Introducing myself

[subrom]

Hello,

Introducing myself:

Born in the year of 1976 in the middle of the cold country of Norway. The retro interest has always been there, and seeing hardware being still made for the amiga fired up my interest again! and made me got up the attic and fetch the good old a1200 again.

After careful inspection it turned out that it had the following equipment:
- Motherboard revision 1D.4
- Kickstart 3.0 (Which I have upgraded to 3.1)
- Blizzard 1230 IV with 8MB RAM and 50MHz FPU
- 420MB hard drive (which sounds like a jet engine)
- External CD-Rom (connected via an ide cable)
- ZipStik (Still works!)
- Quick Shot Pro
- AV Scart Cable

I have now ordered a lot of equipment to get it up to date:
- 4GB CF IDE adapter with
- PCMCIA Transfer Kit 4GB
- PCMCIA Ethernet card
- New mouse (the old one was broken)
- New Comptetition Pro
- 64MB for the Blizzard accellerator
- Indivision AGA MK2 (I am so looking forward two get this installed into my A1200 so I can use a modern LCD / LED monitor)
- New Floppy (old one would not read disks)

Will buy AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 at some point.

Looking forward to getting this upgraded to 100% again! Anything else I should have obtained for this?

History:
1. Atari 2600
2. C64 + Tape / Disk drives.
3. A500
4. A4000D
5. A1200

I probably had something inbetween those, but can't remember right now Sadly only the a1200 remains :/

Hope this, intro was ok, and If you want to know more just ask


subrom

 

[Templar]

Welcome.

 

[Allen1]

Hi there subrom and welcome to Amibay

I am envious of your 1200 and its Blizzard 1230 IV one day I may actually buy an accelerator for my 1200 but I keep buying other things instead

It sounds like a great computer and with the extras you are going to install, it will be a fantastic games machine with WHDLoad working from your CF hard drive

 

[subrom]

Thanks for the welcome, I did not mention in my first post, but I have also bought a license for WHDLoad

 

[Snoozy]

Hi

rather than the indivision i would have considered a gbs 8220 which costs £20 and has the flexibility to have possible use with other computers/consoles

My gbs 8220 is giving a crystal clear image with the a1200 on my samsung 40" led tv

 

[johnim]

hello and welcome

 

[Justin]

hi

 

[subrom]

Hi

rather than the indivision i would have considered a gbs 8220 which costs £20 and has the flexibility to have possible use with other computers/consoles

My gbs 8220 is giving a crystal clear image with the a1200 on my samsung 40" led tv

I've actually never heard of it, but will check it out. Thanks for the tip!