| Amiga 1200 - 01 |
In October 1992 the A1200 was launched. This took the A500 approach to computing with the "distinct" Commodore case, but including the AGA chipset present in the A4000, 2mb ram, and the PCMCIA slot from the A600. At the price of £399 it sold like hot cakes and is seen as one of the best Amigas to date. It appears to have been rushed to launch for the Christmas period with manuals claiming to give you the opportunity to upgrade from 1mb to 2mb chip ram with FPU. It is however, a darn fine machine that can be easily upgraded for most of your needs. After Escom bought the Amiga during 1995 it was relaunched to mass outrage. The machine still cost £399, £150 more than it had a year previously and was not enhanced in any dramatic fashion. It was released in two versions- the Amiga Magic pack and the Amiga Surfer bundle. Unfortunately, the former was never released due to Escoms financial situation. The Escom Amigas were also struck by incompatibility problems due to a different disk drive being used, it was actually a PC high-density drive mechanism that had been altered to allow compatibility with the Amiga filesystem. Unfortunately, some games that hit the hardware directly would not run. A circuit upgrade was released free of charge that allowed users to fix the drive problem. (www.old-computers.com) |
| Manufacturer | Commodore | Name | Amiga 1200 |
| Type | Homecomputer | Origine | USA |
| Introduction Date | October 1992 | End of production | ??? |
| Built in Language | ??? | Keyboard | full-stroke keyboard with 10 function keys and cursor keys and separate numeric keypad, 96 keys |
| CPU | Motorola MC68EC020 | Speed | 14.32 Mhz |
| Coprocessor | Alice (AGA display controller), Lisa (AGA graphics coprocessor), Paula (audio and I/O controller), Gayle (system address decoder and IDE controller) | Amount of Ram | 2Mb CHIP RAM + 8Mb Fast RAM max. (and more with an accelerator board installed) |
| Vram | None | Rom | 512 Kb |
| Text Modes | 60 x 32, 80 x 32 | Graphic Modes | from 320 x 200 pixels noninterlaced 50 Hz up to 1280 x 512 pixels interlaced 50 Hz or, 640 x 480 pixels noninterlaced 60 Hz or, 640 x 400 pixels noninterlaced 70 Hz... |
| Colors | AA Graphics System, colour palette: up to 16.8 million colours (24 Bit), 256 of them displayable simultaneously or more than 640,000 in HAM-8 mode | Sound | 4-Channel Stereo Sound standard, each 8 Bit PCM |
| Size / Weight | 490 mm x 250 mm x 70 mm (W x D x H) / 3.1 Kg | Built in Media | 3.5-inch double density disk drive (880 KB/1.76 MB formatted) and optional 2.5'' hard drive (orginaly 40 MB, up to 200 MB) |
| I/O Ports | ''Clock'' port, 150 pin local bus expansion, PCMCIA 2.0 expansion bus, RS-232 serial port, Centronics parallel port, 2 mouse/joystick ports, Colour composite video port, 15kHz colour RGB analogue video port, 31KHz SVGA video output, 2 stereo audio output ports, external floppy, internal AT IDE, internal floppy | OS | AmigaOS 3.0, Kickstart 3.0 |
| Power Supply | External PSU, 110 volt/60Hz 23 watts | Introduction Price | £399 (UK, 1992), £329 (UK, 1995) |
| Sold | ??? | Serial Number | ??? |
| Other Extras | Boxed, CD-Rom and CDs, Blizzard 1230-IV, 5 original games, 3 joysticks, lots of magazines and diskettes | Bought Where | Mechelen |
| Bought When | 2002/08/14 | Condition | Excellent |
| Price Paid | 70 € | Specs of my Model | ??? |
| Setup Today | ??? |
Amiga1200-01: Bought on 14/08/2002 in Mechelen. It came with a CD-Rom and CDs, Blizzard 1230-IV, 5 original games, 3 joysticks, lots of magazines and diskettes. Paid 70€ |