I know what in doing for the next month

[indigolemon]

power blade is worth abit now I think

I looking into getting amiga computer, but its total minefield

forgot some games only work with 500/600 or 1200,

the old 15hz monitors, otherwise you get flicker on new LCD's etc..

but it is nice to have the old hardware, I have 3 dreamcast's

for anyone interested a new console being released soon called the retron 5

http://www.funstock.co.uk/retron-5

plays all the old carts, megadrive, snes, nes, GBA through hdmi

I mainly use my Amiga 1200 for gaming, you can use the early boot menu to make it pretend to be a 500. With a 500 and 1200 you're pretty much covered. If that fails, there's this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-Softwar ... 1c37ac0669

I also use an RGB to scart cable: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMIGA-RGB-VID ... 19e5c43fcc

That one works great on my Samsung 32" job.

So to summarise, get an Amiga 1200, Relokick, and one of those cables, and you're pretty much sorted.

[Donald]

For some reason it seems to be Power Blade 2 that's asking the big money on eBay, hundreds of dollars

[Lude-dude]

so with RGB scart I get no flicker or is it the cable working some magic?

also do you run floppy's or hard drive game's?

to write my own floppy's I need a special floppy writer?

I havn't figured out WHDload games yet, which would be useful to work out in winuae for my hyperspin frontend I'm working on... endlessly

I've been using amiga forever which works great, managed to find obscure amiga game's I used to have like hammerfist and wicked.

still on lookout for more, its my memory that's letting me down

[indigolemon]

Have a read of this http://ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hac ... scart.html it explains the SCART issues and how the cable resolves them.

I use floppies, I have a towered Amiga 1200 which can write adf's to actual disks

[Lude-dude]

nice.. so I assume you ripped out the board from the 1200

I was looking at expensive flicker fixers, but that cable makes the whole thing more viable

[wurlycorner]

So to summarise, get an Amiga 1200, Relokick, and one of those cables, and you're pretty much sorted.

I have a 500+ and even with relokick I always had some games that annoyingly wouldn't work e.g projectyle. (also got a 600 and look after my mates' 4000/040) I have my old Phillips cm8833 mk2 to use them on, when I ever get a chance to set them up...

[indigolemon]

So to summarise, get an Amiga 1200, Relokick, and one of those cables, and you're pretty much sorted.

I have a 500+ and even with relokick I always had some games that annoyingly wouldn't work e.g projectyle. (also got a 600 and look after my mates' 4000/040) I have my old Phillips cm8833 mk2 to use them on, when I ever get a chance to set them up...

True, it does cover about 90% of cases though. Since they use the same powersupply/rgb port etc - I usually have the 500 sitting on standby just in case!

A4000 with an 040? Jammy bugger! My 1200 is in a Power Tower with an 030/50 running the show (with FPU!) 32 meg of Fast RAM too. I used it and Wordsworth for all my projects during my first year of University

[wurlycorner]

Wordsworth was pretty good actually.

What did you do for printing out? Printer drivers were a nightmare from what I recall?

[indigolemon]

I had a compatible dot matrix, never got as far as owning an inkjet. Drivers were fine, you just dropped the relevant driver file in the system/printers folder.

[Donald]

Anyone interested in this stuff feel free to send me an offer via PM


NES is missing the RF/RCA cable, powers up fine but has the blinking power light issue which Google says is dirty connectors, not surprising after it's lived in the loft for years. Two controllers.

SEGA has all cabling, powers up fine, two controllers (although one has a suspicious rattle).

All untested though as I have no TV.