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Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« on: August 03, 2004, 03:09:42 PM »
Hello,

Nothing seems to be going my way recently so i might just step out of the "professional Amiga" limelight and go back to my roots..... the basic desktop Amiga 1200! :-)

I currently have some stuff that i may get rid of:

Power Tower (ATX PSU and convertor)
Power Flyer
30gig HD?
2 x 128meg RAM?
IDE 32x CD ROM Drive
IDE CD RW (forgot the specs)
Keyboard
PPC Software

The ones with the question marks i am not too certain as yet. As a consequence, i am after the following items:

Amiga 1200 Desktop case (preferbly non yellowing)
Blizzard 1260
PCMIA CD-ROM / CD RW Drive
Laptop 4g HD (that would fit in A1200 desktop case)

If anyone has these at cheap prices, or if anyone is interested in purchasing my stuff, then please mail/pmail me and i might be interested.

Best Regards,
A1200D / AGA / B1260 / 64MB RAM / KS 3.1 / AOS 3.9 / 4GB HD
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2004, 03:21:19 PM »
Hum,
yes, there`s a lot to be said for keeping things pure and simple...(almost religious...)


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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2004, 03:31:14 PM »
I've been thinking of doing the same thing, pulling my 1200 out of its tower and putting it back into the original case (but keep the accelerator and everything of course!)..  That still doesn't solve the problem of not having enough room to have it properly set up  :-(
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2004, 04:01:22 PM »
@Blobrana

Cheers for pmail.

@Merc

Yes i am aware of them problems. There is also the PSU problem as well, but i will see what happens later. But i am doing this because of the money, it is cheaper doing it like this. When i originally owned a Blizzard 1260, the money wasn't really being used much for constant updates, repairs, etc. But then i got a PPC and has to keep spending to update, repair things which has cheesed my off. Then i get ripped off over buying another PPC, which left me completely pissed. Maybe i will keep the tower, to solve the space problem.

Okay, i forogt to mention to sell:

Blizzardvision (CyberGraphics 4.2)

And wanted:

Any graphics card for Amiga 1200 (suitable for setup)

Regards,
A1200D / AGA / B1260 / 64MB RAM / KS 3.1 / AOS 3.9 / 4GB HD
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2004, 04:06:38 PM »
I have a fairly stuffed desktop A1200.  Losing the portability and small form factor were not options.  I think I built a nice stable system that is still practical.  BTW, it's pretty easy to cram everything in there.

Specs:

A1200
Blizzard 1260/060-50MHz w/64Mb RAM
Blizzard SCSI IV w/64Mb RAM
ScanMagic Internal SD/FF
Hitachi 20GB ATA-6 2.5" HD
Amtrade HD Floppy
Bigfoot P/S
PCMCIA Ethernet

Good luck.  I have a US keyboard/case if you like.  But, I think shipping to the UK would kill any sort of deal.

Also, if you get an A1260, then try to get a SCSI IV.  You can add more memory, and use an external SCSI CD-ROM freeing up your PCMCIA for a NIC.
Time to move on.  Bye Amiga.org.  :(
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2004, 04:20:10 PM »
@adolescent

Cheers for the information! What are the average prices for Blizzard 1260? I take it they still hold their price, concidering Amiga OS 4 aint out yet.
A1200D / AGA / B1260 / 64MB RAM / KS 3.1 / AOS 3.9 / 4GB HD
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2004, 05:13:34 PM »
@CU_AMiGA

I think the prices on the Blizzard 1260 are still high, but haven't seen anyone on Amibench in the past few weeks.

I have also recently upgraded to a BlizzardPPC, going from Blizzard 1260, and I haven't had to spent money on upgrading or repairs at this point, about half a year later.

I have 5 PPC boards at this point, and haven't had any problems with those yet. I'm keeping at least 2 of them to run OS4 when the time comes.
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2004, 05:18:14 PM »
I do know a shop in The Netherlands who has brand new Blizzard 1260, but you would better buy a secondhand.

The shop is called Amigis:

http://www.amigis.nl/prijslijst.html#turbo

The price is too high: 399 Euro's.

An A500 PSU is also suitable to run a setup with a Blizzard 1260, a laptop harddisk, 1 external diskdrive, SCSI-kit, 128 MB memory and a scandoubler.

Off Toppic:

Where did you download those pictures of game consoles?
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2004, 05:28:31 PM »
Here are several prices that I collected on the belgian AmigaClub that may be of any help to you ...
For myself I have an A1200 in original desktop with 3.1 that I wanna get rid of for something decent, not necessary for money. It has got a Powerflyer on the motherboard and the harddrive and CDrom are external somewhere next to my internal floppy drive if there is enough room om my chaotic desk. If that one leaves that I still have got two A1200T´s and three A4000D´s from which one also has to leave ...

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2004, 05:57:11 PM »
You guys with your Amiga 1200s really crack me up !!!!     :roflmao:
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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2004, 06:37:09 PM »
Talking about " crack me up !!!!", why not putting for example a COLD CATHODE PC LIGHT like on THIS link ?!

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2004, 07:43:47 PM »
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You guys with your Amiga 1200s really crack me up !!!!


Ummm, you're not going to start that argument again, are you? You did...OK that's just gross.
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2004, 08:18:19 PM »
Hi x56h34,

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Ummm, you're not going to start that argument again, are you?


Nope, I'm just messin with you guys.   :-D

Afterall, I myself have an Amiga 500 Tower.  Just try putting one of those big motherboards into a PC tower case.  Man, it was a fricken nightmare.  The case is HUGE !!!!   :crazy:
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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2004, 09:05:11 PM »
I've got a bag full of "sssh!", with your name on it.
 

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Re: Might think about DOWNGRADING my Amiga!
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2004, 11:04:31 PM »
lol @ bag of ssshhhhhh