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Offline Okka_AmigaTopic starter

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The Great Return of the Computer in the Attic
« on: June 02, 2011, 09:20:54 PM »
My old towerrised Amiga 1200 is finally back from the attic, where it had been collecting dust for the last nine years.
 
My initial interest in the Amiga stemmed from my uncle, who had a great interest for the Amiga platform. His interest and computer equipment soon spilled over on me. So eventually my C64 was replaced by a Amiga 500 around 1991. I got a Amiga 1200 Magic for christmas in 1995. I remember not being stunned by the performance, but it was OK. I got a Blizzard 1260 with 8 meg RAM some time after that which stunned me anyway :)
 
Initially I used the Amiga for everything, including word processing, gaming, music, gfx, but I used it less and less until 2002 when it finally was put in the attic - I had become my own worst enemy a peecee user!
 
When I brought down the beauty from the attic last christmas worked like a charm after replacing the harddrive with the help of winuae. Subsequently, I stumbled upon the various Amiga internet fora and have now taken an interest in the Amiga. Nice to see that the Amiga is not completely dead and that it's living on in various forms. It would have been fun to try of OS 4.1, but sadly it is too expensive for me atm.
 
Btw, kudoz to the WHDLOAD team!
 

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Re: The Great Return of the Computer in the Attic
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 10:11:16 PM »
Sounds familiar to my story, posted here the other day, only my machine took quite a bit of coaxing back to life! It's a great feeling to see it running as it was back in it's heyday!
* Power Towered rev 1B A1200, OS3.9,  Blizzard PPC 300 / 68060, BVision, 256mb Fast RAM, FastATA Mk5, 160gb hard drive, DVDRW drive, BenQ BL912 19" monitor.

* Rev 1B A1200, Blizzard 1230 Mk IV, 96Mb Fast RAM, SCSI, IDE to SD and 16Gb SD card.

* As new, standard rev 2B A1200 Amiga Technologies Magic pack, proper Commodore era Mitsumi D357T2 floppy drive.

* Sadly neglected CD32 & FMV card.
 

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Re: The Great Return of the Computer in the Attic
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2011, 12:59:56 AM »
Welcome back to the land of the living Okka_Amiga... :)

Couldn't imagine putting any Amiga (let alone a towered one) away in an attic for 9 minutes never mind 9 years... :eek:

Still, glad to see you've rescued the old girl and she lives once again, well no matter what OS path you take welcome back to Amigaland... :)

(Now nail the attic door shut before you change your mind again)... ;)
 

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Re: The Great Return of the Computer in the Attic
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2011, 05:16:19 AM »
Welcome to the land of crazies x 2 (forgot to greet RTID Sorry!).. :lol: just so you know your trapped and can't escape. :D
Glad to see your enjoying your Amiga's. I have almost finish fixing all my Amiga's and just having fun even installing WB and getting it configured to the wah hoo... What ever you do i hope you will have fun.
A Chameleon and 1541 II ultimate II
2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: The Great Return of the Computer in the Attic
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2011, 08:25:53 AM »
Welcome back to the Amiga community! Looks like you've already got a pretty good A1200 there, it's just missing an Indivision flicker fixer, Subway USB card and maybe a 8GB CF drive, a PCMCIA ethernet card and a Playstation controller adapter. :p But hey, there's still plenty you can do with 8MB RAM.

Have you tried Aros yet? It runs on a PC, but they have also nearly finished porting it back to 68k so it'll run on your 060 and provide a more modern Amiga OS than Workbench 3.
A1200 030@28Mhz/2MB+32MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB/4-Way Clockport Expander/IndivisionAGA/PCMCIA NIC
A1200 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/FPU/RTC/KS3.0/IDE-CF+2GB/S-Video
CD32 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB
A600 030@30Mhz/2MB+64MB/RTC/IDE-CF+4GB/Subway USB/S-Video/PCMCIA NIC/USB Numeric Keypad+Hub+Mouse+Control Pad
A500 000@7Mhz/512kB+512kB/ROM Switcher/KS3.1+1.3/S-Video

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Re: The Great Return of the Computer in the Attic
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2011, 12:15:26 PM »
Yes, I think a flicker fixer would be the best investment for me. My 1438S is getting old and takes up a lot of space, but it really completes nineties retro look of the old miggy. I have bought a PCMCIA CF adapter, but I realise I should have bought an ethernet apapter instead. It's very impractical to change the CF cards inside the tower. I use a 40 gb HD with OS 3.5, so I don't really see the need for using a CF drive.
 
I have tried AROS on a slow PC lacking the right drivers, so I can't say I've tried it for real. Would be fun to try it on the Amiga though.
 
@Franko The attic door is 500 kilometers away, so the miggy is safe for now :)