Amiga A1200 pimping

8GB's Amiga 1200 with its latest mod: a solid state hard drive, by means of a Compactflash IDE adapter.


Runs super silent as you can see form the video, no more annoying hard drive noise, faster operation, lighter, and reliable :)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• amiga
• demoscene
• 8gb
• kikencorp
• modding
• retrocomputing
• videogames

[Serial520]

105th street (ahx ghetto mix)

Sick song goes hard big ups

[kikencorp]

@Serial520 Thank you!

[diablothe2nd]

i just ordered this (along with the rgb to scart lead for better pic quality until the new 1200 Indivision AGA flicker fixer comes out later this year early next) from amikit as i HATE the HD noise. bought a Blizzard 060@50Mhz a few years back for £130, which I thought was steep at the time, now they're near £500! even worse, the PPC 60's you're looking at nearly a grand! *faints*

[Taking1n1]

you have such a small screen

[kikencorp]

@nicholasthetaylor Yeah the difference is big. Depending on what you want, 030 is usually more apt for all-round use and mild demowatching/heavy gaming. if you are way too into the demoscene and want to run fine all the latest demos, the 060 is necessary. I am more of a demo person but I cannot afford an 060 :/

[nicholasthetaylor]

@kikencorp Sounds brilliant! 50mhz 030, 60mhz 68882 fpu and up to 128mb ram. One thing I still don't know is how an 030 compares to an 060. Is there much difference?

[kikencorp]

@nicholasthetaylor I would also recommend the Microbotics XA-1230 accelerator, it's a cheap alternative to a Blizzard and very, very good. Mine works awesome.

[nicholasthetaylor]

@strawberryfields1982 Ihave been recommended these: Blizzard 1230 accelerator card - £100-150 EBay

Kickstart 3.1 ROM chips (A1200) - Amigakit.co.uk £16.99

4-Device Buffered IDE Interface (A1200/A600) - Amigakit.co.uk £13.99

2.5" IDE 2xCF Drive - versalia.de 14.99euros

Laptop CDR drive

Amiga OS3.5 CD

[nicholasthetaylor]

@alex76gr Although this is true, what you find with the Amiga is that unless you have installed virtual memory and are constantly running programs that use loads of memory, then you're okay for years. 4gb on an amiga goes a long way. Problem with PC's is that people waste a lot of time and resources doing things they don't actually want to do. I do find that PC's make excellent databases though

[LBpDC]

I lol'd.