easy_john wrote:To be honest, you need to solve a lot of issues that would happily use the Amiga, playing games from workbench:
- fastram or 020 […]
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keropi wrote:
Playing games on the 1200 is very easy and can be done from the workbench , there is a tool called whdload
To be honest, you need to solve a lot of issues that would happily use the Amiga, playing games from workbench:
- fastram or 020/030 accelerator to be able use whdload and forget about loading games from floppy (from 150 eur for modern accelerator)
- scandoubler, to be able use modern monitors (about 150 eur)
- ide2cf adapter and CF, instead of harddrive, fast and silent hdd (10-20 eur)
- ps2 mouse adapter (after decade using optical mouse you can't satisfied using mechanical mouse anymore) (10 eur)
- pcmcia network on pcmcia to CF - a way to transfer files to amiga (10-20 eur)
Accelerators are overrated, way less necessary in an A1200 than in, say, the Apple IIgs. A trapdoor RAM card of 4MB or more is more than enough to play all the classic games using WHDLoad.
A scandoubler is handy if you don't have a good RGBs monitor. C= 1084s and Sony PVMs can be had cheaply, work natively, and give the authentic experience. If you're just going to play your system upscaled on a big screen, you may as well use an emulator.
Everything else I agree with, but they are cheap to do, so why not.
NB: Not that I wouldn't take an accelerator if I could get one! I just mean they're not necessary to have fun with the A1200. You can play Cannon Fodder, Alien Breed, Lotus 2+3, Chaos Engine, etc etc etc, all from WHDLoad, with just a 4MB trapdoor RAM card.
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