Amiga 1200

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I found an Amiga 1200. There are quite a few for sale on Ebay but this is actually still in the box, and still in it's protective wrapping, it's never even had the polystyrene bumpers removed.
I can easily run all the games it had on an emulator on the PC but this thing almost feels too special to flog.
No doubt it will end up stuck in the loft amongst all the other vaguely useful crap.

I think it fascinates me mostly because I was never an Amiga man, always Atari ST's for me.

I know, cool story and all that.

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Some pics of the beast:

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Interesting info, thanks guys.

So if I did decide to sell it then getting it recapped would be the first stop.

They go for decent money don't they? I think I would probably sit on it though, a nice thing to have.

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wildoliver said:

Almost the same story as you. Grew up on sts, found a cheap 1200 locally bought it on a whim to see what the competition was like.

I got a cf/ide adaptor off eBay with a pre loaded card with hundreds of games etc. About £35.

My machine cost about £40 but I'd spent about £60 getting it right, it also came with a blizzard iv card thankfully as it was terribly slow without it.

It sold for £450 a couple of months ago.

I really enjoyed my time with it and without doubt it was streets ahead of an st. But the Atari just has more soul. Hence why my STE is sat on my desk awaiting a few upgrades.

Yeah I was an ST man through and through. I used to dabble with midi so the Amiga was out. I think I ended up with the 4mb one. All a very long time ago though.

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wildoliver said:

Ultimately even a scruffy one with a working motherboard has a value as some people like to fit the board in a tower case (even now).

A good usable one has a better value, a mint white one with no yellowing with a box (my box was tatty) has an even greater value, and a really tidy boxes example a little more. In my computer's case though it was the card that really bumped the value up, if yours is just bare bones but mint £250-300ish at a guess. But I think you would want to be recapping it for that. I didn't recap mine and it did sell but I think I got that one guy who didn't mind. I don't think I would have got him if there wasn't a 2-300 quid accelerator card inside.

Cheers for that WO.

To be honest I don't need the money, I think I'll just store it away. Maybe one day I'll unpack it and see if it'll boot. I'll certainly keep your info for future ref though.

Now if it had been an ST I'd be drooling over it right now!

Did anybody do both? Every body I knew was either amiga or atari, nobody could afford both back then.

I always felt Atari was cooler cos it was in Blade Runner!

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I had an Electron, bought it to play Elite, couldn't afford a BBC Micro.

I remember standing outside the shop in Henrietta Street watching the demo thinking it was the most science fiction thing I'd ever seen.

I spent hours learning to program that thing.