Ideal hardware for classic gaming?

[elinscheid]

I just purchased an Amiga 1200 from Amigakit.com.

I also purchased an accelerator card with a 68030 chip running at 50 mhz and 64 megs of ram.

It has a 4 gig HD and it is running OS3.9.

So my question is weather or not this would be a great system for playing those classic games. I know that I have the ability to play the AGA games but I've heard that some games might not be compatible with the 1200 or certain accelerator cards.

I haven't actually used the new computer yet because I am waiting for a power supply to arrive in the mail.

Thanks for your input!

[Flashlab]

Welcome to A.org!

And that is a fine system to play the classic Amiga games. You can even install them onto HD with a program called WHDLoad(www.whdload.de). A feature that most old games didn't offer... Also WHDLoad will fix a lot of games so that they do run on your hardware while they don't run from the original floppies.

[Gavilan]

Hi and welcome aboard!!

In my humble opinion, you have the finest setup to play those lovely old games
You just need now whdload to be able to play the games straight from the HDD
Dont worry about "compatibility" isses. As far as i know, most  30/050 accelerator cards work pretty well with those games...
BTW, which accelerator have you bought? In the worst cases, if a game is not compatible with your accelerator, you can disable it to be able to play THAT particular game


Cheers!
Sebastian

[Tatsu]

The ideal computer for Classic gaming is A500. But A1200 with 030 is rather compatible, and funnier to other stuff tham playing too. One good thing is the early startup in A1200, when I only had a A500+ , My friends A1200 could play some old games that would crash on mine that was not funny. I am building a 1200 too to for old games. With Compact Flash adapter & 030. Silent and stable, very nice!

[elinscheid]

I'm pretty sure the accelerator card is from Microrobotics. The guy at Amigakit was nice enough to install it for me.

Thanks for the responses. I'm sure I'll be hanging around here allot.

[Amiduffer]

elinscheid wrote:
I'm pretty sure the accelerator card is from Microrobotics. The guy at Amigakit was nice enough to install it for me.

Thanks for the responses. I'm sure I'll be hanging around here allot.

If you need to play the ooooold games, don't forget to hold the two mouse buttons before booting so you can choose the original chip set for backward compatability. Gad, what I wouldn't give if PC's had such a simple method of playing old games.

Damn, but aren't we lucky to have Amigakit! :-D

[coldfish]

I had an A1200 with 030@40Mhz and while it was ok with old A500 stuff, it was only with Whdload that it became really useful for classic games.  The only trouble is, you need to -buy- Whdload to kill the timed splash screen and it only works with original disks (not cracks).

Installing games is frought with disaster with those 15-20 year old disks too...

Kinda annoying compared to other solutions.

[Flashlab]

True you need to buy WHDLoad for the timed splash screen but it works with most games without registering. The timed splash screen takes less time than the originals needed for the floppy loading so it's not that bad... Anyway I registered it because I think it's very good piece of software.

Also a lot of sites offer readily installed WHDLoad games for download. That way you don't need to use the disks.

[krize]

Whdload is not expensive!! Its very much worth the register fee, and you can use without also .. just wait some seconds

[rare_j]

elinscheid wrote:
So my question is weather or not this would be a great system for playing those classic games.

Yes you have, in my opinion, got the best system for running classic games. All you need now is WHDload to allow you copy your games to your hard disk and run them form there. WHDload  is inexpensive and works very well.

[Legerdemain]

The ideal computer for Classic gaming is A500. But A1200 with 030 is rather compatible, and funnier to other stuff tham playing too. One good thing is the early startup in A1200, when I only had a A500+ , My friends A1200 could play some old games that would crash on mine that was not funny. I am building a 1200 too to for old games. With Compact Flash adapter & 030. Silent and stable, very nice!

No, it isn't...

:lol:

Why? Well, because the WHDLoad slaves have not really until rather recently started to really support the 68000. Also, the 68030 do really speed up some of the games... and if the 030 accelerator is fitted in an A1200 you also get them AGA games running nicely.

But, if you want to play all those old games from floppy, well, then the A500 is rather ideal... although I am not one of those that prefer floppy instead of HD.

 :-)

[Tatsu]

Legerdemain wrote:

No, it isn't...

:lol:

Why? Well, because the WHDLoad slaves have not really until rather recently started to really support the 68000. Also, the 68030 do really speed up some of the games... and if the 030 accelerator is fitted in an A1200 you also get them AGA games running nicely.

But, if you want to play all those old games from floppy, well, then the A500 is rather ideal... although I am not one of those that prefer floppy instead of HD.

 :-)

We talked about gaming, not if a HD is nicer then floppy, offcourse it is. If all classic games could be installed on HD and worked fine on a 1200 then yes; it would be the ideal machine.
But when I think of it, "classic" probably includes A1200 for many persons?
Then many classic games will not run on an A500 either, in that case I'd say A1200 is ideal.

[x56h34]

My ideal classic (WHDLoad capable) machine would definitely be an A1200D expanded with an 030 accelerator card that is PCMCIA friendly, offers fast ram expansion, and offers SCSI expansion through the mini-expansion slot in the back of the unit (next to the floppy drive).

Something along the lines of Blizzard 1230-IV w/SCSI or DKB Cobra w/SCSI or GVP 1230 Jaws w/SCSI would be ideal.