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Offline paul1981Topic starter

Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« on: September 30, 2014, 08:58:29 PM »
Just spotted these on ebay, less than a day to run on both auctions:



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodore-Amiga-A600-HD40-/301326486958?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628754dae



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commondore-Amiga-1200-HD-/301326481541?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628753885

They look genuine stickers to me... Interesting eh? Looks to be a real piece of Amiga Microprose computing history up for grabs.
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2014, 10:18:03 PM »
Neat! I love people who say "I cannot confirm if the HD is okay - unsure how to test". Not rocket science people, lol. :(
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Offline Matt_H

Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2014, 02:36:25 AM »
I wonder if there's any source code on the hard drives...
 

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Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2014, 04:06:29 AM »
There's currently 15 bids on the A1200.  I think someone from here needs to get it and find out if there is any source code on them!

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« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2014, 04:57:00 AM »
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I wonder if there's any source code on the hard drives...


Don't know but if the drives were blank the first thing I'd do is fire up some recovery tools.
 

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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2014, 10:29:54 AM »
I love the fact that some bored programmer coloured in the AMIGA logo on the A1200... I bet that gets up to 100 quid or so by the end.

What was the A600 Overdrive unit? Edit: Ah, just an external HD caddy.
 

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Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2014, 11:32:01 AM »
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Just spotted these on ebay, less than a day to run on both auctions:



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodore-Amiga-A600-HD40-/301326486958?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628754dae



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commondore-Amiga-1200-HD-/301326481541?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628753885

They look genuine stickers to me... Interesting eh? Looks to be a real piece of Amiga Microprose computing history up for grabs.


if he play game i world say hard drive working or just turn on computer see if it boots up not hard to work out
maybe i am dyslexia

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Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2014, 01:57:15 PM »
I thought the Overdrive just plugged into the PCMCIA slot.  The seller says he can't see how it would attach, so is something missing?
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« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2014, 02:08:12 PM »
Dark picture but seems to have the plug part there, just to plug in.
 

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« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2014, 02:33:40 PM »
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Dark picture but seems to have the plug part there, just to plug in.


Ah, I see it!  I was expecting a white connector, not a black one.  :)

It doesn't fill me with confidence that the seller can place the Overdrive right next to the PCMCIA port and cannot work out that you connect them by just sliding the two together.  I guess there is no guarantee that there is a physical hard drive in the Overdrive enclose or inside the A1200.
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Offline Wilse

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« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2014, 05:11:31 PM »
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I thought the Overdrive just plugged into the PCMCIA slot.


Yup - I still have what's left of mine, which was the first hard drive I owned and cost about £1 per megabyte.

Offline Wilse

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« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2014, 05:13:30 PM »
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I guess there is no guarantee that there is a physical hard drive in the Overdrive enclose or inside the A1200.


Nope. I still have the enclosure but the hard drive itself was removed long ago and put into my A1200T. Still worked the last time I checked (albeit that was about a year ago).

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Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2014, 06:13:40 PM »
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Yup - I still have what's left of mine, which was the first hard drive I owned and cost about £1 per megabyte.


I had a friend with one.  Cost-wise, wasn't it was cheaper than adding an internal 2.5" drive because it used standard 3.5" drives (which were also faster)?  So bang-for-buck, if you were looking at 120MB or above then this thing would save you a few quid.
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Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2014, 07:19:14 PM »
Crazy prices!
 

Offline paul1981Topic starter

Re: Genuine Microprose Amiga's for sale?
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2014, 10:55:43 PM »
Winning bids:

£100 for the A600.
£230 for the A1200.