A1200 projects

[Stephen Coates]

I could always put a better one in it.

I probably won;t be using that powerbook quite as much any more as I have just purchased a PowerBook G3. (I will refrain from saying anything more about it until after I have got it).

[TiredOfLife]

Hmm not bad lads.
Let me give you something to aim for.
Here is what I have at the moment.
A1200 in a full tower. (Mirage, solid metal, no plastic crap.Backplate custom built to match a A1200 mobo).
3.1 Roms, with Workbench 3.9 installed.
Blizzard 1260 with 64 meg.
FastATA mk III ide interface.
Two maxtor hds, one 40 gig and one 80 gig.
One Liteon CDRW and one Aopen DVDRW.
Mediator 1200SX PCI Busboard.
Spider II USB card
Voodoo 4500 graphics card.
Hanns-g 19" TFT monitor
Fortmedia FM801 (Terratec 512i) sound card.
10/100 Fastethernet card.

Future plans.
TV card
Shark PPC accelerator.
OS4.0

[Harrison]

Cool setup.

I have been tempted in the past to do a tower conversion, but owning an A4000 too I have always put it off as not being required. I may still do an A1200 tower conversion at some point though, just cause I would like to tackle the project.

I may also be upgrading my A4000 a bit more once the new PPC board is released for it.

Currently my A4000/40 has the standard CPU, full standard system ram filled (2 chip + 16 fast), a 2GB HD, GVP SCSI Zorro card, SCSI CD-Rom, SCSI ZIP.

I really want to add a zorro ethernet card to the A4000 but they are way to expensive (about £80), and at some point I would love to stick a 24-bit graphics card in the system.

[Stephen Coates]

Nice Amiga you have there

I'd like something like that but money makes having something as good as that slightly impossible at the moment.

I'm getting there though.

[TiredOfLife]

Has cost me a few quid.
Has been built over a period of time though, so I haven't had to take too big a hit at any one time.

[Harrison]

It always frightening to actually work out how much a heavily upgraded system has cost over the years. I must have spend quite a lot on my Amigas over the years when they were my main systems.

Especially scary is realising how much I spent on an external high density floppy drive for my A1200. You can buy floppy drives for a PC for under £1 now. I think I spend way over £100 on that HD drive for the Amiga at the time. Is a huge contrast in price, but at the time it was very much worth the investment.

[TiredOfLife]

And that of course is the main thing.
The money spent is fine as long as you got what you wanted from spending it.