01 June 2007, 23:50 | #1 |
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Buying an A1200 - HELP EXPERTS!
Buying a new A1200:
-OS: Which one should i get 3.1,3.5 or 3.9? and whats the difference? -Expansion: 4MB Memory Card + RTC <- whats this for? -HD: 4 GB ps: should i get USB? and whats the magic pack bundle? thx |
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Depends on what you want to do with it. If you only want to play games, then I recommend:
- stick with 3.1 - you won't find much use for the later OS versions - "RTC" is real time clock, I think. I thoroughly recommend you get a 4MB RAM expansion, it makes a big difference believe me. - Probably not worth bothering with USB, although you could transfer files using USB storage devices? Might be useful if that's the only way you can transfer files between your Amiga and your Mac. Then you can download all your games off the net and transfer them to your Amiga, I assume. - Magic Pack software is the software bundle Escom used to sell the Amiga with (or try to, at any rate). I think it contains 2 games: Whizz (awful) and Pinball Mania (even more awful), and apps like Wordworth and Photogenics. EDIT: In this case, thinking about it, USB might be a good idea... |
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It's good that you're thinking of buying a Commodore one. Another nice way of transferring programs is using a [Compact] Flash card.
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This thread has the needed infos for PCMCIA CF cards on a A1200, for transfering ADF's to real Amiga disks.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=25274 |
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do u think if i get USB it would make my life easier in terms of running games from the HD? (am using a 2.0 iMac) and can i send games to the 4GB HD? thx |
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So you could download WHDLoad and loads of pre-installed games to a USB device and transfer them to your Amiga's HD, and then you're well away. If I've got anything wrong here I'm sure somebody will be keen to correct me |
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02 June 2007, 11:28 | #12 |
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Better get a PCMCIA network card and download the games directly to your harddrive...it's a cheaper solution.....not sure if 4mb ram will be enough for a TCP/IP stack and a browser though
Doing that on my A600 now .....surfing in 16 colours....yeah! :P |
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To KG one must listern
@SWOS
If i could recomend anything it would be what KG preaches from the highest tower. for GAMING
if you are on a budget however
as a final note, and one that really is worth the purchase; register WHDLoad, it is indeed a great piece of software and invaluable for gamming. I hope that helps @Amigas On your A600 what TCP stack are you running? is it a native 68000 or is it modded? |
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keep in mind that USB in a cpu lower than 040 is slow and not very usuable... u will be way better with a CF card...
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02 June 2007, 12:17 | #15 |
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@Zetr0
Just using Genesis from the OS3.9 cd with a PCMCIA network card I'm using an Apollo A630 accelerator board which is PCMCIa friendly...I could never do this with my old MTec A630 which had onboard 8mb fastram which wasn't PCMCIA friendly |
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I saw one of them A600 CPU cards sell on ebay recently .... £127 ..... shocking.... the last one i saw went only for £55..... maybe i should of bought on then and sold it later....
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