scuzzBlog: Diaries September 2019 Entry 25th September 2019: Post 01: Amiga 1200HD/40 and Simon the Sorcerer. Amiga 1200HD/40 and Simon the Sorcerer. I have two Amiga 1200 HD/40 from Germany that I purchased faulty like an absolute age ago. The first has a blue tint to the screen colour that should be grey and the second has a fault with the keys to the top row. I had always intended using the best of both to make a good one, but in truth I just left them be. The issue of the colour failure can happen with a bad U30 also known as the DAC (Digital.Analog.Converter). There are a number of revisions to the chip to suit differing motherboards and highlights an issue that can occur sadly. It actually doesn't prevent use of the Amiga but is annoying. I have three 1200s with the problem. The issue of the keys can be solved with swapping out the keyboard but neither of these computers are used for anything so as the faults are not life threatening I will leave well alone. One other issue is the faulty hard drive on the first machine. Again this has been the case for as long as I can remember. The second has a healthy 40MB hard drive and small accelerator. Both have the German keyboard and have quite shoddy stickers on the base from repair shops. Both have had a number of issues no doubt. In respect of Simon the Sorcerer I became interested again in the game having read the review in the magazine featured for the Fractal blog yesterday. I decided to dig out another review plus the cover disk of the game demo. I do have the game though the original box is in deep storage and I would need to be a wizard to get it out. The demo is quite interesting as it introduces itself in game as a demo. The original 9 disk game starts with asking a question about images on a compass to make sure you are using the original. Kinda crude copy protection and I am sure easily gotten around. Whilst digging out the cover disk I pulled a fist full of other CU Amiga disks with games on for the period. This was truly a most pleasurable and rich period for the Amiga, Sadly it occurred just as Commodore were going bust. The top twenty games of the day are all classic. And so I feature the A1200HD/40 having a play with Simon and a few other games of the same period. Happy days. Amiga 1200HD/40 and Simon the Sorcerer.

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