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07 April 2024, 02:41 | #122 |
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I used my A1200 without an HDD or Accelerator for many years prior to my getting both later on. And I was one of the first in my circle of friends to upgrade so yeah. Same.
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07 April 2024, 10:15 | #123 |
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I expect that most people who used A1200s for 'serious' tasks probably bought a hard drive and at least some fast RAM if not an accelerator, but did most people who bought them primarily for games? 43 AGA games have at least 50 votes on LemonAmiga (16 of them also with non-AGA versions), and by my reckoning of those only Sim City 2000, OnEscapee and Simon the Sorceror 2 need more than a stock A1200, and only SC2000 was released while the Amiga was really commercially viable. Just about all the other 40 run well from floppies on an 020 without fast RAM. Publishers didn't seem to believe there was enough of a market for games which needed more than a stock A1200 - can we look at the cancellation of stuff like Pizza Tycoon and Battle Isle 2 for evidence?
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07 April 2024, 15:11 | #124 | |
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For example, out of the SDMA bug, there is also a problem with big files, above 20mb in size, the files get silently corrupted. In order to fix that you need you modify the buffer size in hddriver the value '100' need to be changed for '300'. |
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07 April 2024, 15:21 | #125 |
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I have a Falcon. Did it really fail? They are a quality, sought after machine even today.
@dlfsilver. Good info about buffers. Mine was already set up when bought. TBH I haven't used it enough to test that. |
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It's a shame Atari released what were essentially prototype models, perhaps in the hope of preventing the A1200 from getting too much of a lead, and scrapped it in favour of the Jaguar before those had sold through and a 'proper' model could be launched. No doubt these niggles would have been fixed before long, the original A1000 launched with some bugs and issues, e.g. the need to boot Kickstart from disk on every switch-on. Did the Falcon 'fail'? In as far as whether enough sold to make it a viable development platform, yes. In terms of whether people who bought it for serious use were happy with it, I'm not sure. I guess it delayed those people's move to the PC, which is either good or bad depending on your point of view - I doubt many ST loyalists would have bought an A1200 no matter how logical a buy it was (most great Amiga-but-not-ST games did work on the A1200 from launch, for example)? |
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That's make around 400 000 solds A1200 in UK/Germany before Commodore went bankrupt and that's without counting every others countries outside UK and Germany |
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07 April 2024, 23:25 | #128 |
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They are sought, but quality is another subjet, hum hum.....
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I never liked the CD32 because it is juste a stripped down computer (except Akiko), juste like Amstrad did the GX4000 out of the CPC6128+. |
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