A2000 vs. A1200

[Huxley_D]

Hi guys,

I've been investing quite a bit of time (and money!) into my A2000 upgrade / restoration project, but I'm curious:  There seems to be quite a few more upgrade options and expansion devices for the A1200 than for the 2000 - would you more experienced Amigans suggest finding a 1200, or is an A2000 in the hand worth two 1200's in the (eBay) bushes?

Just curious as to the prevailing opinions of you folks,

Huxley

[bloodline]

It depends what you want... If you wanted to try and get some sort of "normal" usage out of the machine, then the A1200 is the way to go... if this is just a hobby and you enjoy retro computers... then I would suggest you stick with what you have and just enjoy it!

[Tumbleweed]

It realyl depends what you want to do. The A2000 offers lots of options for expandability over the A1200 in a standard case. However what you don't have in the A2000 is AGA, which the A1200 does have. So you won't be able to run aga demos/games on the A2000. I've got a Picasso II in my A2000 and for running productivity software  - Dpaint, FinaWriter etc its fine. I don't miss not having AGA. However I've still got an A4000D and a A1200 for AGA stuff.

[Jiffy]

I have both. My A1200 always has been my main Amiga, but my A2000 is closing in, hardware wise.

The A1200 had two advantages the A2000 has not: AGA & 32 bit.

Th A2000 has two advantages the A1200 has not: built in expandability and easily replacable chips.

In both cases, you can more or less work around it: with a nice turboboard and an RTG-card, you have a very nice A2000, while you can put the A1200 in a tower to improve expandability.

In the end, they are both great systems and I don't prefer one or the other.

[tone007]

The A1200 is prettier.

I have an A2000 I put some time and effort into, '040 accelerator, RTG card and all, but in the end I got tired of looking at it and dismantled it.

It's been mentioned that the 2000 doesn't have AGA, but depending on which you have it also might not have ECS (not that it can't be added through some chip swapping.)  

Either way, my vote is for the 1200.

[Karlos]

Cue Doomy :lol:

[mike-]

Doomy's military grade a2k probably has the AAA chipset

[NovaCoder]

As others have already said, it depends on what you're after.

My 1200 has got a scan-doubler (IndivisonAGA), a 8GB CompactFlash Card as a HD (silent) and a wireless PCMCIA network card.  It allows me to muck around with OS3.9 & run productivity stuff (just about) and makes a great AGA/ECS/OCS games machine thanks to WHDLOAD.

[stefcep2]

It realyl depends what you want to do. The A2000 offers lots of options for expandability over the A1200 in a standard case. However what you don't have in the A2000 is AGA, which the A1200 does have. So you won't be able to run aga demos/games on the A2000. I've got a Picasso II in my A2000 and for running productivity software  - Dpaint, FinaWriter etc its fine. I don't miss not having AGA. However I've still got an A4000D and a A1200 for AGA stuff.

Does dpaint work on a Picasso 2?  Thought it used native chipset only?

[CountRaven]

Put a 1200 in a tower then you going to have lots of epantion options plus the beauty of 3.9, the AGA and the 32bit and all your retro game stuff would still run with WHDLoad.