Instead of opening yet another Amiga project I decided to finalize one this weekend.

Amiga 1200 was the first “serious” Amiga I owned. I bought one in 1997 when I was doing my military service for roughly 120 euro. Then I saved up for a Blizzard 1230IV turbo board which I bought six months after my purchase of the A1200. During those times it was very trendy to hack your A1200 into a tower so that you could use cheap and common PC equipment such as 3.5 inch hard drives, CD-rom drives and power supplies, I remember that I hacked my Amiga 1200 into a nice AT style desktop case and then later into a very nice looking (why did I give it a way?) AT mini tower.

Then when I was finished I realized that it was better to just purchase an A4000 so in December 1998 I bought my first Amiga 4000 for 450 euro (which I then sold six months after for the same amount).

And here after numerous A1200, A500 and various big box Amigas such as Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 I am still trying to set up a perfect Amiga 1200 and thinking of creative ways of hacking an A1200 motherboard inside the smallest tower available.

Anyhow, this 1200 is going to end up in its original wedge style case which I have packed with the following hardware:

Turbo board: Apollo 1260 060@50 MHz with 32 MB fast ram
Kickstart: 3.1 roms
Hard drive: Compact Flash to IDE adapter with a 1 GB Sandisk CF card
Floppy drive: MicroniK 1.86 MB
Scandoubler: DCE internal scandoubler/flicker fixer
Mouse: Wizard Mouse
Joystick: CD32 joypad

I am currently running a standard Workbench 3.1 installation on the above configuration and it is a very pleasant experience. Workbench boots in just a couple of seconds and the desktop is really fast.

My next step is to install AmigaOS 3.9 and run a 64 or 256 colors Workbench instead of the 4 color I am running now.

I used to run a 256 color Workbench back when I had my Blizzard 1230IV card and while it was slightly slower than a less color desktop it was not that bad.

I am going to close this post with a picture of two games I ran tonight.

Gloom, the best “Doom” clone on the Amiga IMHO…

… and Naughty Ones, a great platform game.

Have fun!

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