the ultimate Amiga gaming experience.
- I contacted Amigakit and they mentioned they have PAL models as I was hoping to hook it up to a tv with composite connection. They said they may have some NTSC models and mentioned most of the games are for PAL. Isn't there a large selection for NTSC models? I remember my friends having pretty large game collections.
On modern tV NTSC and PAL does not make any big sense. everything is supported. A PAL model should do the trick and all the games will play no matter in NTSC or PAL mode.
Is it relatively easy to get the images and transfer them to the Amiga and then to floppy? With the apple it's pretty easy and requires a serial cable and using software to convert it to floppy. What would be required for Amiga? Is there a specific OS required that would be able to run all or most of the software?
With about 20-30 euros more you can buy a PCMCIA to Ethernet network card and connect your Amiga to Internet. Then you can download all your favorite ADFs and convert em to real floppies using some software like EaysADF -if I can recall the name correctly-. This is the fastest and easiest way. Yes your fats Internet connection will work on the Amiga and you can even get it on line wireless using a different PCMCIA to Ethernet card (for about 40 euros) that allows wireless connection. The choice is yours.
