ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2018 Entry 11th December 2018: Post 01: Amiga 1200 - It's a kinda magic Amiga 1200 - It's a kinda magic I only started seriously collecting computers cus I was worried that my trusty Amiga would fall over. I had this A600 with a Philips monitor and it went pop one night playing Sensi Soccer. I knew this chap that worked from a workshop in his garden. Anyway, one day I tripped over there and he'd packed up. Trouble was there was nobody else in the area with the expertise to fix computer stuff. So in an effort to future proof what I had I started getting kit out of the local rag 'Diamond Free Adds'. I also watched various sales on Amibench. In 2002 I decided to buy a new A1200 as a backstop just in case my beloved A1200 fell over. Cost me close on £500. Thing is my original A1200 is still running without fault so the A1200 from Analogic has sat unused in its box since it came here in April 2002. It even has the Blizzard 1230 Turbo in the trap door. I do take the computer out of the box now and then to check the hard drive is still working, and so today I decided to take some pics for the blog. Sadly I can only have one main Amiga running Granted I have several other Amigas dotted around that I use. But this computer is set up as my main and using it would just upset the apple cart, and Chantel my beloved Amiga 1200. So for now she goes back into the box. And I know there are those reading this that say, such a waste. Yes it is.... Whatever. The computer is inferior anyway cus it has 3.9 and was probably kitted out with less than tolerable capacitors from the Escom era. Also the floppy drive is not an original and the box hasn't even got any artwork on the base. Most definitely not Commodore. Saying that, at a push she'd just about do... maybe. And that is why ... It's a kinda magic Amiga 1200 - It's a 'kinda' magic This is REAL MAGIC C H A N T E L My treasured Chantel from 1993 Blizzard 1230IV Turbo with SCSIKIT. Kickstart 39.106 and WB 39.29 original. The Blizzard SCSI KIT off the 32MB Turbo RAM card supports Power Computing CD ROM, 2 x external SCSI drives, Iomega ZIP drive. Ethernet PCMCIA networked. Power Computing HD external floppy. Vidi Amiga and TechnoSoundTurbo all running off the Microvitec. Trinkets are like lucky charms and if work for me never leave my side. Lisa Loeb has been there since I successfully installed my first accelerator. The wrestler has been there since day 1... No idea. Don't know where it came from and I certainly don't like wrestling. He's my Mr T and tells me to get it together when I'm flustered. The games in the disk box are the best cover disk games ever released. Lisa Doig was the first Andromeda set that I burned and was able to use on the Amiga. Karen Mulder is a my GHOST animation set.. the first. PPaint is on that very tiny CD which works on the ROM. And Clara Veiga needs no introduction. Its a feng shui thing with me. When everything is working in harmony then you'd be a fool to move it around. When the computer is idle I have a DPaint animation running in the background. I have hundreds of them. The one shown is Clara Veiga. I just grab off the DVD using VidiAmiga and edit in DPaint and run from DOpus. Much better than seeing a Workbench screen. Essential DPaint commands. I tend to only use ZIP disks. Mostly cus I have so many Amigas with SCSI and also I have a number of PCs with ZIP disks. With FAT and CrossDOS I can read PC format disks and so move stuff around so quickly. Also.. Amiga files are so small. I can copy my whole WB to one ZIP as a back up. So easy. I have all my essential reading material located behind this Amiga. When switching on the last thing I power up is the Amiga. I have the Canon Bubblejet there but never use it. Have never used it. Fast enough for me with oodles of RAM Like I have enough VOLUMES... I have to have a small book with all the names. Pure Magic Lisa Loeb on YouTube Been sitting next to my Amiga 1200 since May 17, 1994.

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