help with a1200

[jkirk]

 my uncle had an old a1200/40hd at his house. i offered to pay for but he wanted to get rid of it so he gave it to me. basically it is just the computer with what looks like a vga adapter(no scandoubler.)

i know i need a mouse (and an internal drive it seems)but am a little perplexed as to what monitor i should look at getting. also any additional hardware i should look into?


btw: it came with 3.0 and 3.1 os disks

most of the disks and the internal drive that came with it appears to be either dirty or dead.

money is an issue.
 

[DoogUK]

For games i would stick to the commodore 1084 monitor or the phillips cmi8338, both have stereo speakers built in and are readily available on ebay....i have 4 of them  :-D

Internal 2.5" are very cheap on ebay too and you can have up to 4 gig without running into problems  and this is tons of space for an amiga.

only other thing i would suggest is a ram expansion, even a 4mb one makes a huge difference but better still is an accelerator with extra ram.

[jkirk]

sorry i wasn't clear internal Floppy drive is dead or needs cleaning.

[Homer]

OK, so use a tv instead of a monitor, and clean the floppy drive. Its always worth looking around your local area for other spare parts. Some people think they are made of gold, others throw them away  :-)

Does it actually boot up ?

[hamtronix]

Get a can of air and blow out the drive. also you can try giving the floppy a couple of good pats. that fixed my a1200 drive that was 'dead'

[jkirk]

Does it actually boot up ?

sure it boots even has the 3.1 roms in it. tho i might upgrade the hd(40meg). it was configured for a multisync monitor(commodore model # unknown.) needless to say it don't look to good on the 1084 i have but since it is dying(the monitor) that don't matter.

[jkirk]

hamtronix wrote:
Get a can of air and blow out the drive. also you can try giving the floppy a couple of good pats. that fixed my a1200 drive that was 'dead'

good floppy *pat* *pat*


i will try to clean it though the fact it just clicks don't inspire confidence. :-(

[weirdami]

Amiga drives don't "just" click. :-P

I support the platform for floppy drive cleaning. That cleared up a lot of "bad" disk problems I had with an A1000 I once picked up. Those 20 year old disks magically started working again after I cleaned the drive out.