Amiga HD additions

[Sharingan]

Again, as I mentioned earlier, make sure you have a sufficient power supply before you start adding all these neat things. I've blown quite a few power supplies over the past years, and in some cases that can take out your hardware as well

[Harrison]

Again, as I mentioned earlier, make sure you have a sufficient power supply before you start adding all these neat things. I've blown quite a few power supplies over the past years, and in some cases that can take out your hardware as well

This is very true. The original A500 came with a 60W PSU and that was strong enough for most things, but Commodore cut costs with the A1200 and it only comes with a 22W PSU as standard. You can buy larger external replacement PSUs for the A1200 such as the Goliath PSU I bought years ago for my A1200 that is a PC PSU in an external metal enclosure.

Using an A500 PSU with the A1200 is also another option.

[J T]

Especially as A500s are fairly easy to find, and cheap as chips on fleaBay.

[TiredOfLife]

There is still a fair bit of software for 3.9 and below being developed if you wanted to use your machine for something other than games.

[toomanymikes]

You mention using the amiga apart from games - what sort of things? I use my PC for 3D, image editing and CAD - is there anything like this?

[TiredOfLife]

Yes
Image editing software is still being developed at the moment by various people.
Image FX is supposed to be very good.
I have 1.5 but I think it's up to 4.5 now.

Not sure how up to date the CAD stuff is.
A search on Aminet should help with this and any other software you maybe interested in.

I use mine for the internet, email, chatting, radio, shopping etc.
Use it to listen to mp3 and have photos stored as well.
I have a fair few demos I like to watch as well.
Gaming also.

[toomanymikes]

How does it compare with a PC for the net and the photo editing? In terms of price too - is it expensive to mod the machine into something that can rival a pc? If i have to sell a lung i dont think my GF will be too happy!