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Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« on: February 07, 2011, 01:06:32 AM »
Edit: I'm no longer searching. I found an A1200 for a good price and ordered it.

I'm looking to expand my Amiga collection, so I'm looking for a new Amiga that isn't a 1000. If anyone has an NTSC Amiga that they are looking to sell, send me a message and we can see if something can be worked out.

I'd like not to spend more than $100; I figure that somebody has an unexpanded Amiga of some sort that they would be willing to sell for about that price. A 1200 is really what I'm looking for, but what I really want to do is make demos, listen to chiptunes, and play games.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2011, 01:13:40 AM »
The main reason I want NTSC is that the shipping costs will be lower, and that I am currently using an NTSC TV w/composite connections with my Amiga. Sadly, that is what I have to work with now, although I may be getting an Amiga monitor soon from a father of a friend.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2011, 01:40:56 AM »
I understand that the majority of games run too fast, and sometimes not at all on an NTSC machine. I'm just trying to get a 1200 of any kind, and an NTSC would probably be my best bet, as I'm in the United States. I already have a A1000, so I can run a lot of the earlier A500 games.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2011, 01:54:28 AM »
Couldn't one just use Degrader?
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2011, 02:09:05 AM »
Can it be switched to NTSC mode?
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2011, 05:00:16 AM »
It doesn't even have to be an NTSC A1200, as long as it is an A1200 or better. I'm just trying to find the best deal.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2011, 05:21:49 AM »
Quote from: runequester;613833
do yourself a favour and check out amibay as well. Its a site set up more or less specifically for trading and selling. Mostly european, but there's a good share of US members too


I posted there before I posted here, actually, but I have yet to receive any responses. I'm actually on the second page, if I'm correct. I've posted on Craigslist, Freecycle (I'm also asking for a 486 laptop here), here, and AmiBay.

The only site where I've gotten decent responses to anything at all is this one; the community here rocks.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2011, 05:28:50 AM »
Quote from: runequester;613838
yeah, this does have a great community. I hope something turns up for you.


Thanks. I've just been looking to expand my Amiga collection, as I've just gotten started and my 512K A1000 doesn't do absolutely everything I want to do with an Amiga. :lol:

The AGA 90s Amigas are what I'm really looking at, mostly because of my interest in that era, I post on a 90s forum every once and a while. All Amigas are amazing machines, though. I can't see why they never took off.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2011, 04:19:55 AM »
A couple of questions. I'm definitely interested in an unexpanded A1200, but I'm curious about some things.

First of all, if I get a PAL one, could this be used to output to an NTSC TV?

http://amigamaniac.com/RGB_to_PAL_NTSC_adapter.html

Also, would I be able to use an PCMCIA ethernet card to connect it to the internet and do text-based browsing and telnet BBSes with the unexpanded 2MB ChipRAM?
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2011, 04:31:56 AM »
Well, I actually was offered a pretty good deal on an A1200, so I'll probably just purchase one of those as soon as my PayPal is functioning.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2011, 04:43:22 AM »
I mean, my plan is to run a hard drive via IDE and an ethernet PCMCIA card. Would an unexpanded run that at all, or...?

I mean, I don't really want to WHDLoad anything, I could just play games from floppies. I'd probably just store MODs and random images, text files, and whatnot on the hard drive I have.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2011, 04:53:03 AM »
Alright. So what I plan on getting is the following:

1. An A1200, hopefully the person I was planning on buying from still has it.
2. An IDE cable to connect to an unused 20GB laptop drive I have.
3. A PCMCIA Ethernet Card
4. The RGB -> PAL/NTSC adapter if I get a PAL version

OR

4. A Commodore 1084 that a friend is probably going to give me

Does that sound like a decent starting A1200 config for demos, music, games, and ASM programming?
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2011, 03:51:56 AM »
The monitor I'm getting locally is actually a Commodore 1080 or 1081. Those can take PAL signals, can't they?
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 06:51:11 PM »
All I have in this house are CRT TVs and a variety of early-to-late 90s CRTs: A Digiview HR-40, an Acute Network Technologies 17DB07, and an AT&T CRT329D. I have a 2003 MultiSync NEC FS991SB, but it is completely broken. My TVs include a 1989 RCA XL100, a couple of tiny TVs from the 2000s, and a Sharp TV from 1999. I don't think any of those can take a PAL signal. I'll probably just end up getting the 1080 and dealing with the slight cut-off.
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Re: Wanted NTSC Amiga 500/1200/3000/4000
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2011, 01:18:37 AM »
I got the 1080. It runs in PAL mode without any cutoff. All I had to do was adjust the V-height.
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