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My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 4-Mar-2015 4:49:01
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| Hi,
I finally decided to post my humble but very powerful Amiga 1200 Classic tower specs and pics. I have built this system up over many years. So here it is in all it's glory...
Amiga 1200 Tower Classic:
Amiga 1200 mainboard Rev 1D3 with 3.1 Roms Amiga OS 3.9 and over 20 years of collected software Phase 5 Blizzard PPC 603e+ @ 240 MHz / 68060 @66 MHz 256 MB Fast Ram (2 x 128 MB) Elbox Mediator 1200TX Elbox FastATA MK IV Voodoo 3 16MB Graphics PCI card 10/100Mb Network PCI card (Realtek 8139D) Sound Blaster 128 16Bit PCI sound card Spider USB 2.0 PCI card 2 x Seagate 160 GB HDD (of which very little is used :) Pioneer DVD Read/Writer 1.76 HD Floppy Drive PS/2 Keyboard Adapter
I run most screens in 1920x1080 in 16 bit. It runs well, faster than you would think and definitely faster than AGA.
The tower was bought from Amigakit over 3 years ago, now discontinued. I have no idea what model it is :)
You can view my humble Amiga Classic here:
Amiga 1200 Classic Tower
Drewlio77
(Some of you may have noticed my Sam 460ex quietly sitting on the top shelf, it too, is awesome) Last edited by Drewlio77 on 04-Mar-2015 at 05:17 AM. Last edited by Drewlio77 on 04-Mar-2015 at 04:52 AM. Last edited by Drewlio77 on 04-Mar-2015 at 04:51 AM.
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 4-Mar-2015 5:43:23
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Awesome setup - very nice
Pretty beefy PC case you have next to it too...great stuff.
Catcha, Epsilon
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 4-Mar-2015 5:57:29
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Thanks and yes my PC case is very beefy. It's the Cool Master Cosmos II. You can pretty much install anything in it. Comes in handy for LARGE graphics cards.
Drewlio77 Last edited by Drewlio77 on 04-Mar-2015 at 05:59 AM.
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 6-Mar-2015 15:18:40
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I am a little jealous, that's an awesome set-up.
Ive mentioned it a few times in other threads like this, but I REALLY do need to get my system back up and running and see what further upgrades I can cram into it. _________________ Live Long and keep Amigaing!
A1200, Power Tower, TF1260 128MB RAM, 68060 Rev 6, OS3.9 BB2, HD-Floppy, Mediator TX+ PCI, Voodoo 3 3000, Soundblaster 4.1, TV Card, Spider USB, 100MBit Ethernet, 16GB CF HD, 52xCDRom. |
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 6-Mar-2015 17:36:07
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 6-Mar-2015 19:10:32
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 7-Mar-2015 1:08:41
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Cool setup! Nice! I would be glad if the machine would be mine! :)
A qestion!
Why Voodoo graphics card?
Is PCI Radeon not better?
I ask it because I want to build now a ELBOX A4000 Mirage tower. OS3.9 and OS 4.1FE with Radeon 9250 / 256MB (Elbox). |
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 7-Mar-2015 15:58:23
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| @Drewlio77 Congratulations Last edited by Trekiej on 07-Mar-2015 at 03:59 PM.
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 7-Mar-2015 16:24:07
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What we do to keep our Classic Amigas alive. It is truly a labor of love. Though I do like my Sam 460ex with OS 4.1, the Classics is what started it all :)
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 7-Mar-2015 16:30:07
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I have tried a Radeon 9250, the overall performance I get with the Voodoo 3 is better. Perhaps this is due to a more mature driver. Plus Warp3D works with the Voodoo 3, not so well with the Radeon.
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 7-Mar-2015 16:58:46
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Looks in good condition, the tower is an EZ Tower Z4 (Eyetech) I used to have, remember the tower being quite nice but the Eyetech Z4 busboard being a bit of a nightmare. I got a Mediator later, like yours, which I found a much nicer and cheaper way of expanding the A1200. |
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Re: My Amiga 1200 Classic Tower of Awesomeness Posted on 7-Mar-2015 20:49:46
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Ya, the Mediator busboard is easily installed and setup. Almost seems like a natural addition to the system.
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