Amiga 1200 in rack has arrived

[tasmanian guy]

I ended up with BlitzBasic 2. It took me only 3-4 weeks to create an Intellivision Astrosmash clone while I was in college. Amos is good, too.

Yeah well Blitz Basic 2 looked a bit more complicated, more C based than Basic based when I first looked at it all those years ago.
 
I've got the Amos Professional Manual, application supplement, Amos the Creator, Amos 3D but no Amos compiler yet.
 
Need to find a copy of Deluxe Paint V from somewhere, can't find it anywhere.  Another great program oh and Vista Pro, that was fantastic, I remember doing a video animation in TAFE of the Mars Mon Olympus with that and playing it on a TV, the teacher was amazed that I could generate such graphics on a home computer.

[DavidF215]

Yeah well Blitz Basic 2 looked a bit more complicated, more C based than Basic based when I first looked at it all those years ago.

I liked the C features of Blitz. Enabled me to use a single array rather than multidimentional arrays to store data. Easier for me to remember a object(1).x than object(1)(1) for variable 'x'.

Need to find a copy of Deluxe Paint V from somewhere, can't find it anywhere.  Another great program oh and Vista Pro, that was fantastic, I remember doing a video animation in TAFE of the Mars Mon Olympus with that and playing it on a TV, the teacher was amazed that I could generate such graphics on a home computer.

I always wanted Vista Pro, but I never got it. It was quite advanced for a personal computer when it was released.

[tasmanian guy]

I liked the C features of Blitz. Enabled me to use a single array rather than multidimentional arrays to store data. Easier for me to remember a object(1).x than object(1)(1) for variable 'x'.
 
 
I always wanted Vista Pro, but I never got it. It was quite advanced for a personal computer when it was released.

It isa pity that they haven't made some of these programs shareware or even freeware given the age.  Vista Pro was great though it used to take ages to render the scenes on my Amiga 500 with 3 meg of ram!  Be interesting to see what it is like on my Amiga 1200 once the 1230 50mhz accelerator arrives or even WINUAE (it would fly then!).

[tasmanian guy]

I've now got the keyboard ps2 adapter installed (strange it never came with instructions from www.amigakit.com), the Blizzard 1230 50mhz with fpu of 50mhz and a whopping 64 megabytes of ram (seems funny to say that, but for an Amiga that is a lot).
 
I've got the ide 4 port buffer, a 2 meg compact flash card with Workbench 3.1
 
Having issues with whdload to work, it looks like it doesn't like my configuration with error messages about shadow mem and requiring kickstarts.

[whiteb]

I've now got the keyboard ps2 adapter installed (strange it never came with instructions from www.amigakit.com), the Blizzard 1230 50mhz with fpu of 50mhz and a whopping 64 megabytes of ram (seems funny to say that, but for an Amiga that is a lot).
 
I've got the ide 4 port buffer, a 2 meg compact flash card with Workbench 3.1
 
Having issues with whdload to work, it looks like it doesn't like my configuration with error messages about shadow mem and requiring kickstarts.

I dont know about Shadow mem, but WHDLoad asking for kickstarts, means its seeking Kickstart files in Devs:Kickstarts

Version     Name Kickstart Image     Name Relocation File     
1.2    Devs:Kickstarts/kick33180.A500    Devs:Kickstarts/kick33180.A500.RTB
1.3    Devs:Kickstarts/kick34005.A500    Devs:Kickstarts/kick34005.A500.RTB
3.1    Devs:Kickstarts/kick40063.A600    Devs:Kickstarts/kick40063.A600.RTB
        Devs:Kickstarts/kick40068.A1200    Devs:Kickstarts/kick40068.A1200.RTB
        Devs:Kickstarts/kick40068.A4000    Devs:Kickstarts/kick40068.A4000.RTB    

Now, the RTB files, are obtained from the SKICK archive on Aminet.  http://www.aminet.net/util/boot/skick346.lha

[rkauer]

But remember the ROM images are not downloadable in a legal manner. Buy AmigaForever CD and you'll have all.

[tasmanian guy]

But remember the ROM images are not downloadable in a legal manner. Buy AmigaForever CD and you'll have all.

I have the Amigaforever CD that I purchased so I use the rom files in that with the rtb files from skick, don't need to rename them or anything?

[tasmanian guy]

Well finally my usb port adaptor arrived for my mouse, so I plugged in my Microsoft Intellimouse optical, no go, I plugged in an HP usb mouse (with a ball), no go. I send the ebayer a message asking does this adapter work with any particular mouse (on the auction it said any usb mouse)....then I tried my Microsoft basic optical mouse...YES it worked!!!!!
 
Thank God, no more Amiga key and cursor arrows while setting stuff up! I am amassing a game collection and programming collection having purchased Amos 3D, Amos the Creator, Ultimate Amos book, Amos Professional, etc, games I have purchased so far Combat Air Patrol, Falcon, F18, F19 Stealth Fighter, Flight of the Intruder, F29 Retaliator, Knights of the Sky, Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour, all the classics, I was a flight sim junkie with the Amiga (pity the pc started to come out with better sims with their analogue joysticks, shaded skies and ground compared to the Amiga's graphics). I have to get a gamepad for the Amiga and a analogue joystick adapter for the games that make use of it!
 
Looking forward to doing some programming now and some classic gaming!  Thanks to everyone who helped out with this, I'll take some photos soon to show it off.

[TheGoose]

Yeah want to see with the goodies attached...

[tasmanian guy]

Yeah want to see with the goodies attached...

I'd like to thank everyone who has helped with this project!  I have been flat out running my own private business, working full time and assisting mates with their computers (unfortunately IBM clones).  Having said that I have discovered Dark Basic for game programming and can't believe how similar this is to good old Amos!
 
I'll post some photos soon of my whole setup.  I'd like to thank Cammie and Nathan (from Amigamaniac) for providing gear and assistance for my 19" rack Amiga.