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Hey everyone

I'm considering buying a 1200 in order to play all my old 1.3 HDD games. I want it to basically become like a 500 with an internal hard drive, but does anyone have any suggestions about what other mods I should do?

Not being funny, but wouldn't an A500 with an HD do the job? :)

I've forgotten how many times I've recommended the following :)

A1200
68030 accelerator
32mb RAM
3gb-ish Harddrve

:bowdown :great :bowdown :xmas

and your forthcomming gamepack ;) :lol :lol

They're done, I started uploading em but the site has download issues (the files never completely download (even at 800kb/s))

No I thought of that too. But hard drives for the 500 are gradually becoming harder to come by and 1200 parts are more easily accessible, not to mention cheaper.

come on home electronics developers! we need an autobooting IDE interface for the A500 (which you can then stick a Compact flash card on as the HDD and maybe an ATAPI CDROM (or DVDROM).

there's some nice home dev IDE interfaces, but none of them auto boot.

I suggest you snag an old a2000 with a 2091HD controller in it, that is what I did to get around the A500 HD issue (kept the 500 for floppy only games).

If you go the A1200 030/50 route (I have that also) it will cost alot more, but it does allow for WHDload AND you have native AGA gaming also (what little there was).

I still haven't seen 1200 questions in this thread.

Someone has been misleading us.

:laughing :laughing :laughing

yeah just 1199 question to go

I have an A1200 with a 68030 (a DKB Cobra) and 64MB of ram, most games work fine, some are dead slow though and some barely work at all (super stardust for example) if I swap in my old RAM card (a DKB1202), most of them work fine.

64 Megs of ram was the smallest SIMM I could find, and have yet to use it all (Art Department grabs whatever RAM is available, it's the only program I have that does this).

I am hoping to get a hold of a 68040 for it though, as the 68030 does not seem to provide a huge speed increase over the 68020. I haven't seen any 040's on E-Bay lately.

I have a question....

why did commodore call it the 1200 ?

clearly technically superior to the A3000 (if not imdeiately as upgradable)

I mean seriously if they called it the A3500 or better still

what you think of the name "A-w350m3" :) its got a ring to it.

commodore naming convetions are gay!

well the a500 was good, the a600 was just a little better (100) and since the 1200 is twice as good as the 600...The name must be..... :laughing

The sould have called it Amiga Wii ;)

Well Commodore had two basic threads of the Amiga and they seemed to number them this way. The two threads were low end home computer and high end business machine.

So the high end computers started with the A1000, progressing to the likes of the A1500, A2000, A3000 and eventually the A4000. A natural progression of machine version numbers if you like.

The low end machines started with the A500, eventually being replaced by a slightly improved A500+. Next came the smaller update to the A500+ which included support for internal hard drives. Naturally as this was a small update it was named the A600. Then came the next generation of Amiga using the AGA chipset. At least double the power of the A600 they gave it double the name. Thus the new low end Amiga became the A1200. :)

Well thats my theory anyway. If the trend had continued the next in line would be an A5000 high end machine and maybe an A2400 low end Amiga.

still the Amiga W350M3 or known to its owners as the

AW350M3

@ Zetr0:

Commodore thought in LowEnd and HighEnd categories.

So, at least it´s logical (in C=´s own right ;))

A500
A600
A1200

A2000
A3000
A4000

...

Edit:
Okay, too late again....

CD32 (Hex) is 52530 in Decimal. So it's 43.775 x better than the A1200

Either that or it's CD based and it's 37.5 worse than the A1200.

(I'd go for number 2)

I do think the name Amiga 500 is because it came with 1/2Mb ram as a standard. and 0.5 x 1000 = 500 (guess they didnt want to call it Amiga 512)
C= did give their machines name after how much ram they got c16, c64 & c128 :D

Well, from what I can figure out is that the A1000 came with 256kb of ram origonally, so it couldn't be related to RAM or else CBM would have called it an Amiga 256. My guess is that as it was an entry level amiga, and the A1000 was not, they numbered it below the A1000.

The confusing thing is why the A600 was called the A600 and not the A300 as it had no easy expansion path.

Dan