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What memory upgrades would you recommend for an amiga 1200?
Hiya Im just doing some reading into memory upgrades for the amiga 1200 but I haqve never fitted memory in an amiga so I dont know where it goes. I actually figured the amiga was limited to a few meg but I can see there are 256MB+ memory. I want to be able to run all demanding games with no lag so Im just curious exactly what I would need to buy i.e exact types and amounts of memory+ any adaptors needed?
I feel much better that I have verified my amiga 1200 as working so Im happy to invest some more cash in it. I dont want to end up buying memory and find out its not enough but also I dont want to buy too much and it cause problems, I have also read that having over a certain amount of memory disables the PCMCIA slot on the side which I need for the adf software If I can find just enough memory to make everything run great that would be awsome , Im trying to be ecconomic but not to the point where its false ecconomy so Im just curious as to what people think I should do memory wise since I have no clue of how the amiga memory works yet I am just reading various things as I understand it ram goes in the bott6om of the amiga, theres a square piece of plastic, when I remove this that leaves a hole and inside there is like a flat sticking out bit with one cut in it, I have old sim ram but that wouldnt fit and looking into it all I think I need some kind of board which sits in the underside hole and connects to the one connection, then when the biard is connected I think I use a normal simm memory module? I think I may in the mean time use the adf software to backup my workbench disks and see if its possible to install the amiga OS on a PC , Im sure I read something about doing that on some gentoo page, Im not sure if it requires an amiga hard disk or if theres a way I can just format an ide or sata disk with the amiga filesystem . I figure if I did it this way I have as close as I can get to an amiga OS on a PC with more speed and will save me alot of cash , at least until I know more about what I need. Im not even sure if anything Im saying is possible , so any information on this is appreciated. (I dont want to bother the amiga kit guys again for a while lol as they have had to answer lots of querys etc but I am getting it together now ![]() Thanks again Last edited by dword; 17 July 2008 at 17:07. |
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If you want to play those few really demanding games smoothly (the majority of games run perfectly on the stock machines) then you are foremost in need of a faster CPU, and so you will want to get an accelerator card fitted with a faster CPU as well as slots for memory upgrades. The accelerator cards are fitted in the trap door underneath the A1200. Some cards can be fitted with an FPU and SCSI interfaces if needed.
I've only ever used the Blizzard 1230 and 1260 accelerator cards myself, but found them to be excellent. |
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I recommend 32MB or 64MB
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Thanks all , yeah elite seems to run perfectly on the emu anyway and it does run on the a1200 so at least I can use the a1200 to get past any bugs and stuff. I also THINK I seen those blizzard cards on amiga kits site, either way it looks like I will have to wait for upgrades but Im am unsure of whether to put a new cpu and memory in my stock a1200 or maybe a long time down the line just see how much a full build of an amiga with a big tower and absolutely everything in it would cost(if amigakit does that)
Thats good to know most stock games are good and it makes sense alite 2 would run like that because it was very innovative in its day! Really appreciate all the reply since I would rather know at tyhe outset what I will need for a respectable spec. Everythings still good but is amigaOS worth getting and installing on a PC?> or is winuae effectivly doing the same thing? Its just I figured if I could get more or less stock amiga OS on a PC I have the best of all world + I have 4 or 5 setup PCs in the house , even though its me paying for it all the family is sometimes on my case about my PC obsession thats why I like to get everything in one foul swoop ![]() ![]() I found something on this forum which I think is along the lines I am suggesting, just so you know I am looking into it all, not just asking stuff for askings sake and out of lazyness to read, Im also pretty competant in linux specifically gentoo and ubuntu and other so if I get the correct docs Im hoping I should be fine http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/...634&forum=8&28 |
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Yeah Leff
![]() The reason I tried Elite 2 on the Amiga was because I thought the controls were wrong but as it turns out they were perfect and WinUAE was running it perfect so I will probably just use winuae to play it. In reality its been worth getting an amiga to keep myself right and I dont mind paying for things if they are quality. This in mind the adf software is very good. I was going to get all the upgrades but Im just toying with the idea at the momment especially since winuae has run everything Ive tried and the Amiga hardware quite expensive when it all gets added up. I should have known better from building PCs i.e setting it up is one thing, getting it to work beyond slow speed is another thing entirely. I still think it would be nice to get that amigaOS working on a PC since my PCs are fast enough to handle anything on the amiga assuming the amigaOS is going to be able to cope with my PCs, I dunno I just like the Idea of the real thing with PC speed , that way I aint paying in some cases over the odds for what are becomming collectors items. Ive just been on the phone to a friend and I think he may have the amiga forever package but maybe hes getting mixed up, if he does have it I may see if its possible to install a real amiga os on a pc. This is as much for educvation as anything else and I am competant at least when it comes to gentoo/ubuntu and other linux distros Hopefully through time I will find someone whos run a real amiga OS on a PC. It would be fun to try ![]() |
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If you have no fast RAM at all then maybe a simple RAM upgrade would be your first buy. If it is not good enough then you can always sell it on at no loss.
You should be able to pick one up for around £20-£30 (which IMHO is still a lot!) with 4 or 8Mbytes of RAM. Having any fast RAM makes the Amiga run better. Last edited by alexh; 17 July 2008 at 18:32. |
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hi dword you are confusing me by saying you want to install/run a real amiga OS on a PC
then you say you are running winuae which is`t the only way to run ami OS on a pc but is probably one of the easiest if not best way of doing it another way is Amithlon which is ami OS on a X86 platform (has a realy sad story to it) and thers a linux based one whose name excapes me at the moment the thing is at best amiga stuff is late 90`s technology and we all would like are computers run as fast/best as they can but time moves on and things change just try remember what win95/98 was like and what hardware you had to run these os`s on why i don`t knwo just wrote it out and now.......... if you can, do what alexh suggest`s first as you can always get an accelerator later, which is something i always wanted but never had. Just a plain A1200 with an 8meg expansion did me proud for many years. |
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dword,
just to put you in the picture, a blizzard 030 mk1v 50mhz acellerator, will usualy sell for around the £90 mark ![]() |
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definitely a blizz 030/50mhz with 32mb is enough for everything that includes proper trouble-free gaming
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At least I know I guess
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where can you buy ram for A1200?.talking about ordinary trapdoor ram.tried ebay.not much there
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