New member in Britany

[mpatou]

Hi everyone

I'm from Britany in France. I'm mostly interested in Arcade games, but I'm also quite attached to my Amigas, that use almost only to play games.
I used to spend a lot of time on those machines around 10 years ago, I got several machines and DIYed them a lot
Some of my experiments were quite successful (my A1200) and some were not (unfortunately my A600 stopped making sound after I bought a lot of fancy hardware for him).

Today, I don't spend that much time on those machines, so I decided to keep only what's necessary to play comfortably Amiga games ( an A1200 with a Blizzard 1230, HDD, Indivision AGA and WHDload ), and sell some unused hardware.

 

[keropi]

Hi and welcome!
I am sure that if you ask for help here about the A600 sound issues some of our resident knowledgeable people will help

 

[mpatou]

Thanks, but I already sold the motherboard. I think the A600 is too fragile (cheap capacitors, cheap keyboard connection etc...), I prefer not to start again with it. .
My 1230 is quite enough to play Amiga games, and I have too many old machines (consoles, arcade boards, arcade cabs etc...) to maintain in working condition.
I'm selling all I won't use anymore, probably more stuff to comes.

I noticed that you have an Indivision AGA MK2 with your A1200. I bought one when it was released, but never connected it (my A1200 has the first version of the AGA indivision).
A friend of mine told me the MKII is not as good as the first one. What is your opinion about it?

 

[keropi]

^ my main complaint is that it does not have a V-SYNC feature, so even if you choose a 50hz or 100hz VGA screenmode you'll get some frame de-sync hickups. Then the software has some bugs and laziness (not all pre-made vga screenmodes are the standard ones some have wrong polarities for example). Maybe the program is fixed now, I haven't touched it in 3+ years...
On the other hand the image quality is just awesome - especially in workbench you feel like you've loaded winuae in a modern display and not a real amiga.

Like I said though, I haven't used it since 3+ years, I just went back to CRTs for my old systems. Maybe it was fixed but judging from Individual Computers history I doubt it