Where can I get New Old Stock Amiga 1200?

[Tenacious]

Maybe if all the people hoarding like 10-20 classic Amigas would start letting them go at reasonable prices, then this guy could find one.  Oh well, pipe dream I know!  Good luck, and keep checking ebay, Amibay, etc.

That's a point of view.  Here is another.  Even this web site is crawling with folks who, for various reasons, can't be trusted with the dwindling supply of classic hardware.  There are some who pitched their Amigas and now advocate emulation as a better solution.  There are the guys who have mood swings, purge their Amigas, get nostalgic after a few years and then repeat the process.  There are a few (baffling to me) that had one years ago, seem to hate it now, but log in here and advise against the platform.  We've all seem ppl threatening to "bin" their collection unless someone drives over and picks it up in some time frame.

There are still unrescued Amigas to be found from various sources, although, less than just a few years ago.  

It's only been 28 years since the Amiga's introduction.  How many were made and how many are left?

What will the situation look like in 10 more years?  In 20?

I don't consider myself a hoarder.  I hope I have rescued enough Amigas (some from destruction!) to preserve working examples far into the future.

@ Sir Bacharach  -  There are some very good threads here detailing ways to clean-up and preserve your hardware!  It's worth doing if it is worth owning one.

[Tenacious]

Couldnt have said it better myself. This is one of the things that hold back new members of the amiga community. There is nothing worse than the amiga hoarders who have tons of amigas and barely ever use them. Then when rare amiga hardware shows up the scoop it up and add it to their collection.
Meanwhile, there are new users or old users getting back into that want expansion boards, net cards, accelerators, whatever. None to be found. some of the items I have it literally took YEARS to find. (e.g. Live! 2000 card)

This is interesting.  How many people on the Amiga sites, do you think, are new to the platform?  I don't mean the guys that left for the latest & fastest, and then returned, but people that never saw an Amiga before, say the year 2000.

It's easy to point fingers at those who have patiently accumulated and preserved their systems.  The real problem is that the Amiga lives in a shrinking pond with decreasing resources (hardware, developers, and consumers).   Even A500s are starting to be treasured and command a rising price (rightly so!), one could only give one away a few years ago.

If I were tempted to vent, it would be at those short-sighted Amigans who recycled or landfilled their old machines when tempted to move on.  There was even a aggravating episode of "This Old House" about 10 years ago in which an A500 was tossed into a dumpster.  "Out with the old, in with the new ..." was actually said.

[Tenacious]

It's a bit more money, but, I'd recommend one of the new ACA model accelerators from Amigakit.  They have an efficient flow and come with an ocean of memory.

The only snag is ensuring that you have a compatible motherboard revision.  I have 2 with rev 1D4 that I could never get working, even with the published modifications.  I have another 1200 (don't know the rev), that it was plug-n-play.  It is very impressive accelerator when it works.

EDIT:  I pulled them out and checked.  The 1D.1 and 1D.4 don't work so far.  The 1D.3 does work.

[Tenacious]

I could only guess at the clock threshold for enjoyable playability with those games, not a gamer.    However, 128 or even 64 MB of fast memory is a large playground for Amiga applications!

[Tenacious]

Afterthought:  you might try a search for those titles on this sight and the web in general.  There has been a lot of discusion about their playability.