I can't believe no one mention the need of a scandoubler...
Always seemed retarded to me to have included such incredible graphics capabilities into the amiga but need a hardware hack to handle the funky scanrates and to do decent resolution.
The 1200 should have had a scandoubler built in and regular vga out like the 3000.
The lack of a built in hd controller on the 500 always bugged me too. I couldn't afford a hard drive addon at the time, so I had to deal with
ten tons of floppy disks for everything. Part of the reason I went to a pc was because I could buy a whole 486 with a hard drive for the cost of
just a hard drive add on for the 500.
Upgrading these machines past the factory specs is always very expensive, thats a real down side if you ask me. Who cares if the entry point is so cheap if you need to shell out another 3 or 5 hundred bucks
to get a hard drive, accellerator and so on?
Steven
