Today was my lucky day!

[anachronicus]

I got some boxes of various computer gear from an old friend who's getting married and therefore consolidating a lot his vast collection.  Among these just happens to be an Amiga Technoligies A1200 hd in very near mint condition.  It's stock except for a MBX 1200z trapdoor card with 1 meg of fast ram.  I just dug out my old 1084s that I still had in my closet, and they both work great.  I had been eyballing ebay looking for a 1200, now I can just look for upgrades instead.  The only downside is now I'm to excited to sleep.  I wonder where that box of amiga games disks is.....

[anachronicus]

Heh!  Yeah, been there...and apparently about to go there again.    I'm still undecided if I'm going to stick with a ram card and keep it as stock as possible, or get an accelerator card.   If only I still had my Blizzard 1230, it would be a no-brainer. Oh well.  I've also got to find a better video solution, since I seem to have lost my monitor cable and am just using composite to the 1080s.  It works, but the picture is not as good.  My towered A1200 has been in storage for awhile, I need to dig it out and see if it still works.  More importantly, I need to re-learn all the knowledge I've forgotten since then.  

[anachronicus]

Well a little rummaging around in a closet yielded an 8 MB simm, so now I'll just stay with this card for a while. I'm sure I'll eventually go for an 030 card at some point.  Now, where did I put that null modem cable.....

[anachronicus]

Hi,

Quick,

Get rid of it before you are infected by the Amiga virus

Since this is now in fact my fifth Amiga, (or is that sixth? starting to lose track...) I'm afraid I'm already infected, indeed perhaps chronic.

[anachronicus]

Yes, IndivisionAGA is top of list.

[anachronicus]

Well, a day's effort rummaging around in dusty boxes has yielded a CF adapter that that came with a printer, a 128 CF card that was swiped out of an old digital camera, and an internal scan doubler and flicker fixer that I took from the towered A1200, which can do without it until I get another one.  
Took a little doing to get the reader to work, but luckily it and the card are compatible.  The 8 meg issue is annoying, but I found a utility disk online for the card that has a software switcher; you can have 8 mb ram, or 4 mb and a working pcmcia slot.  It will work for now.  The best part is, this entire project so far has cost me the grand total of Nothing! :laugh1:  Can't beat that