Amiga 1200 CD Rom Working

This is a video of my Amiga 1200 with an internal cd rom drive, this video shows the cd drive working and a quick tour of Workbench. This video was requested by Snestastic who wanted to see the cd drive doing its thing, please check out his channel.
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[dagbli]

I bought an A1200 a year ago but whan i plugg it to my tv i only get a black screen, don't know whats wrong with it :-( but i got my A500 up and running do :-)

[Retrosofer]

@dagbli Might sound silly, but i had this problem once, thought my A1200 had packed up, but i found that my A1200 wouldn't output a pickture unless the left/right audio was pluged in to the machine as well as the video. Could be that your A1200 has gone, but never know.

[dagbli]

@Retrosofer I got a A520 to use my A500 on my tv. tryed it on the A1200 but diden't work.. maybe thats the problem? :-\ hmmmm....

[Retrosofer]

@dagbli I'm assuming the A520 is the modulator thing that goes into the video parellel port? I got one of these, but it hasn't got a make or model on it. I'd do a search on this A520 and make sure you can use it on the A1200. Most Amiga equiptment and peripherals can be used on any models, which is one great thing about the Amiga's, but some are model specific.

I'd also try the red,white,yellow phono leads, see if you can get a picture that way.

[Retrosofer]

@dagbli But if the phono video out doesn't work, then its back to the A520 thing, if its not model specific then i'd say somthing in the Amiga has gone. However, if it is model specific, there might be a slim chance that video out parellel will work, but for some reason video phono doesn't, or vice versa.

[TheMikimotor]

I already made this mod in my amiga 1200 but when i start apperas a error on operating system. Seamsthat not recognize what is master and what is slave. Please could you tell us if you how did you made to run this cd + CF in amiga 1200 3.1 oS ?

[Retrosofer]

@TheMikimotor It can be really frustraiting to get this mod working, but keep persisting. First you need a 4 way ide inderface, the hdd should always be master and go in slot 1 on the interface. CD rom should be set to slave and be connected to slot 2 on the ide inderface. Use IDEfix97 for the cd rom program which you can get from aminet.net. Also some DVD rom and cd rom drives wont work, so you might have to try numerous different drive when everything is set up properly, hope this helps.

[DuckingNDiving]

hey i got an amiga 500 for sale with 2 games for 1000 euros,let me know if anyone is interested,its a little rusty on the inside,but its plastic casing still looks new after i dusted it off

[Retrosofer]

@ilsentierodeisogni Personally i wouldn't suggest this, i have never heard of doing this and it might not be that easy and strait forward as you think. I have learned doing the cd-rom mod on my Amiga that nothing is as straight forward as it seems to be. I would suggest doing the normal cd-rom mod as i have done. There is a strong possibility that the dvd burner wont work and wont work with any software, the newer the device the less chance of it working.

[Retrosofer]

@ilsentierodeisogni I have heard about putting dvd drive into an Amiga, but not a dvd burner. Well as far as i can remember and without checking the amiga you will need a 44 pin ide cable, but as well as that you will need a sata to ide adapter card, which you can get from ebay, sellers are usually from Hong Kong and will take about 2 weeks for it to arrive. Also not all cd-rom and dvd-rom drives will work with the Amiga, so the one you have might not work.