Is the A1200 compatible with the same games as the A500?...

[Samurai_Crow]

The Amiga 500+ can switch between NTSC and PAL mode. The trick is to find a power supply adapter for 110 volts and let an Indivision ECS scan doubler do the rest. Also, there's an accelerator board in the works for all Amiga machines if you want to wait a long time.

[dave4shmups]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

The Amiga 500+ can switch between NTSC and PAL mode. The trick is to find a power supply adapter for 110 volts and let an Indivision ECS scan doubler do the rest. Also, there's an accelerator board in the works for all Amiga machines if you want to wait a long time.

I didn't know that; thanks! What does an accelerator board do? I could just use WinUAE on my PC, but I felt bad using it a few years back, because the Amiga kickstart roms are still copyrighted. Why, I don't know; I don't think anyone's making money off of them, or off of any Amiga games, for that matter.

[ajk]

Accelerator boards upgrade the CPU speed and often also add extra memory and maybe other features like a hard drive interface.

Cloanto, the company selling the AmigaForever emulation package, hold a license for the ROMs so they make some money with them still. Also some vendors who sell physical ROM upgrades for existing Amigas.

[dave4shmups]

Originally Posted by ajk

Accelerator boards upgrade the CPU speed and often also add extra memory and maybe other features like a hard drive interface.

Cloanto, the company selling the AmigaForever emulation package, hold a license for the ROMs so they make some money with them still. Also some vendors who sell physical ROM upgrades for existing Amigas.

OK, thanks for the info!

[Xtal]

Originally Posted by demolition

For games running off floppy disks, there are many games that will not work on the 1200. The 1200 can run almost all games, but it has to be WHDLoad versions which run off the HDD. To make that work properly, you need an accelerator and a HDD.

You can get CD-ROM interfaces for both the 1200 and the 500, however if you just want games, I do not see much point in having a CD-ROM drive. Only reason could be if you want to run CD32 games on the 1200 (although many of them can also be found in WHDLoad versions).

Ehm WHAT?

A A500 game that doesn't hardware bang and follow the "rules" work perfectly on any A500. Did you read the question?

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

The Amiga 500+ can switch between NTSC and PAL mode. The trick is to find a power supply adapter for 110 volts and let an Indivision ECS scan doubler do the rest. Also, there's an accelerator board in the works for all Amiga machines if you want to wait a long time.

If you want VGA you can find cheap (and a reason for that) scandoublers from PAL/NTSC to VGA.

Beware of glitches though. They are sampling the video, converting it, and it's a loss of 3-5 frames per seconds and that's devastating if you want to play Great Giana Sisters.

[Hewitson]

Originally Posted by dave4shmups

I could just use WinUAE on my PC, but I felt bad using it a few years back, because the Amiga kickstart roms are still copyrighted.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by Xtal

Ehm WHAT?

A A500 game that doesn't hardware bang and follow the "rules" work perfectly on any A500. Did you read the question?

Did you? I don't understand your comment at all..

[dave4shmups]

OK, what about Commodore monitors? Are there any that can handle a PAL signal? For example, if I played a PAL game on an NTSC Aniga?

[Pyromania]

Originally Posted by dave4shmups

OK, what about Commodore monitors? Are there any that can handle a PAL signal? For example, if I played a PAL game on an NTSC Aniga?

If you hook them up with RGB then yes.

[dave4shmups]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

If you hook them up with RGB then yes.

OK, great!. Which model? The 1084 or 1084S, or the 1702?

[dave4shmups]

What kind of controllers, that have digital pads, can you use with an A500? I know of the Amiga Competition Pro Joypad for the CD32, but I don't know if it works with an A500. What about a Sega Genesis controller? I just don't like joysticks that much.