What's the "ultimate" A1200

[KatManDEW]

I want to start building a good A1200 system. Would it be OK to get a used A1200 if I can find one cheap, and build it up from there?

I want a tower case of course, but what are the other "gotta have" add-on's?

MEDIATOR 1200TX PCI BUSBOARD & MMCD ?
What graphics card?

[ChaosLord]

Mediator + Voodoo 3 3000 + Ethernet card
68060 card with 32MB or more of ram.
Flickerfixer
Giant hard drive

[ZeBeeDee]

A1200
Blizzard 1230 MK IV (32mb RAM minimum) @ 50mhz
IDE CD/DVD drive
EIDE'99 Buffered Interface
External floppy drive
4GB HD or CF card
Tower case
Indivision AGA 1200
LCD Monitor

And thats it ... Nothing fancy  :-)

[KatManDEW]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm retro-drooling :-D

Why the two video options - Indivision AGA 1200 and Voodoo 3?

[countzero]

you need indivision for native video applications (demos, games) voodoo3 for workbench/RTG friendly applications.

[ChaosLord]

You said you wanted the ULITIMATE A1200.

All ultimate A1200 owners have a gfx card for gfx card games such as Quake.  And they have a flickerfixer (Indivision) for AGA games.

[ddniUK]

This is mine

A1200T
Blizzard 603+ PPC 175mhz.
68060 50mhz 256mb RAM.
16GB SCSI CF.
20GB IDE HDD.
IDE CDRW.
OS3.9 BB1+2.
Mediator.
Voodoo 3 P96.
PCI Ethernet.
SB128.
TV Card.
Indivision 1200 AGA SD/FF

Playing Quake

Emulating Mac

[darksun9210]

depends what you want to do.
you can try to max it out with PCI slots and the like, but if you want retro gaming nailed, then as previously suggested, forget bulky towering and trying to compete with PC's and just go for what its good at.

.base A1200
.030 accelerator with a decent amount of ram (16Mb plus) that doesn't block the pcmcia port
.pcmcia ethernet or compactflash card adapter to transfer data
.compactflash+ide adapter as hard disk
.registered WHDLoad package and games
.3.1roms? meh. either or on this one

for extra you may consider each of the following...
.indivision scan doubler for vga output of all amiga screen modes to flatscreen TV or monitor
.040/060/PPC accelerator
.PC tower rehousing
.mediator to botch PCI onto the A1200 for GFX/sound/ethernet/TV/USB card
.pc keyboard adapter
.ide port accelerator
.ide dvd/cdrw
.clock port USB

depends what you want to do. after faffing about with PPC accelerators, and graphics cards etc, and got a blown ide fix-express and nano-itx psu. i just want a machine that works, and plays games. to be honest, my A500 has been getting switched on more than most recently. :-)

i think the main thing, is, how deep is your love/wallet? :-D

[TheDaddy]

>>KatManDEW

Maybe this one?

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

and then click on modified Amiga 1200.

This was my ultimate A1200 machine.

Blizzard PPC 266MHz with 68060 60MHz
256 MB Fast Ram + 2MB Chip Ram
Mediator 4 PCI expansion card
Soundblaster
Ethernet 10/100
Voodoo 5 64Mb
Voodoo 3
BVision
SCSI connector
80Gb 7200 rpm IDE hard drive
CD-RW hooked to a FAST ATA adapter
Scandoubler with Flicker Fixer
TV Card (not in picture)
DVD-RW (not in picture)
OS3.9

Lots of fans controlled by front switches.
Mirror black 450w ATX PSU with cool blue led.

I miss that machine :-)

[cycloid]

My old baby:

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/photo.php?lid=995&cid=10

sold this on ebay to some guy in oz IIRC, he paid the £80 postage!

Not massive specs:
16mb
25MHz 040
internal CD drive
internal 1.3GB HD
internal flicker fixer/scandoubler
internal midi interface

But:
Wedged in an A500 case :-)

[keropi]

ultimate A1200 has a 060 BPPC and a G-Rex1200  :-D

[Vulture]

ok, let's see:

A good sturdy tower, hand-crafted to fit the A1200 and its gadgets

A1200 mobbo with all the required fixes

custom-burned 3.1 kickstart roms to include as many fixes and speedups possible

BPPC 060@80 , 603e@300 (not overclocked, replaced cpu) , scsi , 256MB 50 ns RAM

BVision PPC

Mediator TX with Voodoo 3 3000 16mb, TV tuner, Fast Ethernet, Radeon 9200 128mb, Spider USB, Soundblaster 5.1

Quaddraport with Subway USB, Delfina lite, fast parallel and fast serial port

Indivision AGA

Fastata MK 3

Lyra keyboard adapter

MAS MP3 player

A Wacom penpartner gfx tablet

Coccolino mouse adapter

Wifi PCMCIA card

2 playstation to amiga adapters

mouse/joystick switch

a good digital monitor switch for voodoo/radeon/bvision/aga

A good 300W ATX PSU

A couple of fans blowing in and out of the tower to prevent everything from melting down

ps
It's not that I have all these (in fact, many of these I do), but I wish I had!

[darksun9210]

the real trick, is fitting everything you want in a standard A1200 case ;-)

[KatManDEW]

Wow! lots of great info. Looks like there's lots of interest in the A12000.

Where might someone obtain some of them there custom-burned 3.1 kickstart roms?

[DBAlex]

@KatManDEW

To me there are two routes, you either stay with AGA and use a flickerfixer (or TV of course) and are still available to play games and programs tied to the chipset... the other route (which I want to go when I have enough £) is to get a tower, mediator, graphics card etc... atm I have a blizzard 060 w/ 64mb ram, a wifi card etc, I need to get a tower and mediator one day.

It all depends on what you want to do of course, if you're interested in games it's probably best to get a flickerfixer like the indivision. To me i'm more interested in using my Amiga as a "real" computer so i'm more interested in getting a tower, mediator, sound card, usb, ps2 etc

Although some would say thats stupid and i'd be best of using WinUAE... ;-) but real is allways better IMHO.