WTB: Amiga 1200

[ruina]

Hi everyone,
I used amiga for about 10 years and was a contributor to Aminet and the demo scene over the years. I've gotten that itch again and I want to put together an amiga system.

I'm living in Japan so it's quite hard to find an A1200 within the country. If you're in the country and have one, please let me know. Also, as I'm close to Australia that might work well too.

Basically I just want a stock A1200 (HDD and/or LAN a bonus) for around $200. I've seen an online shop offering one with HDD and PCMCIA LAN for $196 but that's with an incompatible psu (european psu when I need US type) and without shipping. Also, I'm guessing the euro A1200's have scart instead of a US-compatible video output.

I would also be interested in a more powerful system and would pay pretty equivalently to what I'm seeing them go for in UK shops, etc. Accelerator cards and such wouldn't be that big of a shipping deal though, so just getting a cheap stock A1200 is fine, although getting everything I want and need in one shot would also be good.

If someone could help me out or point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,
ruina

[McVenco]

The only difference in video output is that US versions are NTSC and EU versions are PAL. There's no difference in connection, they all have 23-pins RGB output).

If you're interested: I have a PAL A1200 which I don't use, it's pretty much white (see pictures in my photo album on this site). It has 3.1 ROMs, a 4.3 GB harddisk and a Blizzard 1220/4 turbo/memory board (4MB Fast RAM and a 68020 @ 28 MHz) so it's a bit above stock.

It has a 220 volt PSU (a stronger A500 version) which you obviously can't use, so I wouldn't have to include that then I presume.

[ruina]

Hi McVenco,
Thanks for your reply.

Would hooking a US PSU up to a Euro amiga work? I'm assuming so, but I want to make sure I'm getting something I can actually use.

I think what I would do is modify an American PC PSU to work on the A1200. So, I would just need the A1200 connector and wire from the PSU you have.

[McVenco]

Would hooking a US PSU up to a Euro amiga work? I'm assuming so, but I want to make sure I'm getting something I can actually use.

As far as I know every A1200 has the same power input, only the PSU is different for different countries. If someone disagrees, please reply :-)

If you take a PC PSU and connect the Amiga powerplug to it, it should be no problem, although I'm not sure if any PSU will work, since not every PSU delivers the voltages that the Amiga needs. But there are lots of people on this board who can tell you exactly what to do :-D