Hi guys

Hi people, just signed up. Literally about 2 weeks ago just got an Amiga again after around 10 years without owning one!

I snagged a bargain A600 off eBay with a 1MB RAM upgrade and 1GB CF card installed for £37.50 delivered. The seller must have been mad to let it go that cheap, but whatever, it's mine now. Their loss is my gain. It doesn't seem to have enough RAM for WHDload games to run from the workbench but at least they run from the prompt for the most part. I've now got a 4GB CF card in it fully packed with games. I'm just on the look out for an SRAM card (if I ever come across one at the "right price") and an A1200 at the right price.

Anyway enough Amiga rambling. Hello!

[DaveMB]

Originally Posted by InfernoV2

Hi people, just signed up. Literally about 2 weeks ago just got an Amiga again after around 10 years without owning one!

I snagged a bargain A600 off eBay with a 1MB RAM upgrade and 1GB CF card installed for £37.50 delivered. The seller must have been mad to let it go that cheap, but whatever, it's mine now. Their loss is my gain. It doesn't seem to have enough RAM for WHDload games to run from the workbench but at least they run from the prompt for the most part. I've now got a 4GB CF card in it fully packed with games. I'm just on the look out for an SRAM card (if I ever come across one at the "right price") and an A1200 at the right price.

Anyway enough Amiga rambling. Hello!

Hi, and welcome to EAB, as you already noted you will need more ram to make full use of WHDLoad. Something like an ACA 630 from amigakit.com/co.uk would do the trick nicely.

And yeah, you can find some real bargains on eBay sometimes, I recently got a very tidy 1200 with external floppy drive and 200+ floppys for £32.

Have fun with your new machine, theres nothing quite like using the real hardware.

Originally Posted by Turrican2FTW

Hi, and welcome to EAB, as you already noted you will need more ram to make full use of WHDLoad. Something like an ACA 630 from amigakit.com/co.uk would do the trick nicely.

And yeah, you can find some real bargains on eBay sometimes, I recently got a very tidy 1200 with external floppy drive and 200+ floppys for £32.

Have fun with your new machine, theres nothing quite like using the real hardware.

Thanks for the welcome.

I've just 'made an offer' on an A1200 with 4GB CF/HDD (not specified which - not bothered to be honest). Hopefully he accepts. The I just need to worry about getting an accelerator card/RAM upgrade for the A1200..

[DaveMB]

Originally Posted by InfernoV2

Thanks for the welcome.

I've just 'made an offer' on an A1200 with 4GB CF/HDD (not specified which - not bothered to be honest). Hopefully he accepts. The I just need to worry about getting an accelerator card/RAM upgrade for the A1200..

ACA 1230 - 42Mhz 64mb ram at amigakit currently £136, will be buying one myself in a couple of weeks, plus there PCMCIA friendly (some accelerators are not) so will still be able to use my PCMCIA transfer kit.

Originally Posted by Turrican2FTW

ACA 1230 - 42Mhz 64mb ram at amigakit currently £136, will be buying one myself in a couple of weeks, plus there PCMCIA friendly (some accelerators are not) so will still be able to use my PCMCIA transfer kit.

I'm afraid that's too much money for me to spend.

[DaveMB]

Originally Posted by InfernoV2

I'm afraid that's too much money for me to spend.

Keep an eye on amibay.com and ebay then, good luck finding a half decent card for much less though, they're way overpriced now for what they are.