English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Was anyone else disappointed with the A1200?

8bitbubsy · 11 October 2019, 22:50

I never owned an Amiga 1200 back in the day, and I was also too young to do so. Anyway, I have always liked the machine in later years. I think it's attractive looking, and it's the only Amiga that has audio that is not heavily low-pass filtered (e.g. the audio is sharp). The built-in IDE connector and PCMCIA port makes it easy to to set up an internal hard drive and transfer files externally, so in my eyes it's the only Amiga you'll ever need.

Now there are some negatives, of course. The keyboard is pure trash, and the quality of the chassis is horrible. It was meant to be as cheap as possible, so I can forgive them for that. Though an upgraded Paula chip would be nice given that 4 channel 8-bit PCM with no free panning was considered somewhat outdated in 1992...

11 October 2019, 22:50	#769
8bitbubsy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 1,711	I never owned an Amiga 1200 back in the day, and I was also too young to do so. Anyway, I have always liked the machine in later years. I think it's attractive looking, and it's the only Amiga that has audio that is not heavily low-pass filtered (e.g. the audio is sharp). The built-in IDE connector and PCMCIA port makes it easy to to set up an internal hard drive and transfer files externally, so in my eyes it's the only Amiga you'll ever need. Now there are some negatives, of course. The keyboard is pure trash, and the quality of the chassis is horrible. It was meant to be as cheap as possible, so I can forgive them for that. Though an upgraded Paula chip would be nice given that 4 channel 8-bit PCM with no free panning was considered somewhat outdated in 1992...