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Jsixis 
A1200 fired back up
Posted on 17-Apr-2018 17:26:53
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OK since my 3000T decided it wanted to be difficult I fired up my 1200, it has a Phase 5 040 card and 32 megs of ram 4gb hardrive with less then 20 hours on it and somewhere I have a pcmia adapter for a network card.
Couple of questions.

The Phase 5 040 just has a fan stuck to it with thermal grease that always falls off. I can stick larger feet on this but the ram gets in the way of mounting a real heat sink and since 040's are not software friendly I am thinking of buying one of the newer 030's.
Any problems with the ACA1233? Amiga kit has one with 128mb of ram will that let me use the pcmia slot for networking?

I have to buy another 4xEIDE as I fried mine (shorted it on the metal covering) but CDroms are obsolete so do I need it?

does the Gotek floppy drive emulator work?

is there a USB interface for the 1200 and is it idiot proof?

Would like a scan doubler is any are still made and they work in native mode.

thanks

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g01df1sh 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 17-Apr-2018 20:11:12
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I have a aca1233 it is nice and fast. Only issue I have found with mine is it does not play well with mediator bus board

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Hypex 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 18-Apr-2018 14:29:15
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@Jsixis

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The Phase 5 040 just has a fan stuck to it with thermal grease that always falls off.


No way to screw it down?

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I have to buy another 4xEIDE as I fried mine (shorted it on the metal covering) but CDroms are obsolete so do I need it?


I still find it useful. Amiga Future CD? In it goes. Transfer files over CDRW? Done. But you can just hook up a DVD/RW and spin away. Read DVDs. Write them if you need to for a GB backup.

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is there a USB interface for the 1200 and is it idiot proof?


There's one called the Subway. Related to the Highway. I don't know how plug and play it is.

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Would like a scan doubler is any are still made and they work in native mode.


There is the Indivision which will promote native screens over DVI. Bit of a hack as it mounts onto an internal IC. But would deliver best quality.

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Indivision_AGA_MK2

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utri007 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 18-Apr-2018 19:34:24
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@Jsixis

Just get new fan and keep 68040 or upgrade it to 68060.

WHDLoad fixes most of problems and 68040 is minium CPU to get nice OS and run Amiga's 3D games.

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Jsixis 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 19-Apr-2018 16:12:08
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@g01df1sh
Thanks no mediator bus board here but glad to know the accelerator works fine

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Jsixis 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 19-Apr-2018 16:17:09
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@Hypex

"No way to screw it down?" Only if I could drill and tap the 040 haha
the ram chip covers about 10% of the 040 and the slimline fan is parallel with the case.
Adding a heat sink would require taller feet on the 040 and I would have to trim some of that due to the ram. (which may be possible)

I do have about 30 Amiga CDroms and the 4xEIDE is cheap, good point

Looks like Indevision is the only way to go, almost a requirement as my 1084S monitor will die any day now.

thanks for the infor


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Jsixis 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 19-Apr-2018 16:22:05
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@utri007

"Just get new fan and keep 68040 or upgrade it to 68060."

Fan works, any newer fan will require taller feet on the bottom of the 1200>
As for upgrading, no one in the US does it and being a Phase 5 board I don't think I can trust the guy still there.

"WHDLoad fixes most of problems and 68040 is minium CPU to get nice OS and run Amiga's 3D games"

WHDLoad I never could get to work on my 1200 but then again it never came with directions

I'm not a game player, Amigas were just used for mundane things like artwork, photo touchups, web page designs, databases. I did play the Pinball games a few times and tried mastering wings but I'm more of an outdoor person.

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Hypex 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 20-Apr-2018 16:10:36
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@Jsixis

LOL.

Well I suppose you could put a low profile poor mans heastsink in place. Perhaps not the best. Or duplicate as much as possible what it came with as new.

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_Steve_ 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 22-Apr-2018 15:59:14
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@Jsixis

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does the Gotek floppy drive emulator work?


Yes. These should work in all models of Amiga. By default many of the drives are sold in an external enclosure which can be connected to the floppy port on all models of Amiga.

You can connect them to the internal floppy port if you desire (I have tested mine on my A500 only though). Depending on the firmware installed (FlashFloppy, Cortex or HxC) you will have a slightly different experience in how the floppy disks are allocated in it.

But I have not had any problems getting things to load from it at all - and I have a FlashFloppy firmware with OLED display on mine.

The only niggle I ran into was I bought a cable that was designed to allow a PC drive to be connected as well, but if I don't attach both the PC floppy and the Gotek drive, neither one actually works when getting into workbench. I will source a single external cable so I can just use the Gotek as needed.

I didn't install it as a DF0 replacement as I wanted to keep the original floppy for disk use as needed. There are DF0/DF1 switches, but I have only seen those work on A500 and A600s - I am not sure if they will work on an A1200 as well without modifications.

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Jsixis 
Re: A1200 fired back up
Posted on 26-Apr-2018 19:29:21
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@_Steve_

"Yes. These should work in all models of Amiga. By default many of the drives are sold in an external enclosure which can be connected to the floppy port on all models of Amiga."

thanks, that was very informative

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